Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Metricon Vantage 48 (H&L) 18Sep 02, 2021 2:41 pm My advice with the Vantage 48 is to go to the display home and sit in the upstairs lounge room and listen while other people are walking around the house talking. The voids look absolutely beautiful and are the real feature of that house, but they are sound tunnels. There is a standard option to replace the dining void with a 5th bedroom, though. A couple of years ago IIRC the Stamford facade was in the +25k range. For our Merricks 42 house, with double-glazed windows and all Hebel construction, the 21 kW Actron system works well. At night with the heating off after 10pm in winter, the minimum house temperature was around 15C by 7am. In summer, it takes about 20 mins to cool the house to 23C when there are several rooms at 30C. Our electrical use (in average kWh/day, mostly in lockdown, all working from home all year) went from about 26 in January, to 15 in March, to 40 in July. Re: Looking at Metricon Vantage 48 (H&L) 20Sep 10, 2021 4:16 pm Thanks for your input everyone. Will hopefully have some good news to share re land in the coming weeks. We decided not to proceed with the H&L package as is.
The land was about $50k more while still in our budget didn't seem like good value. We missed out on a release in arguably a better area which was 117k-122k cheaper for the 450's and the 512's were 85k cheaper. Because of the easements despite being larger and wider block at 560m2 it had less effective building area and was shorter than the 450m2 blocks 30m vs 32. In addition there was a bout 15k in additional expenses. Corner lot treatment and BAL compliance. On goal to hit our savings target to unlock the rest of the funds but our funding is all approved. Still have a lot of research to do just about finding the right block now. Your best bet might be to go visit the display homes and walk around in them, and take photos. Get a feel for it in person instead of deciding from the floor plan. There… 1 21437 Hi, First of all, thank you to this community for sharing your thoughts and opinions. We are in early days of our pre-contract stage for Metricon Doulton and we are… 0 10749 Hello All 🙂 We are planning to start our journey of construction our first home. We zeroed down on Metricon and henley homes based on design suitable for our lot and… 0 8200 |