Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 23, 2016 9:51 am Hi Old Bloke!! Good luck with your build - hopefully we will be building at the same time! I haven't got the contract in front of me (when I confirm the exact number I'll update), but I'm fairly confident it's 180 days. I have it in my head we *should* be in by my youngest son's birthday which is August Is yours similar? Hay_renay, it's so exciting isn't it!! Is it your first home? Which house are you building? We went to Berwick to chose our colours, however, they were in the process of opening (or had just opened) a new colour studio in the northern suburbs. So you'll probably get to pick which one depending on which is closest to you. Good luck with your build!! Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 2Jan 23, 2016 6:39 pm Our build time in the contract is 240 days as we have a sloping block (7m fall over the block with about 3m across the building envelope) and retaining walls on both sides, so our site costs were significant. Our build thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82369&p=1525857&hilit=fairhaven#p1525857 Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 3Jan 23, 2016 10:52 pm Congrats! Your colour choices and tastes are fairly similar to mine so looking forward to following your build Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 4Mar 08, 2016 11:27 am Hi Kerooo Awesome you've started a thread. Your plans and colours look great. Look forward to following your build hope it all goes smoothly. Our Build Thread - JG king Memphis Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 5Mar 26, 2016 8:21 pm How is your build going Kerooo? Our build thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82369&p=1525857&hilit=fairhaven#p1525857 Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 6Apr 15, 2016 5:50 pm Hi kerroo! Excited to find your build thread, i have been driving past and watching the progress of your build! Great to see your frame going up today after the slab sat for a few weeks. You are going to have a fantastic size backyard. Im happy with ours 750sqm but hubby (surtees) and i have always wanted bigger like your size to an acre. But unfortunately money dicates ? Cant wait to watch all our progress i cant help but drive past daily 😂 Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 7Apr 23, 2016 10:08 am It's been such a long time since I last posted! So disappointed at how slack I am as I really wanted to keep this up to date.... Anyway, full steam ahead for us!! Some more dates to all to our timeline, and I'll post more photos in the coming days.. 18th March - slab due to be poured... Postponed due to poor weather 29th March - drive past and see they're pouring our slab!!! Beyond excited at this point!! 30th March - drive past again and begin to doubt the size of the slab hahaha (looking back I can't believe I did this). Felt for sure I had the wrong image of what our house would look like in my head! 14th April - my mum went for a drive past and told us the frame had started to go up!!! Ahh... We have finally began!! The immense delight I felt at this point was amazing. We really had began to build our dream home! 21st April - drive past to see they've added the second storey!! Beyond excited!! So happy and thrilled, and it looks huge. It was dark when we were finally able to get down to look so we planned to go back tomorrow in the light. 22nd April - in love. The scaffolding has been put on and I also received an email advising the roof, gutters and fascia will go on next week!!! Everything is flying past which is amazing!!! Thanks Julia - good to see yours has finally started too!! All the blocks in that stage are really good sizes which is lovely. I'd love to be able to drive past as often as you lol! At the moment, we only get to drive past once or twice a week Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 8Apr 23, 2016 11:29 am Thats great yours has been making great progress, really taking shape. Its probably pretty bad how much I drive past ours but its on my way home from work so its hard to resist. Our Build Thread - JG king Memphis Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 9Apr 23, 2016 8:16 pm Kerooo did you work out what your build time is? We've just signed on to build the Newport hoping to get to site by late July! Hoping we'll be in early next year! Looking forward to watching your build Re: Newport 361 - Our First Home! 10Feb 09, 2017 11:08 am How did it all turn out Karooo? We're building the Newport 361 at the moment (we have a slab, frame starts next week) and keen to see some photographs of completed homes I second taking your plans elsewhere. They're yours (unless you ended up in one of those cheaper arrangements where you don't own the rights and the build will be tendered… 2 802 Sadly no movement on site since soak wells went in. There are also missing/wrong storm water drains which need to be sorted, along with a broken pipe. Plumbing has been… 14 38141 Cant give recommendations in general with that builder, but during the colour selection, this is honestly personal preference. Depends on the style you want. Do you want… 1 1164 |