Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15150Jun 19, 2016 12:43 am Building Sheridan 34 (38 after upgrades) @ Kellyville, NSW Check out our Clarendon Building Progress Blog Homeone Topic: Clarendon Casadream Build Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15152Jun 19, 2016 8:39 am good to see most are far along in their process, we still have a ways to go. our tender date is july 1st..my worry is everything we loved in the display home is a upgraded option and everything we liked will end up racking up about $30k in upgrades and the basics will only give us enough to keep the roof from coming down lol..just first time nervousness i guess.we went with the evolution package..not to worried about stuff like taps and lights those are things i can upgrade myself for less than half the cost of the builder my wife really loved the plantation shutters but those were a very expensive upgrade and we will do those ourselves later..if anyone has done the evolution package how were your options? were their many or was it like one ugly one and one less ugly to choose from when it came to items around the house that can be chosen? we also got the 19 premium upgrades that was $4,990 they threw it in for free. building in oran park stage 21C killara 26 model with clarendon homes Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15153Jun 19, 2016 8:45 am Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15154Jun 19, 2016 8:49 am Spart Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? That's dreadful Spart I wonder what brilliant excuses they have for that! We are also in week 18. I hope they get their act together soon! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15155Jun 19, 2016 8:52 am leeleh Spart Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? That's dreadful Spart I wonder what brilliant excuses they have for that! We are also in week 18. I hope they get their act together soon! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 We are on to our 3rd site supervisor, area manager got 'moved on' (maybe fired). Tradies refuse to work on our site because it is such a mess and dangerous. Urghhh! Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15156Jun 19, 2016 8:54 am Spart leeleh Spart Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? That's dreadful Spart I wonder what brilliant excuses they have for that! We are also in week 18. I hope they get their act together soon! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 We are on to our 3rd site supervisor, area manager got 'moved on' (maybe fired). Tradies refuse to work on our site because it is such a mess and dangerous. Urghhh! Can you escalate it and tell them to get it cleaned up ASAP? Changes in SS suck. We are on our second. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15157Jun 19, 2016 8:57 am leeleh Spart leeleh [quote="Spart"]Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? That's dreadful Spart I wonder what brilliant excuses they have for that! We are also in week 18. I hope they get their act together soon! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 We are on to our 3rd site supervisor, area manager got 'moved on' (maybe fired). Tradies refuse to work on our site because it is such a mess and dangerous. Urghhh! Can you escalate it and tell them to get it cleaned up ASAP? Changes in SS suck. We are on our second. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16[/quote] Apparently the couldn't clean it up because the week after the massive rain it was too wet to get the bobcats on site. Then they delivered me bricks now the site cleaners apparently don't have room. Catch 22 really. Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15158Jun 19, 2016 8:58 am Spart leeleh Spart [quote="leeleh"][quote="Spart"]Do geat to hear the progress on people's houses. I've stayed away from the forums the last few weeks as we are at week 18 and still only have first floor bricks! !! Have already been advised we will go over contact date, but if we are not in by xmas I might cry/scream. Where are you up to leese??? That's dreadful Spart I wonder what brilliant excuses they have for that! We are also in week 18. I hope they get their act together soon! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 We are on to our 3rd site supervisor, area manager got 'moved on' (maybe fired). Tradies refuse to work on our site because it is such a mess and dangerous. Urghhh! Can you escalate it and tell them to get it cleaned up ASAP? Changes in SS suck. We are on our second. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16[/quote] Apparently the couldn't clean it up because the week after the massive rain it was too wet to get the bobcats on site. Then they delivered me bricks now the site cleaners apparently don't have room. Catch 22 really. [/quote] I feel for you. Fingers crossed things get moving! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=82062 Madison 37 - site start 16.2.16 Re: Who's building with Clarendon?? 15159Jun 19, 2016 10:00 am tony7432 good to see most are far along in their process, we still have a ways to go. our tender date is july 1st..my worry is everything we loved in the display home is a upgraded option and everything we liked will end up racking up about $30k in upgrades and the basics will only give us enough to keep the roof from coming down lol..just first time nervousness i guess.we went with the evolution package..not to worried about stuff like taps and lights those are things i can upgrade myself for less than half the cost of the builder my wife really loved the plantation shutters but those were a very expensive upgrade and we will do those ourselves later..if anyone has done the evolution package how were your options? were their many or was it like one ugly one and one less ugly to choose from when it came to items around the house that can be chosen? we also got the 19 premium upgrades that was $4,990 they threw it in for free. We went the sapphire package so I never really looked what the evolution options were. If you're in NSW you can go and look through the colour studio and I remember some things were marked with what range they were in. http://bellaviabuild.wordpress.com the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6723 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 7845 |