Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 (Modified) in Baulkham Hills NSW 62Nov 25, 2019 4:53 pm Building Grange 22 by Coral Homes in QLD -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=97426&p=1860633#p1860633 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 (Modified) in Baulkham Hills NSW 64May 13, 2020 4:19 pm Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 (Modified) in Baulkham Hills NSW 67Jun 14, 2020 4:32 pm Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 (Modified) in Baulkham Hills NSW 69Jun 15, 2020 2:54 pm Jomas81 What a great blog. We're in the very early stages of our planning with Rawson and I've been nodding along with the observations about the pre-contracts administrator... something to keep a very close eye on. Can't wait to see your updates with the finished house. How did it cope with all the rain between 7-9 Feb 2020? Any leakage issues? Happy to help, I can only hope that writing about our experience assists others in perhaps picking up things they might have overlooked or not found out about until it's too late and regretted - living in your first "new build" dream home and having regrets is not a great feeling as you always think back and wonder "why didn't we think to ask or know about that before" and it's usually a lot of money to fix these things up after the fact or even during the building process with the $1000 worth of redraw & admin fees for any change. We have a few regrets which I'll go into more detail on a big update post so I'll be putting up some more big updates soon, I just like to put a lot of detail in so waiting until I have time to do them properly. Thankfully one thing that has been great about the house is no leaks and I'm really happy that both we have had some serious rain to test it out within the warranty list period and that the house passed with flying colors. Nothing worse than living in a house for a few years with no serious rain and everything seeming ok only to get that one big storm that proves otherwise. Actually I say that and we do have some water entering under our Laundry door which Rawson has looked at under the warranty period and should be fixing as it's just the weather strip a the bottom of the door not fully going down and connecting with the tiles when the door is closed, but to me it's leaks through the roof / ceiling that are most concerning and we don't have anything like that. Admittedly I haven't been up into the roof cavity when it has been pouring down but there is no tell tale sign of any leaks where you would have water damage to plasterboard, etc or leaking in around windows. Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 (Modified) in Baulkham Hills NSW 70Dec 27, 2021 12:05 pm JiMb00 Jomas81 What a great blog. We're in the very early stages of our planning with Rawson and I've been nodding along with the observations about the pre-contracts administrator... something to keep a very close eye on. Can't wait to see your updates with the finished house. How did it cope with all the rain between 7-9 Feb 2020? Any leakage issues? Happy to help, I can only hope that writing about our experience assists others in perhaps picking up things they might have overlooked or not found out about until it's too late and regretted - living in your first "new build" dream home and having regrets is not a great feeling as you always think back and wonder "why didn't we think to ask or know about that before" and it's usually a lot of money to fix these things up after the fact or even during the building process with the $1000 worth of redraw & admin fees for any change. We have a few regrets which I'll go into more detail on a big update post so I'll be putting up some more big updates soon, I just like to put a lot of detail in so waiting until I have time to do them properly. Thankfully one thing that has been great about the house is no leaks and I'm really happy that both we have had some serious rain to test it out within the warranty list period and that the house passed with flying colors. Nothing worse than living in a house for a few years with no serious rain and everything seeming ok only to get that one big storm that proves otherwise. Actually I say that and we do have some water entering under our Laundry door which Rawson has looked at under the warranty period and should be fixing as it's just the weather strip a the bottom of the door not fully going down and connecting with the tiles when the door is closed, but to me it's leaks through the roof / ceiling that are most concerning and we don't have anything like that. Admittedly I haven't been up into the roof cavity when it has been pouring down but there is no tell tale sign of any leaks where you would have water damage to plasterboard, etc or leaking in around windows. Great building post, thanks for all the photos, advice and insight into the building process. Much appreciated. You posted million of defects at the back of your album, have them be fixed/fixing? Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 2451 Even if it's not being sub-divided and you want to keep it as Torrens title, you will still need to talk to a town planner or Council themselves, to see if they will allow… 1 11035 Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 3666 |