Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 28, 2010 8:48 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 3Mar 28, 2010 9:44 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 7Mar 30, 2010 9:12 pm Handover February 2011 Happy with our home Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 9Apr 12, 2010 10:56 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 10Apr 12, 2010 11:15 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 11Apr 12, 2010 11:19 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 13Apr 14, 2010 9:21 pm Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 14Apr 21, 2010 9:14 pm I went to the house today at about 5:30pm and the guy doing the flushing was still there working hard. It appears that all the gyprock has now been done. The guy from Sampina Joinery was there measuring up our kitchen...how exciting! I hope we get plans of the kitchen as we made a few small changes to the cabinetry which he noted at our selections appointment. I dont like not having any confirmation of these changes in writing... I might call Dechellis tomorrow to confirm. Cant wait for lock up!!! Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 15Apr 21, 2010 9:47 pm Your niche looks wonderful!! I can't believe how fast this is all going for you =) You people building with dechellis make me wish more and more that we'd chosen them!! Just wow =) Looking great =) Looking forward to the excited lockup announcement! Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 16Apr 23, 2010 12:04 am somewoman Your niche looks wonderful!! I can't believe how fast this is all going for you =) You people building with dechellis make me wish more and more that we'd chosen them!! Just wow =) Looking great =) Looking forward to the excited lockup announcement! Thanks somewoman!! It has gone very fast so far but a bit of a hicup today...not happy! I had a call from the joinery company that was measuring our kitchen yesterday and he said that the kitchen is 150mm short on one side of the fridge and that he couldnt fit our 600mm pullout pantry We are having 2 pullout pantrys on either side of the fridge and they are both meant to be the same size!!! Our kitchen design was the same as the display home but we just increased the width for the fridge by 200mm and the extra space was going to be taken from the nib walls on each side. Our plan cleary shows the same size pullout pantrys on either side. Somehow we have lost 150mm and the cabinet maker said he could only fit a smaller 450 pullout pantry on one side. I said NO WAY - that would look terrible and was straight on the phone to the SS. He said head office would need to sort this out and I said that walls will need to come down to fix this. Sorry to vent but when it comes to the kitchen it needs to be spot on. As much as I am happy with our builder they dont like to accept reponsibility so I am hoping this gets fixed without a fight. How is your house coming along? Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 17Apr 23, 2010 12:56 am From what I have heard from others building with Dechellis they have been very easy and quick to get onto something that wasn't done right. If it is in your plans, your contract, your kitchen drawings, anything, then it has to be done. I feel confident in your builders that they will get it right for you - and in good time. I WISH that I felt that confident about my own... Things go wrong with my build and they just bury their head in the sand and pretend that it doesn't exist. It would have been far simpler to fix the wonky wall before they had gyprocked it, and certainly before they had hung the cabinetry to it AND cut the essastone benchtops to fit perfectly in with its wonkiness. It would have been far simpler to fix the cigarette burned window before they gyprocked it, nailed it fully in place, added skirtings and architraves and generally ensured that it is immovable without permanent damage. I suspect that we'll be really causing a massive $%^& fight with them over that one! Nothing new on our house at all... SS is prolly still annoyed at me for making yet another complaint about him to head office. I haven't even written on here what the complaint was *actually* about - I'm sure that I'd completely screw my build if I told people exactly how disgusting it was and news got back to my builder or my SS. Needless to say, he's not going to make an appearance in my will. Have faith in your guy - your builders seem to actually give a damn about their reputation, they will see you right. Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 18Apr 23, 2010 11:08 am Hi Sorrento, Sorry to see you have had an issue with your kitchen. I just thought I'd let you know that we had to sign a kitchen variation list as part of our final selections meeting with Emma. The variation paperwork was provided by and signed by Sampina Joinery and then signed by us. This was a confirmation of the discussions made in our selections appointment with Sampina. I don't know if you were provided with this document, but if you were, it should document all the changes you made, and therefore Sampina or the builder would have to abide by it. Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 19Apr 25, 2010 11:33 pm Looking great so far Hopefully they have sorted the kitchen out for you Re: Building the Sorrento with Dechellis 20Apr 27, 2010 2:14 pm all the sand Hi Sorrento, Yay i thought they were, they are just gorgeous and you dont seem to see them being used very often. Im glad though my tiny little estate (road) has 15 new houses and none have used them. I am building with Hickinbotham, signed in July last year and just had site scrape and they have layed some gravel type stuff yesterday so i am hoping that things hurry up and start happening now, i really want to get excited about this build again! Cant wait to see more pics of your house, its looking great so far! V Hi All the Sand How is your house coming along? Have you got a slab yet? You will have to start a building thread. My friends built with Hickinbotham and they were very happy with them and there house looks great. Which design are you building? Building the Sorrento (modified) with Dechellis Status: Paving in progress Site works commenced: 22/2/10 Pre Handover: 14/9/10 Handover: 23/9/10 My thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=31665 I’m curious about how you went with this. We are planning a KDRB and considering Plantation Homes as a builder. I’m aware that after the demolition another soil test… 1 6321 i wouldn't be worried, you'll definitely miss something, no matter how many times you review. we've spent close to 5 months ensuring everything got reflected in the… 5 9439 Thanks for your reply. I will just wait and see I guess. Trying to get some more information from our builder. 9 11715 |