Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 47May 14, 2011 9:08 pm Hi Trudy Mrs Chatz here.....I do remember meeting you at Cosham. I'm just dying for someone, anyone to get their Talise or other Henley going!!!! We've had a rough couple of weeks but things are looking up. H applied to our council for a dispensation to have the garage wall at the boundary 3cm higher than allowed, for some technical reason I've forgotten. Council said no. And on the same day we heard about this we got a letter from the council requiring us to repair the crossover post-demo and pool installation. They'll do it for us for $800, meanwhile theyre hanging on to the full security deposit, and hey, we are building soon so why bother? So far, I've spoken to a couple of people and sent an email requesting that we wait till after the house has been built.......after a week I've had two automated responses acknowledging my email. Maddening. Meanwhile, discussions with H about the garage wall revealed 3 options - move the house aross a metre (no that would be terrible), reduce the garage to the original size (not keen) or cut a further 10cm into the site and don't change anything else. Sounded ok, but the cost of getting rid of that 30 odd cubic meters of dirt would be what??? Got a call yesterday confirming that it would be about $1500-$2000 extra. I said just do it, build the bloody thing!!! So now the plan is to have the permit ok and the file to construction by the end of that month with a view to starting in June. I am really really anxious to get going, I want to be in by Christmas but I probably need a reality check on that! David's In the US at the moment so not here to bring me back ti earth when I start working out what leave I'll take over christmas to move in. There's a massive two storey Porter Davis going up around the corner from our place - the demo was done after ours and it's bricking is nearly done. On the bright side, all our finance is organized. Hopefully you will start in 2-3 weeks as planned and we won't be too far behind! Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 48May 16, 2011 4:08 pm Mrs Chatz! What great news you guys will be starting soon too! I am just like you... absolutely crazy to get in before christmas.... but darl, i think its a long short for the both of us. realistically, i think we may be looking at jan/feb. We also have to factor in an extra 4 - 5 weeks for laying bamboo flooring everything else e.g. air con and driveway can wait till after the floor and after we are inside! What are you doing about air con? We are considering going refrigerated cooling coz this evap system is pretty silly... doesnt work half the time. we might have to apply to borrow a little more money at the time of moving in - to pay for this kinda stuff. Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 49May 16, 2011 6:47 pm Hi Trudy Sadly I think I have to agree with you, but there has to be a glimmer of hope to keep me going! We have included an evaporative cooling system in our contract, upgraded to a bigger unit than standard. We love evap cooling - had it in our old house and we're also installing junction boxes for ceiling fans in the bedrooms. I really like having windows open! If we find that the evap system isn't enough we might consider a split system for the big living area at the back of the house - again, it's what we had in our old house, but only because our extension prevented the evap going right through! Four to five weeks to install the flooring seems a lot, I dint know much about bamboo floors though other than they look fantastic. Will you need to be out of where you are living by a certain date? We are fortunate in that regard so delays won't stuff us around too much, other than emotionally! I have already told David that I'm in the house as soon as humanly possible, no blinds, no driveway, no furniture even - fed up with the flat. I keep reminding myself that it's cheap and convenient but argh! Our contact person at Henley called me today with a couple of queries as she was getting our final drawings done. So hopefully things will happen. One of the questions was which end of the pool is the deep end an I can't for the life of me remember! I was onsite with the pool guys at 7am that day, David was away (of course) and I can't remember, I know I was surprised to be asked. I hope I was sensible and put it at the far end away from the house, which is what I told H today. I can't even nick around fo a look as it's all boarded over. However long it takes we should both be in this time next year, well and truly settled in right? Kate Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 50May 16, 2011 6:50 pm MrsChatz, If you look at the nearmap picture of when the pool is going in you can see that the deep end is on the west boundary. I still can't believe they took the picture on that day. Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 51May 16, 2011 9:26 pm Oh hello Chatz, nice to hear from you. I checked my phone photos of the hole and yes, that near map shot confirms it. So I made the right decision and told Henley the right thing. Isn't it the middle of the night where you are? Mrs Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 53May 19, 2011 11:31 am trudy Hey, yeah we got the same... 3 grand off the extras so that paid for our waterfall edge island bench with 40mm stone we couldn't go through waterstone even though we wanted to. Our financial situation was too hard for them to work with coz I'm self employed. Banks hate ppl who r self employed! Trudy sorry to butt in on your Henley thread but we are also self employed and finding it very difficult to arrange finance, can I ask how and where you got it? I had organised a loan thru ANZ but time expired (long story) and now theyve changed their policies and wont look at us. Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 54May 19, 2011 12:03 pm Hi Chatz and Mrs Chatz, I drive past your block several times a week ( I recognise the pool sitting at the back and the house next door!). I'm always interested watching houses demolished and new ones go up in the general area (lived there for 40 years...), as there seem to be so many. I remember when yours came down, there's quite a few newies in the street! There was one house in your street that was demolished in 3 days at the same time as mine, but mine took about 3 weeks! I was constantly comparing it's 'progress' to mine! As I'm in a similar area, it will be interesting following your journey and seeing if you have the same SS and Tradies that I had! I have a friend building with them currently in a similar area and they are having the same SS. Feel free to have a read through my blog and thread. I haven't mentioned any names (and I won't online), but if you have the same SS, I thought he was brilliant and very honest and professional. Best wishes for a smooth, stress free build! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 55May 19, 2011 12:30 pm We have a building permit! We must be close to starting now, we can almost smell it. Stormy, there can't be too many other house blocks that have a pool and nothing else There are lots of news houses in the street, most of them are double story houses. The frustrating build for us is a knockdown around the corner that occured after ours and last time I looked they were about to start on the bricks... This thread is turning into a people building with Henley, starting about now. I am very happy with that, its going to be good to see how we all go. So who thinks I should change the topic to reflect that? Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 56May 19, 2011 6:48 pm Hi everyone Lasttimehopefully - I feel your pain getting the loan organised. To be honest with you, it took us almost a year and a half to get it all finalised. We went with commonwealth (despite mortgage brokers' advice) as we were already banking with them and the woman at the bank was great to deal with. They have a lot of requirements for you to fulfil first... you have to have your business running for minimum 2 yrs and then 100000 other requirements too. Didn't help us that my hubby was also studying full time and working here and there when he could. Best of luck! if you have a good mortgage broker, USE THEM....because the amount of running around you will have to do is not worth anything. Chatz - you're right, its turning into a henley thread! Sorry chatz, we've invaded your page. meanwhile, i know how exciting it is when you find out you have your permits! we received that phone call recently too. I have a ** suspicion our houses will start in the same week. it would probably make sense for henley to order very similar products at the same time too maybe? Trudy x Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 57May 19, 2011 10:32 pm Hello all my Henley "building about now" Girlfriends.., i hope you all don't mind me calling you my Girlfriends, i say that because when my wife asks me what i am up to on the computer, i tell her i am checking out whats happenning with the girls... i think i'm the only bloke thats posting anyway.. Chatz, you have a communal Henley build thread, that very cool and its also cool how we are all keeping an eye on each other.. and we all know that things happen for a reason and that these stages pass, easier said.. but all will all be fine, just believe that. Haven't posted for a while.. been up in Sydney for work..not much doing on our block, what with all the rain and all the issues we had having the slab re-engineered ( because of soft spots ) anyway a variation of 5 grand later... Good news is the concreters were on our block till nearly 6:00 tonight ( 19/05) so as they could get the slab done tomorrow.. All going well i'll have some candid snaps to post tomorrow.. XX G Ger Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 59May 20, 2011 5:19 am Ger1322, you go girlfriend! Don't listen to MrsChatz. multiple occ properties are always billed by trades at a premium, rarely per sqm for the lot. 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