Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 202Jul 25, 2019 3:11 pm Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 203Jul 25, 2019 10:47 pm JiMb00, I appreciate the effort you've put into your reply. Thank you that's really helpful. Its good to know you've got value from it, and its not like those inspections you get when you buy a house and it's 90% full of disclaimers. Do you know what they do to fix wall that aren't straight? I almost worried that the inspection will highlight things that Rawson won't fix and I'll have to live with them.. Thanks also for the tip regarding roofing as well. Hi Salfield, I know you are closer to your build than we are.. but looks great in the photos! You've even got them to do the outside lights.. you must have felt pretty cashed up during the electrical consultation.. we skimped and will get some lovely grey junction boxes. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 204Jul 26, 2019 8:21 am luxbuild JiMb00, I appreciate the effort you've put into your reply. Thank you that's really helpful. Its good to know you've got value from it, and its not like those inspections you get when you buy a house and it's 90% full of disclaimers. Do you know what they do to fix wall that aren't straight? I almost worried that the inspection will highlight things that Rawson won't fix and I'll have to live with them.. Thanks also for the tip regarding roofing as well. Hi Salfield, I know you are closer to your build than we are.. but looks great in the photos! You've even got them to do the outside lights.. you must have felt pretty cashed up during the electrical consultation.. we skimped and will get some lovely grey junction boxes. Cheers mate. We didn’t go over board in electrical though. Can’t remember the exact figure. We saved on downlighting as we put fans with lights in each bedroom and where we did put downlights we only did what we thought was sufficient with cool with led’s and I have to say they are plenty bright enough. I’ve seen people putting like 6 leds in each bedroom, stuff like that. We did just get them to put in batons for the pendants but got there electrician to put the ones we bought in for us for cash. Only charged us $50. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 205Sep 03, 2019 12:25 am Hi Salfield. It’s been great following your thread. We are building a Chifley 42 MKII at Googong, NSW. We have only just had our Plan Presentation, so I can’t wait to see more of your updates, especially as it heads towards finalisation! Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 206Sep 03, 2019 7:28 am JoJo76 Hi Salfield. It’s been great following your thread. We are building a Chifley 42 MKII at Googong, NSW. We have only just had our Plan Presentation, so I can’t wait to see more of your updates, especially as it heads towards finalisation! Hi mate. Thank you and good luck with the build. We have had the keys and been in for about two weeks now. Just haven’t had time to post anything up. House is a bit of a mess unfortunately as a lot of things still in boxes. We moved in with quite a few things on our defect list but we wanted out of our rental. Here is one photo so far. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 207Sep 03, 2019 8:05 am JoJo76 Hi Salfield. It’s been great following your thread. We are building a Chifley 42 MKII at Googong, NSW. We have only just had our Plan Presentation, so I can’t wait to see more of your updates, especially as it heads towards finalisation! Also if you want any advice please let me know. We have learned a few things along the way. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 209Sep 09, 2019 7:39 am luxbuild Hi Salfield, Congratulations on moving in.. looks really nice! Hope all the things on your defect list are small and they get sorted out quickly. Thanks mate. Most things are small but we found during the wild winds the other night that part of the roof isn’t installed correctly. It was banging and chrashing all night and the next day. Pretty angry about that. Landscaping starting today. Will be good to get out of the dirt. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 210Oct 12, 2019 6:09 pm Any updates since the move? Building the Rawson Edge 39 MKI - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89729&p=1756917#p1756917 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 211Oct 13, 2019 7:23 am KateAndDuke Any updates since the move? Morning. We will have to book in for you to come over and have a look. I’ll post up some pics later but updates are home theatre is all in and we all love it. Unpacking the last box after 7 weeks. 😁 Also putting a shed up but it’s just 3 x 3. Still have a heap of things on our defect list. Still have blue film on our windows 7 weeks after handover. Still need painting done, found out yesterday they can repair our stone bench without pulling it out including tiles and sink etc. one of the joins is chipped from when they put it in. Also had a blacked sewer which turned out to be a stake out through the pipe and then the concrete poured over the top putting concrete in the pipe. Have had the garage floor cut up to replace the pipe. 🙈. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 213Oct 13, 2019 10:30 am luxbuild Sorry to hear that Salfield, thats pretty ordinary on their part. So when they poured the driveway they hit the pipe? No they hit the pipe when they put up the bracing for the drop edge beams. Apparently they would have known when the hit it. Then they pulled the stake out and poured the garage floor slab with the concrete going straight into the stake hole and into the pipe. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 214Oct 19, 2019 1:04 pm Hi Salfield, Do you still have the plastic wrap on your windows? Stegbar puts a note on their windows that the plastic film must be removed within 3 months delivery to site. Not sure if its the wrap on the frames or blue wrap on the glass etc. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 215Oct 19, 2019 1:17 pm luxbuild Hi Salfield, Do you still have the plastic wrap on your windows? Stegbar puts a note on their windows that the plastic film must be removed within 3 months delivery to site. Not sure if its the wrap on the frames or blue wrap on the glass etc. Finally removed the last of it yesterday. It’s the blue film on the windows. Rawson have punted stegbar and gone with a new supplier. Yes it does say that. I wanted to pull it off myself during the early stages but didn’t want to risk a window getting scratched and they blamed me for doing it. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 216Oct 20, 2019 9:16 pm Hi Salfield, Good to hear they've managed to remove the film. I see they have a telescopic post/jackpost in the middle of your alfresco. Was that temporary until they cut a wooden post/or built a brick post to support it? Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 217Oct 29, 2019 6:33 pm Hi Salfield. We have our internal colour consultation tomorrow for our Chifley 42 MKii. We are pretty organised in terms of pre-prep for the consult but do you have any advice for things to be aware of / to look out for? Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 218Oct 29, 2019 8:44 pm [quote="luxbuild":1pcnfn1q][quote="Salfield":1pcnfn1q][img:1pcnfn1q]https://forum.homeone.com.au/u/79944_1547550915.jpeg[/img:1pcnfn1q] You can see in the alfresco they have only done one side with steel and one with timber. Our SS couldn’t give us an answer as to why that is. 🍺 Have you got a thread yet, would love to see what you guys are doing compared with us.[/quote:1pcnfn1q] Hi Salfield, Good to hear they've managed to remove the film. I see they have a telescopic post/jackpost in the middle of your alfresco. Was that temporary until they cut a wooden post/or built a brick post to support it?[/quote:1pcnfn1q] Hi mate I don’t believe so. We had the metal posts on two ends and wood on the other. They just built the brick around the post I think. The wood one which you can see was supposed to be in a stirrup but it never was done. The ended up tieing into brick once it was done. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 219Oct 29, 2019 8:53 pm [quote="JoJo76":uble5shb]Hi Salfield. We have our internal colour consultation tomorrow for our Chifley 42 MKii. We are pretty organised in terms of pre-prep for the consult but do you have any advice for things to be aware of / to look out for?[/quote:uble5shb] Hi mate. Good luck tomorrow. Best advice is to go over everything with a fine tooth comb. If you are organised and confident on what you want you should be right. It’s hard to remember everything now. It would be good to come along and offer advice when it was happening. Get everything in writing that you choose. We had an issue with our doors where they agreed to do all the doors in the upgraded style but when they put them in only did downstairs. We blew up but got no where. Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. 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