Fairmont Newport at Greentree Walk

iyeayo · May 22, 2014 6:56 pm

I thought I'd start my own thread

Hubby and I have just received approval for our new home at Greentree Walk and we are soooooo excited. We are new to building and hope to get some support from this forum.

Our next stop is the final builder's in 2 weeks

. Any tips as to what we should be expecting at the interview will be most appreciated.

Progress:
Slabbed - 7/8/14
Framed and Roofed - ??/11/14
Bricked - 10/2/15

mishl_123 · Jun 20, 2014 9:08 pm

I just found your thread

how did you go with your final builders interview? Would love to see your plan & selections

iyeayo · Jun 24, 2014 1:15 pm

mishl_123

I just found your thread

how did you go with your final builders interview? Would love to see your plan & selections

Hi Mishl_123,

Our builder's interview was a success and what's more, we got credited over $5,000

As there are no outstanding issues to be resolved, Fairmont has submitted our job to their construction department, so hopefully by July, things should kick off.
Our plan is a modified Fairmont's Newport , see: http://www.fairmonthomes.com.au/home-collection/Newport (we modified it a little bit to have an extra private area upstairs.)
We have chosen PGH Nougat as main brick, chocolate for the front pillars and rendered quoins in latte. I will take some photos of our interior selections in the coming days and post here. Thanks for checking and hope yours is going as per plan?

ST13 · Jun 24, 2014 6:22 pm

Nice design, I could never do two levels, simply I have d*dgy knees at 30, I can only think what I will be like at 60.

I'm also building with Fairmonts in Ingle Farm so not to far from your building area I believe

Bobbin · Jun 24, 2014 8:26 pm

Hi iyeayo

We were interested in building the Newport before we decided to go with a smaller builder. I'll be watching your build with interest!

mishl_123 · Jun 30, 2014 9:43 pm

2 storey! Wow. Your external colours sound great, can't wait to see some internal selections

iyeayo · Jul 01, 2014 1:11 pm

Can anyone please tip me off on how to attach photos on this thread. from a mobile phone. Got some photos to upload but not sure what to do??

iyeayo · Jul 01, 2014 1:15 pm

ST13

Nice design, I could never do two levels, simply I have d*dgy knees at 30, I can only think what I will be like at 60.

I'm also building with Fairmonts in Ingle Farm so not to far from your building area I believe

Great! how is your experience so far with Fairmonts? For us it hasn't been too bad but we are in the very early stages so cant say too much. Has your construction started yet? if yes, what do you think about their timeliness? Hope it al goes well for you. Please post a link to your thread if you have one, would love to follow your build

mishl_123 · Jul 01, 2014 3:14 pm

iyeayo

Can anyone please tip me off on how to attach photos on this thread. from a mobile phone. Got some photos to upload but not sure what to do??

I started a photobucket account. Once I have loaded my image to photobucket I click the little square above photo that looks like a chain link. That gives you all the links to share. I choose the URL image code, copy it & paste it here

Hope that is easy to understand

Bobbin · Jul 01, 2014 3:35 pm

Download the photobucket or other photo hosting apps and it is easy as mishl wrote above.

Would love to see a copy of your modified plans!

iyeayo · Jul 01, 2014 5:03 pm

OK, will give photobucket a go. Thanks Mishl_123! Thanks Bobbin!!!

ST13 · Jul 02, 2014 10:27 am

iyeayo

ST13

Nice design, I could never do two levels, simply I have d*dgy knees at 30, I can only think what I will be like at 60.

I'm also building with Fairmonts in Ingle Farm so not to far from your building area I believe

Great! how is your experience so far with Fairmonts? For us it hasn't been too bad but we are in the very early stages so cant say too much. Has your construction started yet? if yes, what do you think about their timeliness? Hope it al goes well for you. Please post a link to your thread if you have one, would love to follow your build

So far so good, they have kept to their time frames almost perfectly. I was told that we would break ground late June\early July. They did site scrape last week and due to dig trenches this week. They have said the house should be done either just before or just after Christmas pending delays \ weather \ anything else.

My build thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68570

I have tried to prepare myself for a lack of communication that I read about on these forums and else where on the internet when construction starts, I'm just lucky I currently live close so I will be able to see it as it happens.

iyeayo · Jul 31, 2014 4:09 pm

ST13

So far so good, they have kept to their time frames almost perfectly. I was told that we would break ground late June\early July. They did site scrape last week and due to dig trenches this week. They have said the house should be done either just before or just after Christmas pending delays \ weather \ anything else.

My build thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=68570

I have tried to prepare myself for a lack of communication that I read about on these forums and else where on the internet when construction starts, I'm just lucky I currently live close so I will be able to see it as it happens.

Nice cute block. Scraping and levelling finally happened for us today. I am trying to upload photos.........

iyeayo · Jul 31, 2014 4:14 pm

photobuckettttt!! ::hyst::

iyeayo · Jul 31, 2014 4:21 pm

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Finally got photobucket to work. This is what we saw today.....yay! So so excited

mishl_123 · Jul 31, 2014 9:05 pm

Yay!! Congrats!!

FairmontSAcustom · Jul 31, 2014 9:48 pm

Great photo

iyeayo · Jul 31, 2014 10:32 pm

Feature Brick for pillars - Austral Chocolate
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Main Brick - Austral Nougat
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Shower
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Shower Mixer
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All Bathrooms
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Kitchen
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Bathroom, Laundry and Kitchen tiles
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Proposed Façade (Similar except that we have no balcony)
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iyeayo · Aug 08, 2014 6:29 pm

Progress this week......

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iyeayo · Aug 08, 2014 6:44 pm

Thanks everyone for your comments so far. We are now at the stage of soil removal and I have received a couple of quotes ($20 per ton). Does anyone know if we can get anything cheaper or is this sort of the average price? Also, how can we know beforehand how many tons of soil is sitting to be removed so we don't get ripped off? Tips anyone please........