Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Sep 07, 2011 9:30 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 2Sep 07, 2011 9:47 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 3Sep 07, 2011 9:55 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 4Sep 07, 2011 9:58 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 6Sep 09, 2011 8:29 pm Building NBG Buckingham 46 on Property in rural Victoria my Building Thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46837 Settlement... 7Sep 10, 2011 7:29 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Tiles... 8Sep 10, 2011 7:33 pm Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Electrial and Colour Selection... 10Sep 12, 2011 8:39 pm Today we had both our electrical and colour appointments at Hopetoun Interiors in Port Melbourne. Electrical Appointment Our first appointment was our electrical appointment in which we picked we picked where all our lights, power points, internet connection, phone line etc. We ended up adding more lights, down lights, double power points, outdoor power points and extra data point throughout the house. We also added Pre wiring for a 7.1 surround sound system as well as 2 outdoor speakers which will be linked in to our sound system. All up we ended up only going over our electrical budget by about $500 so we were very happy with the results. Colour Selection We have already been to have a look at all the colour options we had so when it came time to sit down with our colour consultant we were pretty much ready to choose everything we wanted. These are the selections we made: Kitchen/Interior: Walls: Flokati Bench Top: Ceaser Stone - Osprey Bottom Cabinets: Burnished Wood Overhead Cabinets: Polar White Internal Doors: Oriental White (Gloss) Splash Back: Dulux Align Carpet: Chester - Rainy winter (I Forgot to take a photo but it's a dark grey carpet) Interior Door Handles: Velocity Glide - Chrome Outdoor: Brick: Homestead Red Gum Morter Joint: Rolled Joints - Standard colour Infill Above G/Door, Render: Colourbond Woodland Grey Garage: Woodland Grey Fascias, Gutters, Downpipes: Colourbond Monument Windows: Black Roof Tiles: Ebony Front Door: Panelmasta Caprice Colour Woodland Grey Glass Infill in the Front Door: Rice Paper Windows Either Side of Front Door: Rice Paper Bathroom/Ensuite: Bench Top: Ceaser Stone Zulu Cabinets: Natural White Sink: Valentino Laundry: Bench Top: Laminex - WHite Valencia Cabinet: Burnished Wood So that's about all the photos I have, we also upgraded the toilets but didn't really think that I needed to take a photo! Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 11Sep 13, 2011 9:37 am well done!!!!! good job!!!! (we have burnished wood, and it does show finger prints, VERY WELL incase you didnt realise). Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 12Sep 13, 2011 9:44 am Glad to hear everything went well. I really like your choices especially the splashback, ours will be blue too it will all look beautiful with your tiles. Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 13Sep 13, 2011 10:14 pm Nice Job catty seems like you're got a nominally black-on-white color scheme when a few touches of colour - kind of like ours actually... Some people apparently have nothing better to do than comment on other people's sigs. Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 14Sep 13, 2011 10:34 pm Thanks Guys! We were going for a black a white theme through out the house with grey tiles and carpet. The only real colour we have is the splash back. We are planning to do a little bit of painting later on after we move in but for the moment we are pretty happy. Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 15Sep 14, 2011 9:19 am Hey cattycatcat, your house is going to be HUGE! What will you do with all that space? There'll be enough room for your inlaws to move in with you hehe Well done on the colour selections, they are gorgeous!! Look forward to seeing it all come together x Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 17Sep 18, 2011 3:48 pm Contract Signing... We had our contract signing appointment at the Porter Davis Northern office in Bundoora on Friday afternoon. We met with our Customer Service Co-ordinator who went over all the important points in our contract as well as covering all of the other information that needed to be signed off on by us. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ During the appointment we covered: The Porter Davis contract Promotional items Upgrades and variations and plans to demonstrate these items Porter Davis terms and conditions Specifications 6 star energy report Soil report Insurance details The HIA New Homes Contract: All the legal obligations of each of the parties to the contract (ie Porter Davis & the Client) The terms and conditions to allow construction of a house in an efficient and orderly fashion Once everything had been covered we needed to clarify a few points as well as check a couple of things that we thought were included in our original sales quote that we hadn't covered. At the end of it all we included a couple more cost to our build which were: Fly screens to all opening windows and Doors - $4500 6 Extra Down lights to living area -$900 Once we were satisfied we signed all the documents and paid a 5% deposit. Our Customer Service Co-ordinator will now need to send a copy of our signed contract off to our broker to get our Constructions Loan approved and then we will finally be done with all the admin side of our home and we can get ready for the construction fun! Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 18Sep 18, 2011 3:52 pm betHeEeee Hey cattycatcat, your house is going to be HUGE! What will you do with all that space? There'll be enough room for your inlaws to move in with you hehe Well done on the colour selections, they are gorgeous!! Look forward to seeing it all come together x Inlaws... Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 19Sep 18, 2011 6:36 pm Hey guys - so excited to come across your posts. We are at a similar step to you and are just about to have our appointments for our drysdale 30. Any chance you would be willing to share some quote info with us? We just have not had anyone discuss the glass next to the door with us- was that an extra cost? Also what the cost of caesar stone to the benches was? Any other Upgrades we should consider adding would live you to make suggestions. Cheers! Re: Drysdale 30 by Porter Davis in Wallara Waters, Wallan 20Sep 18, 2011 7:39 pm Hey thebigbuild, Nice choice of house I would be more then happy to give you some help.. thebigbuild Any chance you would be willing to share some quote info with us? We just have not had anyone discuss the glass next to the door with us- was that an extra cost? The side light (Thats what they call the window on the side of your front door) is included. We upgraded the glass though to have Rice paper in it for more privacy. thebigbuild Also what the cost of Caesar stone to the benches was? Any other Upgrades we should consider adding would live you to make suggestions. The Caesar stone to the kitchen bench and the island bench was included in the promotion that we chose (Gourmet Kitchen $5499) We did pay extra to have Caesar Stone in our bathroom ($248) and Ensuit ($451) We are having a double vanity bench in or Ensuit. Other things we upgraded were having kitchen cupboards all the way across the kitchen wall, we added a glass splash back rather then tiles which is standard, but these this are more for looks then a necessary thing... Things that we opted for that were more practical: *Included insulation to the interior walls of the house (PD doesn't put anything in the walls which means sound can travel very well from one end of your house to the other) $1224 *Upgraded the underlay for our carpet which cost $204 *Evaporative Cooling to whole house $5475 *Fly screens to Whole house $700 *Sliding security screen doors to glass sliding doors $1179 x3 So yeah, we added quite a lot that I didn't list above but they are the main upgrades. Feel free to ask any questions you have. I am more then happy to help out Building the Drysdale 30 Wallara Waters, Wallan My Blog : http://www.ourwallanhome.blogspot.com My thread: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=50975 Hi, My home construction is complete, and the handover is scheduled next week. However the construction has been delayed and I have raised this to the builder. 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