Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 201Jun 08, 2018 11:13 pm They are making great progress. Must be exciting seeing it come together Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 202Jun 09, 2018 7:40 am Incredible progress Drew, you must be pleased. Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 203Jun 09, 2018 11:09 am shokel1975 They are making great progress. Must be exciting seeing it come together WifeofHunza Incredible progress Drew, you must be pleased. At this rate, I am guessing we'll be at lock up by the end of the month Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 204Jun 09, 2018 11:10 am Drew01 shokel1975 They are making great progress. Must be exciting seeing it come together WifeofHunza Incredible progress Drew, you must be pleased. At this rate, I am guessing we'll be at lock up by the end of the month Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 205Jun 09, 2018 12:53 pm Drew01 Did my Friday drive by today... The Colorbond is all on, and our solar hot water has been installed. Half of the house has been wrapped and the bricks have been delivered, as has a big pile of brickies sand. While I was having a quick look around, the Goop was being installed on the windows and door sills, although the door sills have so much mud on them I can't see them being cleanable. Also noticed a great chunk out of the entry door jam that we'll have to keep an eye out for it getting replaced. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 206Jun 17, 2018 4:10 pm This week, the rest of the house was wrapped, and the flashings all installed early in the week. Thursday and Friday the sparkies started their rough in work, and should be completed on Monday. Our builders doors have been installed, and the remainder of the plumbing has been roughed in, although our fridge point needs moving, as the plumber has it at ground height rather than behind the overhead cabinet. Our sparkies are doing a great job, and very accommodating - they're roughing in our alarm wiring for a bit extra in cash, which will save an immense amount of stuffing around after handover for our alarm guy. Brickies are due to start on Monday, with the objective to knock over the garage wall next to our lovely (not) neighbour as a first priority. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 207Jun 17, 2018 4:15 pm We also ordered our tiles to be installed after handover yesterday in the Beaumont's 26% off sale. Decided on Santorini White in a 600x600mm tile. Measured up all our windows as well, as Spotlight have 40% off rollers and blinds, and we can do all the windows in the house in roller sheers and blockouts for $5k less than through M!! That'll pay for the tiler!! Next weekend, before the Beaumont's sale ends, we're looking for Bluestone or an external tile to match our bricks, which look a lot like this against our windows! 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Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The roof tiles n windows have arrived but no work has been done. Maybe coz of the rain but not sure. The slab invoice is still with CBA. My broker really made a mess of submitting the invoice n not following up with CBA on what is outstanding. Going to complain as its not acceptable. We received the frame invoice but have not yet received the group 4 frame completion stage report. Drew did you get this from Group 4 before you made the payment. Our BSC advised that group 4 are doing a re inspection tomorrow of the frame and will then finalise n send through their report which we can then forward to the bank. The bank have confirmed that their inspector has done the slab inspection, but the invoice does not match the construction schedule submitted by our broker, hoping to get an answer tomorrow. Do they let u know why they have not worked on site if its a couple of days? Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 209Jun 18, 2018 6:39 pm Drew01 We also ordered our tiles to be installed after handover yesterday in the Beaumont's 26% off sale. Decided on Santorini White in a 600x600mm tile. Measured up all our windows as well, as Spotlight have 40% off rollers and blinds, and we can do all the windows in the house in roller sheers and blockouts for $5k less than through M!! That'll pay for the tiler!! Next weekend, before the Beaumont's sale ends, we're looking for Bluestone or an external tile to match our bricks, which look a lot like this against our windows! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Is that the glenfern brick drew01 ? Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 210Jun 18, 2018 7:55 pm Drew01 This week, the rest of the house was wrapped, and the flashings all installed early in the week. Thursday and Friday the sparkies started their rough in work, and should be completed on Monday. Our builders doors have been installed, and the remainder of the plumbing has been roughed in, although our fridge point needs moving, as the plumber has it at ground height rather than behind the overhead cabinet. Our sparkies are doing a great job, and very accommodating - they're roughing in our alarm wiring for a bit extra in cash, which will save an immense amount of stuffing around after handover for our alarm guy. Brickies are due to start on Monday, with the objective to knock over the garage wall next to our lovely (not) neighbour as a first priority. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking good drew. Looks like you’ll have lots of leftover brick. That’s if your keeping them. We had 2 pallets of spares which we had to move to the back But by the time we moved in someone stole most of them lol In a way we were glad because we still haven’t used them haha Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 211Jun 18, 2018 9:10 pm excited_builders Wow Drew that is amazing...at thr moment there has been no work on site since last Wednesday. The roof tiles n windows have arrived but no work has been done. Maybe coz of the rain but not sure. The slab invoice is still with CBA. My broker really made a mess of submitting the invoice n not following up with CBA on what is outstanding. Going to complain as its not acceptable. We received the frame invoice but have not yet received the group 4 frame completion stage report. Drew did you get this from Group 4 before you made the payment. Our BSC advised that group 4 are doing a re inspection tomorrow of the frame and will then finalise n send through their report which we can then forward to the bank. The bank have confirmed that their inspector has done the slab inspection, but the invoice does not match the construction schedule submitted by our broker, hoping to get an answer tomorrow. Do they let u know why they have not worked on site if its a couple of days? We're not that concerned about them having a day here and there with nothing happening due to weather. At this stage, by my reckoning, I would say they've had 2-3 days off when the weather's been atrocious, but once the house is bricked and foamed, I can't see them slowing up much. With respect to the Group 4 report, I got a soft copy of the inspection a few days after it was conducted, and my builder mate and I went to compare her findings against his opinion, and he agreed with the findings. We paid the invoice before we received the Group 4 report - end of the day, if it hadn't been correct, we have every confidence our site manager would have fixed it anyway - YES, HE'S THAT GOOD!!! Because we're "cash builders" as far as Metricon are concerned, we don't have a bank to worry about, and to be honest, most bank inspectors don't know what they're looking at. Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 212Jun 18, 2018 9:14 pm shokel1975 Is that the glenfern brick drew01 ? sure is - we were originally looking at Moonshadow, and decided it was just going to be too dark - we think that Glenfern will look great once laid Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 213Jun 18, 2018 9:16 pm Emmz70 Looking good drew. Looks like you’ll have lots of leftover brick. That’s if your keeping them. We had 2 pallets of spares which we had to move to the back But by the time we moved in someone stole most of them lol In a way we were glad because we still haven’t used them haha We'll keep as many as we can - there's lots of broken bricks all over the place at the moment, which is a little disappointing - I'd have thought the less broken bricks the more bits of broken brick to pick up after the fact.... Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 214Jun 22, 2018 10:48 pm Had a couple of days visiting site, to mark where we want our noggins to be placed in the bathrooms - what a nightmare, having to envisage how a wall's going to look over fully tiled, and raised 20mm with floor tiling, and it seems there are only pseudo standards... After much deliberation, I ended up with our toilet roll holders at 800mm from the wall, and 800mm up; the towel rails at 1020 and 1800mm, and hand towels at 750mm.... Onto the more important matters, the brickies have nearly finished, and insulation is installed, electrical rough in is complete. And the massive slab no longer looks as high off the ground, which is a massive bonus!! Insulation Upstairs Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Garage Boundary Wall Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Front of House Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Rear of House Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Rear Wall Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Side Wall Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Have also been back to Beaumont's looking for portico and alfresco tiles - we're a big fan (at the moment) of the Belga Charcoal in a textured tile, which looks like this against the Glenfern brick - we originally thought of bluestone, but it didn't work with the brick or the stone. The tiles are also 1/4 the price... Currently tossing up if we go 600x600 or 600x300, either of which will flow from our internal 600x600 floor tiles, although I'm a bit concerned that 600x600 will make the outdoor space look small, as there would be 2 1/2 tiled at the front door, and 5 at the alfresco. A smaller number of tiles I think will make it feel small Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 215Jun 26, 2018 10:04 pm Ordered our outdoor tiles and bathroom accessories on the weekend. Our outdoor tile is Belga Charcoal Textured, in a 600x300mm that we'll lay across the portico and alfresco, to give the sensation of the spaces being wider. The bathroom accessories are the Merrica range from Beaumont's which compliment the Mizu Bliss tap range, and are very similar to the Mizu Drift accessories we WERE going to buy from Reece. The Merrica range saved us $700 for what feels like a sturdier accessory. This is the robe hook, I forgot to take a photo of the display board. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I have a couple of reservations about their mounting system, and if it's not acceptable, we'll change them for another range that is a big more square in its mounting system, such as the Phoenix or Jaya range. We found Beaumont's had a much better range of well priced accessories than both Reece and Studio/M. The brickies are pretty much done, with a couple of small items that need fixing - I urge everyone to check where their external power wiring is run out through the mortar courses. Much better to catch it before the mortar goes off, as the guys can knock out a couple of bricks and move the wires quite easily. Gyprock was starting yesterday, and the guys reckon they'll be done in 10 days. Make sure before your Gyprock goes up that you mark where all your noggins are, and any data cables that you might want to find after the house is handed over. A photo with a tape measure in it does a good job, or hand drawing to accompany the photo. In some rooms, I even measured the distances between studs, as we have some chunky things hang on the wall, including a framed Olympic torch my wife ran with. Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 217Jul 01, 2018 10:39 am Renman Your build is coming along nicely. Yeah, they're really moving along at a good pace. Got our lockup invoice on Friday, so in theory, we're 10 or so weeks away from PCI now. Stairs are due this week, as it's cabinetry, so it'll start looking like a real house inside as well!! Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 218Jul 01, 2018 12:29 pm Drew01 Renman Your build is coming along nicely. Yeah, they're really moving along at a good pace. Got our lockup invoice on Friday, so in theory, we're 10 or so weeks away from PCI now. Stairs are due this week, as it's cabinetry, so it'll start looking like a real house inside as well!! Things slowed down for us for at the fitting and completion stages. The more you customized the higher the changes of M making mistakes. Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 219Jul 01, 2018 2:06 pm Renman Drew01 Renman Your build is coming along nicely. Yeah, they're really moving along at a good pace. Got our lockup invoice on Friday, so in theory, we're 10 or so weeks away from PCI now. Stairs are due this week, as it's cabinetry, so it'll start looking like a real house inside as well!! Things slowed down for us for at the fitting and completion stages. The more you customized the higher the changes of M making mistakes. We removed most of our customised items and will do them post handover. The only changes ended up being structural, so have already been done. We're not stressed how long it takes, just so long as it's a good job Our Bayside KDR Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=78298 Re: Building Bayside : Our Glendale 45 220Jul 05, 2018 2:45 pm Hi Drew, have you given any thought to putting a blind on the window in the ensuite shower (assuming you have a window in the shower)? Or are you putting cavity sliders on the ensuite? We are not closing off the ensuite, so are concerned with light that will come into the bedroom at night/early morning from the shower window. Thinking about a blockout blind, but not sure if water/steam will affect or damage it.... of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 23977 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 24083 |