Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Dec 05, 2016 1:55 pm Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 3Dec 14, 2016 7:42 am Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 4Dec 14, 2016 8:03 am Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 7Dec 14, 2016 11:20 am Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 8Dec 15, 2016 9:05 am I'm considering a pool down the side in the future too, and like you will want the outside fully rendered then, but I figure I can render and re-paint when/if that happens Your block size will be perfect for a pool area though, no skinny little lap pool down the side of the house for you OUCH at your turf cost! can you not DIY that for less? I'm looking forward to receiving my large paint swatches next week, will be good to see the colours in larger blocks than just the little postage stamp sized ones I've seen until now. Starting to wonder if I shouldn't have spent more time looking at paint colours earlier - it wasn't until colour appointment that I found out that though the base paints will all be Solver, I can choose any brand's tint that I like... so I could have had a Dulux grey for example. If I'd known that in advance I'd have probably had a better look at paint colours and stuck my head in some threads here. There were no carpet swatches available for my day, sorry. I upgraded to the better range, since I've only got 3 rooms with carpet it was only a $300 upgrade and both the quality and the colours were nicer so I think it was worth it. I wasn't going to upgrade, but I was umming and ahhing over the carpet tiles he had, and couldn't decide. Once he priced up the upgrade cost, I looked at the other range and picked my colour in maybe 15 seconds flat. Hahaha at getting a boarder in... you'll get the pool faster! Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 9Dec 15, 2016 9:48 am scubabe I'm looking forward to receiving my large paint swatches next week, will be good to see the colours in larger blocks than just the little postage stamp sized ones I've seen until now. Starting to wonder if I shouldn't have spent more time looking at paint colours earlier - it wasn't until colour appointment that I found out that though the base paints will all be Solver, I can choose any brand's tint that I like... so I could have had a Dulux grey for example. If I'd known that in advance I'd have probably had a better look at paint colours and stuck my head in some threads here. Hahaha at getting a boarder in... you'll get the pool faster! The plan is for the pool out the back of the house off the alfresco so it flows straight out of the house and into the pool! That's the plan anyways. Yeah I think we will do the turf ourself. It can be done over time. Originally we told P to use the allowance just to do the front (as per Stone Ridge Design Essentials) and we will do the back ourselves....eventually. (Dogs like dirt, right...). I think we might just tell him to credit us back the allowance and we will do it all ourselves. Possibly considering the same for the fencing... but it's 123 lineal mt of fencing and that's a lot of damn holes! So let me get this right... the undercoat is solver and then you can pretty much pick any top coats? I was looking at Dulux as well - when I say looking, I went to bunnings and grabbed one of everything on the colour wall! I got an email this morning from P who gave me the same numbers as you for the tap and dimmer. Putting the WIR on separate switches at no cost. He also said our first drafts should be available on Wednesday which is ready because land settlement is Tuesday! I know what Santa is getting me this year.....Dirt! 716m2 of glorious dirt! Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 10Dec 15, 2016 11:46 am 1sttimer_stoneridge So let me get this right... the undercoat is solver and then you can pretty much pick any top coats? I was looking at Dulux as well - when I say looking, I went to bunnings and grabbed one of everything on the colour wall! I don't think that's quite right. I'm pretty sure they will use Solver paints for everything, but that they can technically tint them any way you ask them. EG use Solver paint as the "base" but they can put 4 drops of colour A and 6 drops of colour B and 18 drops of colour C to mix it to a Dulux shade of powder blue instead of the Solver shade of powder blue. At least I *think* that's how it works... And now, haha, after talking about your pool, I've been investamagating... and have discovered shippingcontainerpools.com.au - which would fit perfectly down the side of my house, and fit perfectly into my budget, and wouldn't need fencing... Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 11Dec 15, 2016 12:00 pm scubabe 1sttimer_stoneridge So let me get this right... the undercoat is solver and then you can pretty much pick any top coats? I was looking at Dulux as well - when I say looking, I went to bunnings and grabbed one of everything on the colour wall! I don't think that's quite right. I'm pretty sure they will use Solver paints for everything, but that they can technically tint them any way you ask them. EG use Solver paint as the "base" but they can put 4 drops of colour A and 6 drops of colour B and 18 drops of colour C to mix it to a Dulux shade of powder blue instead of the Solver shade of powder blue. At least I *think* that's how it works... And now, haha, after talking about your pool, I've been investamagating... and have discovered shippingcontainerpools.com.au - which would fit perfectly down the side of my house, and fit perfectly into my budget, and wouldn't need fencing... Ah yes, that sounds like something P may have mentioned at some stage actually when I said about it the colour of the display home walls. We were looking at shipping container for storage of our stuff and ideas of what we could do with it after if we bought one instead of rented. Some people are so creative! And the shipping containers weren't anywhere near as expensive as I thought they would be Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 12Dec 21, 2016 9:21 am So after living the debt free life for a very short time of 22 days, Santa came early and our land has finally settled! Hopefully P comes through with the first plan today. He did tell me it should be available today so fingers crossed! Plenty of time to mull over it during the festive season Exciting times ahead! Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 13Dec 21, 2016 9:26 am Yaaaaaaaaay! That's fabulous news I went to him with a bunch of Q's on Monday and haven't had a response yet... and now, after reading more blogs on here, I have more Q's! hahaha he's gonna hate me this week! Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 14Dec 21, 2016 9:31 am Ha ha, i went through a post about "things not to forget" yesterday and I have so many more questions as well. I have been reviewing colours and what not over the last few days. Hopefully we should have some firm ideas when we visit the show room - When ever that will be. I'm hoping they will have the new one opened by the time our turn comes around. Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 15Dec 21, 2016 2:46 pm Soooo The soil report and contour survey has come back. It has come back as a H1 (which is OK because they allow for this in the build without the extra cost). P states that the report is requesting 800-1000mm piers but thinks if we get a soil compaction certificate from Stockland then we won't need to do this. I sure hope that if we do this, and they say ok, we aren't risking foundation issues in the future..... So because we have a HUGE block, we need a lot of fencing - 123 lineal metres to be precise. The block to our left is slightly higher. Turns out it will need to be retained before we fence. We were quoted for 1 sleeper high @ $419 ($19/m). It has come back and turns out we need 2 sleepers high - that jumps to $90/m!!!! So we either ride it out and hope the neighbour retains their property for stability before we have to.... They have a build to boundary and plan to have their garage on the boundary so I can only cross my fingers and hope they are all sorted and ready to go when we are - and they retain when the slab is laid! The additional $2,200 for retaining isn't really something that I would prefer to sacrifice upgrades for. P mentions that retaining ownership is a grey area in QLD..... so the people on the left (i would think) would have more interest in securing their foundations so they should be responsible (in my eyes). Ohhhhhh it's all so hard sometimes! Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 16Dec 22, 2016 3:55 pm Still patiently waiting for plans.... Seems that i am not a patient person Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 17Dec 23, 2016 9:36 am Hahaha I also have ZERO patience! I haven't had a reply to the emails I sent him on Monday either, so I think he's just a bit snowed under at the moment. When are you hoping to start building? Like, if the land is now yours, you've got to get plans approved now - first by the estate and then by council - is the hope to get all that sorted by Jan and start in Feb? Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 18Dec 23, 2016 10:06 am This is the plan! I have had a phone call and a couple of emails this week. But I think it's cause I'm hassling. It was 4 weeks ago we draw up initial plans (white out and red pen, lol) and we aren't changing anything from the standard apart from adding 2 doors, extending a wall and rearranging the furniture/shelving in 2 rooms. P did say the draftsman had 4 townhouse complex which took longer than expected. I'm just hoping to get them by COB today cause he goes on holidays til the 9th and that's dragging it out 6weeks from initial draft. I'd like to have the Christmas break to mull over things. It's an 18 week build so I don't want to start any later than first or second week of feb - making hand over mid june. I just need to not be too consumed with the house while I'm supposed to be focusing on work and school too. In my final year and FT work and FT study doesn't leave too much more time for unnecessary worry and stress Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Re: Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 19Dec 23, 2016 7:01 pm Omg!!! House plans have arrived!!! Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Building with Homes by CMA - Ascot 260 20Dec 24, 2016 9:46 am So we have our first copy of our first draft. We have til 9th Jan when the salesman comes back to work. So this is what we have: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Visualization! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Exciting times ahead! Building in Stone Ridge with CMA - Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85842 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74701 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 105553 Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! 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