Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 5Oct 21, 2016 11:45 pm Good idea for a thread MS! Have been waiting for a general Rawson thread to pop up! I am in early stages with Rawson too and your posts have been very useful for me. Do you mind if I ask what were some of the mistakes you picked up in the tender and plans? Just want to make sure I don't miss anything either! Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 6Oct 22, 2016 7:38 am sydneysider Good idea for a thread MS! Have been waiting for a general Rawson thread to pop up! I am in early stages with Rawson too and your posts have been very useful for me. Do you mind if I ask what were some of the mistakes you picked up in the tender and plans? Just want to make sure I don't miss anything either! Hi SS, Welcome to the thread! We made some modifications to the original Huntley design. Instead of having a "U" shaped kitchen, we redesigned it to have an island bench. Because of this we deleted a lot of cupboards space from the kitchen but we only received very little credit for the deletion. We also upgraded our ground floor to have engineered timber and Rawson has forgotten to credit us with the tiling allowance when they calculated the extra cost. We stood to lose $4000 if we didn't pick up on this. Everything was sorted out at the end, but I just want people to be diligent about these things. They also miscalculated our site cost in the tender and we ended up having to pay more for it before they lodged the plans to council. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 7Oct 25, 2016 9:19 am Framework started last Friday but no one has been working on site since. Tips: If you cannot find a Taubmans paint that you like for your colour selection, you can choose a Dulux colour and Rawson will colour match it with a Taubmans copy. This is really handy especially since Dulux is well known for their whites & neutrals for the interior walls. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 9Oct 25, 2016 10:07 am Standard ceiling and cornice: Ceiling White Architraves and doors: Not sure if there's a standard colour for these. Our trims are the same with the wall colour. Standard finish to wood work: Hi-Dura gloss Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 10Oct 25, 2016 4:33 pm MorningStar Standard ceiling and cornice: Ceiling White Architraves and doors: Not sure if there's a standard colour for these. Our trims are the same with the wall colour. Standard finish to wood work: Hi-Dura gloss Thanks for the reply, need to patch a door I might try a tin of just the normal white in the dura gloss and hopefully that works. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 11Oct 26, 2016 5:49 am So I attempted to paint some of a door with the same ceiling white and the paint is a lot lighter. The doors and architraves seem to have a tinge of yellow which is probably causes by the gloss. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 12Oct 26, 2016 7:45 am The only way to be sure is to go back & see the colour selection records for your house and find out what colour they used for them. But If you don't have the list, this can be tricky. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 14Oct 27, 2016 5:56 am MorningStar sydneysider Good idea for a thread MS! Have been waiting for a general Rawson thread to pop up! I am in early stages with Rawson too and your posts have been very useful for me. Do you mind if I ask what were some of the mistakes you picked up in the tender and plans? Just want to make sure I don't miss anything either! Hi SS, Welcome to the thread! We made some modifications to the original Huntley design. Instead of having a "U" shaped kitchen, we redesigned it to have an island bench. Because of this we deleted a lot of cupboards space from the kitchen but we only received very little credit for the deletion. We also upgraded our ground floor to have engineered timber and Rawson has forgotten to credit us with the tiling allowance when they calculated the extra cost. We stood to lose $4000 if we didn't pick up on this. Everything was sorted out at the end, but I just want people to be diligent about these things. They also miscalculated our site cost in the tender and we ended up having to pay more for it before they lodged the plans to council. Hi Morningstar, Which timber did you go with for the ground floor? Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 15Oct 27, 2016 6:41 am Hi Katran, We use the commercial grade KronoSwiss Giant range. It's supposed to be really tough and scratch resistant. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 16Nov 02, 2016 8:40 am After 10 days of inactivity on site, they started framing again on Monday. First floor is now up. Roof still has a little bit to go. Next: plumbing rough in and delivery of bricks. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 18Nov 11, 2016 1:14 pm Thanks, Red! Framework has now been completed. Windows and glass doors are installed and coated with a protective film. I like that! Plumbing rough in is done too. This is first floor hallway. Bricks were delivered yesterday. Sand & brick layers are scheduled for next week. The carpenters left the house really clean and all the rubbish at the front of the house was removed from site. Very happy with that. It shows that these people care and that's what you want to see obviously. Tips: There is a thread in this forum about Daikin A/C system for those with Rawson Homes. It's worth having a look if you are considering where to put the controller or how many zones you need, etc. I wrote a couple of posts there. Check it out: http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=83832&p=1630879&hilit=rawson+daikin#p1630879 Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 19Nov 11, 2016 8:25 pm I'm going through the external colour selection stage now. I'm with you on some of the mistakes their drafting department made. It certainly made me feel like there wasn't some degree of review that should've been done before being sent out to the client. I've pointed out a few items that were blatantly wrong or inconsistent. How did your external colour selection and drawings presentation go? How detailed was the drawings presentation? Did they go through all the measurements? Was there anything pointed out to you that you may have not otherwise considered? Did you feel rushed? Did you feel the presenter had the appropriate knowledge? I recall seeing only a 30 minute block with the colour consultant - was this sufficient time to go through your colours? Did they model your housing using selected colours? Did the consultant have any valuable input or were you already set on the colour scheme? My understanding is that the drawings presenter provides pricing of any changes you would like to make a couple of days after the presentation itself. Were they prompt in that respect? Were the items individually priced? What were the next steps from here? Looking at the Rawson timeline brochure it looks like we need to provide Rawson with a copy of the pre-approval before they submit to council. Do they provide a revised copy of the tender with your changes from the presentation incorporated? I've found that most lenders would want to see a copy of the contracts before providing pre-approval but I can't really tell whether Rawson does this. How long was it between the drawings presentation and submitting the pre-approval documents? What was the time frame before Rawson submitted to council? Does internal selections occur while the application is with council? I know they have a showroom for internal selections but I've found it quite inconvenient that its only open on weekdays. How did you manage to look through and decide on the internals (e.g. Tapware)? Were there any notable "must have" upgrades you made? Was the kitchen bench deep enough? If you had raised ceilings, did you increase the height of the kitchen bulkhead cupboards? Apologies for all the questions. Its always good to have someone a few steps ahead to help set some expectations. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 20Nov 12, 2016 6:07 am I was pretty happy with our plan presentation meeting. We had Ron go through the plans with us and he was great and had several good ideas we wouldn't have thought of. Most of the things we changed were priced in the spot. From memory our front door was the only thing we had to wait for quotes on because we didn't like any of the options they showed us. They price all the options and you choose which to keep. After we went through the plans someone else talked through colours and she was great too. They don't mock up the colours which was a bit disappointing but we did a rough mock up ourselves in Photoshop. After you sign the initial contract, everything else comes back as a variation. We used the tender for bank pre-approval then got full approval on the total cost just before construction started. Internal colours and electrical happened after council approval for us, but we deliberately delayed because we had a tenant in the house and we were waiting for the lease to expire before knocking down. As for must have upgrades, I think that is very much down to individual priorities. We made a lot of changes but I think the only true essential was probably to add lots of powerpoints because there really aren't enough. You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14562 Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 3401 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11906 |