Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 324Jul 06, 2018 3:53 pm _sallz breebarter PCI today went great, took about 2 hours and our SS was more picky then us lol. He had more blue tape on the walls then we did. Things to fix: - seal behind fridge cabinetry - cover for hole under sink due to dishwasher pipe work - silicon top of island bench - hole in top of alfresco stackers - adjust door guides in bed 1 - adjust upside down light switches - general and minor paint touch ups Soooo good! Handover 20th July at 2:30pm if all goes well with bank Im soooo excited for you Still waiting for mine...... slowly.... slowlyyyy Thanks Shouldn’t be too far for you! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 325Jul 13, 2018 10:00 am Is anybody here with ANZ as their lender? I’m nervous today as our valuation is booked in for 10:30am and our landscaping hasn’t been done yet... Valeco didn’t want to complete until the day before handover as they would have to water the gardens and turf, but we specifically said we were happy to water It every day so that it could be completed before our valuation was done and therefore funds transferred and no delay to handover. Or SS said that some banks are fine with works being completed after valuation as long as the owner is happy. Anyone have experience with this yet? Cheers Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 328Jul 18, 2018 8:09 pm Thanks Tash, we are really happy with it we paid a little bit extra for landscaping but I feel it was totally worth it now! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 329Jul 18, 2018 8:42 pm love love love your facade! the exterior colours have worked so well. Did you get your backyard done as well? Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 330Jul 18, 2018 8:56 pm gr8ly love love love your facade! the exterior colours have worked so well. Did you get your backyard done as well? Thanks gr8ly We just got turf out the back, it’s not a huge area, but enough to play some back yard cricket or have a fire pit in winter Turf cost us a bomb! Fiancé had to have soft leaf buffalo (palmetto) he assures me it will be worth it in the cooler months when we have nice green grass and everyone else’s is dead and brown! Lol Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 331Jul 18, 2018 9:13 pm arghh! we have so much to turf in our backyard. Should i start saving now? Really want to turf before we move in. meanwhile i will need to remember that grass haha! i have no idea with plants/grass/anything outside. You'll need to take some pics from the handover so excited for you Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 332Jul 18, 2018 9:34 pm gr8ly arghh! we have so much to turf in our backyard. Should i start saving now? Really want to turf before we move in. meanwhile i will need to remember that grass haha! i have no idea with plants/grass/anything outside. You'll need to take some pics from the handover so excited for you We used our whole landscaping allowance just on upgraded turf. So $4000, we don’t have a lot of turfed area and that was upgraded through the company not through Valeco. My fiancé thinks we could have gotten it cheaper but it was just the convenience of getting it all done before. Yes definitely remember the soft leave buffalo! One of the turfs that stay green all year round with little maintenance, but it comes with the hefty price tag lol. I literally said hedges down the side of the driveway, and I like those purple leaf plants.. not sure what they are called, just make sure it’s low maintenance.. and that’s what we got given lol! We have plans for other plants later down the track so I didn’t see any point putting a lot of thought into it right now. Will definitely be spamming with an overload of pictures! Sorry not sorry lol! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 333Jul 19, 2018 9:37 pm how did handover go?!?!?!!! haha yeah time to start saving for luscious green grass now then. Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Estate 334Jul 23, 2018 10:07 am Wow! This weekend was a loooong one lol I am so exchausted and underestimated how big moving is! This was harder than moving from Sydney to the Gold Coast lol! So everything went great, couple of things trades are coming back for, electrician still needs to install the pendant lights and fans, carpenter for the towel ladder, painter for the letterbox and a door needs to be fixed. Other than that.. this house is already starting to feel like home! Just a couple of pictures, I’m not completely happy with furniture placement and haven’t yet chosen a “colour scheme”, everything is still quite messy but I tidied up a bit this morning lol 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 ⋅ Like ⋅ 1 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: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 337Jul 23, 2018 11:18 am Looks beautiful so far! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 338Jul 23, 2018 5:29 pm Your kitchen backsplash looks great! And I love the colour scheme of the bathroom. Now comes the fun part - decorating! Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 339Jul 23, 2018 8:25 pm love it! congratulations guys! you're in!! so good! that media room couch looks so comfy out of curiosity what gift did you get? haha Re: Our First Home - Building with Valeco in Brookhaven Esta 340Jul 29, 2018 9:44 am Congrats on the move. Agree that your kitchen splash back looks fantastic And we're finally moving forward! Trenches and plumbing in, should hopefully see a slab any day now. 9 33359 Can anyone give me any onfo on New Homes WA? Good or bad, hopefully good just need to know if my choice was good or not? Thanks ❤️ 0 9250 |