Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - All locked up! 141Mar 22, 2012 10:52 pm Our bathroom tiles are all done, not very good photos, but we have black galaxy granite tiles, with granite wall tiles, the tiler did a great job and we are very happy! http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/tiles1.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/tiles2.jpg Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - All locked up! 142Mar 23, 2012 10:35 am Love those floor tiles! Deemaree Kyndylan Capers: viewtopic.php?f=36&t=46852 My blog: http://www.sufficientlysufficient.blogspot.com/ Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - All locked up! 143Mar 23, 2012 11:50 am wow memphis - just beautiful Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - All locked up! 144Mar 23, 2012 1:38 pm Ooohhh that's nice ... so shiny and black!!! Don't look down when you're showering For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - All locked up! 145Sep 03, 2012 8:02 pm Update time! We have sold our old place and moved into the finished granny flat, I will update with photos tomorrow of the final product. It is nice and cosy and we are more than comfortable in it. We are now able to focus on the house itself, with the footings due to go down Wednesday. The house build will be quite slow, but we hope to be at plate height by the end of the year. Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - House underway 146Apr 02, 2013 9:32 pm So it has been a while, we have been ticking along with the build on the primary residence over the past few months. Slab went down in November http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/slab_zps85a73eb7.jpg Ground down the living areas to expose the stone for the polished concrete http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/polsih_zps86b28f12.jpg Followed by some brickwork... http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/bricks3_zpsca103676.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/bricks-1_zps084efde8.jpg More brickwork... http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/bricks2_zps382641df.jpg Our mammoth solid marble bathtub. This thing weighed 3 tonne! http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/bathtub_zps667fadf5.jpg Windows have arrived (from china)! http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/windows-1_zps018acc38.jpg And bricked in http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/windows2-1_zps83c5915b.jpg And thats where we sit at the moment...we are currently waiting as our brickie has left to builds his own house, he is due back in around 5 weeks to finish up our place. Then we can move on to the roof! Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 148Apr 02, 2013 10:19 pm Hi Memphis, Can I please ask where you got your bath from? Did you import that from China as well? Thanks AKB <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=62083">viewtopic.php?t=62083</a><!-- l --> Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 149Apr 02, 2013 10:23 pm AKB Hi Memphis, Can I please ask where you got your bath from? Did you import that from China as well? Thanks AKB The bathtub did come from china, we imported it along with our basins, wall and floor tiles. It was also custom made to our specification, I hate to think how much something like this would cost to source locally. Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 150Apr 03, 2013 11:46 am Thanks Memphis - could you possible PM me who you used? I love, love your bath and saw something local which was smaller and $8000, so we have seriously been considering importing from China. <!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?t=62083">viewtopic.php?t=62083</a><!-- l --> Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 151Apr 04, 2013 11:09 am AKB Thanks Memphis - could you possible PM me who you used? I love, love your bath and saw something local which was smaller and $8000, so we have seriously been considering importing from China. Starting to think on the same wave lenght - wouldn't mind the info as well. We want to get a few things for our outdoors kitchen. Thanks memphis Preliminary agreement 23/11 Contract 22/03 Prestart 06/04 - finalised on 30/04 Unconditional approval 10/05 Demolition 05/07 Slab 26/08 Brickwork 13/09-06/10 Roof frame started 07/10 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32292 Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 152Apr 18, 2013 8:35 pm Brickies are back on site today, sooner than expected! On saturday we picked up our oven, we got a bright red Belling 1100mm wide ex-floor model from HN for 1/2 price so it made sense to grab it even though we dont need it yet. However while picking up also spent another chunk of cash a set of dishdrawer and cooldrawer dishwasher/fridge by FP for the kitchen...We are such suckers.. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/redoven_zpsd0275b9a.jpg We also got around to ordering our steel roof trusses on tuesday, so they will be arriving on site around the time the bricklayers are gone hopefully. Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 153Apr 25, 2013 5:35 pm More bricks! They expect that facebricks will be finished by Monday, then back inside to finish of the blockwork http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick6_zps8254f33f.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick5_zps209a2eb1.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick4_zps3871c30b.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick3_zps8135176d.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick2_zps25312afa.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/brick1_zpsd83800c7.jpg Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 154Apr 26, 2013 3:45 pm AWESOME bath, and beautiful corner window. Our owner-builder journey - viewtopic.php?f=38&t=45187 Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 155May 06, 2013 9:13 pm Facebricks all done, and lots more internal work completed. The rake in the ceiling is clear now Provided all going well (and I can get more internal bricks delivered asap) we should be completely finished with brickwork in a little over a week. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/fireplace_zpsd8c8f695.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/front_zps3d231f0d.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/kitchen_zpsf98ee8f8.jpg http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/kitchen2_zps93e542ec.jpg Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 156May 06, 2013 11:48 pm memphis On saturday we picked up our oven, we got a bright red Belling 1100mm wide ex-floor model from HN for 1/2 price so it made sense to grab it even though we dont need it yet. However while picking up also spent another chunk of cash a set of dishdrawer and cooldrawer dishwasher/fridge by FP for the kitchen...We are such suckers.. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/redoven_zpsd0275b9a.jpg Just a hint with the Belling oven, I just purchased and installed the electric/induction 900mm model of what you have purchased. We had already installed the kitchen and set it out for a standard 900mm oven. But because the Belling doors open out sideways instead of straight down, they clashed with the cupboards next door. After reading the instructions, they recommend you set the oven 60mm forward of the cupboards beside it so you can get the doors to open out to the full 120'. But this would have left a 60mm gap at the back and would have looked silly. I ended up adding a blank end panel to each cupboard and setting the blank panel back further, so I can open the door out to 90' before the handle contacts the cupboard beside it. I think the door normally opens out to about 120' making it easier to get you pans in and out. There doesn't appear to be any real good solution besides having your oven freestanding away from your cupboards. Or if you are having a custom kitchen, I would have the cabinetmaker put a blank 100mm panel next to the oven but set back 60mm from the door face of the adjoining cupboard to give your handle and door some room to swing into. Hope you get what I mean. But I reckon a 1100mm oven is so awesome it almost deserves to be freestanding on it's own in a custom built hob. Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 157May 07, 2013 11:54 am Ohh! glad you mentioned this, It makes perfect sense so I will make sure our cabinets are made to suit it. Thanks! ChargerWA memphis On saturday we picked up our oven, we got a bright red Belling 1100mm wide ex-floor model from HN for 1/2 price so it made sense to grab it even though we dont need it yet. However while picking up also spent another chunk of cash a set of dishdrawer and cooldrawer dishwasher/fridge by FP for the kitchen...We are such suckers.. http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/redoven_zpsd0275b9a.jpg Just a hint with the Belling oven, I just purchased and installed the electric/induction 900mm model of what you have purchased. We had already installed the kitchen and set it out for a standard 900mm oven. But because the Belling doors open out sideways instead of straight down, they clashed with the cupboards next door. After reading the instructions, they recommend you set the oven 60mm forward of the cupboards beside it so you can get the doors to open out to the full 120'. But this would have left a 60mm gap at the back and would have looked silly. I ended up adding a blank end panel to each cupboard and setting the blank panel back further, so I can open the door out to 90' before the handle contacts the cupboard beside it. I think the door normally opens out to about 120' making it easier to get you pans in and out. There doesn't appear to be any real good solution besides having your oven freestanding away from your cupboards. Or if you are having a custom kitchen, I would have the cabinetmaker put a blank 100mm panel next to the oven but set back 60mm from the door face of the adjoining cupboard to give your handle and door some room to swing into. Hope you get what I mean. But I reckon a 1100mm oven is so awesome it almost deserves to be freestanding on it's own in a custom built hob. Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 158Jun 03, 2013 7:12 pm Panorama of the grannyflat and house, ready for the roof! http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn130/memphis2k/Block/house_zpsfc6b809c.jpg Re: Owner Building Perth Hills - Brickwork and windows! 160Jun 05, 2013 5:30 pm Stewie D Looks good so far. One question though - what's holding the lintels up where the two corner windows meet ? Stewie Good question, its held up by a 50x50x5mm steel post as specified by our engineer and welded to the lintel, it is concealed by the window flashings. Hi all, I've bought 375 sq.m. vacant land from a developer near the coast in Perth. Unfortunately I have a limited budget for the construction of the house ($280,000… 0 352 Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 4287 Can anyone give me any onfo on New Homes WA? Good or bad, hopefully good just need to know if my choice was good or not? Thanks ❤️ 0 9582 |