Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 121Feb 04, 2016 10:47 pm Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 122Feb 04, 2016 11:57 pm Blog: https://houseamour.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/houseamour/ Our build thread with Ben Trager Homes: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=77796 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 125Feb 05, 2016 11:06 am Love seeing your inspiration for different parts of your home, can't wait to see the study now Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 126Feb 05, 2016 2:42 pm Oh my goodness W2T, it took me almost 2 days to digest all your creative ideas! You are just soooo full on with these things. You know what, I swear I've seen most of the stuff you posted above, but they just didn't click for me ! And now they all come to life for you! You are amazing! Our Redink build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81681 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 127Feb 07, 2016 10:26 am Robina Love all your ideas I actually want to have a dark grey wall in our livingroom with white floating shelves for bits and pieces. We have bought two dark grey linen sofas. Returning back to a more classic style. Keep putting up your ideas as they are very helpful. Thanks Thanks Robina - picture ledges? Yes, do it! I would love to buy new sofas - dark grey linen sounds gorgeous. We have a 2 seater, 3 seater and 4 seater with chaise, chocolate brown microfibre-y couches that we bought from super amart 6 years ago - comfy but ugly! The budget was tighter back then, but they've served us very well. I'm going to get them professionally cleaned when we move out of here - I have a 3 year old boy who makes a hell of a mess eating his snacks, and a very old blue heeler who sneaks onto the one in the spare room and dribbles! Yes that is so gross! But he hasn't got much time left so I let him get away with it We will replace them in a couple of years, the priority at the moment is buying things we need, not replacing what we've already got! Thanks for your comment TBrown2012, Jelbell and ak11 - I had heard a rumour that Target were doing ghost chairs, will have to check them out. A few places do their own version, so far I think Matt Blatt might be the safest bet for quality, but would be good to actually see the target ones in the flesh, they might be a winner. teresa.hsh Oh my goodness W2T, it took me almost 2 days to digest all your creative ideas! You are just soooo full on with these things. You know what, I swear I've seen most of the stuff you posted above, but they just didn't click for me ! And now they all come to life for you! You are amazing! Aww Thanks!! I have lots of pinterest boards and I cut out lots of magazine pictures for inspiration. I've also found that some stores seem to have lots of things I like so I'm always on their websites - Country Road, Kikki K, West Elm and sometimes Freedom (I find every second season with them is a bit weird). Still haven't quite made the living areas click - we're getting there. Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 128Feb 07, 2016 10:35 am In other news - a pool is back on the cards! We wanted one, went and investigated the price and things, and then decided it wasn't in the budget. But the idea was still niggling away at both of us, and we're back to thinking that it would be much easier to put one in sooner rather than later. The back left corner of our block has been left as a non service area by Dales in anticipation of one going in, and really we'd destroy any landscaping in the rest of the yard by retrofitting it. PLUS - our rear neighbours have just put one in - we met them yesterday, he works for a pool company so they arranged to install it before building, which they are hoping to get started soon. We said they owe us a swim as they were using our tap to fill it up we busted them! I think we are going to have a look at Sapphire Pools and Guardian if they are open later today, Buccaneer was the front runner before so might touch base with them again too. We are looking for something around 5.5 x 2.5m - not too deep. I think the Buccaneer one was 1.1 - 1.6m and we like the seat running down one side. Now just to find the money for it.. we only need one kidney right? Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 129Feb 07, 2016 10:40 am Haha totally only need one kidney! We are the same and have left our right hand side service free so we can one day put a pool in. Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 130Feb 07, 2016 11:36 am Pools, so expensive, sigh.. I found Guardian sales service really good and pricing. The other guys around Rockingham wouldn't leave their office even to say hello. Riverina said hello and explained a few things and was polite. Our last pool was Riverina and installation was fantastic and never had an issue with it, but that was many moons ago, things may have changed. Barrier reef pools sales was very good down at Mandurah but was really expensive I thought. I have done the trudge around Rockingham and Mandurah and that was my summary experience Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 131Feb 07, 2016 12:16 pm Decka Pools, so expensive, sigh.. I found Guardian sales service really good and pricing. The other guys around Rockingham wouldn't leave their office even to say hello. Riverina said hello and explained a few things and was polite. Our last pool was Riverina and installation was fantastic and never had an issue with it, but that was many moons ago, things may have changed. Barrier reef pools sales was very good down at Mandurah but was really expensive I thought. I have done the trudge around Rockingham and Mandurah and that was my summary experience Thanks for the insight Decka One of my husband's colleagues recently got a Guardian Pool and they took absolutely forever to organise the council approvals etc - but I think that could be one of those things, with our knowledge of that, we could keep on top of them. Certainly the price might counter a bit of a wait! We spoke to the guy at Barrier Reef at O'Connor once, firstly he wouldn't let us leave as his sales pitch took FOREVER! And also the showroom was really dangerous, lots of steps and he kept propping open the safety gates - and we were trying not to let our bored (as he took forever) then two year old either fall down the steps or into a pool. Anyway agree, they were very pricey. I'm not so keen on Riverina as I used to drive past their Dixon Road showroom everyday to work, and it concerned me that it took them 6 months to get it finished. If thats how long it takes them to do their display, how long do they take with clients? So I think my default we have whittled it down to either Guardian, Freedom, or the Buccaneer-Sapphire-Aqua Technics group. Aqua Technics don't seem to have the shape we want. (Steps are generally at the end not side). Will make a shortlist. Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 132Feb 07, 2016 1:07 pm We used Riverina (Joondalup) as did our neighbours. The best price by far and no issue at all with installation etc. good luck - loving my pool on days like today Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 133Feb 07, 2016 1:36 pm Hi W2T, yes a pool a pool! You won't regret! We spent lots of time looking at pools (probably should've spent time to prepare for pre-start ) and finally decided on Buccaneer and the pool shell went in in October last year before the site work started in November. We initially really wanted the Barrier Reef pool called Majestic but price came to close to 30k! Could not find any shape we like from Aqua Technics. Freedom's sales man was a little too playful and lacked a professional manner during our meeting. We were quite mindful with Buccaneer because there're lots lots of bad reviews about them. but the sales guy turned out to be very genuine and after 3 meetings, we signed a 8x4 Panama for approx 22k include several upgrades. Once our contract was passed on to their Compliance Office and Accounts, everyone we dealt with so far is polite nice to talk to and get things done straight away. So far so good, we just need to call them back once the house is finish to finish off the pool. About Sapphire, we met the old (actually not that old) guy there once, he gave us a quote and some good advices. Shame we couldn't find a shape to suit our liking. I remember their price is quite reasonable too. Happy pool hunting and look forward to see what you pick at the end. Our Redink build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81681 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 134Feb 07, 2016 2:09 pm +Tbrown2012 We used Riverina (Joondalup) as did our neighbours. The best price by far and no issue at all with installation etc. good luck - loving my pool on days like today Hmm well maybe they are worth looking into. We may as well teresa.hsh We were quite mindful with Buccaneer because there're lots lots of bad reviews about them. but the sales guy turned out to be very genuine and after 3 meetings, we signed a 8x4 Panama for approx 22k include several upgrades. Once our contract was passed on to their Compliance Office and Accounts, everyone we dealt with so far is polite nice to talk to and get things done straight away. So far so good, we just need to call them back once the house is finish to finish off the pool. About Sapphire, we met the old (actually not that old) guy there once, he gave us a quote and some good advices. Shame we couldn't find a shape to suit our liking. I remember their price is quite reasonable too. That sounds like an awesome price! Big pool too Originally we were wanting to get the wee Cove wading pool with the Portofino (5.5 x 2.5) which added about $3500 to our quote which came back just over $26000. I think the base price of the Portofino was $19500. Ideally we'd like to have the pool and it's bits and pieces for $20k - the fence and decking etc can be absorbed into our landscaping costs. Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 135Feb 07, 2016 2:25 pm Yeh we are happy with the price, few upgrades have been included for free after we appeared to be hesitant for a while and I think the sales man really want to make the deal Honestly we forgot to budget for the fence paving etc but thought, bugger it, we will deal with it when the time comes. We still got time to save up for that part... fingers crossed. Anyhow seeing you being so smart on everything, no doubt you will find one that is just right for you. Make sure you show us some pics of it though Our Redink build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81681 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 136Feb 10, 2016 11:26 pm Well, a bit of detective work required by me today... Got a text from Mr W2T this arvo saying "the soak wells have gone from the verge, but they aren't in the ground" I was intrigued! He sent a picture of where the soak wells are meant to go as per our storm water layout plan, and we both thought that surely there wasn't enough space between the trench and the house to have put them in (3 x1200mm). I emailed our CLO who replied very quickly, I gave her a call and she had spoken to the construction manager and plumber who both confirmed they had gone in. Didn't make sense... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ So I went down tonight, and as I take progress shots from the same spots on each corner of the block, I was able to compare Monday's photo to today's. Definitely no disturbance to the location they should be as per the plan! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I can only assume by the large pile of dirt at the front, they must be along there somewhere. I have emailed our CLO to request she finds out where they are and why they aren't located as per the approved plan. Will keep you posted as to response! Detective W2T. Our Custom Dale Alcock build in the Village at Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78620 Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 137Feb 11, 2016 8:07 am Hi W2T I would also recommend adding slotted gutters to avoid SW back flow into your house from your eaves The 3 soak wells closely located at the rear are not ideal..but convenient for the installer. Then there is the F/G pool? Thanks for the photos Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 138Feb 11, 2016 11:20 am What a mystery?! Interested to see what the outcome is! Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 139Feb 11, 2016 2:17 pm OOooo! I love a good mystery! Re: Custom Dale Alcock in Wellard Village - Slabbed! 140Feb 12, 2016 2:04 pm I just played spot the difference and apart from the mound of sand I can't see any movement. Strange Our Easystart Build in Annie's Landing https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81061&p=1478674#p1478674 ideal house depends on the site and location as much as internal floor plan....what is the distance from the house to all four boundaries, where is north, describe your… 3 32368 Hi Mofflepop, I would recommend finding a building designer to prepare plans, they should design to your specified budget. The benefit is you can tender the project out… 9 49932 It is in lake macquarie area and dimensions are width 14 m and depth 8 m and the slope is 1/5 going down from the road. 1 16284 |