Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 31Feb 22, 2016 2:20 pm Bobbin It's all looking great Lewiston! Can't wait to see your tiling, particularly in the kitchen as we have the same colours - all white with subway tiles Thanks Bobbin, we're happy with how things have been going so far! As soon as the tiles in the kitchen are done I'll post pictures for you, I think the splashback tiles will still be a couple of weeks away though as I'm guessing the stone bench needs to go in before they can do the tiles. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 32Feb 22, 2016 3:26 pm Beautiful choices! I've also decided on a white kitchen with white subways! We have good taste! Lol Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 33Feb 25, 2016 11:34 am CustomStirling Beautiful choices! I've also decided on a white kitchen with white subways! We have good taste! Lol Thanks CustomStirling, we like it and the subway tiles seem to be a bit of a trend at the moment. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 34Mar 01, 2016 8:39 pm So not a lot of progress in the last two weeks, basically only the cornices have been done since the cabinetry installation. We also had an electrician through the builder in to get the landline and data points installed. We were a bit annoyed with them to start with as they were meant to be in to do this when first fix electrical was being done around 13th Jan but they only came in last week and now they have placed a lot of the data points in the wrong spots and they also did a pretty rough job. They are meant to be in sometime this week to fix but there are now holes in the gyprock which are going to have to be repaired. Hopefully we start to see some more progress this week. We were able to get into the house last week after all cabinetry was installed and have some updated photo's below. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I've loved how the kitchen has turned out and can't wait for the bench and tiles to see how it will all come together. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Storage Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Can't wait to use the butlers pantry either! Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 35Mar 01, 2016 10:08 pm Looks great. It sounds like your electrician who did the data points was through fairmonts - how was their pricing on data points? I assume you have organised Cat cable to network the house? Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 36Mar 02, 2016 10:26 am hillbuilder Looks great. It sounds like your electrician who did the data points was through fairmonts - how was their pricing on data points? I assume you have organised Cat cable to network the house? Hi Hillbuilder, I don't have a great knowledge with all this cabling stuff (i've left this up to the hubby) but the cost was $145 per outlet with cat 6 cabling. Basically for data points, landline etc Fairmont tells you to talk to the electrcian and we pay the electrician direct. The electrician working on our house doesn't do data cabling so they put us onto another electrician who has been inducted by Fairmont. The price will vary with what electrician you use, as the electrician working on the house quoted more for the landline phone point than the electrician who we went with. Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 37Mar 11, 2016 1:51 pm Tiling has started!! The tiler started Monday which is a couple of weeks later than expected but just glad its happening. Hubby met the tiler today and said he seemed like a nice bloke and he pointed up a couple of issues with the laundry which we will keep an eye on that Fairmont fix. The tiler said he will work over the long weekend and expects to have our bathrooms and kitchen finished by Wednesday and will be back after painting to lay the floor tiles to the rest of the house. The stone benches have also been installed and the sanders have been in and sanded all the walls so I'm hoping that means that there will not be a big delay between the tiles being completed to the painting starting. The biggest hassle in all of this has been the additional electrical work for the landline, data points etc. As I already said in a previous post they did the cabling a month after they were meant to and they have done it incorrectly. About 2 weeks ago they were meant to be in to fix but have still not turned up even after emails and phone calls to try and get it happening. Today after another call they are saying Tuesday. This has been the most stressful part of the build so far and I am worried at this stage that it will hold up the painting as they have damaged the plasterboard which needs to be fixed before painting. I've included some photo's below, not many of the tiling as he had only started the ensuite when we took these. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 38Mar 11, 2016 2:02 pm It's looking very spiffy Lewiston2015!! Love it all. Just a question, how are you having your tiles laid in the wet areas? It looks really interesting! Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 39Mar 11, 2016 3:13 pm Yay for tiles! Sorry to hear of the drama with data cables etc can I ask if the work was done by nacevicius or sa electronics? We had a quote from them for extra data and nbn stuff but I'm a little concerned about the issues you have been having... We're they meant to be in at first fix or some other part of the build? Re: Building Custom Design with Fairmont Homes - Lewiston SA 40Mar 15, 2016 1:23 pm Sorry for my late reply guys, it has been a busy weekend getting our current house ready to put on the market! [quote="heatherkam"]Yay for tiles! Sorry to hear of the drama with data cables etc can I ask if the work was done by nacevicius or sa electronics? We had a quote from them for extra data and nbn stuff but I'm a little concerned about the issues you have been having... We're they meant to be in at first fix or some other part of the build? Heatherkam, neither of the electricians you listed are doing our datacabling. Basically Nacevicius is doing our electrical work but when we approached them to do the phoneline, datacabling, tv ariel etc they advised that they couldn't do the datacabling and passed onto us the details of another electrician who could. They told us they couldn't do the work but I have no idea if that was a couldn't be bothered doing the work! The electrician who is doing the work was meant to come in and do it when first fix was happening, never did and we kept advising them all along what stage the build was at, e.g, insulation started, when gyprock was expected to start etc etc. Again today they were meant to be there and haven't turned up. I wouldn't expect that you would have the issues we have though, if you can use the electrician who is doing your electrical work then they should just do it as a part of the first fix and then finish it off when they come back to finish the electrical work. [quote="CustomStirling"]It's looking very spiffy Lewiston2015!! Love it all. Just a question, how are you having your tiles laid in the wet areas? It looks really interesting! Thanks CustomStirling, sorry to disappoint but we're not having the tiles laid any special way. I'm guessing your asking as the bottom row of tiles on the floor haven't been done. We asked the tiler this and he said that basically he likes to do the walls first but has to leave the bottom row off until he has laid the floor tiles and then he comes back and does that last row. If it was me I would just lay the floor first but he has told us that he tiles the Fairmont display homes and can only assume that he must do a good job so I'll just go with whatever works for him! 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 15175 From a pure legal perspective, if you've signed the variation, it is a very high bar to have it set aside. 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