Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 14Nov 23, 2015 1:31 pm The builders completed the frame and roof trusses last Thursday morning. Gutters and fascia have been delivered and hopefully things will keep moving along this week but the roof tiles or windows have not yet arrived. A little worried that the gutters and fascia are just sitting there as we had our water meter knocked off a few weeks ago so the sooner they go up the better! Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 15Nov 23, 2015 4:54 pm Looking great! Are you building in a new estate or do you have a lot of land? It's funny seeing houses that are the first to go up with nothing around them. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 16Nov 23, 2015 10:36 pm Bobbin Looking great! Are you building in a new estate or do you have a lot of land? It's funny seeing houses that are the first to go up with nothing around them. Thanks Bobbin In regards to your question the answer would be yes to both. We are building on 2.5 acres so a lot of land and the other blocks around us have the same. Basically an old farmer has subdivided his land. We bought in his second subdivision of 16 2.5 acre blocks which basically all have a 50 meter frontage and are about 200 meters in length. We have way too much space but the kids are going to have a massive backyard to run wild in! Miss 5 is also looking forward to having a vegie patch and fruit trees along with some chickens and a sheep or two to help keep the grass down. Even though it looks as if we have no one around us the two blocks directly across the road from us finished building in October, one next door neighbour should be finished building in January and the neighbour on the other side had their footings start this week so our end of the street should have finished building by the middle to end of next year. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 17Nov 29, 2015 9:37 pm The progress on the build this week has been ok with the gutters, fascia, windows and glass sliding doors having been installed. Railing around the roof has also been installed ready for the roof to go on so hopefully that will happen next week. Spoke to the office last week and they have indicated that the bricks won't get done until the new year, really hoping that they're wrong and that bricking will at least start before Christmas! Hopefully the site supervisor will be in contact soon and he should be able to give us a better idea as to when things are scheduled. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 18Nov 30, 2015 5:22 pm I thought that the SS was appointed after the slab was laid and they then told you a completion date too? It's looking good but it must be frustrating to know nothing will be done on it until after Christmas! Are they going to put the roof on beforehand? It actually doesn't surprise me that the bricks will be delayed until next year - Fairmont are infamous for their dreaded 'waiting for bricklayers' stage! Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 19Dec 29, 2015 9:57 pm Haven’t posted in a while as nothing much was happening until the week before Christmas. After we had finally accepted that nothing was going to happen with the build until the new year we were both surprised and very happy to find that the roof and bricks started the Monday before Christmas. The bricks were especially surprising as we were told in November that this was not scheduled until the new year. Both trades were there again today so basically the roof is on and they have started doing the ridge capping and probably about 1/3 of the bricks have been laid. We’re really happy with how things are progressing and the work is looking good. Actually seeing the roof on with the gutters and bricks it now puts my mind at ease that we made the right choices with our external selections. Supreme Kitchens also rang in December and they were drawing up the kitchen ready for manufacture in the new year and I have dropped off our rangehood to them. They didn’t have an install date yet but I’m guessing the kitchen will probably be installed sometime in February. The first fix of the plumbing has been completed and we spoke to the electrician last week to discuss extra work we wanted and they advised that the first fix of the electrical is scheduled for the 13th January. So far we’re really happy with how well the work has been progressing and how good its looking. Given the progress so far we're hopeful that our finish date will be sooner than the end of June. I’ll post some photo’s later of the work completed so far. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 20Jan 04, 2016 8:35 am So we visited the build again on Sunday as we wanted to measure a few things up and we were surprised to find that the brickies had been either New Year's Day or Saturday and completed more work! Considering we were told bricking would not start until the new year we're thrilled that probably about half the house is already bricked and I would guess that bricks would be complete within the next two weeks. The roof is also looking complete but there must still be a few small things to do as the roofers still have their equipment there and there are still a few bits and pieces up on the roof. 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