Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes

After lots of searching for builders and house designs we have finalised a house design with Carlisle homes, It is going to be a Sorrento 39 with a rumpus extension and we are excited about our new journey.

Our biggest issue with finalising the house design was we had a tree protection zone in place at front left side of the land so it is basically limiting the width of the house we could build. So we had to choose a house that fit in to narrow block of 12.5m to move the house forward and have decent size backyard.

We also went quite far with Metricon as well hoping to build Glendale 42 LE but at the end it was a hard decision to select one and we choose Sorrento 39 mostly due to reasons of having more backyard.

this is our proposed house siting




We have done our colour and electrical appointment and yesterday completed the tender as well
We also did few upgrades/ changes to the standard design. Some of them are

Fully rendered hebel panel house with sherwood facade
2740mm ceiling height to ground floor
Additional rumpus room to ground floor with alfresco flip (this was a non standard variation)
CSR Bradford R2.5 Soundscreen insulation between floor joists
Window splash back to kitchen and butlers pantry
Three phase power
Square step lights
Led down lights
Zoned heating with addon cooling provisions
Water line to fridge space
Upgraded front door and timber look garage door
Flyscreens to all opening windows
Category 3 floor tiles complete down stairs
Category 3 Carpets with super premium underlay
Category 4 floor and wall tiles to bathrooms and powder through to the ceiling
Category 2 CSR Monier roof tiles
Westinghouse 900mm Induction Cooktop
Rannai enviroflo heat pump for water heating
Natural White Pearl Metallic glass splashback to Kitchen
Laminex 'Silk' laminate to Kitchen base & overhead cupboards
Soft close hinges throughout
80 mm thick stone island bench with waterfall edge
Undermount sink in kitchen and butler
Stained KDHW mitred margins and cut MDF stringer to staircase
3000 litre rain water tank (developer requirement)
Fibre optic pack with data points
TV niche to rumpus room
Boutique Armadale awning windows to front
Boutique aluminium entertainer sliding door to Meals/alfresco
Boutique aluminium sliding door to Balcony/Retreat
Mirrored doors to all wardrobes


Our plan is to finally run house completely gas free with solar and battery system so after handover we will remove the gas heating and install reverse cycle heating and cooling setup.

We are looking forward to next steps of our build and see how it all come together, also would love to hear from others building with Carlisle similar to Sorrento designs!

Sounds lovely! any updates?

Hi WaldorfL, Thanks! Yes we had a bit of an issue getting our building permit approval but now it is behind us, we are ready to start building..

After submitting for the building permit by our builder it didn't get approved first time due to proposed house design eves are encroaching in to the tree protection zone by 30cm.
So we had two choices, either to move the house back by another 5 meters ( that would make for 11 meter front setback) or modify the house design a bit to keep the house nearly the same place.

We really needed to have a decent size backyard and do moving house back wasn't really the best option. So we had to modify the design bit to get the building approval.

This is the design after modifications ..


Yellow markings are where house design changed, We had shorten the front porch by 45cm and remove the side eves about 4m length on left side after balcony. Balcony section would still have standard size eves so we think it may not look too bad.

Other side we had to push the house to the very end of the boundary so garage needed S flashing for gutters..

Hi Ramee

Did the builder ever consider screw piles to a depth beyond the influence of the trees?

Cheers

Mark

Finally Carlisle is on site. Yesterday temporary fencing went up and site scraped and ready for site start.

Hi Mark,

Yes they have included lots of screw piles in their design. They have recommended 2.3m minimum depth or go deep until 75KN working load is achieved in their design. I believe this is due to soil report came as P class due to soft top fill of the land development.


This is the diagram of proposed slab design with all the black dots are screw piles.

Congrats Ramee! Enjoy the ride!

Ramee, is site start the day of site scrape? I'm interested when the clock starts ticking for C.

Thanks a lot! shokel1975 looking forward for the next steps!

I am not 100% sure Macher, But they seams to be on time so lets see.
This is a link I found about site start date http://anewhouse.com.au/2012/08/contracts-contract-period/ Site start day is basically when actual building work started so site clearing day it is.

According to our HIA contract builder should complete house within 308 days from site start date (including all the holidays and other delays due to weather etc)

OK, that looks good - ask if you can have the pile installation logs to make sure the piling contractor went down 2.3m - actually if you can spend the time to watch some of the piling being done - it is one of the most important parts of the build

Thanks! I will try to get the pile installation logs from C but so far couldn't get hold of the SS.

Today went to see the construction site to see some screw pile action but it was already done and gone when I arrived. They must have done really quick or start very early considering amount of piles have to screw in to the ground!

Our kind neighbour send this picture today..they are doing the drains

You should be able to put a tape measure down the piles and confirm they all go to the correct depth - what depth is natural ground?

Looks like we are in sync. Same day site start and today we had drains installed too. Slab pour scheduled next Thursday!

From borehole logs from soil test report, one borehole data reports natural sand start around 1m mark. Other four boreholes data reports 30cm to 50cm deep from surface.



I managed to get the screw pile data logs as well. There are totally 48 screw piles all going same depth of 4m with apparently 2 helix design? All record same SWL and Nm.

Hi Macher, Oh that is great news! Yes our slab pour is scheduled on next Thursday as well..! I didn't see your build thread until now! Your's going to be really great house! Congrats!! Hoping both out slab pours go according to the plan!

Looks good - not sure how you get exactly the same reading on every pile at 4.0m as there will always be a bit of variation - but on the face of it - it looks good.