Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - pad down 4Nov 22, 2013 7:55 pm http://www.housebythewater.wordpress.com From blank block to new home in Mandurah, Western Australia. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=65564 Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - pad down 7Dec 03, 2013 8:38 pm Sewer line connected today. Sh!t is finally (and literally), happening. http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad277/joyfulbuilder/Our%20new%20home%20by%20the%20sea/V__6540_zps5e808e1c.jpg Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - pad down 9Dec 07, 2013 11:46 pm Love the changes you have made to the orginal plan and your colour/tile selection. We are also building with Content in Wandi, using a modified Atherton floor plan (minus the expensive front elevation) our pad was only laid today - very exciting. I wonder if we will catch up with you, seeings our house is smaller than yours?? I will be following your build with much interest Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 10Dec 08, 2013 9:41 pm Well I thought this post was going to be all about the bricks.... which arrived on Friday.
http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad277/joyfulbuilder/Our%20new%20home%20by%20the%20sea/WP_20131207_004_zpsb9d8922c.jpg But today we received a message from our neighbour that our brickie has started. Woot! It's all happening!!! We might have walls by Christmas. Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - pad down 11Dec 08, 2013 9:42 pm Lewis350 Love the changes you have made to the orginal plan and your colour/tile selection. We are also building with Content in Wandi, using a modified Atherton floor plan (minus the expensive front elevation) our pad was only laid today - very exciting. I wonder if we will catch up with you, seeings our house is smaller than yours?? I will be following your build with much interest Thank you for the compliments Lewis. We have been very happy with Content so far - very professional. I will follow your build with interest too. All the best. Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 12Dec 08, 2013 11:18 pm Yeah on bricking starting today. Can I please ask did you get your soakwells by builder? We didn't as our sales rep said to get another company to do them cheaper - $2000 cheaper thanks very much!! But I am unsure when I should get them to installed? Also who did you get your electrical audio visual/phone/Internet thru? Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 13Dec 08, 2013 11:28 pm Yeah Lewis.... I was a little concerned that we wouldn't have anything before Christmas..... a very pleasant surprise with it starting today. We are going to organize our own soakwells too. I'm not sure when we will do them - our neighbour has been doing their own while they house has been completed. We will hire someone to do them though - it has taken our neighbour a lot of energy (although they have saved heaps of money) - but as we have a toddler we'd prefer to spend our time with him. I'll check with our SS about when we can have them done. We haven't organized our electrical audio/ visual stuff yet either.... we had some extra conduits put in though.... we had so much going on at prestart we decided we'd look into it later. Who did you choose to go through? Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 14Dec 08, 2013 11:46 pm We were a little overwhelmed at pre start and decided to look into things later. Electrical is being done by D&S communications (Darrell Wyatt) 0417914387 he is one that the builder uses regularly and was very helpful. We went to him direct as I thought what intelligent homes was charging was WAY too expensive (their basic setup of 3 points for $1500 - OMG!), we got heaps more outlets with D&S for just under $1000. Darrell told us to contact him at plate height and he will start wiring then and finish everything upon lockup. As we have 3 kids and very little time, we are also out sourcing our Soakwell installation, 11 x 262 litre trafficable polypropylene with geo-textile fabric using Soakwells R us 0400665312 $1650 (builder was trying to charge $3500 OMG again) But not sure when these need to be installed?? Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 15Dec 08, 2013 11:53 pm We were very overwhelmed at prestart... all our energy in the lead up was choosing colours. Thank you for those contact numbers. I will contact Darryl tomorrow and find out what the deal is. I really don't know anything about smart wiring etc. I'll let you know what our SS says when we meet with him in the new year. My husband is saying that soakwells can be done any time but ideally should be done before paving if possible (which is what our neighbour is doing). Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brickie has started 16Dec 09, 2013 12:24 pm hehehe - first Christmas card from anyone received today.... and it's from our builder. Too funny. (but a nice touch) Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - back wall is up 17Dec 11, 2013 6:57 pm And we have the outside of the back wall and some window frames! http://i943.photobucket.com/albums/ad277/joyfulbuilder/Our%20new%20home%20by%20the%20sea/V__3E9F_zpse321a0b0.jpg We haven't seen this with our own eyes yet - our lovely neighbour has sent us these shots. We'll see it ourselves on the weekend. Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - back wall is up 18Dec 11, 2013 7:23 pm wooohoo looking good! We have finally been given a Rachel as our CLO and Reece as our supervisor. We were also told that it is unlikely to have bricks delivered before xmas due to theft!? Seriously who is going to pinch a pallet of bricks?! Who is looking after your build? Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - back wall is up 19Dec 11, 2013 7:32 pm People pinch weird things. Our neighbours were broken into a few times during their build - people stealing tiles. Tiles! Our CLO is Chrissy and she has been great. I am not sure who our supervisor is - he spoke to my husband but I didn't get his name. Re: Halls Head WA - Content-Living - brick work almost done 20Jan 19, 2014 5:43 pm It has been a little while since I posted. We were very fortunate to not have a Christmas shut down - our brickie even worked Boxing Day and New Years Day. Everything is coming along well and we are very happy. Our brickie seems to be quite "old school" and there is not the gaps between bricks that I have seen at other builds. We have about 15% of the bricking to go so we expect the walls to be completely done within the next two weeks. My door tends to rub against the frame during winter and I'm looking to fix it so it closes smoothly. 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