Allworth Carlisle Build In Western Sydney

mrbiggens · May 27, 2017 9:18 pm

Hi everyone, just about to have our land registered at Silverdale and we have engaged Coral Homes to build a Daydream 30. Very versatile design and flows very well. We have modified the design to suit our taste and to have direct pantry access from the kitchen. Still deciding on the ensuite / WIR layout. This will be our second build and really looking forward to going through the process again.

Thought I might add a timeline of build progress in on the first post:

21/11/17 - site scrape and building pad.
23/11/17 - Piering and Slab formwork.
28/11/17 - Internal drainage done.
30/11/17 - pods and steel for the slab installed.
01/12/17 - slab poured.
07/12/17 - external drainage.
17/01/18 - Framing commenced.
19/01/18 - Windows installed.
22/01/18 - Framing finished, plumbing rough in. Bricks delivered.
02/02/18 - Bricklaying commenced.
09/02/18 - Bricklaying completed.
16/02/18 - Gutter and Facia completed
20/02/18 - Roof Rail installed an roof installation begins
23/02/18 - Roof finished and frame bracing removed. Minor frame issues rectified.
26/02/18 - Eaves installed
28/02/18 - Brickwork cleaned
02/03/18 - Electrical rough in.
06/03/18 - Insulation and Render
08/03/18 - Gyprock and stacker door installed.
14/03/18 - Waterproofing done and cornice installed
16/03/18 - Internal fixout started. Lockup Stage.
20/03/18 - Canbinetry Installed
26/03/18 - Tiling
10/04/18 - Painting begins
18/04/18 - Painting finished
19/04/18 - Plumbing fitoff.
20/04/18 - Electrical fitoff.
24/04/18 - Media wall re set and repainted.
26/04/18 - Shelving and screens installed.
27/04/18 - Site Clean and fencing removed
30/04/18 - Handover

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dougang287 · May 28, 2017 10:04 am

We are building Daydream 30 in QLD like what you have changed in plan can I ask what you paid to extend garage

mrbiggens · May 28, 2017 1:40 pm

dougang287

We are building Daydream 30 in QLD like what you have changed in plan can I ask what you paid to extend garage

Hi Dougang, they have put an allowance in my estimate for 5k to cover the extension and roller door.

BrownDog77 · May 28, 2017 3:04 pm

Welcome look forward to following. We are building Grange but our friend built daydream it's a great floor plan

mrbiggens · May 28, 2017 3:28 pm

BrownDog77

Welcome look forward to following. We are building Grange but our friend built daydream it's a great floor plan

We have a 20m wide block, and we really wanted to fill up a the frontage, along with a number of other boxes that needed ticking with regard to design, and the Daydream ticks them all with a couple of slight mods. We are putting the Hastings facade on it so it should hopefully not get lost in the masses of 2 storey places I am expecting to see around me 😁 Looking forward to getting this show on the road pretty soon.

charlibear · Jun 04, 2017 9:12 am

Love the changes you've made to the plan, especially the kitchen access to the pantry.

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mrbiggens · Jun 04, 2017 5:55 pm

So it looks like the land is out of council now and off LPI, that should be around 3-4 weeks allegedly.

chevy · Jun 11, 2017 11:31 am

I love your pantry design, hope you don't mind I use that idea. That was the one thing I didnt like with the original plan, that you had to go around a corner to the pantry. Love it . My husband and I have modified our daydream 30 to include another garage (triple) and a roller on the other side to drive through.

dougang287 · Jun 11, 2017 11:39 am

chevy

I love your pantry design, hope you don't mind I use that idea. That was the one thing I didnt like with the original plan, that you had to go around a corner to the pantry. Love it . My husband and I have modified our daydream 30 to include another garage (triple) and a roller on the other side to drive through.

hey we are building a Daydream 30 and have also changed pantry significantly - check out our thread. Into weeek 9 of building and so far it's going fantastic

mrbiggens · Jun 16, 2017 4:56 pm

chevy

I love your pantry design, hope you don't mind I use that idea. That was the one thing I didnt like with the original plan, that you had to go around a corner to the pantry. Love it . My husband and I have modified our daydream 30 to include another garage (triple) and a roller on the other side to drive through.

Hi Chevy, glad you like it, it was almost a deal breaker for me with no kitchen access to the pantry, i am still not 100% happy due to the rear bench size having to be reduced, but its a small trade off considering the size of the pantry. I treid different layouts like putting a Noosa style kitchen layout into the design instead, but it stopped the flow of the house a bit too much and created a really long hallway down one side. Iwould have loved to go a triple garage as well but i couldnt quite fit it on the block. Good luck with you build.

mrbiggens · Jul 07, 2017 10:21 pm

So with pretty much no movement with coral homes in 3 months, and a change of salesperson, I've pulled the pin with them and signed with Allworth instead. A little disappointed that I've lost 3 months that could have been spent getting further through the admin stage whilst the land registered, but no point crying over spilt milk 😁 I've requested my deposit back from Coral Homes, less the retail cost of the contour survey they had done, have been met with flat refusal at the moment from their sales manager, will wait and see if a more "formal request" vets a different response.

New design is a slightly modified Carlisle from Allworth (added a study to the front and increased the size of the WIR and Ensuite).

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jessicagauci · Jul 07, 2017 10:34 pm

mrbiggens

So with pretty much no movement with coral homes in 3 months, and a change of salesperson, I've pulled the pin with them and signed with Allworth instead. A little disappointed that I've lost 3 months that could have been spent getting further through the admin stage whilst the land registered, but no point crying over spilt milk

I've requested my deposit back from Coral Homes, less the retail cost of the contour survey they had done, have been met with flat refusal at the moment from their sales manager, will wait and see if a more "formal request" vets a different response.

New design is a slightly modified Carlisle from Allworth (added a study to the front and increased the size of the WIR and Ensuite).

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Good idea. We pulled the pin on Coral as well. They aren't worth your business!
Loving the floor plan!

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charlibear · Jul 08, 2017 9:29 am

Yeah I didn't go with Coral for various reasons either. I love your new plan, your WIR is huge

mrbiggens · Jul 24, 2017 10:19 am

So not much to update at them moment, we have sorted out our external colours and just waiting to get and do it all officially now. Have had agreement in writing from Coral's sales manager to refund our deposit less the cost of a contour survey which they performed before I cancelled with them, so a small win.

External Colours will be:

Brick - PGH Blackheath
Roof / Gutter - Colourbond Basalt
Facia - Colourbond Basalt or Surfmist, still deciding on whether or not to break up the roof line colours (any tips / thoughts would be appreciated)
Eaves - White
Windows and Garage Door - Colourbond Surfmist
Render to Front Columns - Light Grey
Timber slats to front porch and Front door to be a mid red stain (probably merbau or similar, so I can match the decking on the front porch with customwood).
Downpipes will be painted to match the roof colour.

Looking forward to getting some proper drawing in the next week or so.

charlibear · Jul 24, 2017 10:40 am

Your bricks are gorgeous!!

Looking forward to seeing your plan come to life

mrbiggens · Aug 17, 2017 4:48 pm

So we have signed off on plans and variations today and done our colour selections. Happy to be getting some real progress going.

We have some moving of services to do ie gas bottles have been placed where my rear access roller door should be. But pretty much sorted as far as design now.

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dougang287 · Aug 17, 2017 7:39 pm

Looks fab

mrbiggens · Aug 27, 2017 9:56 am

Time for a quick update, plans should be off for CDC approval in the next couple of weeks. We have picked our flooring now and after numerous weeks of getting quotes, I am surprised that Harvey Norman has put forward what I feel is the best value for money option for us, so deposit has been paid. Carpet will be to all bedrooms and media - dream weaver coastal comfort carbon on an 11mm 95kg underlay. Rest except bathroom / laundry will be Novocore Hybrid vinyl timber look planks, colour to be determined as there is a new range coming out in September/October. The Vinyl timber look is a click lock system that is 100% waterproof and has a cork backing to provide a layer of thermal insulation that should help the floor not feel as cold.

Attached photos is roughly the colour of the flooring, not the actual products.

Internal colour selections next week, as well as tile selections.

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mrbiggens · Sep 02, 2017 8:10 pm

We have now done our internal colours and tile selections. Paint will be a light grey as the main wall colour, with white skirts and architrave. We will have some darker grey feature walls and the media room will be painted a very dark grey.

Bathroom tiles will be the light grey floor tile with white to three walls with the timber feature. Vanity colour will be similar to the pic as well.

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Kitchen and electrical appointments booked over the next few weeks. We have put 16k in the tender as upgrade allowances, hoping to hit the mark or stay just under!

mrbiggens · Sep 12, 2017 1:52 pm

So selections are now finished with the Electrical closed off today. Variation for electrical ended up at around $9k, which included them doing all the downlights (I would normal recommend these be done after handover, but it works better for our budgets and property valuation to have the builder do it in the contract). We also added a heap of double power points and data points, etc so was expecting a big variation, still a bit hard to cop $135 per downlight, but such is life. Just waiting on a price back from their kitchen company (Timpelle) who think that this process is a licence to print money, so not much being upgraded from the standard package. That said the standard package for our house is pretty good (it includes 20mm caeserstone with waterfall ends, overhead cupboards, and we can choose the thermo laminted cabinets). For an example of their ridiculous pricing, upgrade to supernatural range of caeserstone was around 9k. The cost difference for caeserstone slabs at retail would be approx. $2k, so $7k markup. Refer http://sydneybenchtops.com.au/caesarstone for an idea on stone benchtop pricing. Think we will be sticking with the standard range out of principle lol. Also got the final plan variation back so that is all pretty much finalised now, just waiting for CDC to be completed and we can sign contracts. Like ⋅ 1 comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅

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