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We are thinking of building the Boston 36 with the optional rumpus and alfresco. Is anyone planning to build the boston in the area? I would love to have a discussion and follow progress.
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Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Clarendon, Boston 36 at Kellyville 3May 11, 2018 12:22 pm I am building Boston 36 on the Central Coast. Tender came in at $500k with grand alfresco Re: Building with Clarendon, Boston 36 at Kellyville 4May 15, 2018 10:48 pm rasathy Hi, We are thinking of building the Boston 36 with the optional rumpus and alfresco. Is anyone planning to build the boston in the area? I would love to have a discussion and follow progress. thanks Hi Rasathy, Are you able to tell me what color is the Boston 36 home displayed? Im thinking of rendering our house and like the exterior color white and gray that Clarendon has. I tried to ask them but they wouldn't give me the info unless i built with them but im not. Just doing some renovation only. Thanks, Loan Re: Building with Clarendon, Boston 36 at Kellyville 5May 16, 2018 4:54 am I’ll find out next week for you when we pick the colours Re: Building with Clarendon, Boston 36 at Kellyville 6May 24, 2018 12:09 pm rasathy Hi, We are thinking of building the Boston 36 with the optional rumpus and alfresco. Is anyone planning to build the boston in the area? I would love to have a discussion and follow progress. thanks Hi, we are building a modified Boston 34 in the south. Have I got some advice for you!!!! Contract and tender. If your council expects "94A" contributions (which is the tax you pay for the privilege of building a house), they work out the tax on the contract price. My advice is to leave the initial contract as basic as possible, and once drawn up, go hell for leather on adding all your options. We could have saved a bit doing this if we had of known. Provisional amounts We had a 10K provisional amount added to our tender for something called licence to stand plant. This allows for blocking busy roads and traffic management etc. Our house is in a cul-de-sac so I thought this was a stupid allowance. The allowance wasn't used (as I suspected) but Clarendon don't take the amount off the contract until the last payment. As you have to pay installments based on the full price, we will end up paying 90% of this fee during the building. That is an extra draw down on your home loan that just aids their cashflow. Quite underhanded to be honest. Advice - be careful of PA's. We had some PA's for sewer connections and storm water. Fair enough, we have rock on the property. A month after the work was done, I asked for the receipts (you are told you will see the receipts when you sign the contract/tender). I was then told you see the actual cost 6 weeks before home handover. I asked why. Apparently some trades don't submit invoices for up to 6 months!!! What a load of crud. The reason you have to pay payment installments (according to Clarendon) is so that they can pay the costs associated with construction. They can't have that both ways. Building period This is a pet hate of mine. We got a 46 week building period. We didn't know any better when signing. I now suspect that because we are not out west where most of their houses are being built, they add extra time to the estimate. You also have to pay more in an allowance for trades to get here. They aren't as bad Wisdom, who wanted 10K extra for working in the Shire. We are currently nearing completion of the brickwork. Excavation started first week of Jan. I just had a whinge this week about the speed of construction. Trades will turn up for a day or 2, and then take off for a week and come back for a day then take off again. Its so sloooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwww. A nearby townhouse development started 2-3 months after ours and is further advanced then our place. Unit blocks are going up faster. There are 5 other houses being built in the area, and ours is progressing, by far, at the slowest pace. A mate suggested to me that we offer them half the rent we pay a week for each week they deliver it early. We win, they win. My advice is try and negotiate the building period, we never thought too. Colour selection Make sure you go to the colour studio before you do the formal colour selection. We didn't do it, and it took a lot longer to finalise our plans because of the sheer number of options available. Overall thoughts Nearly all the people have been good to deal with and the design suited us, they just work in a system that is based on mass turnover of house and you do tend to feel like just a number however. I also don't feel my complaints and concerns are taken seriously (get fobbed off/generic answers to problems). Perhaps all the project builders are the same, perhaps my expectations are too high? Re: Building with Clarendon, Boston 36 at Kellyville 7Sep 08, 2018 10:06 am Thank you so much for your information. This has been very beneficial to us as we are doing our homework on building this house with Clarendon. How is your job tracking now? Did they give you an estimated forecast of claim stage dates? Perhaps this would help them to stay in track to contract. 46 weeks is ridiculous!!!! Any other feedback from you would be greatly appreciated. We love this layout but question their process management at this stage. Interested in the quality of build. the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6731 3 22647 Petercurtis You able to contact the certifier and get a copy of your structural plans, if they are not in your contract. If your home was approved via CDC then they… 1 20161 |