Browse Forums Building A New House Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7164Oct 18, 2016 7:28 am Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7166Oct 18, 2016 1:46 pm Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7167Oct 18, 2016 1:58 pm CARLISLE - Milano 48 Slab pour: 21 Jan 2016 YES - a lot has gone wrong!! Lets hope they fix them all! Currently approaching completion - maybe: July 2016. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7169Oct 18, 2016 2:50 pm skycloud We had included waterproofing in Colours - price at tender came to $3500 which included powder bathroom ensuite WCs - floor as well as walls. We wanted only the floors of bathroom and ensuite to be waterproofed and not the rest and were told this is now included for first floor - so no charge for us. But will double check at contract just to be sure. PEARZ - does your cost include waterproofing walls and WCs? mil48-2015 - I think they still don't waterproof ground floor (over concrete). Not sure about other alternate solutions - tender doc states they use performance based provisions in some cases, and display home specs and tolerance takes precedence over Australian Standards (not exact words). Also they use reverse build where plaster may be installed before brickwork. Anyway I have signed up with Carlisle already knowing these as I have found them (through friends building/built) to be much better than a lot of other builders. Also there is a new process in place where you can appoint your own Surveyor and not go with DJM through Carlisle. Yes I can definitely agree they do reverse build. Our plaster went up and was finished before our bricks finished ground level. Wasn't surprised as I have previously heard that some builders do that so not to delay the build due to shortage or brickies usually. Not ideal but if you do see badly water damage plasterboard or floors request them to replace. Our quote was only for the wall tiled ares in shower walls and yes to WC. Well if they have changed their method then that's a win for future Carlisle customers so that's a plus for those only just signing up! Perhaps they have gotten sick of listening to Darbecca arguing about it?! Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7170Oct 25, 2016 11:14 am Hi everyone, Another waterproofing question for those that have already built or close to that stage. Does the downstairs laundry and powder room get waterproof properly? I know upstairs we had to pay variation for it... still fighting them on this not happy... but I haven't noticed anything downstairs so curious if they actually do it since it's considered a wet area... Any ideas would be helpful, Thanks! Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7172Oct 31, 2016 10:42 am PEARZ skycloud For those interested in the topic of waterproofing - we were told first floor bathroom /ensuite floors are fully waterproofed - no need to pay extra for waterproofing. Not sure how it was earlier. I heard from a 'source' that CH will be or considering full waterproofing as inclusion in accordance the standard very soon. My independent inspector tells me that CH is the odd one out at the moment and other major builders are including it as standard and that it is now a known issues among potential customer. So they need to move. Again, I was told and the information is not verified. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7173Oct 31, 2016 10:49 am Can anyone tell me if it is standard to have insulation between the floors in double storey T-Range ? (i.e. the Ground Floor ceiling) I am not seeing any insulation installed? Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7174Oct 31, 2016 6:34 pm ericaust23 Can anyone tell me if it is standard to have insulation between the floors in double storey T-Range ? (i.e. the Ground Floor ceiling) I am not seeing any insulation installed? Hi ericaust. It is not a standard inclusion even in Affinity range. I enquired about it at our tender meeting (many months ago) & she said it would cost nearly $5k to upgrade to this. I too would have loved that extra insulation but not for that price!! CARLISLE - Milano 48 Slab pour: 21 Jan 2016 YES - a lot has gone wrong!! Lets hope they fix them all! Currently approaching completion - maybe: July 2016. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7175Nov 09, 2016 1:39 pm Hi Y"all After stepping into the Claremont 35 we loved it and we are now building with cheval facade. Once the site has started will load photos. Still at the early stages but excited. Has anyone build claremont 35 before? just a few things i am concerned about in terms of pricing prices for porcelain tiles 300*600 or 600*600 and also price for the moon doors lastly do you think its cheaper to get an electrical package or to add downlights individually. any help will be appreciated Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7176Nov 10, 2016 9:16 am Hi Nataly, Congrats for choosing Claremont 35. Wish your build journey will be as smooth and pleasant as possible. Regarding your Electrical query - from other threads in this fourm, noticed the following. 1. Ground floor - you can not add lights after thr build.. So you will have to go through CH only. It would be cheaper to choose some basic electrical pack and then add batton light points in all other points where you wish to have down lights. After the hand over you can get these changed to down lights. 2. First Floor: Get batten lights whereever you wish to have downlights and later change to Downligths. Original message from forum: _____________ Sharing my experience regarding LED lighting. We have been in our Milano 46 house a few months now. When we signed up there was no LED downlight promotion etc so we simply had batten lights added ($52 a pop i think) in locations where we wanted downlights. After much research i choose the 13w samsung downlight warm white (3000k colour) for most of the house and and daylight (4000k colour) for bathrooms etc. I couldnt be happier - the lights are fantastic and being 13 watts they produce about 900 lumens which is more than the std 50w halogen so you dont need as many and much brighter then the 8w led used by carlisle. Another benfit is the downlight is completely sealed so much better for heat transfer from ceiling to room and the insulation can be up to an inch from light casing. We have some on dimmer and that works really well as well. All up we had 89 lights to replace from batten to 13 w samsung downlight. I can recommend the following at $19.90 each light - comes with plug and driver. http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... t-kit.html http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... light.html I also had to buy the round plug which the sparky installed after removing the batten light - you can then simply plug the light in yourself - 90mm hole cut required. http://agmelectrical.com.au/power-point ... white.html $1.65 each the best dimmer i can find with led lights - not cheap but dims from 20% to 100% and if the dimmer is on low when swtiched off - when you turn on its starts st full and then goes dim - this protects the led light apparently. http://www.agmelectrical.com.au/buy-led ... sl-we.html Your cost will be along the following: Say the builder has 25 std batten lights on plan You want an extra 25 batten lights = 25 x $52 = $1300 You then order 50 led lights @ $20 each - $1000 You will need 50 ceiling plugs @ $1.65 each = $82.50 Then cost of sparky - should get $25 for each light done = $1,250 Total cost is $3,632.50. If you ordered 50 x 8watt LED lights through Carlisle - looking at $7,500 or thereabouts and you have an inferior product. ----------- Please note some of the links may not be working now - however gives you an idea what and where to look for items. _____________ Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7177Nov 13, 2016 4:34 pm PEARZ Sizz_G39 Hey all, anyone here is building a Tennyson 25 I thought you were building with M? PEARZ.. I've been off this for a while, there was lots going on , so we are now moving to qld and changed our plans from M's Glendale 39 to Carlisle. And the usual wait for the land to title ... Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7178Nov 13, 2016 8:54 pm dbat03 Hi Nataly, Congrats for choosing Claremont 35. Wish your build journey will be as smooth and pleasant as possible. Regarding your Electrical query - from other threads in this fourm, noticed the following. 1. Ground floor - you can not add lights after thr build.. So you will have to go through CH only. It would be cheaper to choose some basic electrical pack and then add batton light points in all other points where you wish to have down lights. After the hand over you can get these changed to down lights. 2. First Floor: Get batten lights whereever you wish to have downlights and later change to Downligths. Original message from forum: _____________ Sharing my experience regarding LED lighting. We have been in our Milano 46 house a few months now. When we signed up there was no LED downlight promotion etc so we simply had batten lights added ($52 a pop i think) in locations where we wanted downlights. After much research i choose the 13w samsung downlight warm white (3000k colour) for most of the house and and daylight (4000k colour) for bathrooms etc. I couldnt be happier - the lights are fantastic and being 13 watts they produce about 900 lumens which is more than the std 50w halogen so you dont need as many and much brighter then the 8w led used by carlisle. Another benfit is the downlight is completely sealed so much better for heat transfer from ceiling to room and the insulation can be up to an inch from light casing. We have some on dimmer and that works really well as well. All up we had 89 lights to replace from batten to 13 w samsung downlight. I can recommend the following at $19.90 each light - comes with plug and driver. http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... t-kit.html http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... light.html I also had to buy the round plug which the sparky installed after removing the batten light - you can then simply plug the light in yourself - 90mm hole cut required. http://agmelectrical.com.au/power-point ... white.html $1.65 each the best dimmer i can find with led lights - not cheap but dims from 20% to 100% and if the dimmer is on low when swtiched off - when you turn on its starts st full and then goes dim - this protects the led light apparently. http://www.agmelectrical.com.au/buy-led ... sl-we.html Your cost will be along the following: Say the builder has 25 std batten lights on plan You want an extra 25 batten lights = 25 x $52 = $1300 You then order 50 led lights @ $20 each - $1000 You will need 50 ceiling plugs @ $1.65 each = $82.50 Then cost of sparky - should get $25 for each light done = $1,250 Total cost is $3,632.50. If you ordered 50 x 8watt LED lights through Carlisle - looking at $7,500 or thereabouts and you have an inferior product. ----------- Please note some of the links may not be working now - however gives you an idea what and where to look for items. _____________ Pearz, thats really informative. Thank you thank you so much. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7179Nov 13, 2016 8:56 pm JNT_New Build dbat03 Hi Nataly, Congrats for choosing Claremont 35. Wish your build journey will be as smooth and pleasant as possible. Regarding your Electrical query - from other threads in this fourm, noticed the following. 1. Ground floor - you can not add lights after thr build.. So you will have to go through CH only. It would be cheaper to choose some basic electrical pack and then add batton light points in all other points where you wish to have down lights. After the hand over you can get these changed to down lights. 2. First Floor: Get batten lights whereever you wish to have downlights and later change to Downligths. Original message from forum: _____________ Sharing my experience regarding LED lighting. We have been in our Milano 46 house a few months now. When we signed up there was no LED downlight promotion etc so we simply had batten lights added ($52 a pop i think) in locations where we wanted downlights. After much research i choose the 13w samsung downlight warm white (3000k colour) for most of the house and and daylight (4000k colour) for bathrooms etc. I couldnt be happier - the lights are fantastic and being 13 watts they produce about 900 lumens which is more than the std 50w halogen so you dont need as many and much brighter then the 8w led used by carlisle. Another benfit is the downlight is completely sealed so much better for heat transfer from ceiling to room and the insulation can be up to an inch from light casing. We have some on dimmer and that works really well as well. All up we had 89 lights to replace from batten to 13 w samsung downlight. I can recommend the following at $19.90 each light - comes with plug and driver. http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... t-kit.html http://www.schnap.com.au/lighting/down- ... light.html I also had to buy the round plug which the sparky installed after removing the batten light - you can then simply plug the light in yourself - 90mm hole cut required. http://agmelectrical.com.au/power-point ... white.html $1.65 each the best dimmer i can find with led lights - not cheap but dims from 20% to 100% and if the dimmer is on low when swtiched off - when you turn on its starts st full and then goes dim - this protects the led light apparently. http://www.agmelectrical.com.au/buy-led ... sl-we.html Your cost will be along the following: Say the builder has 25 std batten lights on plan You want an extra 25 batten lights = 25 x $52 = $1300 You then order 50 led lights @ $20 each - $1000 You will need 50 ceiling plugs @ $1.65 each = $82.50 Then cost of sparky - should get $25 for each light done = $1,250 Total cost is $3,632.50. If you ordered 50 x 8watt LED lights through Carlisle - looking at $7,500 or thereabouts and you have an inferior product. ----------- Please note some of the links may not be working now - however gives you an idea what and where to look for items. _____________ Pearz, thats really informative. Thank you thank you so much. Jnt, can't take credit for something that wasn't my doing Second Build, this time with Carlisle 2016, can't wait! Beckham: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=67280 Canterbury: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81175 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 7180Nov 14, 2016 1:57 pm I am building Montpelier - 45 - Knockdown and Build (KDBR). The site costs seems to be very high. It came up around 55K so for in the quote. Following is the list. Can someone please suggest or advise any room for negotiation or request for revist the quote. Site Costs Allowance 30000 Traffic Mgmt 5200 Provide Stake & Barricade to front nature strip 472 Material Handling charges 3900 (Allowance) Hydraulic Report 510 Crane Truck & Dogman 5350 charges for drainer to connect to existing timeworn drainage services 450 Site cage for rubbish in lieu of site bin 4300 Surcharge for KDBR 5000 Total: 55182 0 5239 We are at the stage on our build in Kilcoy, Queensland where we need to get our fencing installed but we cant get any contact details for our neighbours to give them… 0 6608 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14634 |