Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / June 20 - Tiling to start 206Jun 20, 2018 1:26 pm Met the tiler on site early this morning everything was in order, correct tiles were ordered by Beaumont . He's very organised and I can tell he's done this a thousand times and more, so i'm quite confident it's going to look amazing - his work that is, let's hope our grout decisions work out for the best in the end haha Painter is due to start Friday or Monday. Lock out is this week Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / June 20 - Tiling to start 207Jun 22, 2018 7:25 am Went out last night, no photos as it was dark. We are locked out but our stone is in, our wet area floors and walls are done and ready to be grouted. Heading out Monday afternoon so will try and snap some photos then. with the new fence issue, the neighbour builders went off the old quote without the retaining wall. Our SS said one needs to be put in. I donโt think the company is prepared to take it down, and they have come to a solution to put a retaining wall on our land, face fit with the posts and fill it with gravel or dirt. We headed out to try and see how that would look in terms of width Itโs very frustrating as we did everything right and they said yes to the original retaining wall and even did up a new quote and then they just forgot. I donโt want something that is so narrow that nothing can even be planted there, and we just have a random edge. I donโt mind having a wider one for some small plants but my only issue is that at the front of the house itโs much narrower, we donโt have a side gate yet and I worry having some timber beds at that section would stop the gate opening from opening wide. So I donโt know how that section will work . It would only be one sleeper higher, so itโs probably not worth taking the fence down? Waiting to hear back from our SS to confirm how it will actually look before we make a decision. Heโs been great I canโt believe the most headaches with the actual building side of this have all been about fence issues! And nothing to do with Coral, so thatโs the positive haha Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 209Jul 03, 2018 3:44 pm Painting has begun! They prepped the house last week, and he said hes due to finish on Thursday. Meet him on site yesterday morning and we are getting him to paint the bathroom walls white instead of the regular light grey we chose for the rest of the house. One less thing we have to do after handover (or in this case, one less favour i have to ask my brother for haha)
Snapped some tiling photos for the forum while i was there, since the others we had were through the windows (threw in a few in for good measure anyways) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Laundry - not get grouted yet - will be white although i really love this look Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Kitchen. Not yet grouted but we are assuming it will look very close to how it appears now Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ bathroom feature splashback, not yet grouted - will be white Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I forgot to snap a full photo of the bathrooms at our meeting, so here's one from earlier with crap lighting Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 210Jul 03, 2018 6:47 pm It's all looking lovely and coming together nicely. Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 212Jul 04, 2018 9:55 am Nublette holy moly those feature tiles look absolutely lovely! thank you Nublette, good to finally see them on the wall and not in my head haha Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 213Jul 04, 2018 11:00 am Love the bathroom feature tiles! They turned out great! Gosh we have good taste hah Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 214Jul 04, 2018 11:01 am Also I have only just noticed, you are building the coral home that we wanted to build in the beginning, but decided not to go with coral! I love the Avoca 23 and canโt wait to see how it all turns out for you! Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 216Jul 04, 2018 3:39 pm breebarter Also I have only just noticed, you are building the coral home that we wanted to build in the beginning, but decided not to go with coral! I love the Avoca 23 and canโt wait to see how it all turns out for you! Thanks Bree! We really do have similar taste then haha, the Avoca was pretty much the only plan we loved to bits straight away, and we pretty much only customized it for more storage Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 217Jul 04, 2018 3:45 pm Dylandbrooke Oh my ๐ loving the tiles ๐๐๐๐๐ and LOVE the grey grout!!! I want!!!! aww thanks!! huge sigh of relief was had when I saw the tiles for the first time actually, we were locked out and i just stood around the corner getting my mind right in case it looked like utter trash, bahhaha. It's not grouted yet but i think it will look pretty similar. Everyone goes Misty Grey for the grout apparently - our fantastic tiler had each of the different tiles out for our on site meeting, and he wrote on each one where it was going, and wrote 'misty grey' as our grout colour even though we picked the darker grey. He was just so used to people using the lighter with the tile. I was a little nervous pulling away from the herd haha Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 218Jul 04, 2018 11:20 pm Looks amazing!!๐๐ We are getting our tiles at the moment. But our tiler keeps complaining because we have subways, brickbond and herringbone layouts. But seeing yours make it worth it to keep on him. Lol! Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 219Jul 05, 2018 7:25 am mj-mac4 Looks amazing!!๐๐ We are getting our tiles at the moment. But our tiler keeps complaining because we have subways, brickbond and herringbone layouts. But seeing yours make it worth it to keep on him. Lol! Keep the herringbone for sure!! I think if they are in different rooms it shouldnโt matter if tiles are different patterns. I saw your tiling photo - all your colours tie in beautifully so nothing in the house will clash. Re: Coral Homes / Avoca 23 / July 2nd - Painting has started 220Jul 05, 2018 10:28 am CC7 mj-mac4 Looks amazing!!๐๐ We are getting our tiles at the moment. But our tiler keeps complaining because we have subways, brickbond and herringbone layouts. But seeing yours make it worth it to keep on him. Lol! Keep the herringbone for sure!! I think if they are in different rooms it shouldnโt matter if tiles are different patterns. I saw your tiling photo - all your colours tie in beautifully so nothing in the house will clash. Thanks CC7! โบ๏ธ Ask the council if there is a chance of getting build over easement exemption. Sometimes easements are unused and 24cm is not all that much. Good luck. And yes any builder… 2 14899 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 5001 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5775 |