Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 85Aug 04, 2019 4:07 pm Ramee Another visit to see the new home and they have done some more work including some cabinetry fixing and waterproofing wet areas. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ master ensuite water proofing done Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also stair handrail stained Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Apart from that all the Skirting, Cornice, Architrave have been completed and I believe they are getting ready for painting soon. You are flying along! amazing!! Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 87Aug 05, 2019 12:39 am TimBone Beautiful home. If you don't mind how much did your build cost in total? Base price of the house was 370k but after upgrades and discounts etc because we had titled land it was around 430k Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 88Aug 05, 2019 12:47 am shokel1975 Ramee Another visit to see the new home and they have done some more work including some cabinetry fixing and waterproofing wet areas. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ master ensuite water proofing done Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also stair handrail stained Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Apart from that all the Skirting, Cornice, Architrave have been completed and I believe they are getting ready for painting soon. You are flying along! amazing!! Thanks! shokel1975, Yes next few weeks going to be most exciting/stressful .. lots of finishing things to do and lots of small things to keep our eyes out! Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 89Aug 05, 2019 11:26 am Looking good. Wow, that bathroom (or ensuite?) looks massive! I'm not sure we could even swing a cat around in ours, lol. Kitchen setup also looks nice and big, with heaps of pot drawers. My wife added some extra drawers into our kitchen...always amazes me how stingy builders are with their standard inclusion in terms of these. Looking at your fridge cavity got me thinking about standard heights. I think ours has been built at 1800mm height, which I personally think in this day & age should be closer to 1850 or 1900mm. Curious what your height is? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Check our Homeone build blog here Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 90Aug 05, 2019 11:59 am Ramee Another visit to see the new home and they have done some more work including some cabinetry fixing and waterproofing wet areas. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ master ensuite water proofing done Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Also stair handrail stained Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Apart from that all the Skirting, Cornice, Architrave have been completed and I believe they are getting ready for painting soon. Hi Ramee - all that work looks pretty impressive so far. Looks like all is going great for you. Just wondering if anyone has any experience trying to add a few powerpoints after framing stage? I think going through a variation will cost me too much - I think its $500 just to initiate variation so not worth it. I missed power points in WIR in the master but now think it would have been useful to have one there, and another near the staircase. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 91Aug 05, 2019 1:03 pm Roniel1517 Just wondering if anyone has any experience trying to add a few powerpoints after framing stage? I think going through a variation will cost me too much - I think its $500 just to initiate variation so not worth it. I missed power points in WIR in the master but now think it would have been useful to have one there, and another near the staircase. You're right. It is a fee to slow you down, but there is also extra work involved in making sure every variation is actioned & documented correctly. They won't just do things willy nilly. Definitely not worth it. I've seen & taken many approaches. But my advice to others is Do Not Mess with the system. You've chosen a volume builder, with a very tight system & schedule. Let them do what you've asked. Having said that, we're all human, and many of us might visit site on the rough-in & fitoff days, with some cash in our pocket for the tradie onsite. Take a LOT of photos of areas-of-interest in your home, directly before the wall batts go in, but ideally after all rough-ins are completed. But realistically, there are no spare days. Batts are the day after rough-ins complete. Once those batts are in, you'll see nothing in external walls. Once plaster is started, you'll be guessing for the life of the home. "stud detectors" are rubbish. And knocking on the wall is semi-useless. Try a laundry wall, with hot/cold/recycled/electrical, and entirely covered with braceboard... You won't find anything after plaster, and you'll play russian-roulette with spearing a nail/screw through one of those services. Try and be methodical, room for room. Even write the room name on a piece of paper, and take a photo of that before each group of photos. Photograph from a few angles. Note where the angle bracing is, electrical, comms, water... anything you need to know later. So when you ask a contractor later, you can show him what's in the wall for a fact (drawings are merely an aim/guide), and EXACTLY where they are. You'll both be confident, and the price won't involve a$$ covering. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 92Aug 05, 2019 2:03 pm CarnTheHawks Roniel1517 Just wondering if anyone has any experience trying to add a few powerpoints after framing stage? I think going through a variation will cost me too much - I think its $500 just to initiate variation so not worth it. I missed power points in WIR in the master but now think it would have been useful to have one there, and another near the staircase. You're right. It is a fee to slow you down, but there is also extra work involved in making sure every variation is actioned & documented correctly. They won't just do things willy nilly. Definitely not worth it. I've seen & taken many approaches. But my advice to others is Do Not Mess with the system. You've chosen a volume builder, with a very tight system & schedule. Let them do what you've asked. Having said that, we're all human, and many of us might visit site on the rough-in & fitoff days, with some cash in our pocket for the tradie onsite. Take a LOT of photos of areas-of-interest in your home, directly before the wall batts go in, but ideally after all rough-ins are completed. But realistically, there are no spare days. Batts are the day after rough-ins complete. Once those batts are in, you'll see nothing in external walls. Once plaster is started, you'll be guessing for the life of the home. "stud detectors" are rubbish. And knocking on the wall is semi-useless. Try a laundry wall, with hot/cold/recycled/electrical, and entirely covered with braceboard... You won't find anything after plaster, and you'll play russian-roulette with spearing a nail/screw through one of those services. Try and be methodical, room for room. Even write the room name on a piece of paper, and take a photo of that before each group of photos. Photograph from a few angles. Note where the angle bracing is, electrical, comms, water... anything you need to know later. So when you ask a contractor later, you can show him what's in the wall for a fact (drawings are merely an aim/guide), and EXACTLY where they are. You'll both be confident, and the price won't involve a$$ covering. CarntheHawks, mate, thank you so much for responding. It's very helpful. I'll make sure to take good photos of the two places - had so many things to go through on colour selection that I missed this until recently when I realised there was no powerpoint in WIR. Hopefully walking with cash works but it it doesn't, not much that can be done so will try to get it done later. Thanks again - really appreciate all your responses. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 93Aug 05, 2019 2:23 pm No worries at all. Everything changes with a double storey. Due to access issues with the subfloor. Cables aren't simply dropped down from above. They could be running through many studs, and/or zig-zagging to cross other services (not allowed to run closely in parallel. So you can't just pull/add them afterwards. It's 5min work to add a GPO back-to-back, if that works. Always the dream scenario. But builders should only charge around $50 to add one at contract stage, so not worth messing around. If you discretely offered a sparky $50 cash on the day, he'd probably take it. But then it also needs fitting off later. And it'll be a different sparky, who is going off the plans (or possible markings on the slab, if floor coverings aren't in yet). But if the next nearest GPO is on the opposite side of the room, you have a hassle on your hands. I've seen sparkies do some amazing tricks, zero damage. From special guns that shoot a string across a subfloor, to small dogs. But like every profession.... there are wizards, and there are lazy ********. We ARE talking volume building here. Everyone on site is paid THE MINIMUM. They make profit by smashing-out the work, and having no call-backs. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 94Aug 05, 2019 2:43 pm CarnTheHawks No worries at all. Everything changes with a double storey. Due to access issues with the subfloor. Cables aren't simply dropped down from above. They could be running through many studs, and/or zig-zagging to cross other services (not allowed to run closely in parallel. So you can't just pull/add them afterwards. It's 5min work to add a GPO back-to-back, if that works. Always the dream scenario. But builders should only charge around $50 to add one at contract stage, so not worth messing around. If you discretely offered a sparky $50 cash on the day, he'd probably take it. But then it also needs fitting off later. And it'll be a different sparky, who is going off the plans (or possible markings on the slab, if floor coverings aren't in yet). But if the next nearest GPO is on the opposite side of the room, you have a hassle on your hands. I've seen sparkies do some amazing tricks, zero damage. From special guns that shoot a string across a subfloor, to small dogs. But like every profession.... there are wizards, and there are lazy ********. We ARE talking volume building here. Everyone on site is paid THE MINIMUM. They make profit by smashing-out the work, and having no call-backs. Fantastic - in fact in both places, the GPO will be back-to-back, although one needs to be dropped down about 1 meter. The existing laundry GPO sits at about 1100mm and the GPO I want near the stairs would sit around 30mm from ground, but otherwise right behind the laundry wall and vertically parallel. The WIR is 100% back to back so fingers crossed, I can get that one sorted. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 95Aug 05, 2019 7:59 pm Roniel1517 Hi Ramee - all that work looks pretty impressive so far. Looks like all is going great for you. Just wondering if anyone has any experience trying to add a few powerpoints after framing stage? I think going through a variation will cost me too much - I think its $500 just to initiate variation so not worth it. I missed power points in WIR in the master but now think it would have been useful to have one there, and another near the staircase. Thanks! Roniel1517, If they are in upstairs it is not going to be a big issue I think because then it is basically like a single storey house you can wire above the ceiling. Re: Our first home build Sorrento 39 with Carlisle homes 96Aug 05, 2019 8:30 pm darb74 Looking good. Wow, that bathroom (or ensuite?) looks massive! I'm not sure we could even swing a cat around in ours, lol. Kitchen setup also looks nice and big, with heaps of pot drawers. My wife added some extra drawers into our kitchen...always amazes me how stingy builders are with their standard inclusion in terms of these. Looking at your fridge cavity got me thinking about standard heights. I think ours has been built at 1800mm height, which I personally think in this day & age should be closer to 1850 or 1900mm. Curious what your height is? Thanks! darb74, it is our ensuite, other bathroom is bit smaller! Our fridge cavity is 1900 x 1230 x 700 mm. Most of the refrigerators are 18xx or smaller so won't be an issue. Congrats. Will be watching this progress and interested to see how you go with summit. 12 34316 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 38508 Carlisle use to sneak a water resistant "Performance Solution" into their contracts. Have you checked your contract for same? 4 11314 |