Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 7Jun 04, 2018 6:29 pm CG Scardycat Chiming in to agree with you all on how great Steve is. I was reluctant to build at all, but his honesty and openness was what convinced me it would be worth it. I can't really comment on the admin because our land took 5 months to register, so we did a bit of the admin in that time, then they went from settlement to turning soil in 6 weeks if you exclude the Christmas shutdown. Melanie in the Wickham office is an absolute gem and super efficient. She's amazing and I kind of want her to come organise my whole life for me, she's so good! Julie, the colours consultant, was fantastic too. She knows her stuff and is really helpful. The only thing is I wish they had tried to upsell us a bit, there are things I didn't even know you could upgrade that we would have taken up if they were offered. (Of course I can't think of an example now.) Our site supervisor is great too, a good bloke with a real sense of decency. He doesn't let ** work go and he's never made excuses, just said he'd get any issue fixed - and honestly there's only been one or two so far. Congratulations on your build, it's going to be great to see it come to life! Thank you. Yes we are looking forward to it. Julie is great, so you must think of those up sell things, so we can look at it. 🤔😁 Good news about your site supervisor, as we all know, it comes down to them it seems to get a good build. We don’t have Melanie, we have Eleanor, who is also good, but it sounds like I might need Melanie for some life issues. 😂.. Have you got a build thread? Cheers Simon Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 8Jun 05, 2018 9:01 am Hi, We are currently looking at many display homes to decide on a design and like the Clarendon Boston 36 and also the Clarendon Madison 38 but i just checked out the Rawson Chifley 42 online and it looks awesome. Did you say it was on display. Have you been given a price from Rawson? I'd love to know a ball park to see whether a design like that would be within the budget. We previoulsy built through Coral Homes too and at the time remember that Rawson offered full package of landscaping, driveway etc etc...not sure if that is still the case. Thanks Ash Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 9Jun 05, 2018 9:31 am ashjay Hi, We are currently looking at many display homes to decide on a design and like the Clarendon Boston 36 and also the Clarendon Madison 38 but i just checked out the Rawson Chifley 42 online and it looks awesome. Did you say it was on display. Have you been given a price from Rawson? I'd love to know a ball park to see whether a design like that would be within the budget. We previoulsy built through Coral Homes too and at the time remember that Rawson offered full package of landscaping, driveway etc etc...not sure if that is still the case. Thanks Ash Hi ash. Mate we are doing the Chifley 42 mark ii which you wont find on Rawsons website. You can find it if you google it and it is on one of the ibuild sites i think. The 42 is there but im not sure if it is on display. The chilfey 37 mark ii which is on display at thornton is identical to the 42 on the ground floor but its the 2nd floor that is different/bigger. Rawson still do the driveway and will do landscaping but landscaping is an extra cost which we will do ourselves. Ball Park cost for us is btw $500 and $600 but we are on a sloping block so our site costs are more than a flat block. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 10Jun 05, 2018 11:11 am Awesome thanks for the info, I will check it out. We will have a slope ourselves, but I think no more than 1 metre across the whole block. Our block isn't registered yet so awaiting final details. It's pretty overwhelming with so many home builders to check out and so many homes available. Hope your build goes well Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 11Jun 05, 2018 12:49 pm ashjay Awesome thanks for the info, I will check it out. We will have a slope ourselves, but I think no more than 1 metre across the whole block. Our block isn't registered yet so awaiting final details. It's pretty overwhelming with so many home builders to check out and so many homes available. Hope your build goes well No problem. I know a lot of builders won’t touch you with a slope. Clarendon wouldn’t go above 1 meter for any split in your house. I know that for certain. It’s a big commitment so got to get it right. 😁 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 12Jun 07, 2018 8:58 am Rawson do landscaping? That's surprising I will have to check that out! Were building the balmoral MK1 38 (modified a bit to suit our site reqts and personal choices) in Lake Macquarie with the Chifley metro fascade. Hopefully we'll start building by Oct, had our initial tender presso and our colour selection appt is next month Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 13Jun 07, 2018 5:25 pm DR-JEKL Rawson do landscaping? That's surprising I will have to check that out! Were building the balmoral MK1 38 (modified a bit to suit our site reqts and personal choices) in Lake Macquarie with the Chifley metro fascade. Hopefully we'll start building by Oct, had our initial tender presso and our colour selection appt is next month I’m pretty sure they do. They always say they do anything but it will cost you more than if you did it yourself could be wrong. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 14Jun 07, 2018 6:07 pm Salfield I’m pretty sure they do. They always say they do anything but it will cost you more than if you did it yourself could be wrong. Yes that's true! Hmm on 2nd thoughts it's probably easier & cheaper to organise 3rd party landscaper ourselves Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 15Jun 07, 2018 6:23 pm DR-JEKL Salfield I’m pretty sure they do. They always say they do anything but it will cost you more than if you did it yourself could be wrong. Yes that's true! Hmm on 2nd thoughts it's probably easier & cheaper to organise 3rd party landscaper ourselves I’d reckon, that’s if you can find a landscaper. We haven’t had much joy yet. 😔😁 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 16Jun 07, 2018 9:16 pm Salfield DR-JEKL Salfield I’m pretty sure they do. They always say they do anything but it will cost you more than if you did it yourself could be wrong. Yes that's true! Hmm on 2nd thoughts it's probably easier & cheaper to organise 3rd party landscaper ourselves I’d reckon, that’s if you can find a landscaper. We haven’t had much joy yet. 😔😁 As in they're too busy or? Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 17Jun 07, 2018 9:19 pm Yes that's true[/quote] As in they're too busy or?[/quote] Yeah too busy I guess. Won’t return calls and I’ve rang 3 or 4. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 18Jun 07, 2018 9:21 pm Salfield Yes that's true As in they're too busy or?[/quote] Yeah too busy I guess. Won’t return calls and I’ve rang 3 or 4.[/quote] Oh ok I'll fwd through the details one of the other forum members gave me for their landscaper (they were building a rawson house at cameron park) Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 19Jun 08, 2018 5:42 am DR-JEKL Salfield Yes that's true As in they're too busy or? Yeah too busy I guess. Won’t return calls and I’ve rang 3 or 4.[/quote] Oh ok I'll fwd through the details one of the other forum members gave me for their landscaper (they were building a rawson house at cameron park)[/quote] Thank you for that. 🍺 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 20Jun 08, 2018 9:17 pm Nice to see another Chifley! We'd have loved to build the 42 but our local council have a weird rule on the first floor rear setback... Lucky the 37 just fits! I know a few people at work building new homes with a bunch of different builders and they're all complaining about slow admin periods. I don't think it is something you can escape with so much new home building going on in NSW! Looking forward to seeing your progress! Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. 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