Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 412Sep 04, 2018 12:45 pm we started a single story the same time, first week in June 2018. Gyprocking is almost done and should be locked up by the end of the week, if not early next week. We are in Oran Park. The build has flown along, and my wife and I are super happy with our site supervisor, and the process so far. The selections seem a little immature compared to bigger builders, but besides that we have been super happy. Not too many issues along the way either. Site supervisor did say that tiling has been holding a lot of his builds up, so we are hoping this will not be the case for us so we can be in by early November 600 porcelain came back a lot less that some doom mongers put in my head, was expecting a 20k quote from some of the feedback I had received, however, it was about 7k to upgrade to 600x600 porcelain. Mind you - the majority of that came from labour, $60 a m2 Just thought I would add the tile part in so people have an idea for tiles. it does suck that they put that process near the end with financing etc, i think they will probably lose potential money doing it this way because people cannot build it into their mortgage. We knew (from here) before hand so kept money aside from the sale of our house. Funny thing was, the same tiles that we look at in March were still there 2 weeks ago when we had to pick haha. Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 415Sep 14, 2018 2:49 pm kazihoque We are building the Grantham design with Firstyle. Construction started in early June 18. Slab and frame was completed in no time. However, bricking is taking a long time with weeks of inactivity in between. Any idea how long bricking and subsequent stages roughly takes? It's annoying because they started another double storey house near us just a week before ours and that had already roof completed in mid August. hi kazihouque there is a shortage of bricklayers it took firstyle 4 months to brick our two story we started in Jan 18 only just up to gyp rocking now .our house was meant to be complete in October now looking at early next year or Christmas if we are lucky . we are building in riverstone nsw firstyle are incredibly slow with two storeys Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 416Sep 14, 2018 2:55 pm Ouch, it took roughly a week I think from frame being finished to being completely bricked. We are in Oran Park and there are soooooooo many Firstyle homes in here. markandsam kazihoque We are building the Grantham design with Firstyle. Construction started in early June 18. Slab and frame was completed in no time. However, bricking is taking a long time with weeks of inactivity in between. Any idea how long bricking and subsequent stages roughly takes? It's annoying because they started another double storey house near us just a week before ours and that had already roof completed in mid August. hi kazihouque there is a shortage of bricklayers it took firstyle 4 months to brick our two story we started in Jan 18 only just up to gyp rocking now .our house was meant to be complete in October now looking at early next year or Christmas if we are lucky . we are building in riverstone nsw firstyle are incredibly slow with two storeys Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 417Sep 16, 2018 10:03 am Hello All, We are new to this forum and about to put down a holding deposit for a H & L package with Firstyle in Edmondson Park (EP), we choose Keswick 19.5. We spoke to different builders at EP, but found Firstyle package fit our budget most, also found Warren to be more accommodating with our request. Land is said to be registered in October, but builder cannot confirm the timeframe in Oct 2018. Does anyone have delay in land registration in EP and how long is the delay? What is your overall experience with Firstyle? How is their communication and how quick do they resolve any issues occurred? How much do you have to upgrade from the basic inclusion? We do have the $32,000 style upgrade from Firstyle. It's great we found this forum, for sure I will have a lot more questions from now on, thanks Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 418Sep 16, 2018 4:03 pm Hi MaxAT, your situation is similar to ours, we signed in June 2017 with the land waiting to be registered. The firstyle sales told us it would register soon, finally late sept it registered. Previously to this we asked them about the increase in build costs clause, something like 2% if you dont start building within 6 minths or so, they told us this wouldnt be a problem and they would waive a few weeks if the build was delayed. Surprise surprise they charged us for the delay even though it was not our fault, even threatened us for delaying the build by arguing with them about it. If you can get this clause removed or something in writing that they wont charge for delays with the land registration. Apart from that our build has gone ok I guess, a couple of little things needed fixing with our frame and slab, we have housespect doing our stage inspections and so glad we had them as firstyle tried to fob us off on a couple of things that needed fixing as they werent to aus standard. Good luck with your build anyway. Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 419Sep 18, 2018 7:26 pm MaxAT Hello All, We are new to this forum and about to put down a holding deposit for a H & L package with Firstyle in Edmondson Park (EP), we choose Keswick 19.5. We spoke to different builders at EP, but found Firstyle package fit our budget most, also found Warren to be more accommodating with our request. Land is said to be registered in October, but builder cannot confirm the timeframe in Oct 2018. Does anyone have delay in land registration in EP and how long is the delay? What is your overall experience with Firstyle? How is their communication and how quick do they resolve any issues occurred? How much do you have to upgrade from the basic inclusion? We do have the $32,000 style upgrade from Firstyle. It's great we found this forum, for sure I will have a lot more questions from now on, thanks Hi Max, Congrats on your build and welcome! Suggestion would be to talk to your sales consultant and request your sunset clause be extended out of courtesy for 3 additional months, taking it to 6 months total. I was able to do this and Head Office approved. This will help you in regards to having to pay as little as possible if your land doesnt selttle in time. With all developers it will differ, mine settled on time so no issues and didn't need the extra 3 months. I'm around 20 days away from we earth works. My overall experience thus far has been good to date, however you need to stay ontop of everything and keep good records (tip record dates of all key actions) and you won't lose track. In relation to upgrades you could spend anywhere from 30-100k, it really depends the overall finish you are after. If you are after a quality finish, you should budget 50-80k colours and 10k electricals. All the best! Re: Any experiences with Firstyle homes 420Oct 12, 2018 7:15 pm Hi All, Just starting my home building Journey with FS, on the verge of signing the contract with the appointments for color selection and electrical to come. I'm going through some late variations and was wondering if anyone went with the standard offering for the bathroom and then upgraded to floor to ceiling tiling after handover. Is it worth it doing at a a later time? Thank you in Advance. Hi Kaiser85, We are building with Firstyle Homes. Our build has just started, slab pour is on Saturday (hopefully!). Their standard range is pretty good. We did our… 1 6515 You have mandatory building inspections and privately engaged building inspections. The difference between the two comes down to inspecting the building so it's safe and… 3 18118 Ask for references and speak to them. If they are defensive or try to avoid the request, walk. 1 74920 |