Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Oct 23, 2018 1:28 pm Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: Rawson Homes & The Life Style Store - Any feeback? 6Oct 23, 2018 9:45 pm Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: Rawson Homes & The Life Style Store - Any feeback? 7Oct 23, 2018 9:56 pm JiMb00 Thanks for the replies guys, "glad" to see I'm not alone and that it's just the "Rawson Experience" ā¦ safety in numbers right? I will have to put some more updates on our build thread as we've had some really fun times since my last updates dealing with our Pre-Construction Administrator at Rawson, Simone B. Anyone else get her? Never get calls returned, she always seems to leave the office around 4pm, have to call to speak with her manager to get a response, emails with very clear requests and detailed diagrams get ignored or misunderstood, fun times. Our Plan Presenter Ashleigh K was pretty good, but things went down hill from there. It's amazing how many things / measurements can change on updated versions of your plans without any logical reason, and then when you bring this to their attention they try to make out it didn't happen or "oh mistakes happen" or that it's not a big deal. Hang on, you're asking me to sign off on something you then want to hold me to, but it's ok if it's wrong? I'm sure if we didn't pick up the errors until down the track they would want to charge the fee's for making changes after signing off, etc. But I digress, back to the Life Style Store, got in touch with Brendan this afternoon but not before he had called my work line back and didn't leave a message. So I called him back and left another message and then he called back again. I'll never understand people's inability to leave a voicemail, if you don't leave a message how do I know who you are or why you're calling?! He has sent through a stripped back pre-wiring only quote but there are still things on there I'm really wondering about, I mean $700-800 for a single HDMI cable!? There's a sucker born every day but I think for that I might just get Rawson to install a conduit as I'll use pre-made cables so no worries about having to be licenced, etc. Definitely think it's worth it to get them to put things like the speaker wiring in for the in-ceiling speakers we want in various rooms, pre-wiring for electric door latch, intercom, etc, but some of the hardware "brains" costs for the Control 4 stuff and speakers seems over the top so at this stage it will really just be committing to the pre wiring until we find out what is happening with the Mrs job options. This reads like I wrote it. š¤š. Same experience with Rawson. Donāt remember if I said it before but they are in breach of contract for our job. They also came back with a heap of changes put down to ābuilding constraintsā. Iām filthy now because they reduced our alfresco size by something ridiculous and we questioned it but never got an answer. Then we got side tracked and forgot about it. Anyway, glad old mate got back to you. Re: Rawson Homes & The Life Style Store - Any feeback? 8Oct 29, 2018 1:56 am I'm not suprised your alfresco query could get lost in the process, as when you know the plans are wrong but they want you to sign off for now, as it will get addressed at a later stage. So then you've got to make sure it really can be changed without cost later (be paranoid, confirm it in writing), and that you remember to bring it up again at the appropriate time. They really make sure you know about the "$450 + $600 change fee", but it's not clear when it applies. Fingers crossed we haven't run afoul of this yet. I'd really prefer that each time something is signed off, it's correct as it can be, not "its ok for now, and that will get updated at another appointment" and trusting that what you've been told is true after you've met your sixth Rawson person in the pipeline. You should pressure clean your roof first and make sure the paint you buy also is anti mould. 4 21176 Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 3548 The Dulux colour consultants are awesome. If you show them the photos they should be able to figure it out for you straight away 1 1956 |