Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 24Jun 12, 2018 5:58 pm Building the Rawson Edge 39 MKI -Ā https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89729&p=1756917#p1756917 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 28Jun 20, 2018 11:36 am Update: We had internal selections and electrical on Monday. Julie in the Newcastle office is fantastic. She really makes, what could be very stressful for some, an enjoyable experience. We were pretty prepared before going in but we still had some thinking to do after some great suggestions by Julie. Electrical we went over by about 2k on what we thought which isnāt to bad considering the size of the home. We have gone black taps and holders/rails. The ensuite will have different cabinets to the other bathrooms as per the picture the browner colour is for the ensuite. We are also doing rainfall shower heads from the ceiling which should look amazing hopefully. Black stone tops in the bathrooms, white tops in the kitchen and butlers. Lime laminate floors and grey walls with white skirting. Dark coloured cabinets in the kitchen with the white stone bench and white subways with dark grey grout for the splash back. 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Whenās your tile appointment? Building the Rawson Edge 39 MKI -Ā https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89729&p=1756917#p1756917 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 30Jun 20, 2018 8:06 pm [quote="Salfield"]Update: We had internal selections and electrical on Monday. Julie in the Newcastle office is fantastic.... Wow! Gorgeous selection! Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 31Jun 20, 2018 8:07 pm KateAndDuke Nice selections! Very neutral and stylish. We had a similar experience with Julie. We were organised too but wow there were quite a few extra decisions to be made we didnāt originally think of. Whenās your tile appointment? Thank you for that. Tiles are this Monday coming. We are going to try and stick to the included range although they told us that they charge extra to lay subway tiles in a subway pattern. š³ Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 32Jun 20, 2018 8:08 pm Chipamelon Salfield Update: We had internal selections and electrical on Monday. Julie in the Newcastle office is fantastic.... Wow! Gorgeous selection! Thank you. šŗš Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 33Jun 20, 2018 8:11 pm Salfield KateAndDuke Nice selections! Very neutral and stylish. We had a similar experience with Julie. We were organised too but wow there were quite a few extra decisions to be made we didnāt originally think of. Whenās your tile appointment? Thank you for that. Tiles are this Monday coming. We are going to try and stick to the included range although they told us that they charge extra to lay subway tiles in a subway pattern. Just a warning, it will be difficult to stick with the included tiles. Unless you are happy with white, brown or variants of. And yeah I remember them saying the labour is more for subway patterned tiles. Have you been to tile direct already for a sneak peak? Building the Rawson Edge 39 MKI -Ā https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=89729&p=1756917#p1756917 Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 34Jun 20, 2018 8:52 pm KateAndDuke Salfield KateAndDuke Nice selections! Very neutral and stylish. We had a similar experience with Julie. We were organised too but wow there were quite a few extra decisions to be made we didnāt originally think of. Whenās your tile appointment? Thank you for that. Tiles are this Monday coming. We are going to try and stick to the included range although they told us that they charge extra to lay subway tiles in a subway pattern. Just a warning, it will be difficult to stick with the included tiles. Unless you are happy with white, brown or variants of. And yeah I remember them saying the labour is more for subway patterned tiles. Have you been to tile direct already for a sneak peak? Yeah we went for a sneak peek but really didnāt take it in that much. Doing a white back splash but still not sure after that. š¤š Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 35Jun 20, 2018 9:07 pm Just a warning, it will be difficult to stick with the included tiles. Unless you are happy with white, brown or variants of. And yeah I remember them saying the labour is more for subway patterned tiles. Do you recall if Rawson have a tile size constraint? eg. 600 x 600 we got caught with that in our last build. Were told ātheyāll lay whatever you like, you just pay the difference over the allocation amount per m2ā went and looked at Beaumont prior to our appointment as suggested to help speed things along and chose a nice floorboard style tile. Knew it wasnāt part of the package and knew weād have to pay more. At the tile appointment it was refused based on size. Also, might be a weird question... do Rawson also include a floor waste in the laundry? It wasnāt brought to our attention with Coral that itās not a standard feature for them until I told the site manager that the plumbers must have missed the drainage for the laundry lol. If weād known at plan stage, we would have definitely added it! Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 36Jun 20, 2018 9:56 pm Chipamelon Just a warning, it will be difficult to stick with the included tiles. Unless you are happy with white, brown or variants of. And yeah I remember them saying the labour is more for subway patterned tiles. Do you recall if Rawson have a tile size constraint? eg. 600 x 600 we got caught with that in our last build. Were told ātheyāll lay whatever you like, you just pay the difference over the allocation amount per m2ā went and looked at Beaumont prior to our appointment as suggested to help speed things along and chose a nice floorboard style tile. Knew it wasnāt part of the package and knew weād have to pay more. At the tile appointment it was refused based on size. Also, might be a weird question... do Rawson also include a floor waste in the laundry? It wasnāt brought to our attention with Coral that itās not a standard feature for them until I told the site manager that the plumbers must have missed the drainage for the laundry lol. If weād known at plan stage, we would have definitely added it! Not sure about tile size constraints, I know your not asking me but, Rawson have always been, you can do what you want as long as your willing to pay. On our visit the lady just showed us a wall and the further around the wall the higher the cost. As far as the waste goes, Iām sure itās standard. I canāt believe itās not with others. Floor waste to all wet areas and our package gets the smart waste which are the ones with a tile on top. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 37Jun 21, 2018 4:16 pm We definitely have a floor waste in the laundry and we didn't ask about it. It's standard with Rawson Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 38Jun 28, 2018 10:37 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 I am living in a 6 month old Clarendon home and the quality is so bad you wouldnt believe me if i listed all of the issues we have had. We previously built with them 14 years ago and the quality was fantastic, this time it is the worst house i have been in. We have major roof leaks, internal doors cut too short and wont close, towel rails falling off as they haven't been fixed to studs just screws directly into plasterboard, plumbing issues, leaking sinks and the list goes on and on. Simeon McGovern Affordable Custom Homes, We design and build to your budget Ashington Homes www.ashingtonhomes.com.au Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 39Jun 28, 2018 3:39 pm SejaeD 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 I am living in a 6 month old Clarendon home and the quality is so bad you wouldnt believe me if i listed all of the issues we have had. We previously built with them 14 years ago and the quality was fantastic, this time it is the worst house i have been in. We have major roof leaks, internal doors cut too short and wont close, towel rails falling off as they haven't been fixed to studs just screws directly into plasterboard, plumbing issues, leaking sinks and the list goes on and on. Thatās no good. Glad we didnāt end up going with them. Re: KDR - Rawson Chifley 42 mark ii in Newcastle. 40Jul 20, 2018 8:22 pm Unfortunately I have had to turn to product review as Rawson have done a job on us. . Firstly I have to say that, up until now, the Rawson Staff in Newcastle have been great. But as per the title I regretfully have to submit that Rawson have failed us terribly and have subjected my wife and I to so much stress I don't think they truly appreciate it. Our story started back in 2017 when we first looked at building a knock down rebuild with Clarendon. Our block is a sloping block in Newcastle and we appreciated that site costs would be greater due to this reason. We went to tender with Clarendon as we loved the Boston 36. Unfortunately Clarendon could only build the house with a set back of 10 meters due to them only being able to do certain height in the split of the house. We didn't want that as we lost a lot of the back yard so we looked to other builders. We looked at Montgomery among others but didn't want a tri level house. This brought us to Rawson. I loved the Chifley 37 as on display at Thornton so we spoke with Steve and got the ball rolling on a Chifley 42 Mark ii. Rawson had the added benefit of having the site survey etc that we obtained from Clarendon, so they already knew levels,contours and soil etc (rawson would do these again later on as part of the tender process). So we were assured that Rawson could build us a home to our budget, on the block with the set back we preferred with no substantial retaining required. We made it extremely clear from day dot that, should the land require any substantial retaining we would probably not proceed as it would be above our budget. No problem, all good, so we go ahead and have plans drawn up which were first draw up on the 8.3.18. The plans include elevation drawings and show a stepped retaining wall on one side of the property. We were assured both in person and via email that no substantial earthworks are required by us after handover. it even states on the plans, minor earthworks by owner required to achieve a level area. So everything goes along, we put our kids in extra day care so that we can attend selection appointments, arrange for a demo company to demo the house, kick out the model tenant that has been in this house for 9 years, travel to sydney to liaise with the company that does there home theater stuff and put a deposit on some stuff, not to mention the number of homes we have now missed out on that we potentially could have purchased, to get to this point in time. 2 weeks out from demo, being Monday the 16/7/18, Rawson send us an email stating that the certifier, who apparently has been looking over the plans since March to make sure there are no issues, has indicated that the retaining wall as per the plan does not comply. Funnily enough this email came a few days after we signed the contract. I am sorry but this does not seem like a coincidence to me. We obviously are extremely concerned at this stage and immediately contact Rawson. Rawson state they are doing all they can and are speaking with drafting and who every else to work out something. I am sure the Newcastle office are doing what they can, but fast forward to today, Friday. Nothing from Rawson. We chase them and get a reply. Basically the same reply, we are working on it, but then puts in there that we should have a BACKUP PLAN!!! I wish you could swear on this page. There is no backup plan Rawson. Demo people are booked out until November at this stage and its probably December next week. So my wife contacts rawson via the phone and she is told that maybe the matter should be escalated. BEG YOUR PARDON?? It's one week out from the date you told us we had to hand over the site to you, to build the house you said you could build, and you say you think it should be escalated on Friday afternoon. So poor, so poor. Off the top of my head we are going to be out at least 60k if this does not go ahead. That does not include having to turn around and fix up the existing house to try and sell it, the lost income from the tenant, the rent we are paying to DA for the demo and others. Before today I would have recommended Rawson and did. Unfortunately now, the disdain they have showed to customers that are spending over $600k and $1.3mill all in, with them, means I wouldn't recommend them to my worst enemy at this point. I hope to be proved wrong but highly doubt it. I know we are just one family of four with very limited funds but Rawson can be assured that we will not just roll over, we will chase them for all the costs we have outlaid unless they can correct this on Monday. Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. I remember getting a few quotes for a pool fence, roughly around the same price, thinking the… 5 9690 Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 2464 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37160 |