Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Who's building with Clarendon? 2Jun 06, 2011 12:10 pm Melissa Building the Kenthurst by Clarendon at The Ponds Re: Who's building with Clarendon? 17Jun 14, 2011 10:02 pm Personally, I thought the std range was terrible. Australs std was a bit better than PGHs, but it all comes down to personal taste. We chose a PGH brick that is not std and it is costing us about 5k extra. A big price but our justification was we had to be happy driving into our driveway and looking at it every day. I have a friend who also built the Kenthurst and chose a non-std brick and hers only landed up costing $900 more. It's really hard to work out until Clarendon does the pricing for you so you're best off making a list of your favourite to least favourite and going from there. Re: Who's building with Clarendon? 19Jun 15, 2011 12:00 am We went with Blue Steel Flash. The classic ranges are yellow, browny textured crappy colours.. sorry I should say OK = Average. The main thing is that those are plain bricks. Then if you want to spend a little more you get bricks that are 'slurried' - i.e. panted on. This means that when they bricklay and hit them on each other and chip etc, you'll see underlying colours. Some of the more expensive ones are baked through - e.g. Bowral Blue. I think Austral's free range = Everyday Life. Also, note you have to pay more for having better roof tiles etc. I got a free one. Re: Who's building with Clarendon? 20Jun 15, 2011 11:30 am juxt1n - Have you started the process with Clarendon? They give you a list of the std bricks for each location (or you can ask at the brick yard) in your ext colour pack. In the colour centre they are all on display too in Norwest. PGH had a lot of 'fritted' bricks in their std range...the ones with black tar looking chunks coming through or with the white patches on them - my parents called them the bird poo bricks when I showed them. I'm sure that gives you an idea. But you will have to go and see yourself - it really is all about personal taste. Our brick was called black & tan - PGH the stair balustrades? There is nothing special about these and I imagine literally every stair installer will be able to do this. 1 6710 The two 15mm holes are obviously not compliant. The Dept of Fair Trading would love to see this one! Do the gutters pool water after it stops raining? Although it's… 4 7843 |