Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 4Sep 03, 2017 10:51 pm I forgot photos! I am pretty sure this topic will be my built diary, for future references. .. LOL Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 5Sep 08, 2017 6:58 am Yesterday we went to do an inspection with our SS, he was really patient and answered all our questions. So far my experience has been really good with Simonds, I cannot complain about anything to be honest. I feel they want to deliver the best customer experience.
I am going to share our external gallery selection, and I have my hopes up is going to look good. - Brick is Eclipse (very dark colour) - Garage and weather boards is Surfmist (white) - Fascia, gutter, window frames and downpipes is Monument - Roof is Shale Grey - Main door and posts is a brown colour Here some photos. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 7Sep 09, 2017 3:00 pm Ashleigh Thanks for sharing Kika, I look forward to following your build Thanks Ashleigh, I am so excited that I have to share my feelings. Pretty sure in a few years it will bring me a smile to read this. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 8Sep 11, 2017 10:50 pm I knew the roof will be done last Friday, so I couldn't avoid my self and drove there. I arrived around 5pm and was able to take some good photos. Our front house has the Portland facade which was standard option. We are not thinking to render, however we might paint the roof cladding if we don't like the brown colour we chose at gallery. I keep my fingers crossed it will look nice but who knows, will see! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 9Sep 12, 2017 1:43 pm Wow, full steam ahead for you guys! That facade is so pretty, I love the little break in the roof. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 10Sep 14, 2017 12:22 pm JM1911A1 Wow, full steam ahead for you guys! That facade is so pretty, I love the little break in the roof. Yes I think that is the reason we chose the Portland facade too. At the gallery appointment we decided to go with a brown colour but I am regretting that decision. I really hope it is going to look good otherwise we will have to paint it. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 11Sep 16, 2017 9:42 am So on Wednesday I went to have a look and found that doors and windows have been delivered, yeah. I also saw that the rough ins of the electrical work have been done. In the master ensuite we had an issue with the location of plumbing which our SS said would be rectified so it was. We don't have any idea about plumbing nor slab so I hope it has been done right, please see the last photo with before and after fix, would you be concerned? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 12Sep 18, 2017 10:24 pm My husband and I went to have a look to the build progress, he spent at least 1 hour reviewing all electrical connections 😎. When we did our gallery he was in charge of deciding electrical and NBN points, but now it seems that the location of the NBN box is not the best (garage close to entry door). I'll have to send a message to our SS trying to ask for a slightly change, will see how we go with this request (fingers crossed ).
Doors, windows and sliding doors have been installed. Hence, our house has been wrapped for this week to start with bricks and plaster board installation, we are so happy with the progress so far. At the moment mysimonds shows that our estimated PCI is on the 1st of December. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 13Sep 19, 2017 12:16 am Kika My husband and I went to have a look to the build progress, he spent at least 1 hour reviewing all electrical connections 😎. When we did our gallery he was in charge of deciding electrical and NBA points, but now it seems that the location of the NBA box is not the best (garage close to entry door). I'll have to send a message to our SS trying to ask for a slightly change, will see how we go with this request (fingers crossed ). Doors, windows and sliding doors have been installed. Hence, our house has been wrapped for this week to start with bricks and plaster board installation, we are so happy with the progress so far. At the moment mysimonds shows that our estimated PCI is on the 1st of December. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We were told regarding NBN box that the NBN group will only put new build boxes in the garage, so Simonds set it up to be on an internal wall point. And so long as you have data points within the house it won't be an issue as Simonds should ensure the data cabling meets the NBN box. (We got a freebie data point + powerpoint as our CRC realised we had two data points on the NBN set up included, so now we can have two routers!) The display homes for all builders you'll find have the NBN box on the internal side of the outer-wall to the garage, as the NBN crew don't want to put that much wiring in. It's a downside to building new compared to existing homes where they just tend to set it up where the current modem or phone is. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 14Sep 19, 2017 9:46 pm Thanks for the information JM1911A1 We were led to chose the garage but don't remember anything about NBN just doing installation in the garage. We chose elevation D in the garage really close to the entry door, but now we think we should have selected the living room area, any way if we can't change it then better at least to request a higher position (2mts). The other thing is that we are just paying a basic NBN installation (excluding Hub) $460 which includes just 3 data points and 1 telephone point, so my husband wants to install extra data points but our SS won't allow us to do any installation until handover. I gonna try tomorrow my luck again with our SS again. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 15Sep 20, 2017 9:41 pm I sent a SMS to our SS asking him if we could move the NBN location but he said no. However he agreed to talk to the electrician and put it at 2 mt high. In a good note he said that next week we will have our lock up stage inspection which means bricks will be finished soon, this is so exciting 🤗🤗🤗 can't wait to take more photos. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 16Sep 25, 2017 10:12 pm We went on Saturday to see the build progress and found that bricks have been finalised and plaster has been started. We supposed to go into lockup stage this week, so right now I am waiting on SS call for doing a site visit. Here some photos of our progress: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 17Oct 03, 2017 10:20 pm Loving the progress photo's. It looks fantastic and coming along fast. Interesting to read about the NBN installation. We chose not to have ours done by Simonds. We'll get it done by NBN after the build. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 18Oct 05, 2017 8:59 pm Bri1234 Loving the progress photo's. It looks fantastic and coming along fast. Interesting to read about the NBN installation. We chose not to have ours done by Simonds. We'll get it done by NBN after the build. Hi Bri1234, I have been reading about your build, has your setback issue been fixed? I hope so. My experience with Simonds has been great so far, no big issues until now. I don't understand NBN yet, but I know we almost paid over a thousand for an NBN upgrade so I thought we did well chosing the $460 upgrade LOL. I didn't know we could have save money by doing ourselves after handover. Re: Brookfield home By Simonds 19Oct 05, 2017 9:07 pm Kika Bri1234 Loving the progress photo's. It looks fantastic and coming along fast. Interesting to read about the NBN installation. We chose not to have ours done by Simonds. We'll get it done by NBN after the build. Hi Bri1234, I have been reading about your build, has your setback issue been fixed? I hope so. My experience with Simonds has been great so far, no big issues until now. I don't understand NBN yet, but I know we almost paid over a thousand for an NBN upgrade so I thought we did well chosing the $460 upgrade LOL. I didn't know we could have save money by doing ourselves after handover. Hi Kika We’re progressing, slowly, lol. Hoping to have an update in the next week or so. With the NBN I think it depends on your build. Many new estates require you to get it done as part of the build. We’re doing a knock down rebuild in an established area so we had the choice. We paid $310 to NBN Co to have the current NBN connection abolished and apparently that is also supposed to cover getting reconnected to the new house. 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 18488 Hi, guys! If you've built with Wisdom Homes, would you mind sharing images of your front facades once they're all rendered? 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