Browse Forums Building A New House Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Plains 13Feb 03, 2018 1:18 pm Have you added external wall insulation Nublette? It’s a couple of thousand from memory but very much worth it. What about an electrical allowance? Oh that’s uncanny you where looking at Bold, they have a lot more designs now which is handy. Rochedale is worth the trip they have so many colour schemes on show it’s great. Not to mention the porter Davis display is stunning. Oh defiantly do the wallpaper I’m planning on it this time. Oh nice with the brick choice, ours are austral chiffon (I forgot and had to look it up whoops) I agree with dougang our platinum carpet and 10mm underlay upgrade was just under $5k we have 5 kids, a cat and a dog so fingers crossed the carpet is kid proof . The advise I got from Anderson’s is not to pick a loop pile carpet as the cat will pull threads in it. We got a high plush twist pile, feels so nice under foot but I don’t think I love the colour more 🤭 Re: Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Pla 14Feb 03, 2018 3:10 pm Tribe7 Have you added external wall insulation Nublette? It’s a couple of thousand from memory but very much worth it. What about an electrical allowance? Oh that’s uncanny you where looking at Bold, they have a lot more designs now which is handy. Rochedale is worth the trip they have so many colour schemes on show it’s great. Not to mention the porter Davis display is stunning. Oh defiantly do the wallpaper I’m planning on it this time. Oh nice with the brick choice, ours are austral chiffon (I forgot and had to look it up whoops) I agree with dougang our platinum carpet and 10mm underlay upgrade was just under $5k we have 5 kids, a cat and a dog so fingers crossed the carpet is kid proof . The advise I got from Anderson’s is not to pick a loop pile carpet as the cat will pull threads in it. We got a high plush twist pile, feels so nice under foot but I don’t think I love the colour more 🤭 Yep already included external wall insulation. Another thing my sales consultant tried to talk me out of but I was adamant. I knew I'd be annoyed with myself and the $$ if we decided we needed it later. We haven't included the garage at this stage which I wonder if that was a mistake. I have already put in a decent electrical allowance (10k from memory) which I hope will be enough for all the connections I need. that won't include the lighting itself though. I am allowing myself a set of pendants over the kitchen counter but everything else is going to be budget lighting. We use our computers a lot and I also work from home, as does hubster sometimes so we want a lot of data connections etc too. It's gonna be tight. With Coral I don't know what the brick choices are yet, I've been to the showroom and I think we use PHG but definitely going for a similar colour. It's funny you say that about the loop pile. I think they are all loop pile in the standard range and that was the first thing I said "the cats are gonna rip them up" haha. Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Plains 15Feb 04, 2018 10:01 am I couldn’t agree more the insulation is so important and makes a massive difference. We are renting a brand new Simonds build in our area and holy crap it’s so hot as there is only the wall sisilation wrap not the batts. Our Metricon build had external wall batts to the garage but not the alfresco ceiling from memory. That’s a great allowance for electrical, ours was $8,500 but bold provide downlights as standard I just added a heap more. I then added extra PowerPoints to every bedroom and living areas, more tv points and 10 ceiling fans. You could always do a cash job through the electrician and get them to fit off your lights? Once the house starts and the meter box is installed the electricians number will be in the meter box and you can call them to organize something they could hang your pendants or maybe install down lights for you. Uhm I’m not sure if coral use austral, I think they might. Maybe ask Caydenn or Stephanie they are under construction right now. Any idea on when your contract is due? You do colours after that? OMG yes the cats will have a field day in loop pile carpet, we had it in our first build and never again, woody clawed the crap out of my stairs and we had to do some creative fixes before we sold Re: Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Pla 16Feb 04, 2018 4:18 pm yeah I said to myself we'd prioritise the wall insulation over the ceiling insulation even, because at least the ceiling insulation could be done later. The sales consultant initially told me wall insulation was standard and only once I pressed him what kind of batts they use did he mention it was just sisilation /sigh That is a fantastic tip about the electrician and the meter box! Thank you so much. I had heard people on these forums mention cash jobs but I know so little about it I was intimidated by the thought. At least this gives me a starting point. I did like that about Bold that they gave you the actual lights. Coral are quite stingy on the electrical as standard. I asked if we could get our own electrician in and they said they won't allow that anymore after someone burned their house down doing an *unprofessional* job. My contract was supposed to be due 6th of Feb, but I was emailed from my sales consultant the other day saying he couldn't get it through on the express list because of my house changes and so I think it's like the 25th of Feb now or something Only good thing with that is that if they'd done it 6th of Feb I would probably have ended up being the one causing the delay because of this plumbing not being completed so at least there's that consolation. I reeeaally hope he'll book me in to do colours straight after that though, as I'm raring to go and I don't want them to have any excuse to delay us further. Our rental runs out at the start of June but at this stage it looks like they won't be finished by then, which means a tricky negotiation where we just stay for another month or two without signing another 6 month lease Re: Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Pla 17Feb 08, 2018 3:58 pm Loooove what you have done with the plan, adore the bulters pantry, how clever! I’ve mentioned to my partner about the wall insulation for our build but I think the high number is half scaring him Have you been to the colours showroom yet? Make sure you check out the sinks and tapeware in case you wanted to upgrade anything. Or if there is a special colour stone you are after. We put in a 1k allowance. I think we went 1.7k on top of that, but we wanted silk finish cabinets to the kitchen, upgraded the stone colour to a c range and I wanted the swivel bath spout for the ensuite that which was pricey Sounds like you have done the right thing though, added almost everything to the tender. We wanted the pretty glass doors to the pantry master and media room so we made sure to had them to the tender, soften the blow a little at colours haha We only upgraded the underlay to the carpet, the standard carpet feels like crap and I didn’t think of the looping, we don’t have a cat yet, but will shortly after we move in haha hopefully we can have enough cat towers to claw at :/ haha Looking forward to your progress. We did the basics for electrical and went over our 3k allowance. But that stuff is expensive, we still have to buy fans. enjoy your appointments though, you will fly through them as you sound prepared Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Plains 18Feb 09, 2018 1:55 pm Hey Nublette, The standard ceiling insulation is pretty good but agree the sisilation wrap just isn’t enough. Good on you for questioning them it’s hard to get a straight answer sometimes (I’m trying to buying a new car at the moment and my god those sales men can talk the talk ) OMG someone burnt there house down? Holy crap that’s bad. The meter box is the place to find the details or ask your SS but some don’t like doing that. Agree about the Bold electrical it’s really good and wasn’t awful with upgrade prices. Oh what a shame about the contract, at least this delay gives you time to get the plumbing done, have you heard from UU? I got some email from a certifier about doing a site inspection to start the works and haven’t heard a peep since. I hope you can get in for colours soon it’s great to tick that list. I’m so over the admin phase now it’s killing me We are in exactly the same boat with our lease and will be requesting a periodic lease (month to month) till we know we can move. Re: Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Pla 19Feb 10, 2018 2:42 pm Thank you everyone who has contributed here. I just found out that Coral have refused to build our house because of our soil type. I'm pretty devastated and it sounds like we have to start from the very beginning. I know this thread hadn't been going long enough for anyone to be too invested but I thought you'd all like to know why there's going to be no more updates for a long time Re: Coral Daydream 32 Custom - First Home Build: Redbank Pla 20Feb 10, 2018 4:49 pm Nublette Thank you everyone who has contributed here. I just found out that Coral have refused to build our house because of our soil type. I'm pretty devastated and it sounds like we have to start from the very beginning. I know this thread hadn't been going long enough for anyone to be too invested but I thought you'd all like to know why there's going to be no more updates for a long time Oh no! What type soil do you have? I highly recommend Mike at G&P Builders as being a straight shooter and quick to get you through the admin process. If you put an enquiry through to info@gpbuilders.com.au it will go directly through to him and he is one of the owners. Let him know Teneika sent you. So it looks like we finally have some movement on site! Definitely later than expected, but I'll take any progress at this point. I'll drop by over the weekend to get… 5 27716 In Qld it is a requirement that a builder must have a cost breakdown, for building a home to the same specification, with the same inclusions and the same finish. So ask… 1 4347 I'd get the gutters to match your roof and pipes to match the paint - otherwise they become a feature. Nice pick with the paint colours! 1 34270 |