Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Bray Park (G.J Gardner) - Week 15 - Painting 281Oct 15, 2018 10:51 am All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: Bray Park (G.J Gardner) - Week 15 - Painting 283Oct 15, 2018 11:04 am All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: Bray Park (G.J Gardner) - Week 15 - Painting 286Oct 15, 2018 6:27 pm Melissa.b BrentandAllison Painting this week I'm ready for this house to have a paintjob. Meanwhile - Allison and I went to IKEA and say down in their wardrobe section and designed our own wardrobes on the computers. So mush fun! Total price for a kick a$$ set-up - 2k. I'm going to be building a GJ Gardner home next yr. Did you have to do anything special make sure that the space you had for the wardrobes (width/length etc) was made specifically to fit Ikea wardrobes? Most wardrobes are 60cm deep x 100cm wide. That’s with doors. Without they are typically 58cm deep. So allow that space plus room for you to move around if it’s a WIR. Cheers! All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 15 - Painting 287Oct 18, 2018 8:13 am A bit of a lost week this week - no work scheduled until Monday when the painters are due. 2 or 3 weeks they plan on being there. We will get a solid PCI date once they finish. Hope everyone else’s builds are going smoothly All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 288Oct 23, 2018 9:52 am So bad news. Due to Xmas shutdown, we wont get handover until Jan some time. Completion date is too close to shutdown and there will be no one to process paperwork. The house will be finished and will sit there for 4 weeks all locked up. Mind you - we will be paying full rent as well as full loan repayments for the 4 weeks. How wonderful What a waste of money. Can't do anything about it, as the contract gives tem till jan to do handover... All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 289Oct 23, 2018 10:49 am BrentandAllison So bad news. Due to Xmas shutdown, we wont get handover until Jan some time. Completion date is too close to shutdown and there will be no one to process paperwork. The house will be finished and will sit there for 4 weeks all locked up. Mind you - we will be paying full rent as well as full loan repayments for the 4 weeks. How wonderful What a waste of money. Can't do anything about it, as the contract gives tem till jan to do handover... Damn Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 290Oct 23, 2018 11:01 am Add rental income loss and you would know how much im suffering Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 291Oct 23, 2018 11:03 am That sucks... and there's nothing you can do during the closure, it's just completely dead time... My start is going to be delayed by Christmas, so I feel a bit of your pain there! Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 292Oct 23, 2018 11:21 am Hey at least you get boxing day sales and Jan is when retail is dead.. yay savings Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 293Oct 23, 2018 11:25 am KingTaco That sucks... and there's nothing you can do during the closure, it's just completely dead time... My start is going to be delayed by Christmas, so I feel a bit of your pain there! That's what I have emailed and asked if we can actually go in and do some work. Curtains etc. Driveway - paths, garden.... I wish Xmas didn't happen this year All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 294Oct 24, 2018 3:40 pm UUUGGGGHHHHH! Now the owners of our rental want to sell up. ASAP! FFS. Honestly, I think they can wait until we are out. If I didn't have my dialysis setup at home, maybe, but to get that removed, then me having to go into hospital 3 days a week for 3 months until our house is ready... Working full time.. The only option the agent gave me was to sign a 3 month lease. That will ensure that we can stay. BUT, what happens if the house is ready in 2 months? The builder said it wont be until after Xmas anyway. What do I do??? All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 295Oct 24, 2018 4:07 pm BrentandAllison UUUGGGGHHHHH! Now the owners of our rental want to sell up. ASAP! FFS. Honestly, I think they can wait until we are out. If I didn't have my dialysis setup at home, maybe, but to get that removed, then me having to go into hospital 3 days a week for 3 months until our house is ready... Working full time.. The only option the agent gave me was to sign a 3 month lease. That will ensure that we can stay. BUT, what happens if the house is ready in 2 months? The builder said it wont be until after Xmas anyway. What do I do??? You need to ask what your landlord plans to sell at and compare to the market and determine if it would sell quickly. Its a buyer's market at the moment so it might not sell as quick. Or if it does sell, how fast settlement could possibly be especially over the holiday period with lawyers, bankers etc will be on leave. I would go on a month to month personally. It also doesn't hurt to talk to your landlord of your situation. Can you have family as back up just in case? If you break your lease, you pay rent til its rented out, again its dependant on the rental market - it might rent straight away, it might not. So many ifs... which never sits well with anyone. Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 296Oct 24, 2018 4:14 pm pandibabi BrentandAllison UUUGGGGHHHHH! Now the owners of our rental want to sell up. ASAP! FFS. Honestly, I think they can wait until we are out. If I didn't have my dialysis setup at home, maybe, but to get that removed, then me having to go into hospital 3 days a week for 3 months until our house is ready... Working full time.. The only option the agent gave me was to sign a 3 month lease. That will ensure that we can stay. BUT, what happens if the house is ready in 2 months? The builder said it wont be until after Xmas anyway. What do I do??? You need to ask what your landlord plans to sell at and compare to the market and determine if it would sell quickly. Its a buyer's market at the moment so it might not sell as quick. Or if it does sell, how fast settlement could possibly be especially over the holiday period with lawyers, bankers etc will be on leave. I would go on a month to month personally. It also doesn't hurt to talk to your landlord of your situation. Can you have family as back up just in case? If you break your lease, you pay rent til its rented out, again its dependant on the rental market - it might rent straight away, it might not. So many ifs... which never sits well with anyone. You are correct. I wasn't keen on signing up to a 3 month lease then the possibility to have to break it. No family we can stay with - we have 2 dogs also... so.. I can tell you that I certainly don't have the time to ensure that the place is showroom clean when open houses are on. I will however be making arrangements for a few of my personal items to be moved to a safe location. But you're right about settlement times over the Xmas break - no one will be keen to process paperwork quickly. See how it all pans out I guess. Allison is going to flip! Doesn't handle stress well at all.. All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 298Oct 24, 2018 8:26 pm Melos Good luck Brent it sucks when timings don’t line up. Hopefully you can at least get landscaping and odds and ends sorted. Yeah - best I can hope for really. All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 299Oct 28, 2018 8:51 am Sorry for your woes (especially with your medical considerations) though to be honest I think you would always have been pushing it to have it all done this year. It is a large house afterall My build was started 6 weeks before yours and is the tinniest 3 bedroom single storey you can imagine. And even it is looking perilously close to missing this year's cutoff. I may just make it, but if I do it's likely to be a handover days before the Christmas break so no way to get a removalist anyway. But I empathise with the whole rent thing. I'd bargained to be out of my current place around early November at the absolute worst since all other (much larger) builds by my builder (if extrapolated to my start date) would have had me in my new home in late September or at worst the second week of October. But now I'm looking at "what if" scenarios and will probably let my current rent expire in November as normal and then try to pay to share a place with a relative in the interim. I know you have been concerned about security. Have you given any more thought to that, especially now it looks like it won't be occupied over Christmas / New Year? I started to look into it myself for the same reason but it looks way too expensive. Re: G.J Gardner build - Week 16 - Painting 300Oct 31, 2018 3:26 pm Mr. Sausage Sorry for your woes (especially with your medical considerations) though to be honest I think you would always have been pushing it to have it all done this year. It is a large house afterall My build was started 6 weeks before yours and is the tinniest 3 bedroom single storey you can imagine. And even it is looking perilously close to missing this year's cutoff. I may just make it, but if I do it's likely to be a handover days before the Christmas break so no way to get a removalist anyway. But I empathise with the whole rent thing. I'd bargained to be out of my current place around early November at the absolute worst since all other (much larger) builds by my builder (if extrapolated to my start date) would have had me in my new home in late September or at worst the second week of October. But now I'm looking at "what if" scenarios and will probably let my current rent expire in November as normal and then try to pay to share a place with a relative in the interim. I know you have been concerned about security. Have you given any more thought to that, especially now it looks like it won't be occupied over Christmas / New Year? I started to look into it myself for the same reason but it looks way too expensive. It's all OK, we have come to the realisation that it's better to let it be and just deal with it all. It would have been such a rush and stress to get everything done by Xmas - like you, removalists wont want to work that close to the break, plus we need to get a heap of stuff (carpets, wardrobes, driveway) done before we can comfortable live in the house. The loan payments and rent aren't a huge hassle right now - just need to budget a little better. Security - We are going with Absolute Security & Blinds. They gave us the choice to mix between the cheapest diamond grille on the windows that you don't see (utility side of the house) and the nice mesh for the feature doors and windows. The price is "reasonable" I guess for a full fitout and install. I plan to make it my fortes of solitude - every door and window locked up as well as a solid cement brick fence with mechanical gate out the front. All progress pics are in the first post - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89917&p=1761154#p1761154 Hi Everyone I learned something this week that I thought would be worth sharing. In NSW a lot of developers of subdivisions put covenants on the land which normally… 0 6533 May I ask why you chose not to use GJ Gardiner? I'm actually meeting with one of the sales guys tomorrow for an appointment. Definitely not signing anything yet… 3 13247 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. 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