Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 7May 18, 2014 2:08 am Our Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72518 Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 11Jul 08, 2014 10:18 pm Long time and forgot to update! We had our prestart almost a month ago now, but we're still waiting on final contracts to come through (hopefully this week or they'll be getting a call!). Our titles are supposedly due this month, so heres hoping we get them soon! According to CH our plans have been submitted to council, so if things go to plan we're hoping the slab goes down in the next few months and should hopefully be a quick-ish build. Definitely think you NEED to be prepared for prestart. We were probably 95% prepared and a few things threw us off, also the original consultant misled us on a few little things which at the time (when the prestart girl is staring at you!) was pretty upsetting and stressful. Nothing we couldn't fix/get over but was a bit frustrating at the time! Our block still doesn't have a road at the moment, but I'm hoping when I visit in a few weeks I'll be able to take some photos of our block! We've never been on an "official" visit yet other than scoping out on vaguely marked out land. Fingers crossed it all gets rolling soon! Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 12Jul 12, 2014 4:18 am Good luck and we're looking forward to the pictures of your block Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 13Jul 28, 2014 1:36 pm How's it all going rory? We drove up there a couple of weeks ago and still no roads, nor have i received any news whether titles have come through yet.. Our Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72518 Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 14Jul 29, 2014 8:18 pm Hi dream catchers, We pretty much have a road! We haven't been but my parents were up on the weekend and apparently we have a retaining wall, curb, road, tap etc! Our titles are due mid August now but the land developer has told us we can't access the site until early October at the soonest which sucks but not much we can do about that other than cross our fingers they finish things a bit quicker! Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 15Jul 29, 2014 10:03 pm Yeah I received an email today saying October. So does that mean building can't commence until October? I thought it was once titles were out? I'm so confused.. lol Either way i'm super bummed.. Means we'll be renting for longer and now we'll probably be in around my son's 1st birthday. Here's to crossing fingers! Will have to go for another drive up this weekend and check it out! rory14 Hi dream catchers, We pretty much have a road! We haven't been but my parents were up on the weekend and apparently we have a retaining wall, curb, road, tap etc! Our titles are due mid August now but the land developer has told us we can't access the site until early October at the soonest which sucks but not much we can do about that other than cross our fingers they finish things a bit quicker! Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 16Jul 29, 2014 10:28 pm Contact your settlement agent! We spoke to ours and they basically said we will get titles but they won't let us access the land until they say so (October). Which is a pain but nothing we can do! I think we are heading up on Sunday so might see you around. there's no tradies around then so should be able to get onto the street! Oh wow have you had bub then?? Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 17Jul 29, 2014 11:59 pm Ah good! Might just go on Sunday then! Oh yes! Should have mentioned that! lol We had a baby boy 8 weeks ago now He arrived 3 weeks early via emergency c section which was pretty traumatic :s Things have been super crazy since and we ended up back in hospital for another 7 days when he was just 4 weeks due to a blood infection He's recovered now thank goodness, but things got really scary for a while there.. Mum was here from o/s too, she just left last week and i've been going nuts trying to manage the little man on my own lol What Street is your block on again? rory14 Contact your settlement agent! We spoke to ours and they basically said we will get titles but they won't let us access the land until they say so (October). Which is a pain but nothing we can do! I think we are heading up on Sunday so might see you around. there's no tradies around then so should be able to get onto the street! Oh wow have you had bub then?? Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 18Oct 27, 2014 12:14 am Our Build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72518 Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 19Feb 07, 2015 3:27 pm Okay I have been really slack/busy with work so haven't updated this in months and months. We finally got our titles and settled in October, after a few setbacks - such as not having access to our land amongst other bullsh*tty things! Nothing happened then for several months due to these setbacks, but in January we finally had earthworks progress and on the 3rd of February we got our slab! So hopefully in a few weeks we get some bricks, and eventually they start building! Our only negative at the moment is during earthworks they damaged the back retaining wall, quite a large chunk has been chipped so still waiting to hear back about the solution to this (as it's too noticeable to dismiss). Also since I meant to do this back in June/July these are our selections! We've already had to change our outside pavers so hopefully nothing else changes before they go in. This is our final house plan: Our roof is the dark grey, with our garage and window frames being the cream colour. We've chosen red brick on the outside and our pavers (old ones shown) are a dark grey with a red trim framing them. Our front door is grey, unfortunately that was the darkest shade possible as they can't insure/something darker colours from the sun. So if necessary we may paint darker. The tile on our right is the floor tile throughout all the main living areas and hallways, as well as activity. The mosaic tile is our kitchen splashback and the laminate chip is the cupboards. http://www.caesarstone.com.au/colour/6250-wild-rocks Our kitchen bench. We are having the same floor and wall tiles in both bathrooms. In our bathroom we are having the lighter colour on each side of the darker coloured drawers, and main bathroom is all light. The bigger feature tile is the ensuite and the skinnier tile is the master. We had originally picked out different colours but we had to choose the same stone in the end so ended up with the same colours. :/ http://www.caesarstone.com.au/colour/2040-urban Our benchtops in the bathrooms. Our laundry floor tile and wall tile. The light laminate is the cupboards, and the darker flecked laminate is the benchtop. Our carpet for theatre, study and bedrooms. I am the most unsure about this colour to be honest! But we will see. Our external double doors (PMAD104): https://www.corinthian.com.au/Products/ ... PMADSL-104 Our internal doors (DECO 2D): https://www.corinthian.com.au/Products/ ... co-DECO-2D We also paid to get our house painted and went with the colour "Kitty Grey". We ended up seeing it painted at the Celebrations show home in Eden Beach after we chose it and LOVED it! So very happy with that choice, should be a good neutral base to start with. Hopefully in 6ish months when it's all put together we can agree that we made the right colour choices! Re: Building our first home in (Trinity) Alkimos, WA. 20Feb 07, 2015 4:45 pm Very similar plan to our house. Great choices here too! Can't wait to see it finished So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27731 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 8943 That is a really good attitude Akin to you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I do enjoy watching that tik tok inspector from Victoria but he does go a little… 12 81895 |