Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14575Mar 15, 2017 9:15 am braddy_ Also, do i need to stipulate the location of the laundry power point? i dont want it to be ground level. Hey Braddy, did you do your electrical plan when you did colour selections?? That's when we stipulated what heights we wants power points as well as location of lights. I'd give your SS or the office a ring to clarify. They "shouldn't" put it on the ground, if you're talking about the washing machine power point. They are generally above the machine on the wall. But don't take any chances. Double check that they know the right spot to put it and if you didn't specify, I'd act like you did just in case to avoid being hit with $1000 variation fee. Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14576Mar 15, 2017 9:47 am jonesyGT Grace33 jonesyGT What's the average build time for single level? 24 weeks? If so, does this include the 28 day start? I'm after a rough idea of times as we've been dealing with this since September & still nothing has been submitted to council yet. 3 tenders @ 8 to 10 weeks each plus move an air conditioner from the side of the house to the back, 7 weeks. Hopefully this week we will submit. I think council will be 6 to 8 weeks. Gives a finish date around December. From my experience with Beechwood they are very slow. I have noticed on my build they only book one trade at a time. I would expect the build time to be 33 weeks not including the 28 days. My last build took 14 months including council approvals etc. But that was in 2010 when the new owners just took over. They have improved this time around and we haven’t been waiting long between trades. Thanks Grace. That basically means we won't be finished this year Plans need to come back again. So possibly 1 week. Council 6 weeks. 28 days, then build. So 11 odd weeks before we start. Puts us in June roughly. Aaaahhhh. Registration, tenders and council are a pain and drag on but once the build starts it seems to go quicker. Work started on our block on the 3rd November. We are now up to the internal wood work. But we had the 4 week break over Christmas. I am hoping we are in by mid June but I will let you know how many weeks it takes. My lease runs out early July so I am worried we may cut it close. My real estate has already asked if I want to sign another 6 or 12 month lease. Dont know if I should be honest or not. Buildingabetterhome.blogspot.com.au Land deposit - Oct 14 Deposit - Jan 16 Land registered - June 16 Settlement - July 16 Colour selection and approval -Sept 16 Slab- Nov 16 Frame - Dec 16 Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14577Mar 15, 2017 2:37 pm tecnoz78 Hi there Building my first house. Just want to ask , is it worth taking "Indulgence Package". $22000 Does the things really add up to $22000. Any info will be appreciated. Thanks Tecnoz don't forget that beechwood place their builders margin on top of all the costs from the supplier from contract signing I think it stated 21 or 31% builders margin. So depending on what you wanted it might be easier discussing directly with the trades doing the work. Like talking directly to the tile company etc Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14578Mar 15, 2017 2:41 pm tapasr_Lexia4 Happy to share that we've received our commencement letter stating 10 April as the magic date .... can't wait...I'm pretty sure it will feel like eternity just waiting for it... Hope everyone is well in this crazy weather afternoon.... Great news I bet it's a relief to see some movement.. looking forward to the pictures Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14579Mar 15, 2017 2:44 pm jonesyGT poppet82 jonesyGT What's the average build time for single level? 24 weeks? If so, does this include the 28 day start? I'm after a rough idea of times as we've been dealing with this since September & still nothing has been submitted to council yet. 3 tenders @ 8 to 10 weeks each plus move an air conditioner from the side of the house to the back, 7 weeks. Hopefully this week we will submit. I think council will be 6 to 8 weeks. Gives a finish date around December. it took us about a year with tenders.. yes 6-12 weeks each time any change made. Which council are you with... some people are approved within a month... we have been waiting since November.. I'm guessing you have at least 9 months to go. Been going since September. Blacktown council I think they average 6 weeks. I think 2018 is on the cards. Jonsey you might get lucky prior to Christmas. Beechwood don't like holding over houses but the looks of some prior posting if they are nearly completed due to the risk of something happening over the month shutdown period. Fingers crossed Re: Who is building with Beechwood 14580Mar 15, 2017 2:51 pm braddy_ Does anyone have any recommendations for under cabinet lights in the kitchen for under the high wall cabinets, that do not require the cabinets to have a 'false floor" ? Also, do i need to stipulate the location of the laundry power point? i dont want it to be ground level. We did basic Elec plan at contract and then went to south west electrical in Sydney who are doing the electrical for beechwood in our area and done the electrical plan in detail about a month after contract signing. It was far cheaper than paying the beechwood prices for electrical items. All our heights we chose and were able to move all the points around where we wanted them and anything we wanted added was all done costed and printed on site for us to review. Only thing I can say is do your research prior as they may try to push you in a certian direction when not required. Example being they strongly recommend connecting Fibre throughout the house and from the house to the road for NBN. However there would be no point as it's only copper from the node to the house. Huge money and no gain. Few other things with smoke alarms (we are fire fighters kinda funny debating this one) they advised they needed to replace all the smoke detectors to 12v detectors at another cost. If you go to south west electrical do your research and will save you a packet Elvis has left the building... The site supervisor quit after 2 month on the project. I guess he was just instructed to bark at people, but didn't like when he was… 26 22251 Following these simple steps will help you mitigate unwanted costs, have your expectations met and give… 0 4974 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5880 |