Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Aug 19, 2010 9:26 am Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 2Aug 19, 2010 2:07 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 3Aug 20, 2010 8:51 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn, VIC - What was your build time? 4Sep 02, 2010 2:10 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 5Sep 02, 2010 3:46 pm NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 6Sep 02, 2010 4:03 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 7Sep 02, 2010 4:34 pm NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 8Sep 02, 2010 4:52 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 9Sep 02, 2010 6:02 pm NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 11Sep 02, 2010 6:14 pm MM Building Doulton Q3 with Plantation Homes My Building Blog http://thewebbs-page.blogspot.com/ Building Thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=32743 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 12Sep 03, 2010 8:34 am Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 13Sep 03, 2010 8:35 am Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 14Sep 06, 2010 4:15 pm Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 15Sep 06, 2010 10:43 pm NO EXPECTATIONS, NO DISAPPOINTMENTS! Build Thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=27441 Landscaping Thread: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=43969 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 17Sep 07, 2010 2:05 pm Hi AV Oh my god you sound so much like me and my husband. We were looking for a smaller double storey house for a budget of around $260-$270k, and we have a small 580sq/m block that if you had a single storey on would leave you with no backyard at all. We chose the Cl@rndn Lansdowne 29 (base price $215k) because this was the best option out of the whole bunch. There wasn't one big builder we hadn't approached. We wanted 4 bedrooms with 2 living areas (one upstairs and one downstairs) however the Lansdowne was 3 bedrooms, so we turned the upstairs living area into a 4th bedroom at the expense of losing our 2nd living area. Still, this was the best option we had. I love your floorplan! We didn't have it available to us when we were looking. We ended up pulling out at the tender stage in the end. After choosing colours and approving plans etc we ended up just having to leave it all behind The main reason for this was price and lack of flexibility. Add $80k onto the base price and that was the total we were looking at. Our problem was simple, they couldn't offer the flexibility we needed. Say for instance (to save money) we didn't want the caesarstone benchtops... they wouldn't give us a credit for them because they were in a package deal. We hated all of the facade options bar one, and the only one we liked was $18k extra. By the time we upgraded bricks, added windows, added an alfresco, etc it became too much. And then at the tender appointment they said we needed things like an extra solar panel ($2,500), upgraded slab costs ($10k) even though we found out later they hadn't even done the soil and contour tests yet (so they pulled that out of their bums), and other silly things that just added to the cost. So in the end because they were unwilling to give us credits for anything or help work out a cheaper facade option, we pulled the pin. I'm not telling this to scare you! I still would have been happy for them to build my house cause I think they would have done a lovely job. In the end we chose a smaller builder, and we got EVERYTHING we wanted for the right price. I guess we just had too many requirements outside the standard plan, and that's why things didn't work out. As for your colour scheme, no word of a lie it is almost identical to what we have chosen (replace LaTrobe with Hawthorn bricks and they are the same). If you want to see a house built in Austral LaTrobe with Dune render (and dune windows, gutters and garage door, with a charcoal roof) there is one in Croydon (probably a long way for you to travel though), I stumbled upon it in my search for the perfect brick/colour combo. I actually knocked on the door and spoke to the lovely lady who owns the house, just to double check that it was Austral LaTrobe with Dune. PM me if you want the address. Best of luck, I look forward to seeing your house progress! Kat Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 18Sep 07, 2010 3:09 pm Hey Kat! Oh my goodness, we are IDENTICAL! Craziness! Yes - this is our second deposit with a builder, too. Few months back we signed with N@va but unexpected site costs pushed us $30k over, so we had to scrap that one and walk away. We are JUST on budget now with Cl@rendon, but have no more funds to upgrade anything further. At the end of the day, unfortunately, I am just going to have to comprimise... which is really sad, when I cost wise it's really the same. Nava, on the other hand, let you bring your own tiles etc which I see now would have saved us money in the long run.. oh well - I love the floor plan and it's everything we need. We've encounted the "sorry no credits" on a number of things - a good friend is a painter, so we wanted him to do our painting (as many feature walls, different colours, etc etc - he was just going to beat what ever credit we got back)... want to know what the paint credit was? $3k. Yup. Cost of paint only! They don't credit back labour, Just silly. So, althought our sales rep and the admin side of things is running well, really not so impressed with their lack of flexibility. We had an independent quote from a small builder - was more expensive by about $30 over N@va. Haha - Hawthorn was our pick too - but we settled on La Trobe because it was $2.5k less. I would LOVE that address! Thank you so much! I'll be following your build for sure! Who did you end up picking in the end to build? Lisa Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 19Sep 07, 2010 5:09 pm Just pm'd you the address. We ended up choosing Cavalier Homes. They are better known in QLD, however they have a few franchized branches in VIC. I have attached our floorplans for you (hopefully they work!) http://img828.imageshack.us/f/prelimina ... loorp.jpg/ http://img94.imageshack.us/f/preliminar ... oorpl.jpg/ Yep, it's all about compromising isn't it! We were happy to compromise on things like fancy benchtops, tiles, carpets - basically things we could change after the build. However we weren't going to compromise on the facade, ceiling height, windows, etc - things that we would be stuck with forever. For a saving of $2.5k I would have chosen LaTrobe too. Still a very nice brick, I would be happy with either. When is your tender appointment? Or have you already had it? Re: Our Oxford 28 with Cl@rndn - Victoria 20Sep 07, 2010 7:35 pm Housemouse....***FLOOR PLAN ENVY*** Your floor plans is perfect. I love it.... probably a little more than mine! My husband would be green over your media room! Gosh, it really is great. It's funny how I thought I had visited every single bulk-builder in Melbourne, yet I still come across new ones i didn't see before all the time! Do you have a thread housemouse?? Tender isn't due for 3 weeks. Colour appointment tomorrow, nervous/excited/worried all at once. We think clarendon is going to let us do vinyl flooring instead of tiling now - which will be good. Easy to rip up later and not worry about tiling over tiles. We'll see how tacky it looks first thou. Although I've seen some nice immitation timber ones that aren't too bad. Hey Dove Thanks for your reply. Bugger about your pavement.... demolishers aren't liable for that??? Amazing_Venice [size=50]Signed: 31/07/10 Colour Appointment: 08/09/10 Deposit Tender 20 / 09 / 2010 Final Contract Signed 18 / 11 / 2010 Slab laid 02 / 2 / 2011 Frame completed 25 / 02 / 2011 viewtopic.php?f=31&t=37417&p=553032&hilit=oxford#p553032 I second taking your plans elsewhere. They're yours (unless you ended up in one of those cheaper arrangements where you don't own the rights and the build will be tendered… 2 803 I have posted this before: We hired Darbecca to do every stage inspection, and I strongly recommend them to anyone that asks me. They were amazing. Thorough reports… 2 5273 of course there are legal avenues. You've already mentioned it. Sue them. I find it odd that lawyers wouldnt be willing to take on the case, given CCT evidence and… 1 24746 |