Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Hall & Hart Homes 96Apr 16, 2018 10:46 pm Malibu kjane Landscaping Question: Our plans were lodged with CDC today and today we got an email from HHH to say we need to contract a landscape architect to design our landscape plan for lodgement. The email says the landscape plan is important for their hydraulic engineer to finalise stormwater plans. We were planning to do the landscaping ourselves. Do you guys know if you have to contract a company and obviously pay or can you do yourselves? Also depends on your local council if a Landscape Plan must be submitted with house plans or landscape plan is just needed to finalise your stormwater tank location so the hydraulics engineer can plan around. Great point, thanks I hadn't thought of that, hopefully it is the latter. I will email to ask. How is your build going? Re: Building with Hall & Hart Homes 99Apr 17, 2018 6:38 am kjane adalon I believe technically you can do it yourself but you need to know what you're doing as particular councils are going to want to know species of plants, driveway gradients, open outdoor space ratios etc. We started to draw ours up ourselves and then figured we would save a lot of time and effort and contract someone to do it for us. Hall and Hart provided x3 landscape architects/designers we could get a quote from. Ended up costing us $950 (this was the more expensive one as we wanted to get a qualified landscape architect to draw it up) but totally recommend it. Got a great looking coloured plan from it with all the required details including suggested quantities and species of plants and got approved for DA straight away with no changes. We had a lot of other choices to make and things going on so trusting this component was in good hands was a bit of a relief. Thanks for your quick reply! That is great feedback and exactly what I was after. They have suggested three companies to me as well (A Total Concept, 3DL, Conzept) did you go with any of these? Did they need to go to site and did you need to be there or could they do it all from plans? Thanks a bunch. Have you finished your build? Ended up going with Conzept. They did a good job. Ended up with about 4 pages of drawings/specifications like the below which gave us a good idea of what we want to do. They did it all from the plans I sent them. No site visit and they just did it themselves. There was an option for a meeting but I sent them a sketch showing the rough layout we wanted and they worked with that, No we haven't finished our build, it's actually about to start. We have our final contract signing in a week which should give us a start date. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building with Hall & Hart Homes 100Apr 17, 2018 8:51 am Hey kjane, similar to adalon, we also considered doing it ourselves, but were happy we left it to a professional designer. We chose 3DL, and I think it cost around $650 for a multi page landscape plan similar to the (very nice ) one adalon posted. It sounds from your post like the Hydraulic engineer will also need to create water drainage diagrams and draw water pit locations in the correct spots to show all the water runoff from your landscaped house will end up in the correct places (i.e. not the neighbours yards). So having an accurately drawn plan might be needed for that. If you've already emailed H&H I'm sure they'll let you know either way. We've selected a landscaper to build ours, and should hopefully be finalizing the details of that very soon. Now just looking for an electrician to install all the extra lights/fans we've ordered for after handover I have a really long hallway which is 1100mm W x 11500mm L I would appreciate if anyone can give suggestions to light it up with Linear LED lights that goes from wall to… 0 5611 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 47551 I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 73794 |