Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 7May 10, 2012 11:04 am For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 8May 10, 2012 12:31 pm Just this morning I heard an advert on the radio about Masterton doing a special Mansion Package, Ducted Air-Con and free 12sqm alfresco. This was never mentioned or offered to us. New we knew about the first two and already getting them, but not the FREE alfresco! So I emailed them and ask about it, "where is my share of the free 12sqm alfresco?" I'll keep you posted.. Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 9May 10, 2012 5:29 pm Thats the offer we got. It was available lae last year. It all works out at around the same price through. Just tell them what you want and they will comply. Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 10May 11, 2012 11:45 am Any time today we should receive our initial building plans. YEY! Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 11May 11, 2012 10:52 pm A quick look at the plans and it all looks good! Only very few minor changes, mostly outside taps location, manhole location etc. Will go in detail over the weekend. One major issue is the front setback, it is 10m! I was expecting 7m, like where the current house is and like our next door neighbour. I will need to chase it up. As it is dawn now, I have more front yard then back yard! lol. Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 12May 12, 2012 12:21 pm Good stuff. Glad you got your plans. If they have ton redraw anything, expect to wait a few weeks again unfortunately. Isnt it ridiculous that you cant position your own home where you want to on your own peice of land. I mean fair enough on the sides but the front! Its just not fair. Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 13May 12, 2012 3:07 pm PS_Sirocco7 Good stuff. Glad you got your plans. If they have ton redraw anything, expect to wait a few weeks again unfortunately. Isnt it ridiculous that you cant position your own home where you want to on your own peice of land. I mean fair enough on the sides but the front! Its just not fair. Well the council has Min of 6.5 meters, but CDC uses average of adjoining houses. Unfortunately, the idiot next door built his house 12m back, and did not care, since he sold it to the current owner year after he built it. So now I have to take the average of 8.1m. I will try to move forward by 1m, to see if I can convince CDC. I'll keep everyone posted on the result, hoping someone in the same situation can use the result, one way or the other. Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 14May 21, 2012 11:30 am Has anyone made a choice of using 2 different colours of bricks from the same range, from same brick supplier and pay $500 extra charge? M just informed me of this stupid extra cost. Does not make sense. I mean not even $100 extra delivery charge I could maybe understand, but $500! WTF! Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 15May 28, 2012 10:44 am In my previous post I mentioned about a $500 charge to have 2 different colours of bricks, to enhance our facade, turns out it is the cost of getting 1 extra palette of bricks to make sure we have enough of each colour to finish the build. We will end up few extra bricks, but that is ok, I can see a nice BBQ or wood-fire oven on my alfresco Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 16May 28, 2012 10:56 am Thats good. Im also hoping to have a few left over bricks for a nice bbq too. Hope your plans come around quickly Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 17Jun 14, 2012 8:54 pm M delays and plans so well that contract sign off date is exactly on 90 days! No room to move... Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 18Jun 21, 2012 2:32 pm Signed the contracts and paid 5% deposit this morning. Now we wait for the CDC plans preparation and colour selection appointment for the next 3-4 weeks. P.S. Finally, this morning, when I did the final plans sign-off, they had the right plans! After 4 times trying to correct the same issue... Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 19Jun 21, 2012 4:35 pm Yay For info on our build: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=43093 Built the McLaren by Dechellis - slab down 22 Feb - handover 30 Aug 2011 - and gardens finished 9 Dec 2012!! Re: Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes 20Jun 29, 2012 9:37 am Looks like a bit of planning and work ahead of us, as we decide on internal colours and any upgrades. 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