Browse Forums Building A New House Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 71Jun 20, 2018 2:20 pm I had to engaged a hydraulic engineer for the stormwater design and plumber for the work. May be I had to drain to council pit/easement and I also need council stormwater engineer came out to inspect/certified it. Basically checked the pipe connection to the council pit. Anything to deal with council probably AC don't want to get a hand on it. The storm water issue been worrying me during the initial build design, such that if there are no drainage point, need to put in absorption pit and house size shall be less that 35% of the land etc.. so I am glad that was done by now. What left out for the budget is front fence, driveway and levelling the land afterward and whatever it need to get the interim OC. Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 72Jun 20, 2018 6:18 pm Never ends LevaneT.. At least you are 30% in . Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 73Jun 20, 2018 9:22 pm Ok, we are doing driveway ourselves afterwards. Im budgeting for another 100k once house is done, and everything always ends up costing more! Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 74Jun 20, 2018 9:27 pm One thing I have realized, they hadnt installed electrical conduit on the slab to come into cavity where meterboard goes- this leads me to think the board won't be recessed into the brickwork, but mounted on it, with the service coming up on a surface conduit. I wish they made this clear or gave an option. Too late now... Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 75Jun 21, 2018 5:28 pm coppersmith One thing I have realized, they hadnt installed electrical conduit on the slab to come into cavity where meterboard goes- this leads me to think the board won't be recessed into the brickwork, but mounted on it, with the service coming up on a surface conduit. I wish they made this clear or gave an option. Too late now... Mate , they will slap you another $1000 to do that , doubt you will be looking at your box once the house is built so don’t worry about it I say Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 76Jun 25, 2018 10:18 am i have to say one thing that allcastle is good at is the build time, they are pretty fast, we had our slab done on Sat morning, all down now it's just drying the inspection for houspect is on wed. 7 concrete trucks came and from the street the base looks pretty good Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 77Jun 25, 2018 10:27 am I think they are quick now because the market has changed and they no longer have back logs .. good for us building now as won’t be 44 weeks but trimmed down toe 6 months build time as it should be really. Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 79Jun 25, 2018 1:14 pm LevaneT Yes from slab to frame and roof truss up. It took only 1 month. Brick will follow very soon. Much faster than I expected. Tile supplier is beaumont tiles now Nice we have local beaumont, they told us was someone in guildford before. we looking at getting the larger tiles for the foyer do they offer it? prefer the none slip ones. Re: KDR - Allcastle Homes Grandworth 45 MK2 80Jun 25, 2018 1:24 pm yes it was beautiful tile before and now we were told beaumont. I have yet to make appointment but beaumont is doing end of year sales now. I think our appointment will be after the sales period. Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 761 Was the offer also on their website? If so, you could check the Wayback Machine. 1 1041 Hi, I am looking into doing a KDR in Melbourne and am contemplating using Kialla Homes. I am looking for feedback on them from others who have built with them. 0 13696 |