Browse Forums General Discussion Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1021Aug 10, 2014 10:49 am Built a Hawthorne 31 with EB nessjeffdreamhouse.blogspot.com.au Building an investment now with New Living homes... We are at nearly finished... Just landscaping and driveway to go! Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1032Aug 19, 2014 11:23 am Agree with you Paul We paid $90K on top of the base price for a 35SQ house with Casaview and that covered site cost, BASIX, all incidentals like salinity, slab upgrade, all piering, drop edge beam, BAL, carpets, flyscreen, tiles for inside, balcony and alfresco, basic NBN wiring, alarm, upto 60SQM of stencil driveway (one of the best allocations) and so on. We didn't mind because Casaview's standard inclusion is pretty comprehensive and includes certain things that are above industry standard. Their brick and tile range is pretty great. Paulc1964au Just remember you pay of you get, sometimes its best to pay a little more for better quality. Compare basix costs, but also look at all inclusions and compare. Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1033Aug 19, 2014 12:43 pm NeilP We are three-quarter way through building with Casaview at Edmondson Park and our experience has been splendid. Its so stress-free that we sometimes forget that we're building. Firstyle has some nice design but their build quality isn't that great. My BIL built with them in Prestons but advised us to steer clear of them when we were shopping for builders late last year. Beechwood, no knowledge but have seen a really nice design by them near my workplace. adgn When i was looking a few years ago.. i would rate Casaview then Firststyle then Beechwood in that order. hi NeilP, thanks for your insight. Wow that's actually interesting to know as I haven't really spoken to Casaview sales rep yet. It's good to know that building can be stress-free for some. Hope it is the same for me when I start building. So far, I have only spoken to Firstyle and Beechwood... so Casaview next and probably include Jandson Homes as well. Which display centre did you enquire? Does Casaview do driveway as well? I'm thinking of building around 22-25sq so your house is really massive. I hope Casaview offers free tender hehe 30/01/16 - Site works commenced 02/03/16 - Piering completed 19/03/16 - Slab poured 06/04/16 - Frames completed 15/04/16 - Fascia/gutter/roof rail installed 20/04/16 - Roof tiles completed Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1034Aug 19, 2014 1:05 pm Hi jaxology, If you purchase the package it includes driveway, tiles, carpet, flyscreen, blinds etc. Only exclusions are turf, fence, mailbox and clotheslines. Unfortunately, they charge $1000 for the tender but they allow you to discuss any changes to plans and so on and the revised plan is included in the tender. Message me if you decide to seek a tender from them and I may be able to give you more pointers. Best of luck, mate. jaxology NeilP We are three-quarter way through building with Casaview at Edmondson Park and our experience has been splendid. Its so stress-free that we sometimes forget that we're building. Firstyle has some nice design but their build quality isn't that great. My BIL built with them in Prestons but advised us to steer clear of them when we were shopping for builders late last year. Beechwood, no knowledge but have seen a really nice design by them near my workplace. adgn When i was looking a few years ago.. i would rate Casaview then Firststyle then Beechwood in that order. hi NeilP, thanks for your insight. Wow that's actually interesting to know as I haven't really spoken to Casaview sales rep yet. It's good to know that building can be stress-free for some. Hope it is the same for me when I start building. So far, I have only spoken to Firstyle and Beechwood... so Casaview next and probably include Jandson Homes as well. Which display centre did you enquire? Does Casaview do driveway as well? I'm thinking of building around 22-25sq so your house is really massive. I hope Casaview offers free tender hehe Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1035Aug 19, 2014 4:12 pm We are building the Allcastle Savanah in Gregory Hills (interested in any feedback on them), but we did build our last house with Beechwood, so I have good experiance with them... Beechwood are cheaper at Tender, but they do omit quite a few things from the Tender that are needed. The contract you will find the words "at the owners expensive" all over it. This allows them to send you additional invoices that are not in the contract, so have to be paid by you out of you own pocket. We had a contigency in what we borrowed, but it only took Beechwood to get about 50% of the way through the build to use that up. The rest of the build was paid for with our Driveway money, which we had to get a credit card to then pay for the Driveway. Extra's to watch for... Piering - Beechwood are known for under estimating and that came from the guys on-site when they did ours as they got fed up with customers going nuts when told it would be $3000 or $4000 extra to pay, which was the case on over 20 Beechwood houses where we built. Temp Fencing - Watch this one, 90m is included, they will try and get you to pay for more. They sent an invoice for another 30m, I found that strange as the total boundary was 90m. Went on-site counted the panels and found it to 90.5m. They cancelled the invoice, but to my supprise they resent a new one for the 0.5m When you get you contract they will include instructions on the amount of clean fill they need and where to buy it from. Cost us $700 which was not in the budget. After the slab was down, we got notification to have the vegitation clear from the site, giving us 1 week to perform or it would delay the build (also would our fault for the delay). Cost us over $2000... I could go on forever, but the point is there are a lot of costs involved that Beechwood know you will have to pay, but they don't include them in the Tender to make it cheaper and then supprise you with them when it is too late. At the end of the day the house was good and so was the quality, the cost in the end was reasonable, it was just the extra's which was close to $20,000 that annoyed us, as it was too late to include these in the contruction loan, which would not have been an issue to do if we had know about them. Our neighbours who also built a Beechwood took them 12 months to finished the outside as they had no money left. Message me if you have any questions regarding Beechwood... Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1036Aug 20, 2014 7:08 am Some good news for those moving into the area, Oran Park retail centre opens end of September with one of the largest Woolies and approx 28 speciality stores and restaurants Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1037Aug 20, 2014 5:08 pm Thanks for the heads up Wazza773! Wow $20k on extras not included in the tender is alot! It will be a problem for people who do not have contingency funds after putting up a deposit for a contract and realise later that they missed out on so many things that they thought were standard. 30/01/16 - Site works commenced 02/03/16 - Piering completed 19/03/16 - Slab poured 06/04/16 - Frames completed 15/04/16 - Fascia/gutter/roof rail installed 20/04/16 - Roof tiles completed Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1038Sep 01, 2014 6:33 pm I know this was discussed last year but wanted to see if there has been any developments in the last year. I work from home and my company use Telstra. In order for me to stay working at home- I have to have telstra broadband in the area. I won't be ready to move until house is built which will be early 2015. Does/ has anyone been able to connect to Telstra Broadband at all? Thanks in advance Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1039Sep 01, 2014 7:30 pm Docon2 I know this was discussed last year but wanted to see if there has been any developments in the last year. I work from home and my company use Telstra. In order for me to stay working at home- I have to have telstra broadband in the area. I won't be ready to move until house is built which will be early 2015. Does/ has anyone been able to connect to Telstra Broadband at all? Thanks in advance At this stage the answer is no Opticom are the owners of the fibre network in Gregory Hills and Telstra is not a partner to provide any services. I had to discontinue all services with Telstra except mobiles. Somene has mentioned that after 5 years Telstra can provide serviced but i haven't seen anything official. Re: [NSW] Gregory Hills - Roll Call! 1040Sep 01, 2014 8:11 pm Docon2 I have to have telstra broadband in the area. I won't be ready to move until house is built which will be early 2015. Does/ has anyone been able to connect to Telstra Broadband at all? Thanks in advance Should've built in Harrington Grove - Telstra Velocity fibre. Building with Jandson Homes - Eclipse 18. http://adgnetworks.blogspot.com/ Thanks again Simeon for being so elaborate. Appreciate it. Its gives us a very idea. Kind Regards 4 4280 Landscape Design Parramatta We have been doing a large amount of landscape design work in Sydney… 0 3 |