Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 42Feb 20, 2008 12:02 pm Start: 15 May 08, Current: Handover inspection 19/09 after that, the house is ours!! Visit our blog: http://loveourgerbera.blogspot.com/ Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 45Mar 28, 2008 8:16 pm Good on you Colleen
You must be so excited, not long now, my house seems to take forever so I always enjoy other peoples progress. Mrs B Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 46Mar 30, 2008 2:00 pm Yak_Chat - no house warming party... I've had enough of being the hostess and getting stuck with the cleaning
Mrs B - my builders seem to have periods when its full steam ahead and then all of a sudden everything just stops for a few weeks (it seems to be the bits where the carpenter has to do something lol). Yesterday the painter was there. I went to have a look at what he'd done today and found that the first coat is done. The walls look like they are in the final colour, so I don't think it is an undercoat. There are only 2 walls that look nowhere near the final colour - the feature walls. I need to call the SS tomorrow and remind him that I am having 2 feature walls as it looks like they are being painted the same colour as all the other walls. Otherwise, it looks good Received keys to my new home on 16/5/08 Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 47Mar 30, 2008 3:18 pm I'm excited for you Colleen. It won't be long for you now.
I'm also with you on the house warming party. I'm not a huge party person, and every single one of my friends and family is pushing for me to have one. I haven't even got a slab yet and they're planning Dana -------------------------- Building with DFH - carpet installed! Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 48Apr 01, 2008 7:31 pm The painter forgot to lock the back door tonight so I took the opportunity to have a look around.
This is the main bedroom, from the doorway Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Kitchen Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Very dusty kitchen counter Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bedroom 2 Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bedroom 3/My study Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The bedrooms look quite small in those photos but it was because I couldn't get far enough back without walking into (possibly wet) walls. The rest of the pictures I took are a little too dark, which is unfortunate. It was really exciting being able to finally have a walk around in my house, and to see what was under the bubble wrap they've got over my counter tops. It came at a good time as I had a bit of an argument with Furniture Galore today - they want to deliver my furniture 5 weeks earlier than agreed, and if I don't accept delivery they'll sell the furniture to someone else. It means I'm going to have to squeeze the furniture in here. I'm astonished by the different service levels at these furniture stores. I ordered the bulk of my furniture from Easy Living (now Everyday Living). They called last week to organise delivery and I told them the house wasn't finished yet, the sales lady said "no worries, just call us when you are ready". Furniture Galore... I had heard they were bad for refusing to store items so I deliberately told them when I ordered that I needed it later than I thought I would, as I thought it was better to wait than have to organise early delivery, but it doesn't matter - they place the order immediately and it doesn't matter what the agreement was. Not impressed. I definitely wasn't impressed with their customer service staff either who couldn't seem to understand why it would be an issue to deliver furniture 5 weeks early to an unfinished house So being able to have a walk through the house perked me up a bit, as the whole furniture thing stressed me out. Received keys to my new home on 16/5/08 Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 49Apr 01, 2008 7:35 pm I was planning on getting some stuff from Furniture Galore - methinks after reading that I'll either go elsewhere or order it the week before I move.
The house is looking great. I hope you get the furniture issued sorted out. Dana -------------------------- Building with DFH - carpet installed! Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 50Apr 01, 2008 7:37 pm it looks great!
so with you re furniture stores,most are great one (wont name) very expensive top of range stuff! and wont store at all actually will charge you to store which Ive never heard of before Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 51Apr 01, 2008 7:43 pm Quote: It came at a good time as I had a bit of an argument with Furniture Galore today - they want to deliver my furniture 5 weeks earlier than agreed, and if I don't accept delivery they'll sell the furniture to someone else. Thats terrible, I would tell them to stick it Quote: one (wont name) very expensive top of range stuff! and wont store at all actually will charge you to store which Ive never heard of before Thats just as bad!! Quote: I ordered the bulk of my furniture from Easy Living (now Everyday Living). They called last week to organise delivery and I told them the house wasn't finished yet, the sales lady said "no worries, just call us when you are ready". They have just possibly got some sales from that post - good on them. Paula Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 52Apr 01, 2008 7:54 pm Kryten I hope you get the furniture issued sorted out. The furniture issue is sorted out.. I guess.. they're delivering it to the house I'm currently in (that is already fully furnished) on Saturday morning. The bit that isn't sorted out is - where am I going to put it?!? Luckily it's just a 3 seater sofa, 2 seater sofa, queen size bed and mattress. If it was the stuff I ordered from the Easy Living I would definitely not be able to store it. I'd definitely recommend the Easy Living store (which I think became Everyday Living). Rather than have their shop set up with all buffets in one spot, and all entertainment units in another spot, they set it up with ranges together. So if you found a dining table you liked, you could straight away see whether they had a buffet in the same wood and design. That really appealed to me. The staff were really helpful, friendly and the furniture, I think, looks nice but was not overly expensive. And they'll store it until you're ready for it Received keys to my new home on 16/5/08 Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 53Apr 01, 2008 8:38 pm Everyday Living is one of my favourite shops and I,ll certainly be buying quite a bit of my furniture from them and as Colleen pointed out, it,s nice the way they set everything out
Good luck with everything Colleen and I hope you manage to store everything ok Cheers Mel Building on 9 acres Re: Hi Everyone... Fixing stage complete 54Apr 02, 2008 11:31 am On a different note.... I posted in another thread some time ago that my porch was supposed to be coloured concrete. The driveway will be coloured concrete (bluestone) and the porch was supposed to be the same but when they poured the slab, they forgot/didn't realise that and I got a plain concrete porch.
Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ (old photo for purposes of illustration) I called the new site supervisor this morning to ask him if he was aware of the problem. He said he was but he wasn't happy about the way it was going to be fixed. According to him, in order to fix it they will have to add a new layer of coloured concrete on the top with a thickness of at least 3 inches. He said this would bring it up level with the front door and it would create a flooding risk so he doesn't want to do it and is thinking about a different way to fix it. I told him I definitely don't want it painted (as I don't want to have to repaint it all the time) and he said no way would he even consider that. He has suggested, provided he gets approval from his bosses, that we tile it instead in a nice outdoor/entry tile. He thinks that would be a lot nicer than coloured concrete anyway (which I think he might be right about) but I'm not sure now what sort of tile to ask for. He suggested maybe a terracotta. I would love some suggestions - I think I will have to choose a tile this weekend if this idea gets the green light from head office as the tilers are due to work on my house next week. I'm not sure whether to go with a colour that matches the bricks or not. I've had a quick look for a tile website that actually has a gallery of tiles but I can't find one. Received keys to my new home on 16/5/08 Re: 55Aug 25, 2012 11:33 am Hi Colleen, what brick colour is this love it Colleen I'm building a single storey through Zuccala Homes. Just a small 3 bedroom home as it will just be me and my dog living in it. I purchased an "irregular" block at the end of a court. It's very long but not very deep (hard to explain) but it's twice the size of the other blocks that I was shown in my price range and it doesn't have any easements. To give you an idea of the irregularity, this is my block from what will be my back fence but in terms of where the driveway sits, is actually my side fence: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ (that old blue car in the distance is my car parked in the driveway). This is the slab from the opposite end of the block, I was standing in my garage when I took this photo: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And this is some of the bricks (front entry on right, garage on the left): http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff65/colleenmo/000_0365a.jpg Oh, and this is my housemate http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff65/colleenmo/000_0308shrunk.jpg Thanks for much mate. I see that you do cabinets before flooring. For timber flooring, for most parts it's fine because it's got base plates, and for door jabs you can… 7 13231 I'll look into different shower heads and ask the plumber about some engineering and see what he says. Thanks 2 9740 Plumbers 'can be' plumbers, made all the worse by self certification which the building surveyor invariably accepts as proof of compliance! The good thing is that you know know. 3 4960 |