Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 29Apr 03, 2007 9:45 pm hardy Good on you Matt, 53 sq home, ohhhhh! it's amazing. By the way we have chosen Brodeaux-40 with extended garage and extended alfresco, so total is ~43sq. My house has reached lock up stage, actually just yesterday I have received big $$$ invoice for lock up stage. Looking forward to complete this project asap..... Well done!! Good on you. How about some pictures for the curious?? Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 30Apr 04, 2007 9:26 pm Hi Matt
We had Warren as the sales agent too and other than that, he was good. Really interesting what you say about the tender appointment. What were the things you had to sort out ahead of time, it would be good to get some stuff sorted before we go in. Good to hear your update Hardy! Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 31Apr 04, 2007 10:28 pm Hey Jen,
We were emailing several times each day between Adam and myself. We were going through the wiring, carpets, building changes (moving walls etc) making additions we thought about whilst we were going through the house for the 400th time. Initally we had things like the coffee machine in ($3000 option) and we decided against it. Rather than having these things in, we wanted to go in on the day of the tender with a clear view of the things that we wanted and the things that we didnt taken out completely. We signed the tender document after 3 or minor changes that were done whilst we were there. Our timeline is like this: Jan 07 - decide to buy a new house - look at houses (several hundred) and decide to build - find suitable land on the 19th and make silly offer unconditionally - Seller agrees to silly offer!! - Start hunting for suitable plans - Discover Carlisle Homes on 20th - Sign inital agreement and pay $600 with Warren Feb 07 - Soil test done within a few days and soil test is good - Colour selection complete on the 2nd of Feb (booked tender) - Tender appoinment completed 23rd. - Minor changes to electrical layout etc - Sitting and waiting. Mar 07 - More emailing and waiting - Email confirming that Building docs and contracts ready 23rd - Collect contract for pre - reading 21st - Sign contracts on 23rd - Realise a mistake on the 26th and make change without variation fee. (saved $500 but used the only get out of jail free card) - Get engineering documents 30th March - Go to see new neighbours with works protection notice for signing only to be told they are away for 3 weeks! ARGHHH - Cry for several hours about bloody neighbours Apr 07 - Find out that neighbours are in fact now back from holidays - Take all variations and works notices back to Carlisle Homes 5th April We have pushed all the way through, and these guys are just up to the challenge in every way. I honestly think I would have sent 50+ emails to the staff and they have responded to them all promptly and with good responses. (Dean if you are reading this give them all a payrise ) Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 32Apr 04, 2007 10:29 pm BTW....
What house are you building Jen and have you made any changes to the design?? Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 33Apr 06, 2007 7:44 am We're building the Bordeaux and other than extending the garage, we haven't made any changes. We've had our tender appt moved up to this week by the ever helpful Emma! We asked whether we could get underfloor heating but apparently not, Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 34Apr 29, 2007 8:59 pm OK
Got permits back... Had neighbours sign protection notices.... Collected final drawings for signing..... getting close now Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 35May 02, 2007 12:36 pm Final drawings signed and returned!!
Now we await a site start date..... Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 37May 20, 2007 7:06 pm Thanks Jen!!
All is going great! Matt Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 38May 23, 2007 2:16 pm Hi Guys,
Just to keep you up to date with construction progress of my new home. My house has reached "fix up" stage a week ago and got the second last invoice I have a meeting with my supervisor tomorrow to check tiles we selected are the correct one. So probably it wouldn't take long now for hand over. I think after fix up stage it will take 4-5 weeks for handover stage, Any idea how long more it will take????? Keep you posted for more feed backs regards, Hardy Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 39May 23, 2007 2:20 pm Sounds good.
Time to start packing.. Take some light globes with you when they have finished painting, so you can see if they have missed anything. Adrian B Re: Confused please help me to knowHow is Carlisle home builder? 40May 24, 2007 4:21 pm Hi Guys,
****** Long time reader, first time poster.****** Firstly want to say what a great forum this is & how helpful everyone is as well. All of your tips / ideas / comments have been fantastic & helped make my choices easier. We have finally decided, after sitting on our land for a couple of years, to build with Carlisle Homes. We have chosen to go with the 2 storey Bordeaux 40... http://www.carlislehomes.com.au/bordeaux.html Like you Matt, we are dealing with Warren in Cranbourne & I can't tell you how helpful he has been so far, from staying back late to answer our questions to taking pictures of his own house to help us with colours... If anyone has any doubts about building with Carlisle, come & see Warren & you'll see what I mean. Also the quality of their houses are next to none in our opinion. We have also made many changes such as bigger alfresco area, knocking the wall out between the study & formal lounge area (which was no charge, unlike Henly who wanted to charge an extra $450 to "remove" the wall), a half wall to the rumpus room just to name a few & none seem to be a problem. So far we have paid the $600 for the soil test, which I'm guessing is done with five holes on the block & gone thru the alterations that we want. Tomorrow we have our colour appointment, which snuck up on us & only gave us a weeks notice to pick all colours, fixtures & fittings. They gave us the option of extending the time to do it but I think we've got it all sussed . Constuction, they tell us, will start in August & finish the end of February. In no hurry so they can take as much time as they want (hope they're not reading this). All very exciting & looking forward to the whole process. Will try & keep you all updated on how it's fairing & hopefully get some more idea's of ppl here.. ie colours (Michelle ) flooring, electrical & heaps of other stuff that we can't decide on. Cheers, Mike. If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 8306 We were lucky in that our old house was so small (86 square metres) compared to the new house, they were able to take enough readings around the old backyard house before… 8 37142 Carlisle use to sneak a water resistant "Performance Solution" into their contracts. Have you checked your contract for same? 4 10195 |