Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 9Mar 07, 2009 7:30 am http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 11May 06, 2009 8:47 pm http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 12May 06, 2009 8:54 pm Samantha Building the Leabrook by Statesman at Freeling My Thread - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15237 We are now in our house!! Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 13May 06, 2009 10:44 pm Building the Delamere (Modified) at North Haven Contract Signed - 30/04/09 Council Plan Consent - 09/09/09 OK to Start Date - 09/10/09 Demolition completed - 13/10/09 Slab Poured - 28/10/09 Frame up - 16/11/09 http://ourfirstbuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 14May 08, 2009 9:39 pm Samantha Building the Leabrook by Statesman at Freeling My Thread - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15237 We are now in our house!! Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 15May 09, 2009 9:54 am http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 17May 09, 2009 12:16 pm http://buildingatfreeling.blogspot.com/ Building at Freeling Estate Adelaide MKII WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY FIRST HOME OWNERS AND WE BUILT A NEW HOME FROM SCRATCH Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 18May 10, 2009 11:30 pm Thanks for that. We have started the boxing up of all of our stuff. It is going to be a monumental task as we have 20 years worth of stuff accumulated. At least we have a huge shed, in which the majority of our stuff will be stored. Our living arrangements will be at the mother-in-laws house (and living in our caravan), at least she has a big house and we will be using her spare room as a lounge and we have our own bathroom. It will be an interesting time. We are now in the process of getting quotes to have the house demolished. Hubby has started already, he put a hole in the hallway door today getting a cabinet out of the spare room. (lol) Building the Delamere (Modified) at North Haven Contract Signed - 30/04/09 Council Plan Consent - 09/09/09 OK to Start Date - 09/10/09 Demolition completed - 13/10/09 Slab Poured - 28/10/09 Frame up - 16/11/09 http://ourfirstbuild.blogspot.com/ Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 19May 17, 2009 5:01 pm craigandamy exactly what sammy said... dont be in a rush!!! We signed on the 25th Jan Signed contract back from Statesman on the 19th Feb (had to push for this) Master plans received around mid March Footings report mid april Selections just done I just re-read your post and actually absorbed it. We signed on the 25th of Jan also. We havn't even gotten our engineers report, we only got our master plans two weeks ago!. As stated we are pushing them to get the engineers report done so we can get our loan finalised. It has been two weeks, so I emailed them and asked how it was going. Quote: Thank you for your email. I have followed up with our council department regarding the receipt of your engineer construction footing report and have been advised that is due to be received by us in approximately 2 weeks. Once this has been received it will then be costed and variations completed. Once this has been done it will be posted out to you. I was like WTF!!!!! We don't have two weeks, I rang and told her that we only had until the 28th of May at the absolute latest so as to give the bank time to do there thing. I am sooooo angry with them, sooooooo angry. Our sales consultant said 3 weeks master plan, 3 weeks footings report. It's been 3 months!! I was talking to another builder at the display village, he said that they use the same engineers as Statesman and that they have been getting there footings reports done in a few days, because the engineers are getting paid pennies they have been putting Statesman reports to the bottom of the pile!! Arrgghhh. Going to be making a few more insistent phone calls on Monday I can tell you. Re: Building with Statesman? Would you be my pacing partner? 20May 18, 2009 4:30 pm Hi There, We are building with statesman also, the Adelaide MKII with a fair bit of mods, we have 2.5acres. I agree with the other posters that the admin side of statesman is really slow. We would get letters dated 2 weeks prior! We didnt even ever get our footings report in the mail we ended up getting it at selections after we got a letter saying why hadnt we booked in yet (duhhh cos you havent sent me the report). We did have a long Christmas break in that time i think it was about 4-6 weeks. I dont have all my paperwork here at the moment but here is my rough timeline: Building Contract Signed: 12/11/08 Building Contract Signed by builder: 27/02/09 Colour Selections: 24/3/09 Final Council Approval: 31/4/09 Finance Approval: 1/5/09 - This was our fault it took so long OK to start date: 1/5/09 Slab cut and trenches dug: 8/5/09 Plastic Plumbing, Mesh: 13/5/09 Cement Poured: 14/5/09 So it only took 2 weeks from the OK to start date to the slab being finished. Instead of 4-6 weeks. We are expecting our bricks and framework to be delivered 1/6/09, 2 weeks after for the slab to cure. As for our footings cost, we budgeted $17,000 but we had the soil/slope report done beforehand ($500 of our own money) they came in about right although we havent got our bill yet, expect it this week. They did however decide to charge us an extra $1000 for rock digging. Hope this helps Building Adelaide MKII (modified) with Statesman Building Contract Signed: 12/11/08 OK to start date: 1/5/09 Slab Finished:14/5/09 Frame Finished: 12/06/09 Bought in Nov 21 at the height of the market (classic). Good area, atrocious floor plan. BUT has land out to the left-hand side that we can extend out on (see second… 0 9277 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 41995 Hi It came to my attention after the handover that - The facade cladding on the face and the side are not straight. -The face tapers down by 50mm from left to right and… 0 3029 |