Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jul 17, 2009 3:44 am *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 2Jul 17, 2009 3:52 am *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 3Jul 17, 2009 3:58 am *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 9Jul 17, 2009 5:11 pm *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 10Jul 17, 2009 5:15 pm Blog is now up - http://www.jbdave.blogspot.com/ Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 13Jul 17, 2009 10:08 pm *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 16Jul 19, 2009 1:48 pm I think if I was in the country I'd somehow find the funds to go rural building co. Your house really is perfect for a property. Rural Building Co seemed to include most things in their homes when we looked at them. They seem like the kind of builder to do window sills and skirting boards and other little comforts. A lot of things didn't come up at our pre-start that i wish had been discussed. I really wanted brick work over my garage entry instead of a pelmet and that is what i thought we had until it was too late. It is going to be the only thing i won't absolutely love about my house. There was also no mention of window sills, skirting boards or other finishing touches which was suprisibg because surely they want to ask you about everything to get more dollars in their pocket! Building a house is a strange thing. My parents have built a few houses so I knew to ask the odd questions... do we get fly screens, do we get shelves and all those other strange things some builders like to leave out. My boyfriend thought we would get window sills and a front security door as standard... not unless we pay for it!! I have spoken to people before who were suprised they had to put in their own door stops after hand over. (Sign me up for the builder who does that for you!!!) *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 17Jul 19, 2009 1:59 pm Quote: For windows we are having the verticals on some and the timber look venetians either white or the brown on the others. My ideal but way too exe would be those plantation shutters. Plantation shutter sound nice!! They are probably out of my budget too at the moment. I had a thought of maybe going with white timber look plastic venetians in the bathrooms and toilets. But i have had plastic blinds in a rental before and they kind of melted a bit with the heat in summer. Most of my bathrooms and toilets are potected from direct sun so i think they will be ok. I'm also sure the rental owners found the cheapest set of venetians that they could too. I think i will check out places like ikea and freedom to see what generic things they have. When it was too late it was suggested to us to go around and make sure all the windows in our house we a generic size so we could just buy off the shelf blinds. Next time maybe! *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - Monte Carlo Promo/Sandgate 18Jul 19, 2009 2:34 pm HI Manda. you could find some sort of beaded curtain to put across your WIR areas to curtain it off a little. we did this in our last house. it was a bit of a pain if you had something bulky to move through the curtain but otherwise it really closed off the area a little. we haven't decided if we are going to do it again for our new house yet. Like You I swore I would organise standard width windows in my next build. BUT I forgot. so we've missed out on all those bargain blinds they sell in spotlight and bunnings etc. Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - pre-start mistakes still!! 19Jul 21, 2009 8:53 pm Beads would be nice but with the view from the street i'm thinking something a little less sexy. I have been thinking shutters (when I plant the money tree out the back). So I thought the dramas and nightmares had ended and I realised yesterday that our pre-start consultant has made another mistake. A different code was written on our contract to the front door that I chose for my house. I emailed them but had no record of ever having a different code but that the door hadn't been ordered so we could have it at a $175 discounted variation fee.... *cry* They are not getting another cent! I'm just happy the door Gemmill chose for our house isn't too hideous and already have plans for a new one in a few years when we put in bifolds for the alfresco. Does this kind of thing happen often? We had over 50 mistakes in our final contract and plans so this one must have slipped past us. *Built with Gemmill Homes in WA* Slab - 1st June 2009 Plate Height - 17th June 2009 Lock Up - 18th August 2009 PCI - 5th October 2009 Hand Over - 15th Oct 2009 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20844 Re: Building with Gemmill Homes - pre-start mistakes still!! 20Jul 21, 2009 9:45 pm Holy heck... why should you pay for their stuff up. 50 mistakes.. good grief. Why they just can't get it right I don't know We used a smaller qld builder who went bankrupt about 12 months after completion of ours. It was a shame as they were good and relatively cheap and I would have used… 3 2533 i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 79357 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 3866 |