Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 683Jan 20, 2019 9:47 pm Build thread [size=200]KDR RAWSON Benham 33 in hills area of Sydney[/size] Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 685Jan 23, 2019 9:46 am Build Thread: Building a Rawson Chifley 42 in Baulkham Hills NSW All progress photos on Google Photos: HERE Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 688Feb 17, 2019 9:29 am Hi, Who is building with Rawson home in bardia ,Edmondson park and what stage they are in ? Who is your site supervisor? 1)Building in Bardia -Brick roof,solar Penal done, Nathan is site supervisor Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 690Mar 19, 2019 6:26 pm The standard tender says 2 zones and one on at a time, which is normally one floor. 1 zone in 3 sounds fine. I think they get concerned if its one outlet, but wouldn't install it that way, presumably. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 691Mar 19, 2019 7:43 pm luxbuild The standard tender says 2 zones and one on at a time, which is normally one floor. 1 zone in 3 sounds fine. I think they get concerned if its one outlet, but wouldn't install it that way, presumably. cool! thank you! Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 692Mar 19, 2019 8:04 pm NDDreamHome JiMb00 Hi Nirban, Just wondering how you have found Macro as I don't think Andy wasn't too happy with their service and it's always helpful to get a few different opinions. After a delay due to the Christmas shutdown we're hopefully about to hand over our site to Rawson and start construction and I want to make sure I have an inspector I can trust arranged for inspections at each stage so would love to hear how you have found Macro or if there were any other inspection companies you considered. Did you get inspections before each payment stage (eg. slab, frame, brickwork, internal, fix out, PCI) or just at PCI ? Cheers, James. Hi James, Macro only does 2 inspections - Pre-lining (frame, brick), and PCI. I was not too happy with pre-lining as he completed the whole $600 inspection in one hour or less, however he found some important ones, and I am happy with the PCI inspection. Overall, I am OK with Stephen (Macro), some of his findings has led me to find similar issues. I am more unhappy with Rawson than Macro to be honest. After my pre-lining inspection, what they did was pretty cheap, they hurried up and put the Lining within a day, without even confirming me that they worked on those issues. So, basically, I could not verify some of the frame issues as they were covered and I am sure they did not fix those. The seemingly smart SS got caught when I asked him "when did you fix the issues?", as I sent him Inspection report at 7 am on Saturday and he replied on around 12 noon on the same day, saying the issues were fixed and there was no tradies on site on that day. So, what you need to do, is stop them from putting the Lining before they fix all Frame issues and you validate them. Cheers, ND Hi ND May I know who is your SS . If it is OK for you. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 693Apr 11, 2019 11:42 am Finally it’s approaching PCA. However just noticed there is no cover for balcony which is made of timber bars. Wondering if wood could last long with exposure to both sunshine and rain! Does anybody has same concern as me? Thx. Best regards Andy Build thread [size=200]KDR RAWSON Benham 33 in hills area of Sydney[/size] Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 694Apr 11, 2019 11:43 am Build thread [size=200]KDR RAWSON Benham 33 in hills area of Sydney[/size] Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 696Apr 11, 2019 12:07 pm Thank you for your advice. I understand painting could help it a little bit but may not resolve the problem. Yep, the step is really too narrow. Also tiny washing basin in bathroom may disappoint you! Build thread [size=200]KDR RAWSON Benham 33 in hills area of Sydney[/size] Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 697Apr 17, 2019 7:43 pm Just a question have any of you guys managed to negotiate tender expiry fees? Ours expired at the end of Nov 2018 (we signed in May 2018 ) back then when we asked they mentioned as long as you don't hold anything up and keep it rolling management generally let it slide. Our land was registered late nov early dec by memory (took longer then expected as alway!) then it took until Feb to get plans to council, which after almost two months finally got approval last week. We received a tender variation today for $7500, as it had lapsed in Nov 2018, and the fee will ensure its covered until the end of May 2019... I'm a tad dissapointed TBH its a huge chunk of $ even though I know there's probably nothing we can do.. Rawson had a few issues along the way with plans not being quite right, waiting for them to draft plans etc for council so I dont feel as though we've been 100% the reason behind any delays caused thus inconveniencing rawsons? Does anyone have any experience, or words of wisdom finding themselves in a similar scenario? Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 698Apr 17, 2019 8:10 pm ourrawsonbalmoral38 Just a question have any of you guys managed to negotiate tender expiry fees? Ours expired at the end of Nov 2018 (we signed in May 2018 ) back then when we asked they mentioned as long as you don't hold anything up and keep it rolling management generally let it slide. Our land was registered late nov early dec by memory (took longer then expected as alway!) then it took until Feb to get plans to council, which after almost two months finally got approval last week. We received a tender variation today for $7500, as it had lapsed in Nov 2018, and the fee will ensure its covered until the end of May 2019... I'm a tad dissapointed TBH its a huge chunk of $ even though I know there's probably nothing we can do.. Rawson had a few issues along the way with plans not being quite right, waiting for them to draft plans etc for council so I dont feel as though we've been 100% the reason behind any delays caused thus inconveniencing rawsons? Does anyone have any experience, or words of wisdom finding themselves in a similar scenario? We had the same thing, we got our contract the week after our tender expired along with a 6k increase and we hadn’t even got through council at that stage. We did question it and even had emails from them during the tender process apologising for delays caused by them but it was tough it’s part of the process. We didn’t end building with them. Good luck Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 699Apr 18, 2019 11:24 am Melos ourrawsonbalmoral38 Just a question have any of you guys managed to negotiate tender expiry fees? Ours expired at the end of Nov 2018 (we signed in May 2018 ) back then when we asked they mentioned as long as you don't hold anything up and keep it rolling management generally let it slide. Our land was registered late nov early dec by memory (took longer then expected as alway!) then it took until Feb to get plans to council, which after almost two months finally got approval last week. We received a tender variation today for $7500, as it had lapsed in Nov 2018, and the fee will ensure its covered until the end of May 2019... I'm a tad dissapointed TBH its a huge chunk of $ even though I know there's probably nothing we can do.. Rawson had a few issues along the way with plans not being quite right, waiting for them to draft plans etc for council so I dont feel as though we've been 100% the reason behind any delays caused thus inconveniencing rawsons? Does anyone have any experience, or words of wisdom finding themselves in a similar scenario? We had the same thing, we got our contract the week after our tender expired along with a 6k increase and we hadn’t even got through council at that stage. We did question it and even had emails from them during the tender process apologising for delays caused by them but it was tough it’s part of the process. We didn’t end building with them. Good luck Hmm yeah it's certainly a tad disappointing I must admit, it puts a dampener on things and I can totally understand why someone like yourself would walk away. We'd been advised when signing the contract by our sales adviser as long as you keep the ball rolling so to speak, and be punctual with signing variations etc management will look favorably on you and you wont incur tender expiry fees. The thing that's disappointing is that they waited until the last minute then slapped down a tender expiry bill, rather then being upfront from the start that it had expired from here on out you'll incur a $1250 fee for every month its late. I would have pushed them a lot harder to get their plans revisions done in a more prompt manner (a few drafting mistakes from their end) From previous experiences Rawson have been approachable and negotiable on prior issues, hopefully we can negotiate this fee.. Re: Rawson Homes - General Thread 700Apr 20, 2019 2:56 pm [quote="Melos":7aad1wx2][quote="ourrawsonbalmoral38":7aad1wx2]Just a question have any of you guys managed to negotiate tender expiry fees? Ours expired at the end of Nov 2018 (we signed in May 2018 ) back then when we asked they mentioned as long as you don't hold anything up and keep it rolling management generally let it slide. Our land was registered late nov early dec by memory (took longer then expected as alway!) then it took until Feb to get plans to council, which after almost two months finally got approval last week. We received a tender variation today for $7500, as it had lapsed in Nov 2018, and the fee will ensure its covered until the end of May 2019... I'm a tad dissapointed TBH its a huge chunk of $ even though I know there's probably nothing we can do.. Rawson had a few issues along the way with plans not being quite right, waiting for them to draft plans etc for council so I dont feel as though we've been 100% the reason behind any delays caused thus inconveniencing rawsons? Does anyone have any experience, or words of wisdom finding themselves in a similar scenario?[/quote:7aad1wx2][/quote:7aad1wx2] We had the same thing, we got our contract the week after our tender expired along with a 6k increase and we hadn’t even got through council at that stage. We did question it and even had emails from them during the tender process apologising for delays caused by them but it was tough it’s part of the process. We didn’t end building with them. Good You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14742 Just started the Build process for Chifley 42 with Rawson homes, will keep you all posted with the Build progress. 0 3577 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 12666 |