Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1905Jul 27, 2015 2:24 pm Coral Homes - Longreach 33 in Jimboomba Woods acreage Build threadhttps://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=76654 Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1914Jul 28, 2015 9:38 pm Oh ok I'm not sure if ours says that or I have just missed it. I'm sure it will be whichever one means you need to hand over your money!! Yes I was so surprised to receive the email on Sunday, not like we could do anything about it til Monday anyway. Awesome news for you about the guttering and fascia!! Haha yes we can only assume that what happens in your build will be happening in ours. Oh you've been demoted? At least your guy is nice and it might be a bit less stressful for you when the build gets more full on. Is he ok with you removing that window? Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1915Jul 28, 2015 9:45 pm Yeah, absolutely fine with window removal. They thought it was a good idea, they even suggested other things, I couldn't believe it after what you hear from some builds. Yes where very happy with everyone so far in this build stage, couldn't ask for more. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1916Jul 29, 2015 10:15 am Hey Finnsmamma - are you in? We have trades on site again today. It's making me happy seeing people work away after a couple of weeks of not much happening. I still have mid-September in my sights Follow my Coral Daydream 28 build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=72384 Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1917Jul 29, 2015 8:51 pm Hi all. Just wondering if anyone supplied their own lighting? We have our clipsal appointment next week and upon booking today the rep advised that typically for a 4 bed Coral home people spend approx 7k above the standard inclusions with 4 k just for led downlights alone!. I previously worked in commercial lighting and know that Clipsal are expensive and weve estimated we'll need approx 33 downlights. When considering we have wiring built into the price for the standard bayonet fittings 4k seems alot just for the downlights. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1918Jul 29, 2015 9:05 pm Yeah we spent about 10k unfortunately. And majority of that was wiring for downlights and fans, and ppts. We are supplying the downlights and supplying the fans so that was an expense above the 10k. I guess if we knew an electrician or were prepared to do electricals after hand over it would be much cheaper but we decided just to roll with it. If you are going to do that though I would suggest putting as much into your tender as possible so you dont foot the bill yourself. Our sc suggested putting 1-2k in the tender and we upped it to 5k, could have safely put much more on! Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1919Jul 29, 2015 9:12 pm murray223 Yeah we spent about 10k unfortunately. And majority of that was wiring for downlights and fans, and ppts. We are supplying the downlights and supplying the fans so that was an expense above the 10k. I guess if we knew an electrician or were prepared to do electricals after hand over it would be much cheaper but we decided just to roll with it. If you are going to do that though I would suggest putting as much into your tender as possible so you dont foot the bill yourself. Our sc suggested putting 1-2k in the tender and we upped it to 5k, could have safely put much more on! Thanks Murray. We built in 4k as an electrical variation and saved 3k on our flooring (again we allowed for a 4k variation and only spent 1k extra) so we've got the extra covered. It just seems ridiculously expensive for the downlights... not sure if we can use any of the variation allocation put into the contract to purchase lights from a wholesaler and have the invoice paid from the credit union... will ask them tomorrow however I have a feeling that whatever we allocated in the coral contract for the variations can only be spent through Coral for the credit union to cover the cost. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 1920Jul 29, 2015 9:18 pm We had nothing in tender completely forgot. So shock upon clipsal appointment when what was included with basic house design was revealed, and the cost of everything was rediculous with clipsal. We did absolute minimum owner supplied all and just did a downlight here and there one fan etc came to $840 above standard house fittings. Taking a gamble we can do all our electrical onsite with sparky, here is hoping You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14914 Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 15191 Hi so sorry for the late reply. I already contacted them and they wouldn't tell me instead they tried to get me to talk to one of their home coordinators and I'm not… 2 6678 |