Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2042Sep 20, 2014 7:27 am Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2043Sep 20, 2014 7:39 am Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2046Sep 22, 2014 1:33 pm Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2048Sep 22, 2014 5:20 pm Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2050Sep 22, 2014 8:34 pm Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2054Sep 23, 2014 9:38 am Renee your house is looking great the ensuite tiles you selected look beautiful can't wait until I need to go and select colours . KDR. Overture Premier 09/14 $3900 10/14 Plans 11/14 Contracts 03/15 Demo 04/15 Validation 05/15 Slab 06/15 Frame 06/15 Bricks 09/15 lock up 16/12/15 Keys Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2056Sep 23, 2014 10:31 pm Hi Redbrick could you please tell me what tiles you have in the ensuite and also the exhaust fan does it have a separate ON switch . Your house is beautiful. Congratulations KDR. Overture Premier 09/14 $3900 10/14 Plans 11/14 Contracts 03/15 Demo 04/15 Validation 05/15 Slab 06/15 Frame 06/15 Bricks 09/15 lock up 16/12/15 Keys Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2057Sep 24, 2014 11:03 am Cello_Collaroy - did you sort out the tiling to the ceiling issue? I think we had ours in the tender but we discussed our options with the tiling company and we believed that was the be all end all. fingalbrad - hope your dings and chips were fixed by M. Fantastic news regarding handover. Good luck!! shobha - M are wanting to charge us over $9k for delays and they took 100 days to complete CDC. I thought it was meant to be quicker than going through council but alas, they can't calculate the roof height of buildings it seems. We don't deny that we were also at fault and caused delays but the fact that they can hit you with a fee with no warning is really pathetic. Our sales guy would always warn us. Go figure. MelMel - we haven't started construction yet. House was flattened earlier this month. Just signed off on electricals yesterday. Villinaeliters - recessed to me means that it's flush but then again, knowing M is could mean a few cms into the wall. I had a little chuckle about your comment regarding the big doors not fitting into the little doorways. We also went with the 2340 sized doors as we have higher ceilings all round. They must just not think outside the square and just go with the template?? That's horrible about your window debacle and would really peeve me off. Wow, things companies do... ckingo74 - we're installing our own appliances except for the Baumatic 900mm underbench oven. We also noticed the Smeg appliances and when we questioned our $9k fee increase, if it would include the updated appliances, we were flatly told no!! Apparently the price hike is for build price only. They're definitely not consistent as our colours rep showed us all the current items and told us what we signed up for wasn't valid any more *shrug* GillyM - you must have a LOT of patience with all those delays you're experiencing. I was seriously thinking of writing a list of suggestions where M could improve themselves starting with the pre construction process. The first item on the list would be "give ample warning of impending fee increase especially if M have been the cause of the initial delays, which in turn has a cascading effect and screws with the 90 days due date". Ren1979 - nice pics. I especially love your wall tiles in the bathroom near the spa bath and your kitchen looks great. Pikey - fantastic stuff happening your way shell90 - welcome to the forum Where have people been sourcing their pendant lights? PS That took half the morning to catch up on the goss but it's been great. I've missed coming here! Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2058Sep 24, 2014 12:04 pm wow, redwynne, you certainly have had a busy morning catching up! I really think that 90 days is completely inadequate in a lot of cases. We were very lucky to not get charged as we made it in pretty close to the 90 days (can't remember the exact number, but I know our preconstruction lady said she would have to do a count back to see if we would be charged), and that was with a pretty quick council approval (only 3 weeks). There must be a lot of people who end up paying more, not because of things they may have done to delay the process, but things that are outside of their control (ie: council). And $9000 is a pretty big hit to the already stretched budget. Theres just so many things that keep adding on (costwise) to get to the finished home that we are all looking forward to....... certainly don't need to be giving it away! Yes, I am a fairly patient person (luckily!). I just figure that jumping up and down at our SS or at M in general will probably only p*** them off and won't help in the long run. This time next year, we'll be in our gorgeous new home and all the delays will be a dim, dark memory. We got our pendant lights for the kitchen from Beacon Lighting. I looked around a lot online first. When you find what you like, then you can see who stocks it...... saves lots of driving all over the place looking through light shops! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2059Sep 24, 2014 12:38 pm redwynne Villinaeliters - recessed to me means that it's flush but then again, knowing M is could mean a few cms into the wall. I had a little chuckle about your comment regarding the big doors not fitting into the little doorways. We also went with the 2340 sized doors as we have higher ceilings all round. They must just not think outside the square and just go with the template?? That's horrible about your window debacle and would really peeve me off. Wow, things companies do... Redwynne the answer is recessed means recessed into the brickwork but not flush (ours is attached to the timber frame) - or so my SS tells me - and still not sure why it cost over $400 to get it done - should be a discount (as they have less brickwork to do. If not "recessed" I think that it gets attached after the bricks go on. A lot of money for about a 15cm gain! Door heights we hope are being addressed - someone forget to communicate something somewhere! Funnily enough when the SS pulled up our colours schedule (which has door heights) - he had 2 versions - one a PDF or word document - which had all wrong heights (eg all doors 2040) - and one which was the scanned and signed version we sent back in - all 2340!!! Makes me a bit worried that every other choice on my colours document might not be getting through to the right people ... Re our "window-gate" issue .... still waiting for a resolution, hopefully today??? 2013 1st tender 24/10 Dep. 18/11 2014 5% 25/02 CDC approval 5/5 Demo 26/5 Pool 3/7 Valid'n 10/7 Slab 11/8 Frame 19/9 Bricks 23/10 2015 Roof 3/12 Lock up 11/2 PCI 31/3 Final insp. & keys 30/4 Re: Masterton Homes - The next thread 4.0 2060Sep 24, 2014 2:00 pm hi everyone, just wanted to introduce myself. I have been stalking this forum for a while and have finally decided to become a member. We are also building a modified version of the Villina 32 - seems to be a popular choice! We love our layout and cannot wait for things to start happening. A bit of background - we love our house now and love our position, but with two girls now we feel our original little red brick home is just too small. We have played with the idea of building a new home many times but have never really followed through - until now! When we went out to Oran Park we fell in love with the Villina and after discussions with a lovely sales guy at Warwick Farm, building our dream home didn't seem as scary as what we first thought. We took the plunge and paid the initial $3900 to M on the 1st of March. After many, many variations and just as many draft plans, we were finally happy with everything and signed contracts on the 13th of June. That's where our story has stopped! We are now into the 101th day of the 90 day validation period, and M has yet to submit our plans to council. We have been more than patient, but our patience is starting to dwindle. One of the things keeping a smile on my face, is seeing all your beautiful homes come to life - some faster that others! I am hoping that all this waiting and frustration is all going to be worth it! 4 17235 i imagine you also have another contract with an architect? and yeah, whatever other's said about special conditions and appendices 16 16695 Hi all I am looking to run a water line under my concrete footpath which is directly next to my home, was seeing if this is possible without cutting the entire section… 0 20758 |