Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 2Jan 21, 2018 12:24 pm Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 5Jan 24, 2018 9:03 pm Floor Plan Genoa Verve 26 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is the Genoa Verve 26 by Arden Homes which we intend to build. We have made a few notable changes to the standard floor plan, as follows:
That pretty much does it for the internal 'structural' upgrades and changes. Will post the electrical plans another time! Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 6Jan 25, 2018 10:29 am Kollosche Floor Plan Genoa Verve 26 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is the Genoa Verve 26 by Arden Homes which we intend to build. We have made a few notable changes to the standard floor plan, as follows:
That pretty much does it for the internal 'structural' upgrades and changes. Will post the electrical plans another time! Hi there! Congrats on building a new home. Can I ask are you only allowed to make changes from a list provided by Arden or can you still do any customisation? Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 7Jan 26, 2018 9:10 am Ezza78 Kollosche Floor Plan Genoa Verve 26 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is the Genoa Verve 26 by Arden Homes which we intend to build. We have made a few notable changes to the standard floor plan, as follows:
That pretty much does it for the internal 'structural' upgrades and changes. Will post the electrical plans another time! Hi there! Congrats on building a new home. Can I ask are you only allowed to make changes from a list provided by Arden or can you still do any customisation? Hi Ezza78, Arden did have a list of standard changes and I think we could still do further customisation if we wished, but at an additional cost. I am not sure if this is this the case, I have heard rumors that Arden have started minimizing their 'custom' homes. Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 8Jan 26, 2018 9:47 am Electrical Plans Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Being the 'nerd' that I am, the electrical plan was very important to me; especially the data points and the wireless access point. We made a fair few upgrades to the lighting in the main living/entertaining areas. We have upgraded more of the lighting throughout the core of the house to down-lights from standard battens. Same in the bathroom and ensuite. We figured that the other rooms did not require fancy (and expensive) down-lights so we left them as is. We have also added lights to the front pillars of the house; these were not included to our surprise. We also added flood lights to the side (Bed 1 side) of the house and the rear. 3x batten light fittings have been placed over our kitchen island to add some nice feature lights. But enough about lighting, the data points are really what are important to me! In our "NBN Pack", which we later learned was an upgrade, we were given 4x Ethernet points and 1x phone point. We located these in Bed 1, Bed 4 (going to be a study), the lounge and the living room. The reasoning for the lounge and living room is for video game consoles or smart televisions for Netflix/YouTube etc. Bed 2 and Bed 3 should be adequately catered for via WiFi, or if necessary we can have additional data points installed down the track. However, these inclusions were not enough to do what I wanted to. I did not want to put my router in the Wired Services Cabinet (WSC). I have a pretty powerful and pricey router, but even that would not cater the house from the metal cabinet in the garage! So I added an additional Ethernet port to Bed 4 where I intend to have the router. This was, the data stream can come from the NBN modem, through the wall cable to the router, and then back from the router to a port in the WSC. Here I will place a gigabit switch and connect the remaining ports. In theory this should work. After having a conversation with an electrical technician, they advised that it was still unlikely that the router would cover the entire house with a strong enough WiFi signal and they suggested a Wireless Access Point (WAP). These WAPs are commercial grade WiFi transmission devices and should cater the entire house without any issues. This will mean the router in Bed 4 will only be used to route internet and network traffic, whereas the WAP will cater for the WiFi transmission over the network. The one thing that we want to do electrical wise but are not having Arden do is security camera installation. I have an idea of what I want to do and figured I could install these myself and with the assistance of my electrician friend. Our neighborhood is not inherently bad in terms of theft etc, but it's for the increased sense of security. I will pick out a camera kit close to hand over and install once we have moved in. Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 9Jan 26, 2018 10:02 am Block Sitting Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our block of land measures in at 12.5m x 33m (412.5m^2). We have a 3m easement for storm water at the back of the property and a pit in the rear left side of the block (looking on from street). The 'easements' on the left and right hand sides of the blocks are concrete retaining walls which are not structural and the developer has confirmed we can build up to. Hopefully these walls will not cause us any grief when we actually go to build or request council approval! After we have a soil test done, we are hoping that the foundation for the retaining walls (garage side) will not require piers or worse; movement in the house off the wall & reduction in the house's width through the middle! Only time will tell I suppose. We intend to have the driveway done with exposed aggregate after handover. It worked out cheaper not to have Arden do this for us. Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 10Jan 26, 2018 10:52 am Notable Standard Inclusions & Upgrades The standard inclusions of Arden Homes we found were better than any other builder we looked at. Below is a list of those I thought were particularly good. I will also note here 'upgrades' which were included under a promotion and didn't cost us anything:
Notable paid upgrades (not previously mentioned)
If I have forgotten anything that I think is worth noting, I will update this post. Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 11Jan 26, 2018 11:16 am Facade Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We opted for an upgraded facade being the 'airlie' facade. As we opted for a fully rendered Hebel home, satisfying the estate's 2-material facade became a bit tricky! We assumed that out upgraded timber look garage door would count as the second material; apparently the garage is not included -_- As the whole house is to be rendered (colour: Grey Pebble Half S14B1H), the left pillar is to be rendered a darker colour (colour: Mt Eden PN2A7). To meet the 2-material requirement, we had to upgrade the front right pillar to be tiled. Coincidentally this tile (#79933 Belga Grey Textured 450x450) is the matte equivalent of the tiles we will be using throughout the wet areas. As we are building on/close to the boundary/retaining wall on the garage side, S-Flash guttering was a required 'upgrade'. We would have also placed a 3rd light on the right-hand side of the garage door, but apparently a down-pipe 'has' to go there. Not very appealing, but we will cover it up with some form of plant to the best extent that we can! Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 13Jan 26, 2018 12:54 pm Ezza78 Did you have to pay for the different guttering on garage? Yeah we did, but it was immaterial Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 14Jan 29, 2018 10:14 am Kollosche Electrical Plans Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Being the 'nerd' that I am, the electrical plan was very important to me; especially the data points and the wireless access point. We made a fair few upgrades to the lighting in the main living/entertaining areas. We have upgraded more of the lighting throughout the core of the house to down-lights from standard battens. Same in the bathroom and ensuite. We figured that the other rooms did not require fancy (and expensive) down-lights so we left them as is. We have also added lights to the front pillars of the house; these were not included to our surprise. We also added flood lights to the side (Bed 1 side) of the house and the rear. 3x batten light fittings have been placed over our kitchen island to add some nice feature lights. But enough about lighting, the data points are really what are important to me! In our "NBN Pack", which we later learned was an upgrade, we were given 4x Ethernet points and 1x phone point. We located these in Bed 1, Bed 4 (going to be a study), the lounge and the living room. The reasoning for the lounge and living room is for video game consoles or smart televisions for Netflix/YouTube etc. Bed 2 and Bed 3 should be adequately catered for via WiFi, or if necessary we can have additional data points installed down the track. However, these inclusions were not enough to do what I wanted to. I did not want to put my router in the Wired Services Cabinet (WSC). I have a pretty powerful and pricey router, but even that would not cater the house from the metal cabinet in the garage! So I added an additional Ethernet port to Bed 4 where I intend to have the router. This was, the data stream can come from the NBN modem, through the wall cable to the router, and then back from the router to a port in the WSC. Here I will place a gigabit switch and connect the remaining ports. In theory this should work. After having a conversation with an electrical technician, they advised that it was still unlikely that the router would cover the entire house with a strong enough WiFi signal and they suggested a Wireless Access Point (WAP). These WAPs are commercial grade WiFi transmission devices and should cater the entire house without any issues. This will mean the router in Bed 4 will only be used to route internet and network traffic, whereas the WAP will cater for the WiFi transmission over the network. The one thing that we want to do electrical wise but are not having Arden do is security camera installation. I have an idea of what I want to do and figured I could install these myself and with the assistance of my electrician friend. Our neighborhood is not inherently bad in terms of theft etc, but it's for the increased sense of security. I will pick out a camera kit close to hand over and install once we have moved in. Hi Kollosche, I am also very concerned about my electrical plan. I posted my questions about NBN here. Can you please give me some advise? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90919&p=1782106#p1782106 You mentioned WAP. How does it work? The NBN box will be installed in the Garage for the new build, but it's not a recommended location according to Telstra guide. Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 15Jan 29, 2018 1:24 pm SakuraSE Kollosche Electrical Plans Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Being the 'nerd' that I am, the electrical plan was very important to me; especially the data points and the wireless access point. We made a fair few upgrades to the lighting in the main living/entertaining areas. We have upgraded more of the lighting throughout the core of the house to down-lights from standard battens. Same in the bathroom and ensuite. We figured that the other rooms did not require fancy (and expensive) down-lights so we left them as is. We have also added lights to the front pillars of the house; these were not included to our surprise. We also added flood lights to the side (Bed 1 side) of the house and the rear. 3x batten light fittings have been placed over our kitchen island to add some nice feature lights. But enough about lighting, the data points are really what are important to me! In our "NBN Pack", which we later learned was an upgrade, we were given 4x Ethernet points and 1x phone point. We located these in Bed 1, Bed 4 (going to be a study), the lounge and the living room. The reasoning for the lounge and living room is for video game consoles or smart televisions for Netflix/YouTube etc. Bed 2 and Bed 3 should be adequately catered for via WiFi, or if necessary we can have additional data points installed down the track. However, these inclusions were not enough to do what I wanted to. I did not want to put my router in the Wired Services Cabinet (WSC). I have a pretty powerful and pricey router, but even that would not cater the house from the metal cabinet in the garage! So I added an additional Ethernet port to Bed 4 where I intend to have the router. This was, the data stream can come from the NBN modem, through the wall cable to the router, and then back from the router to a port in the WSC. Here I will place a gigabit switch and connect the remaining ports. In theory this should work. After having a conversation with an electrical technician, they advised that it was still unlikely that the router would cover the entire house with a strong enough WiFi signal and they suggested a Wireless Access Point (WAP). These WAPs are commercial grade WiFi transmission devices and should cater the entire house without any issues. This will mean the router in Bed 4 will only be used to route internet and network traffic, whereas the WAP will cater for the WiFi transmission over the network. The one thing that we want to do electrical wise but are not having Arden do is security camera installation. I have an idea of what I want to do and figured I could install these myself and with the assistance of my electrician friend. Our neighborhood is not inherently bad in terms of theft etc, but it's for the increased sense of security. I will pick out a camera kit close to hand over and install once we have moved in. Hi Kollosche, I am also very concerned about my electrical plan. I posted my questions about NBN here. Can you please give me some advise? viewtopic.php?f=1&t=90919&p=1782106#p1782106 You mentioned WAP. How does it work? The NBN box will be installed in the Garage for the new build, but it's not a recommended location according to Telstra guide. Hi SakuraSE, I will have a look and try to reply to you after work! Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 16Feb 21, 2018 9:01 am Looks lovely kollosche ... great choices in inclusions... will follow your build _________________________________________ Regards Manj https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88256 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 18May 17, 2018 8:59 am Hi Treedance, If you are referring to this particular build, this will be my house not Manj's. I have updated the very top post with my most recent updates. We have had taps on site now for about a week and are booked in for our site cut/site start this Monday coming up 21 May 2018. Starting to get exciting! Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 Re: Building Arden Homes Genoa Verve 26 in North East VIC 20May 18, 2018 3:51 pm phillo @kollosche is there a requirement to have the wired services cabinet in the garage or can it be put anywhere? I am just planning out my networking and what i should allow for! Hi phillo I was happy to leave it in the garage, this is mostly because we are in a new estate which will receive a FTTP NBN connection which will terminate in the garage. Also as we are building a single story home there weren't many other places where we could place it. I have heard of people building double story homes with Arden and having the NBN terminate under the stairs, however most of those people also said that they opted not to have the WSC. Honestly, I thought this was a standard inclusion till I heard from others building with Arden that it was an optional extra. Although this did not bother me as I would have wanted it anyway. Are you building with Arden? Build thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=90888 May I ask why you chose not to use GJ Gardiner? I'm actually meeting with one of the sales guys tomorrow for an appointment. Definitely not signing anything yet… 3 13898 The warning is on the sticker on the door too. Second the aluminium powdercoat 6 18813 Hi, can anyone recommend a custom home builder who can build in north east area? Looking to build a custom 4-br energy-efficient home with a max budget of 750k. If they… 0 23471 |