Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 29Aug 09, 2018 1:29 pm MikeW sco77k sorry to hear that mate. hopefully they start soon. Have they given any dates for when it may start? Hi Scott, have you moved into your new house? Hi Mike, This Saturday! how is everything progressing for you? Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 30Aug 09, 2018 3:58 pm sco77k MikeW sco77k sorry to hear that mate. hopefully they start soon. Have they given any dates for when it may start? Hi Scott, have you moved into your new house? Hi Mike, This Saturday! how is everything progressing for you? Congratulations!!! We are waiting for render to start. Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 31Nov 05, 2018 2:54 pm Hi Mikew & sco77k I am too looking at building with Cherteston homes. They are one of the builders we have short listed and just currently working through who to go with and who can get most of what we want done with in our budget. Can you share any more details on your build? How is the builder and site supervisor? Are they easy to deal with? do you get regular updates from them? Are they flexible with small changes to plan? how is the build quality? Any pictures of your build is greatly appreciated. Im keen to see the progress or the finish product. If you have posted already in another post please share a link. Thanks Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 32Nov 14, 2018 7:59 am Hondo Hi Mikew & sco77k I am too looking at building with Cherteston homes. They are one of the builders we have short listed and just currently working through who to go with and who can get most of what we want done with in our budget. Can you share any more details on your build? How is the builder and site supervisor? Are they easy to deal with? do you get regular updates from them? Are they flexible with small changes to plan? how is the build quality? Any pictures of your build is greatly appreciated. Im keen to see the progress or the finish product. If you have posted already in another post please share a link. Thanks Hi Hondo, Sorry for my late reply. We are building house with Charleston and now is in the lock up stage. Charleston has weekly update on the process and we can get feedback from Charleston very quickly. Since the house hasn't been completed, I am not able to comment on quality and will give you update next year. Regards, Mike Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 35Jan 09, 2019 10:09 pm Hi guys we have just received our council approvals to build with Charleston Homes. I have been reading about some of your experiences which is great and will prepare us for what’s to come. We are just waiting to receive our final contract for sign off but feel that the variations are really starting to add up. I would appreciate if anyone can provide any guidance on what to expect in terms of being able to negotiate on some of these points or just generally share their experiences in this regard. We are now close to $1.6m (without electrical or landscaping) and no basement with a level block of land with little slope. Cheers Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 36Jan 09, 2019 11:22 pm Manishq, how big is the house? $1.6M is a lot of money, especially, when building industry in NSW is about start its downfall (and probably within 6-12 months you will be able to negotiate some significant discounts). Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 37Jan 10, 2019 7:21 am Wow, for $1.6m you must be building an absolute monster house with very high spec upgrades. This is a full custom build? Not one of their standard designs? Can you provide anymore details - plans, inclusions etc. Thanks Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 38Jan 10, 2019 8:20 am alexp79 Manishq, how big is the house? $1.6M is a lot of money, especially, when building industry in NSW is about start its downfall (and probably within 6-12 months you will be able to negotiate some significant discounts). I agree alexp79 that’s sound advice. The house is just under 60sq. Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 39Jan 10, 2019 8:26 am cag57 Wow, for $1.6m you must be building an absolute monster house with very high spec upgrades. This is a full custom build? Not one of their standard designs? Can you provide anymore details - plans, inclusions etc. Thanks Hi cag57 house is about 60sq we started with getting a quote for about $1.2m (INC site costs) but subsequently had seen the variations really add up. Design is still based on their display home albeit changed interior plan slightly. We decided to upgrade to go full brick downstairs with concrete slab and not take their vinyl instead opted for timber floors. Did you receive an initial quote from them? Re: Charleston Homes - anyone worked with them? 40Jan 10, 2019 8:37 am Hi Manishg, that is a very big house. We haven't got any concrete pricing from them yet as we are still deciding between a few builders before we go to tender. Based on your numbers your coming in over $2500 per sqm. This seems very high based on the talk from their sales staff we've had so far. We seem to be looking at about $2000 per sqm, but perhaps I haven't delved too much into the variations yet so it could go up with an actual tender. From the 2 or 3 we have short listed the build we are looking at would come in around $800,000 for 40sq with upgrades, but as I said maybe I'm missing things that'll pop up in an actual tender. I haven’t. But have a Lowe Design home. Not only did I find Matt Lowe patronising and a bully, but the home is NOT TO CODE. I have water coming through the bricks… 1 15463 Hi everyone. I am a single mother with little daughter, living in a small tourist town in WA Australia. I am thinking to install security screens to all the doors and… 0 33172 Wish you all the best. Once you signed the contract, they will find millions excuses to charge you. And have seen their sites unfinished for a long time. 4 25706 |