Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 12May 19, 2017 1:55 pm I think a lot of the bad experiences ive read aboit can be put down to the supervisor not being on top of the build. Most of the ones i have read involve sites that have had 3 or 4 ss during the build. There do seem to be some common ones 2 of which we had as well. 1. Ac contractor moved location of ac duct to go up fro ground floor cielimg to roof space through walk in robe removing a corner of usable space. 2. Drain for vanity in ensuit does not feed directly into the wall as depicted on plans bit through the floor with a false wall added below the floating vanity to hide. This one is due to the steel beam in the ceiling below in garage blocking the method shown 9n plans. Both of these are constant enoigh that you could argue they are known b4 and should be shown on thw plans as they know this is what will occur Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 13May 19, 2017 4:51 pm Very helpful Galedpk. Yes I know DM is working for Rawson , but at least they will check BCA requirements and code for framing whether it is satisfactory and would request Rawson to provide the report. Brickwork and roof is visible , plumbing, electricity and insulation that need to be checked. Do you know ground floor roof insulation is a variation not included as a standard. They said roof insulation included only for top roof under sarking. Originally I thought roof insulation will be for ground floor and top floor too. How do you rate their electrician contractor and their work. Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 14May 19, 2017 4:57 pm Jayman1 Very helpful Galedpk. Yes I know DM is working for Rawson , but at least they will check BCA requirements and code for framing whether it is satisfactory and would request Rawson to provide the report. Brickwork and roof is visible , plumbing, electricity and insulation that need to be checked. Do you know ground floor roof insulation is a variation not included as a standard. They said roof insulation included only for top roof under sarking. Originally I thought roof insulation will be for ground floor and top floor too. How do you rate their electrician contractor and their work. No ground floor insulation is an extra. We got andy to add as an onsite variation i think it was about 1500. As far as electrical went. All powerpoints and data points in roughly right spots one single powerpoint installed instead of a double but easy fix after pci. We are doing our light fittings shortly only got battens throughout except kitchen family dining area where we used our inluded downlights and a few extras. Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 15Aug 16, 2017 12:20 pm Hi Galedpk , Our owner PCI walk through is schedule towards end of next week - I also booked an independent Inspector for PCI - as SS advised we can walk one day and then another day Inspector can go - is it better to take inspector with us during owner walk through and does Rawson ask to sign any paper after the walk through - appreciate your inputs. We need to do Driveway after handover - If you know anyone install a good driveway in a reasonable price. Cheers Jaman Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 16Aug 16, 2017 12:30 pm Jayman1 Hi Galedpk , Our owner PCI walk through is schedule towards end of next week - I also booked an independent Inspector for PCI - as SS advised we can walk one day and then another day Inspector can go - is it better to take inspector with us during owner walk through and does Rawson ask to sign any paper after the walk through - appreciate your inputs. We need to do Driveway after handover - If you know anyone install a good driveway in a reasonable price. Cheers Jaman Yes we did get asked to sign a check list as accepted as is/not acceptable. From memory the list was about 6 pages long and had to innitial each item that was both complete and had no defects. And sign the list of defectes at the back. Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 17Aug 16, 2017 12:37 pm You must be happy. Andy usually manages 2 weeks from pci to handover which would have to put him about 8 weeks ahead of schedule. We just had our 13 week maintance check and wasnt much of a list. Their warranty manager made a comment that on Andy's jobs they are always pretty small lists a few cracked cornices maybe a plumbing issue or two. We had that and a couple of tiles on the alfresco work loose. Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 18Aug 16, 2017 3:34 pm Thanks for your inputs- therefore I think its better to get the Inspector inspection done first and gets the inspector items/defects lists and then ours lists (as we are not expert to find fault) , that way it will ensure to get fix all the issues before handover. Cheers Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 19Dec 08, 2017 3:05 pm Galedpk You must be happy. Andy usually manages 2 weeks from pci to handover which would have to put him about 8 weeks ahead of schedule. We just had our 13 week maintance check and wasnt much of a list. Their warranty manager made a comment that on Andy's jobs they are always pretty small lists a few cracked cornices maybe a plumbing issue or two. We had that and a couple of tiles on the alfresco work loose. Hi May I ask you whether Rawson home does only run conduit to garage for NBN but they don't install NBN box. Since we moved to the house we have no NBN connection as our service provider requesting NBN technician to install NBN box which takes 8 to 12 weeks - would you mind share your experience regarding NBN connection and box- thanks Re: Anyone building with Rawson Home at Willowdale Denham Co 20Dec 08, 2017 3:21 pm Jayman1 Galedpk You must be happy. Andy usually manages 2 weeks from pci to handover which would have to put him about 8 weeks ahead of schedule. We just had our 13 week maintance check and wasnt much of a list. Their warranty manager made a comment that on Andy's jobs they are always pretty small lists a few cracked cornices maybe a plumbing issue or two. We had that and a couple of tiles on the alfresco work loose. Hi May I ask you whether Rawson home does only run conduit to garage for NBN but they don't install NBN box. Since we moved to the house we have no NBN connection as our service provider requesting NBN technician to install NBN box which takes 8 to 12 weeks - would you mind share your experience regarding NBN connection and box- thanks Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 3622 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 14906 We already paid for somfy motors for the blinds. The quote above was purely for “pre-wiring” so the blinds company can install the motors and blinds. That’s why we… 5 18858 |