Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 266Sep 03, 2009 3:49 pm viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 273Sep 06, 2009 10:48 pm Thanks for the painting advice and congrats on moving in!!! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 274Sep 19, 2009 10:37 pm How is it living in your beautiful new home? Hope you are loving every minute of it. Clarity and Eho - I mentioned to Damien last time I saw him that he's getting good publicity here and all thanks to you, so I guess if you are ever planning on doing more flooring or a deck he might do you a good deal Thanks for putting us onto him, really happy with his work. Ours have just been finished and you can see a few pics on our blog if you are curious! (I remember you asking for pics Eho! ) Building a Wisdom Prosperity 23 - http://erwisdomprosperity.blogspot.com/ Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 275Sep 22, 2009 10:07 am Jochico, Nice floor! And Nice House too!!! It is amazing your builder is moving along your build so smoothly. You must be so pleased you will get your house soon. We are settling in fine. We are still taking our time to unpack though. Landscaping is mostly done, except planting. I need to decide on what to plant now. We have started looking into blinds, mainly rollers and roman in the bedrooms. I got appointments to measure and quote with Kresta/Accent/Spotlight. I guess I can't go wrong with one of them?? Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 276Sep 22, 2009 9:16 pm Thanks Eho! The guys did well with the floors and very happy with the house so far and yep, the builder has done really well during construction, can't believe how fast all is going. Oh, the joys of unpacking (and packing 1st)... I HATE it! I should be packing right now but obviously I am not... Yeah, I guess you should be ok with those blind palces but we've found Kresta and Accent a bit too expensive and they just use their "name" but not sure their quality is higher. We've started looking at local places too to compare... That's good that the grass is down, that's the main thing, the planting can be done in tiem... We'll do the same, do the grass as soon as we can and worry about the plants later... Building a Wisdom Prosperity 23 - http://erwisdomprosperity.blogspot.com/ Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 277Sep 29, 2009 10:12 pm I have got Venus Window Fashion to do my blinds. The owner is a friend of my husband. This company specialises in corporate business eg display homes etc so they do not have a big show room as they are not concentrated on retail business. I have used roller blinds and some roman and venetians for my bathrooms. Use light filtering fabrics in most rooms, blockout for bedrooms and sunscreen for meals area. His showroom and factory is in Ryde/Gladesville. He has a huge range of fabrics. If you are interested, send me a prviate message and I will give u his contact details. Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 278Jan 22, 2010 3:53 pm Hi, My timebr floor was damaged when the air condition guys cam to do the installation. They paid for the floor to be re-sanded. So I called Damien and he did the job on Wednesday. He came at 7 and 9:15. I was quite surprised that he can finish the re-sanding and polishing in 2 hours for 115 sq meters. At late afternoon, we disocvered there was a shoe print on the floor and the floor started to have lots of bubbles on the surface. When teh floor was dry yesterday mornign, we discovered there are many area that the finish was uneven and we cna see ther roller mark etc and there are areas with residue and is rough to touch. Damien came and inspect and said that he will re-sand the main area when he come back to do our downstairs. But he gave us a lot of excuses/reasons. After he left, hubby and I discussed, this is very basic job and he cannot so it well. So we decided that we will only ask him to come backc to fix up the upstairs first before he work on the downstairs. If he cannto fix it, I don't want him to stuff up my downstairs. So hubby called him today and ask him to do the upstairs with the same smooth finish. But Damien said that he actually is not very familar with the Swedish Syneto Classic finish and he only uses it a couple of times a year and he cannot finish the floor as smoothly as our original floor inish. So he did not tell us the truth and took up this job. Very disappointing with him. Has anyone of you noticed any bubbles/blisters and residues on your floor that have been done by Damien ? Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 279Feb 05, 2010 12:19 pm Wow, I haven't visited my thread so long. Good to be back Behw, Sorry to hear about your experience with Damien. He did our floor and it still good great....well, apart from some of the scratches and dents caused by my soon-to-be three year old boy. The finish Damien used he called oil modified. I did not request any specific brand. I only requested it to be low gloss. I do have some minor residues from the finish. But they are very minor, and I am not bothered at all. Building Clarendon Brighton - Done and moved in Sept 2009 Re: Clarendon Brighton - Builder done, my turn to finish it off! 280Feb 05, 2010 12:30 pm Eho, Thanks for letting me know. I have since spoken to another flooring company about the problem and they told me that this is reaction and Damien must have used a different product (not Synteko). Synteko is expensive. But as my floor has all this blisters, to resolve the problem, I have sand the floor to raw timbe and have to pay $27.50 per sq metre. So be careful next time when you need to have a light sand on it as the old and new finish have to be compatible. How is everythign with your C home. C has to redo the tiling for my whole balcony as the slope is not right and the water is go out to my facade. There is a little roof area that C has to come out and I think they will have to redo the roof as the fascia is falling. Hi, did you get any money from insurance? if you did, does it match what you've already paid the builders? 3 9559 I work with owner, he/she is my man on the ground and I instruct them when to visit the site and take photos and I have other tools in the bag. 4 15244 4 14400 |