Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 2Sep 09, 2009 3:12 am Building the Pegasus New Generation Bletchley Pk, Southern River Land purchased 03/2009 Contract 06/2009 Prestart 09/2009 Land cleared/sand Pad 10-12-09 Fittings done 17-12-09 SLAB!! 18-12-09 Brickies started 27-1-10 Roof Started 2-3-10 Lock Up 13-5-10 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 3Sep 09, 2009 10:27 am Aussie Alfresco Ultimate Bertram, WA Homebuyers Centre WEEK 21 - Practical Completion (Scheduled) My Build Thread - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=21383&p=278506#p278506 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 6Sep 09, 2009 12:09 pm looks great. I love a good red brick house Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 7Sep 09, 2009 12:25 pm very very nice...loving the tiles too Building with Homebuyers Centre El Questro! My building thread..viewtopic.php?f=31&t=19421 Brickies started 5/10 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 8Sep 09, 2009 4:03 pm ladsos Hi Shell, Im in Bletchley! I love your kitchen tiles!! your house is looking great! welcome to the forum, and we love pictures! Lisa Hi Lisa, I just love bletchley, we drove through there the other day while checking out the neighbourhood. jpeg wow look at that! i like how you guys used the block!! Plan is good too, sunken theatre looks awesome Thanks jpeg, once my bf saw a sunken theatre in a display home he just had to have one. We had a bit of a hard time finding a plan that worked, because the stupid covenents dictated that the house had to be between 2 - 4m from the front of the block, which is where the main bedroom is. But because of the easement along the side (shown as a dotted line along Balfour st) we couldn't have any brickwork over that line, which is why the theatre room is set back so far. Nicci my silly computer wont let me see the plan and your block pic.. i love your thread, very funny. Almost finished how exciting. at I cant see your plans either, just a little red cross However i can see your photos and they are lovely, your bricks are stunning, Thanks guys. Here are the direct links, hopefully it will work. http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss28 ... teplan.jpg http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss28 ... orplan.jpg Chedasha looks great. I love a good red brick house lynnebin1968 very very nice...loving the tiles too Thankyou! Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 9Sep 09, 2009 4:21 pm Gorgeous bricks Shell!!! I love all your tile selections, especially the ensuite bathroom!! Unfortunately i'm unable to see your house plan so will check it out again from home viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 10Sep 11, 2009 3:31 pm Yay we've been locked up!! Or at least I hope so, we just received the bill for it, but haven't been able to get up there and have a look because of the crappy weather. SS said cabinets were going in today and tiling would start next week. I feel like we're on the home stretch now They've said it should be about 4 weeks until PCI!!! Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 11Sep 11, 2009 9:34 pm Congratulations on a beautiful house. I love the red brick. I thought I had decided on what we were going to get, but having seen yours, I'm having second thoughts. Building in Seville Grove Perth Floreat by Scott Park Homes Earthworks 16th February Thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24936 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 12Sep 11, 2009 10:21 pm Mr Gum Congratulations on a beautiful house. I love the red brick. I thought I had decided on what we were going to get, but having seen yours, I'm having second thoughts. Thanks Mr Gum. They are Austral Leonora and they were actually our third choice (the first two were not in the builders standard range) but I LOVE THEM! They are just so warm and inviting. It's funny it took us so long to notice the neighbours have exactly the same bricks - I think its because they have cream as their feature colour on the gutters, windows etc it actually makes them look a lot different. We have friends building with Scott Park in Success, so it will be interesting to see how your build progresses compared to theirs. I think their pre-start is booked just a week or two after yours. Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 13Sep 11, 2009 10:46 pm shell83 Mr Gum Congratulations on a beautiful house. I love the red brick. I thought I had decided on what we were going to get, but having seen yours, I'm having second thoughts. Thanks Mr Gum. They are Austral Leonora and they were actually our third choice (the first two were not in the builders standard range) but I LOVE THEM! They are just so warm and inviting. It's funny it took us so long to notice the neighbours have exactly the same bricks - I think its because they have cream as their feature colour on the gutters, windows etc it actually makes them look a lot different. We have friends building with Scott Park in Success, so it will be interesting to see how your build progresses compared to theirs. I think their pre-start is booked just a week or two after yours. Well we live in Gosnells, so go on a nosey around Balfour Street to get ideas for our build quite often. Will look out for yours. Building in Seville Grove Perth Floreat by Scott Park Homes Earthworks 16th February Thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24936 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - our story in pictures 14Sep 14, 2009 8:28 pm Wow. Its all happening so fast now. We have cabinets, benchtops, sinks & a bathtub, doors, exterior paintwork has been done and the tiling has been started. This is all since Thursday. Unfortunately I couldn't get any photos of the bathrooms because the tilers butt crack was in the way. The kitchen cabinets. No overhead cabinets at this stage, I'll have to add them in down the track. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The newly painted guttering. I'm still not 100% about the blue, I wanted something more like colourbond Blue Ridge, a kind of bluey-grey. I think its a bit strong but I might just need to get used to it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Some ******* brickwork in the garage. I don't have any complaints about the external brickwork, it looks like they just saved all the "bad" bricks and faced them inside the garage. The SS told me not to worry about it, so naturally I am. However it is a single run of bricks and the other side of this wall is fine so I guess they were just put in with cracks on one side. If they were cracking after they had been put up then the other side should be cracking too right? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ In other news, we have picked some interior paint colours. We'll be doing all the painting ourselves. I have convinced myself its going to be a super fun job and am happy to live in denial for now. The blue is going to be the feature wall in the main bedroom. The dark grey is for the home theatre. The pale grey is for the doors & frames, and the white colour is for whenever we run out of enthusiasm and just want to finish the job. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: Building in Southern River, WA - Cabinets & cracks 15Sep 15, 2009 10:38 am Wow that looks great! i like the kitchen colours keep the pics coming you must be stoked Aussie Alfresco Ultimate Bertram, WA Homebuyers Centre WEEK 21 - Practical Completion (Scheduled) My Build Thread - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=21383&p=278506#p278506 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - Cabinets & cracks 16Sep 16, 2009 11:57 am shell83 Some ******* brickwork in the garage. I don't have any complaints about the external brickwork, it looks like they just saved all the "bad" bricks and faced them inside the garage. The SS told me not to worry about it, so naturally I am. However it is a single run of bricks and the other side of this wall is fine so I guess they were just put in with cracks on one side. If they were cracking after they had been put up then the other side should be cracking too right? ] yea our prestart lady warned us about it during prestart she said and i quote" by the way you might find that the internal bricks of the garage wall are not the pretty side of the brick. we keep the good side for the external facing, so dont be alarmed when you see your garage. Its normal" so yea seems like its a "standard" with all the builders.... i was just speechless when she said that!... i know its a garage and no one looks inside so much...but still.. we pay $$ for the bricks!! sigh... But i love your build and the colour scheme ..... you must be excited... its not too long now Builder: celebration homes,WA Slab down:12-Aug-09 Plate High:21-Sep-09 roof complete : 22-Oct-09 lockup: 19-Nov-09 PCI : 16-Dec-09 Key handover : 22-Dec-09 Re: Building in Southern River, WA - Cabinets & cracks 17Sep 16, 2009 4:29 pm tinfish yea our prestart lady warned us about it during prestart she said and i quote" by the way you might find that the internal bricks of the garage wall are not the pretty side of the brick. we keep the good side for the external facing, so dont be alarmed when you see your garage. Its normal" so yea seems like its a "standard" with all the builders.... i was just speechless when she said that!... i know its a garage and no one looks inside so much...but still.. we pay $$ for the bricks!! sigh... But i love your build and the colour scheme ..... you must be excited... its not too long now Thanks tinfish, its actually quite re-assuring to hear that its normal, and not just us! I was more worried about the cracks than anything because they seem localised to that one area. I was reading in someone elses thread that they complained about chips and cracks in their bricks and their SS told them that don't pay for the brickies to check every brick before they put them up!!! I couldn't believe that, all this money we're paying and its still not enough for the brickies to do a decent job?? Grrr.... Re: Building in Southern River, WA - Cabinets & cracks 18Sep 16, 2009 9:20 pm The paint colours look great! Seems to be all hapening at your place Tilers butcrack seems to be a common problem for homebuilders... viewtopic.php?f=31&t=22766 - my build thread! Time waits for no man. Unless that man is Chuck Norris. Re: Building in Southern River, WA - Cabinets & cracks 20Sep 19, 2009 8:40 pm oooh, shell83 - your kitchen is going to look amazing! those tiles are great! This certainly doesn't look good. I would be engaging with an independent inspector to have a look at this. As for the unscheduled site visits, most builders are quite… 1 28157 DIY, Home Maintenance & Repair We purchased a 1960s property that is on timber stumps mostly, and a newer section is on concrete stumps. We had a building inspection initially and they reported some… 0 12709 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 13468 |