The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread

Scott2233 · Oct 06, 2015 11:15 am

Arcain

I have had problems with the CLE communications as well. Looks like it is becoming a trend with CH or maybe it is the one CLE that is slack. Maybe it is time for a product review post as they only seem to pay attention to the reviews there.

Hi Arcain

Thanks for sharing your experience

I do expect Carlisle Homes to provide top customer service as they always claim to be #1 among other builders.

But I have to say the CH experience so far has let me down.................

kylz4 · Oct 06, 2015 11:29 am

Hi there,

I am new to this forum and we are looking to build with carlisle, either the Carrington 35 or Canterbury 39 depending on budget

I have had a read of several pages from this thread and have already found quite a bit of helpful information so thought I should join in and ask any questions that I may have here.

Cooling in double story.... has anyone gone with evaporative and how have you found it? They said they can maybe put in two points downstairs if the plan allows it so i'm hoping that would suffice and i guess if we needed it we could always put in a split system to take the edge off if it's a little warm downstairs?

Downlights.... i read a post on here, not sure what page it was about a guy that got battens added to where he would later put downlights at a cost of $55 per extra batten compared to $145 for downlights. How much would it cost to have an electrician come and change those to downlights later on do you think?

Front facade....is it just part render that is included and any timber cladding or tiling is extra? I'm assuming so?

Has anyone had quote for data cabling to be done? We are wanting about 6 double points i think hubby said?

Thanks so much for any help, I am sure there will be a lot more questions from me if we go ahead with this haha

Mellily · Oct 06, 2015 11:31 am

Scott2233

Mellily

Hi Everyone,
Just wondering if other people have the similar experience with CLE or not. We feel it is quite hard to contact our CLE. 90% of our calls to her went to her voice mail. If we were lucky, we got her call back next day. Most of time we heard from her 2or 3 days later. We left her a message last week and haven’t heard from her yet this time. We keep telling yourself being more patient. I can understand she might be very busy but is this normal? Will we need to contact CLE during construction? If so, I hope our queries can be attended more timely.

Thanks

Hi Mellily , consider yourself lucky , I have send emails to my CLE every week during last 3 weeks to follow up some of my query - No response at all !

My concern is whether this has become a standard practice of CH or just me be unlucky.

Carlisle's customer charter state "Respond to you within 1 working day of all inquiry" - Or this statement is outdated now ?

Hi Scott2233,

Sorry to hear your experience is even worse. 'Respond to you within 1 working day of all inquiry' is not we are experiencing. maybe we are just unlucky. I will go crazy if their communication is like this during construction.

Mellily · Oct 06, 2015 11:40 am

blue_destiny

Hi Mellily, I dont think 15K is too crazy; our electrical came back at 11k inlcuding the Opticomm connection (5 data/voice/foxtel points, 27 extra batten and a couple of extra power point). Because we're building a double storey house, most of the upgrade was for the ground level only as it would be too hard to upgrade later. Top floor is standard as per Carlisle, you can alway add extra power point and lighting later.

Hi blue_destiny, Thanks for your reply. That's similar to what we think as well. We will leave the lighting as batten lights on the top floor as well except LEDs to the bathroom and Master Ensute.

Did you include the alarm system? We are hesitating on this one. We prefer the $1700 alarm system which gives us the feature we like but wondering how hard to do it after handover. Does anyone know?

Cheers

ubet7 · Oct 06, 2015 1:54 pm

alexz1011

Hi everyone, I am wondering if I can put up a fence on our side yard after the NBN box, so that it's inside of the fence. Is it allowed? I know the electricity box must be exposed outside, what about the NBN box?

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Hi, anyone know the answer to this question? Thanks!

Yes - you can do this - you can even have the electricity meter box behind fence as we all have smart meters which are read remotely - with mine i only have the Gas meter outside the gate - so the chap can read it.

alexz1011 · Oct 06, 2015 5:26 pm

ubet7

alexz1011

Hi everyone, I am wondering if I can put up a fence on our side yard after the NBN box, so that it's inside of the fence. Is it allowed? I know the electricity box must be exposed outside, what about the NBN box?

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Hi, anyone know the answer to this question? Thanks!

Yes - you can do this - you can even have the electricity meter box behind fence as we all have smart meters which are read remotely - with mine i only have the Gas meter outside the gate - so the chap can read it.

Right. Thanks ubet7!

Our site supervisor suggested we keep the electricity box outside though.

blue_destiny · Oct 06, 2015 9:11 pm

Mellily

blue_destiny

Hi Mellily, I dont think 15K is too crazy; our electrical came back at 11k inlcuding the Opticomm connection (5 data/voice/foxtel points, 27 extra batten and a couple of extra power point). Because we're building a double storey house, most of the upgrade was for the ground level only as it would be too hard to upgrade later. Top floor is standard as per Carlisle, you can alway add extra power point and lighting later.

Hi blue_destiny, Thanks for your reply. That's similar to what we think as well. We will leave the lighting as batten lights on the top floor as well except LEDs to the bathroom and Master Ensute.

Did you include the alarm system? We are hesitating on this one. We prefer the $1700 alarm system which gives us the feature we like but wondering how hard to do it after handover. Does anyone know?

Cheers

I have a family friend who install alarm system with ADT for 2.6K for 24 months contract. This is a back to base alarm system and they run a mixture of both wireless and hard wire sensor.

gretharan · Oct 06, 2015 9:32 pm

Hello,

Can someone please explain what timming allowance means?

Mellily · Oct 07, 2015 10:48 am

blue_destiny

Mellily

blue_destiny

Hi Mellily, I dont think 15K is too crazy; our electrical came back at 11k inlcuding the Opticomm connection (5 data/voice/foxtel points, 27 extra batten and a couple of extra power point). Because we're building a double storey house, most of the upgrade was for the ground level only as it would be too hard to upgrade later. Top floor is standard as per Carlisle, you can alway add extra power point and lighting later.

Hi blue_destiny, Thanks for your reply. That's similar to what we think as well. We will leave the lighting as batten lights on the top floor as well except LEDs to the bathroom and Master Ensute.

Did you include the alarm system? We are hesitating on this one. We prefer the $1700 alarm system which gives us the feature we like but wondering how hard to do it after handover. Does anyone know?

Cheers

I have a family friend who install alarm system with ADT for 2.6K for 24 months contract. This is a back to base alarm system and they run a mixture of both wireless and hard wire sensor.

Thanks. We will wait for tender to see if we have to take it out of Carlisle's work.

NicNak · Oct 07, 2015 2:10 pm

Does anyone know the tile category that's in the riva display?

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MrsSummer · Oct 07, 2015 2:12 pm

Hello everyone, we had our Tender on Monday.Everything went good.
If any of you are interested I posted the pricing from our upgrades etc. on my page :wink:

Hey NicNak, I don't have the right answer for you, but I had alot of those questions as well and I found their facebook page very convenient, I asked questions their and had an answer within 24h. :z:

kd_w22 · Oct 07, 2015 6:28 pm

Mellily

blue_destiny

Hi Mellily, I dont think 15K is too crazy; our electrical came back at 11k inlcuding the Opticomm connection (5 data/voice/foxtel points, 27 extra batten and a couple of extra power point). Because we're building a double storey house, most of the upgrade was for the ground level only as it would be too hard to upgrade later. Top floor is standard as per Carlisle, you can alway add extra power point and lighting later.

Hi blue_destiny, Thanks for your reply. That's similar to what we think as well. We will leave the lighting as batten lights on the top floor as well except LEDs to the bathroom and Master Ensute.

Did you include the alarm system? We are hesitating on this one. We prefer the $1700 alarm system which gives us the feature we like but wondering how hard to do it after handover. Does anyone know?

Cheers

Hey Mellily,

We did our electrical plan exactly like this - LEDs on bottom floor, master upstairs and ensuite but left the other bedrooms and activity room as batten. We also go the base alarm system package, pre-wiring for the theatre, a few extra battens for pendant lights, two floodlights and pillar lights as well as some additional power points and ours came to about 9k.

One thing our electrical consultant mentioned was that you can always upgrade your alarm system later on if you don't want to go for the 1.7k.

Good luck with your tender!

OceanBlue · Oct 07, 2015 6:46 pm

kylz4

Hi there,

I am new to this forum and we are looking to build with carlisle, either the Carrington 35 or Canterbury 39 depending on budget

I have had a read of several pages from this thread and have already found quite a bit of helpful information so thought I should join in and ask any questions that I may have here.

Cooling in double story.... has anyone gone with evaporative and how have you found it? They said they can maybe put in two points downstairs if the plan allows it so i'm hoping that would suffice and i guess if we needed it we could always put in a split system to take the edge off if it's a little warm downstairs?

Downlights.... i read a post on here, not sure what page it was about a guy that got battens added to where he would later put downlights at a cost of $55 per extra batten compared to $145 for downlights. How much would it cost to have an electrician come and change those to downlights later on do you think?

Front facade....is it just part render that is included and any timber cladding or tiling is extra? I'm assuming so?

Has anyone had quote for data cabling to be done? We are wanting about 6 double points i think hubby said?

Thanks so much for any help, I am sure there will be a lot more questions from me if we go ahead with this haha

Hi Kylz4

1. Cooling - We have built Milano 51, evoporative cooling, and very happy with it. The ground floor is naturally cooler than upper floor and with 2 cooling vents there, it was perfect. I doubt if you will ever need a spilt downstairs, but again personal preference how cool you want.

2. Down lights - I went with extra batten as downlight provision on ground floor and it worked out well. For upper floor you can consider getting it done later as the roof has no access issues unlike ground floor.

3 Data Points - I got 4 data points, one at each TV location plus extra in study. I have the data hub underneath stairs and we have never got any WiFi coverage issues anywhere in house.

Not sure about your facade question

Hope this helps
Cheers

kylz4 · Oct 07, 2015 7:41 pm

Thanks so much for your reply OceanBlue, that helps a lot

I am so relieved you said the evap cooling works ok, we have it here in a single story but a friend said in a double it might not be enough as upstairs gets so much warmer. YAY to not having to fork out extra for refrigerated, that was going to REALLY push our already stretched budget!!!

Hubby thought that putting batten lights in would maybe effect energy rating, this was not an issue though?

Do you recall how much they charged for the data points? We are looking at putting in 2 points in study, 2 in lounge, 3 in living, 4 or 5 in hubby's techie man cave (theatre), and 2 in activity.

Got the answer to facade question today, seems everything is covered which is awesome!!!

kylz4 · Oct 08, 2015 5:26 pm

Quick question, are you able to visit Spectra on a Saturday if you haven't fully decided if you will build with Carlisle yet? e.g no deposit paid. Do you need to make an appointment to go or just turn up?

NicNak · Oct 08, 2015 5:27 pm

kylz4

Quick question, are you able to visit Spectra on a Saturday if you haven't fully decided if you will build with Carlisle yet? e.g no deposit paid. Do you need to make an appointment to go or just turn up?

We just turned up on the weekend

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kylz4 · Oct 08, 2015 6:04 pm

Cool, thanks for that NicNak. Just want to get an idea of what is standard range of c/stone etc so i can see what other costs may get added to our already bulging quote LOL

KateRG88 · Oct 09, 2015 8:31 am

kylz4

Quick question, are you able to visit Spectra on a Saturday if you haven't fully decided if you will build with Carlisle yet? e.g no deposit paid. Do you need to make an appointment to go or just turn up?

Yep you sure can! It's appointments Monday-Friday and then Sat/Sun is for browsing (even if you aren't building with them). You just sign in at the front desk and then you're free to wander!

Mellily · Oct 09, 2015 9:11 am

Hi everyone,

We got the following extra cost at our tender which we never expected. Just wondering if you got similar bills as well. These extra bills are killing our other upgrades. Shouldn't they be included in the base price as these must be paid when build a house?

1.Provide shade cloth protection to double storey scaffolding to left and right hand boundaries where house is less than 3000mm from the boundary.
2.Provide site cage for rubbish containment
3.Provide temporary fencing to all four boundaries
4.Provide sediment control barrier to the front of site

Many thanks.

OceanBlue · Oct 09, 2015 10:33 am

Mellily

Hi everyone,

We got the following extra cost at our tender which we never expected. Just wondering if you got similar bills as well. These extra bills are killing our other upgrades. Shouldn't they be included in the base price as these must be paid when build a house?

1.Provide shade cloth protection to double storey scaffolding to left and right hand boundaries where house is less than 3000mm from the boundary. $1000
2.Provide site cage for rubbish containment $2450
3.Provide temporary fencing to all four boundaries $1250
4.Provide sediment control barrier to the front of site $400

Many thanks.

Are you building in an established are with neighbors around? Maybe knockdown rebuild?

We got all these except rubbish cage, don't think I paid for that. Sounds bit unreasonable.