Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 22May 22, 2013 10:35 pm Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 24May 23, 2013 11:41 am Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 26May 23, 2013 5:29 pm Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 28May 23, 2013 7:00 pm Our custom Gemmill Home in Bedfordale WA Build thread:https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53788 Timeline on page 1 Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 30May 24, 2013 8:25 pm Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 31May 24, 2013 10:00 pm Our custom Gemmill Home in Bedfordale WA Build thread:https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53788 Timeline on page 1 Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 32May 24, 2013 11:01 pm Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 34May 24, 2013 11:08 pm Totally agree with fmac. Sales reps are great at saying, 'don't worry about it, it can be sorted at prestart'. It means you'll end up with a potentially hugely budget blowing prestart appointment and that would be devastating. Get most things costed, insist on it, make him work for his commission. Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 35May 24, 2013 11:15 pm We didn't sign up until we had all the major things costed up and included in the quote. As the others have mentioned, this means most of the cost is included in the contract. If you leave it till prestart, you will be left with a big out of pocket bill as prestart happens after you have gotten finance approval. We also got a few things "thrown in" as sweeteners (evap aircon and a $10,000 prestart allowance) to get us to sign. I don't think we would have gotten this if we signed up straight away. Our custom Gemmill Home in Bedfordale WA Build thread:https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=53788 Timeline on page 1 Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 36May 24, 2013 11:24 pm I think sweetener days are over for the moment SB, but well done to you, that's HUGE! Builders are rather busy and probably don't have to work too hard to get those signatures on the dotted line. Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 37May 26, 2013 2:48 am Well its 12.30am and I have a list of questions and the floorplan below ready to go for our meeting with Goodlife tomorrow at 1pm... The bedroom/bathroom (although a completely rough example of what I want) is exactly how I want it. Going to ask about having the Madison elevation, the acrylic render, downlights, brick height, whether doors on the theatre & study would work, and shed placement on our block. Heres hoping we dont come away with broken hearts! Our first floorplan unveiling, still in rough working stage and definitely not the finished product, but as a rough guide (excuse the WIR entry screw up - it's late and I'm tired): Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Ta da! Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Re: Goodlife Bravo Build Thread - Mandurah 40May 26, 2013 10:42 pm Was an excellent answering questions day! So far adding the Madison elevation, completely changing the ensuite, full house render (and goodlife use the acrylic render anyway), increasing bricks to 31c in living areas, upgrading kitchen and having a recess in the theatre and making a few other changes like adding doors and cupboards and we are tracking on coming in well under budget! Our rep did recommend that we install down lights afterwards as it would be way more expensive otherwise, so got to do some research on that. Also decided to add a BBQ area bench with sink/tap in the alfresco. Sheds placement all worked out too. Very productive day, paying our block deposit tomorrow night so our 45 days countdown officially starts. We're getting our official costs back in about 3 days and then have a finance meeting Friday night - then we just have to wait for our contract - hopefully it doesn't take too long. So excited! A bit worried about leaving down lights till afterwards, but I guess if its a big cost saving its worth it. Forgot to ask about the cost of reverse cycle though - doh! Big week this week, glad it's a relatively quiet week at work hehe! Our home building & decorating blog - http://www.rocknsoul.com.au/blog Hi, as per the subject. Does anyone have any recommendations for the best value decking oil (Bunning is close to where I live) for a treated pine deck? Thanks 0 13629 Need advice on the backyard plan above. Should I excavate and cut all of the dirt to level with the house slab or semi-excavate as per photo above? Both left and right… 0 25764 |