Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11162Aug 30, 2018 9:40 am SKND10 Hi guys, Does anyone know if Coral provide us with a occupancy certificate or if we have to do this ourselves? I tried council but they said to speak to the private certifier as they issued our construction certificate..... But I've never been in contact with them so now I am a bit confused. I thought the contract says Coral don't provide one.... Coral and the certifier should be arranging this for you post-handover. Depending on the clauses of the DA or CDC, they may issue an interim occupancy certificate. usually because a driveway needs to be constructed. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11163Sep 05, 2018 5:51 pm Hey everyone. Keen to know how this compares.... I just had a cabinet maker who runs a very successful business in Sydney, provide a scathing inspection and review of my kitchen. I didn’t show him my ‘laundry chute’ (ie hole in the floor) as I didn’t want to me him cry. I knew about a fair bit of this stuff- I’m just overwhelmed with the amount of sh!t in this house that is defective or poor workmanship. However I would argue they have failed to exercise proper and reasonable care in building my house. Drawers don’t fully extend Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ White bottoms used on overheads and rubbish finish Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Love how the rangehood has been installed Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Can see the white melamine through Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Panels don’t meet the roof and damage to wall Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Poor installation of kickboard Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also, he pulled out some drawers and they are only held in with 4 screws total. Coral used Claytons Kitchens for my job. How does this compare to your finishes? M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11164Sep 11, 2018 10:31 am Hi guys, We just had our soil testing done and was wondering if they show you the report or just put the results on your tender? They have the results but are reluctant to tell us what it came back as until they do the tender Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11165Sep 11, 2018 10:35 am Kevinmarques89 Hi guys, We just had our soil testing done and was wondering if they show you the report or just put the results on your tender? They have the results but are reluctant to tell us what it came back as until they do the tender Your sales consultant should have the results. Ask them to email them to you. Our Coral Sales Consultant emailed ours as soon as he had them. They are your results and you have paid for them. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11166Sep 11, 2018 10:52 am Get your own report done while you wait. If yours is worse, then give to the builder and they will probably use yours. I had 3 different soil testers and got 3 different results. H1,H2 and E class. I took the E class test to my builder. Cheers Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11167Sep 11, 2018 11:30 am bestspecials mpricecs For those building with the St Kilda facade option. To our disappointment we were advised at our colour appointment that the batten material (EKOLOGIX Screening) used on the facade only comes in 3 colours - Red Rock, Dark Brown and Silver Ash. We initially thought it was timber in basically any colour. We were advised last week, that Silver Ash was no longer available leaving only 2 colours - neither which fit into our colour scheme. It appears timber or painted timber will cost more, but seems to be taking a while to find out how much more. A new EKOLOGIX colour that has been around for a long while - Greystone was not offered and Coral have advised us it is not available in the size they use, although the manufacturers suggest otherwise. This is a disappointing outcome for what I think is one of Corals premier facade options. We chose the Red Rock with Merbau stain for the front door, but that is the colour we were looking for. We are also building with the st kilda facade and too were so disspapintd to find out there was onbly two colours. A red and a brown. We wanted a honey blonde colour. We thought it was timber too and now are struggling to match our door colour. We think we will just have to choose out of the two as we are going to match it to the eko decking. Also i hav eheard horror stories of the timber stained slats running and staining the render. Also they can rot in weather. The plastic slats are great, but why only 2 colours Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11168Sep 13, 2018 5:54 pm Hi, currently building the Boston 38. Has anybody used stegbar to provide a basic WIR solution? We have already deleted out the standard shelves and we’re going to go with a basic IKEA PAX but keen to hear if anyone has used Stegbar and has some ball park prices. Approx 5mt Long strait WIR Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11170Sep 14, 2018 8:41 pm MrsJM Hey everyone. Keen to know how this compares.... I just had a cabinet maker who runs a very successful business in Sydney, provide a scathing inspection and review of my kitchen. I didn’t show him my ‘laundry chute’ (ie hole in the floor) as I didn’t want to me him cry. I knew about a fair bit of this stuff- I’m just overwhelmed with the amount of sh!t in this house that is defective or poor workmanship. However I would argue they have failed to exercise proper and reasonable care in building my house. Drawers don’t fully extend Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ White bottoms used on overheads and rubbish finish Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Love how the rangehood has been installed Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Can see the white melamine through Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Panels don’t meet the roof and damage to wall Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Poor installation of kickboard Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also, he pulled out some drawers and they are only held in with 4 screws total. Coral used Claytons Kitchens for my job. How does this compare to your finishes? Hope this is of some help Regards Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11171Sep 18, 2018 3:55 pm Hello, does anyone know the rough cost of upgrading our tiles to a 600x600 rectified edge porcelain tile for the main and a rectified 600x300 for the bathrooms and laundry? We also have the free $2999 carpet and tile upgrade. Just looking for a rough figure to upgrade to these tiles and espcielaly the extra laying cost for rectified Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11172Sep 18, 2018 5:44 pm Rhani89 Hello, does anyone know the rough cost of upgrading our tiles to a 600x600 rectified edge porcelain tile for the main and a rectified 600x300 for the bathrooms and laundry? We also have the free $2999 carpet and tile upgrade. Just looking for a rough figure to upgrade to these tiles and espcielaly the extra laying cost for rectified Hi Rhani we've just done our tiles selection and we chose 600x600 rectified tiles for all main, bathrooms and laundry, all up is about $2800 extra. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11173Sep 18, 2018 5:47 pm Marcoola32_GC Rhani89 Hello, does anyone know the rough cost of upgrading our tiles to a 600x600 rectified edge porcelain tile for the main and a rectified 600x300 for the bathrooms and laundry? We also have the free $2999 carpet and tile upgrade. Just looking for a rough figure to upgrade to these tiles and espcielaly the extra laying cost for rectified Hi Rhani we've just done our tiles selection and we chose 600x600 rectified tiles for all main, bathrooms and laundry, all up is about $2800 extra. Thanks so much. $2800 extra to the allowance? Or $2800 extra just for the rectified? How much all up for your tiles if you don’t mind me asking Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11174Sep 18, 2018 7:44 pm Rhani89 Marcoola32_GC Rhani89 Hello, does anyone know the rough cost of upgrading our tiles to a 600x600 rectified edge porcelain tile for the main and a rectified 600x300 for the bathrooms and laundry? We also have the free $2999 carpet and tile upgrade. Just looking for a rough figure to upgrade to these tiles and espcielaly the extra laying cost for rectified Hi Rhani we've just done our tiles selection and we chose 600x600 rectified tiles for all main, bathrooms and laundry, all up is about $2800 extra. Thanks so much. $2800 extra to the allowance? Or $2800 extra just for the rectified? How much all up for your tiles if you don’t mind me asking Hi Rhani. Actually that was just the main living area (85m2) and yes that was extra, that is over and above whatever Coral's included pricing covered in the promotion we chose. Bear in mind that the tile we chose was the majestic ivory from National tiles and was selling at about $25m2. Looking at the builders range this was about the same price per m2 so we think that the extra was really just for the laying. So it worked out to be about an extra $32m2 over and above. In our laundry and wet areas we predominantly used a more expensive rectified tile, about $40m2 and these areas (52m2) averaged out at $48m2 over and above for the tile and the laying. So you can see that if you look at the difference in the tile price ($15) the m2 rate is about the same. So we reckon the extra laying price of the rectified tiles was in fact about $32m2. So if you find a rectified tile that is $50m2 our estimations would suggest that you would be up for $50-$25+$32=$57m2 extra for tile and laying. This was our scenario. We're not sure exactly how Coral work out their internal allowances, maybe different promos are calculated differently but we doubt it. So this should be a reasonably accurate guide to use. Hope that helps! Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11175Sep 25, 2018 7:10 pm Hi guys I need some advice about corals visual termite barrier and the yearly check. Is it worth it? They have picked up that our driveway is covering the visual and we need to rectify to keep our warranty. Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11176Sep 25, 2018 7:19 pm MrsJM Thanks for all the tips regarding the termite barrier! Much appreciated! Now if I could only remember to take a photo of the sticker under the sink as Ryalls suggested, so I could remember the name of the company to call! The driveway goes down on Monday and the stringlines are up to show levels.... but I am a bit worried as it looks like the side path is going to totally encase the visual barrier.... is this still okay so long as I get someone to come and spray or whatever they do? I let my husband talk to the ss before handover about the termites... i think I was off wiping out cupboards.... and as much as I love him... i shouldn't have left him to deal with such important stuff! He can't remember anything he was told! What was your outcome with this MrsJM Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11177Sep 25, 2018 7:22 pm Ryalls_first_build MrsJM Thanks for all the tips regarding the termite barrier! Much appreciated! Now if I could only remember to take a photo of the sticker under the sink as Ryalls suggested, so I could remember the name of the company to call! The driveway goes down on Monday and the stringlines are up to show levels.... but I am a bit worried as it looks like the side path is going to totally encase the visual barrier.... is this still okay so long as I get someone to come and spray or whatever they do? I let my husband talk to the ss before handover about the termites... i think I was off wiping out cupboards.... and as much as I love him... i shouldn't have left him to deal with such important stuff! He can't remember anything he was told! Ours totally covers it, i believe that the foam thing will compensate for the lack of visual barrier. Im not 100% but the termite people spoke to our concreters about how they were doing it and there were no issues. I 'think' so long as your weep holes are left exposed your ok. Might be wrong and in that case im stuffed lol Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We had our yearly inspection today and have been told we need to cut out our driveway on the edges to expose the termite barrier. How have you gone with it Ryalls? Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11178Sep 26, 2018 10:23 am Hi all Building with coral. Just wondering, has anyone tried swapping the kitchen appliances to something else? I've been advised that I cannot source my own appliances and must go through coral which they then source it from Harvey norman commercial. There is a significant mark up on its price going through them. What have you been told in regards to this? Thanks Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11179Sep 26, 2018 10:24 am I should add that this a recent contract so perhaps it might be a recent change? Re: Coral Homes general build thread 11180Sep 26, 2018 11:11 am H Family MrsJM Thanks for all the tips regarding the termite barrier! Much appreciated! Now if I could only remember to take a photo of the sticker under the sink as Ryalls suggested, so I could remember the name of the company to call! The driveway goes down on Monday and the stringlines are up to show levels.... but I am a bit worried as it looks like the side path is going to totally encase the visual barrier.... is this still okay so long as I get someone to come and spray or whatever they do? I let my husband talk to the ss before handover about the termites... i think I was off wiping out cupboards.... and as much as I love him... i shouldn't have left him to deal with such important stuff! He can't remember anything he was told! What was your outcome with this MrsJM We had to get termite mesh installed before the concrete was poured. Didn’t cost too much but was told my warrant would be void without it. Also had to get it around the alfresco before the deck was built. Trying to book in my second annual inspection to maintain the warranty but you need to book them ages in advance and they need internal access so it’s just impossible. But yeah probably worthwhile doing if you want to keep your warranty alive. M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14099 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. 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