Browse Forums Building A New House Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2664Nov 12, 2017 10:01 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2667Nov 13, 2017 2:27 pm Follow our first house build here! -> https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86484 Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2676Nov 13, 2017 6:11 pm Geez if all estates applied that landscaping rule we'd be in trouble. For us the backyard is the priority due to dogs. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2677Nov 13, 2017 6:59 pm My estate has driveway, fencing, letterbox and windows facing the street as the main things to do before moving in Also driveway must be charcoal or agregate. have noticed people move in without getting driveway and fencing done first but getting them done shortly afterwards and probably 25% of the driveways are non compliant as well. Ill be moving in first myself but will make sure i get my fencing and driveway done ASAP and have a compliant driveway as well. front landscaping I get 6 months to do but wont be a problem as will be pretty basic anyway. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2678Nov 13, 2017 8:48 pm I think the rules are ridiculous, but they should be enforced on everyone or no one. It annoys me that I've followed the rules and others haven't had to. In my estate there was no bonds or anything like that, but it did say if you didn't follow the rules they would do the work at your cost (e.g. mow your lawns) but they dont actually do it The estate is sold out so I don't think they care anymore. The main rules for us were around colours and facade.. also we had to have rendered brick front fence, landscaping within 90 days. And landscaping!! Rules on what plants you could have, how much hard surface, how much turf.. front path.. etc. It annoys me that I lost 3 months trying to get approval from estate due to my plans not showing appropriate bin storage area and other people got approved with the most ugly facades XD Plus I had to upgrade my roof tiles to be flat profile, but heaps of houses have the non flat ones So many people haven't done fences I had to spend $10k on my fence, others either have none or haven't followed the rules. One person has done the WORST DIY job I've ever seen... looks like they tried to make pillars out of piles of mud. Others are the wrong height (was suppose to be 1m high.. but they are higher). Overall its not a big deal mostly.. I'm more frustrated by people who can't mow their lawn or nature strips, or the bins in the front yard isnt great (and against rules).. but the houses have no sides, built boundary to boundary so no space for bins. And weeds!! Drive me crazy. The big problem is a lot of the houses are either rentals, so people just dont care about the yard or people have put in every penny they have just to get a foot in the door of the property market and have nothing left over for the landscaping. Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2679Nov 13, 2017 9:15 pm Oh I forgot, Im really annoyed cos it said you couldn't have two dwellings on the one block blah blah blah and the house had to be of a certain size- but the block next to us got made into three units and they are tiny 2 bedroom units with the laundry in the one car garage. Apparently we cant complain and if we did have a legit complaint it won't get listened to anyway. It doesn't look that great I have so many houses surrounding the new house- hope some trees grow quick to block them all out. I think you can apply to 'break the covenant' which imo just seems stupid why bother putting them in.. Having said that when the rules are followed the places look uniform and looks nice and neat. We have all modern houses in our estate, excluding two - ones done up to look like a cottage house and the other is like a greek pathenon with all the pillars out the front, kinda look out of place... oh well. Gee I'm in a whinging mood today! Still haven't gotten tiles at my house Re: {Dawn} SE Melb Custom Build - Ever After :) 2680Nov 14, 2017 8:26 pm Haha... yeah I feel like a grumpy crazy, but sometimes it bugs me. I just want my neighborhood to look good and be a nice place to live. In sad news, had a hot day here today and my aircon isn't working. Don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if it never worked.. may have to go back to the builder *sigh* and still haven't heard from the builder re: 90 day inspection .. or follow up for any of the handover issues.. that being said my neighbor who is building with them (and started building a month after me) STILL arent in there house, so Ill consider myself lucky. Does anyone else check out real estate listings for their estate? And compare their places XD I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 9669 I am in the same situation, would you be able to give some insights in to this? I am in SA 8 12828 Depends what you're current inclusions are, but we're not including wardrobes and will just use second hand ones until we can save later on to get them built. Also have a… 3 8447 |