Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 171Jul 03, 2012 11:36 am You are right tengals. It is better to be late than sorry. I think I will be happy to sign the contract as long as it clearly states what's missing and what is to be added. We just got our contract delivered as of 10 minutes ago to my fiance's workplace. It will be a long night tongiht for us to go through all the paperwork/contract. Do you have any other advice/tips before tomorrow's signing? That would be great if they can update the colour doco during tomorrow's meeting. This is very much appreciated. =) Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 174Jul 04, 2012 6:07 pm we dont have building permits yet, nor can we even get a straight answer from Henley as to when we can expect them. I have asked clearly 3 emails to them just asking for an expected wait time/date and you think I can get a reply to my question?.....not a chance...., all i get in reply after hounding daily emails is "the permits have not been received yet." Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 175Jul 04, 2012 7:25 pm Hey tengals our contracts went ok. It took about two hours as we had to reselect a few items. We were told our basin couldn't go with wall mounted taps and we had to upgrade which cost us around 1k. We made a few changes to the lighting plan. They promised to update everything before the final contract. We have the list signed so we feel a little safer. It's all about loan approval and demolishing now. Let's hope the council will approve it without too much modifications. We were also promised odd number of steps it's a feng shui thing. Do you know the display at sela dra rise is the standard 2.57 ceiling height? At the display there were 15 steps but our drawings show 16. Cheers Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 177Jul 05, 2012 10:22 am well admin just called, and gave me the run-around regarding permits etc.... cant give me times, details nothing, just a load of jargon babble, energy this, engineering that, drafting this blah blah, they still continue to blame the developer for all this. LOL This is turing into a nightmare....and we havnt even started yet. I will say this, given my time again there is no way I would have committed to them. We have friends of ours who signed in the same estate about 2 months prior to us with another volume builder, who are nearly at handover!!!! It is just shocking in my book and I'm far from impressed. Apparently the job hasn't been ordered yet, the energy hasn't been completed blah blah, So where we stand at the moment - Is we have absolutely no idea when our build will begin, start or even be close to that stage. Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 178Jul 06, 2012 6:38 am In fairness though, if the developer hadn't of insisted that you change your facade, twice, you would probably be on your way already. As for the building permits, I think that's something that's handled by the council? We were fortunate in that our council were extremely quick with ours (Was done in a couple of days), but I know of some people who had to wait 3 odd weeks to get theirs. It really annoys me the developer being able to dictate your facade thing. Who gives a crap if a couple of houses look similar? Are they going to cover the costs to change a facade? Not cheap doing that! Anyway, look forward to following your tale. Hopefully it gets started soon. We built with Henley, and honestly, we found them fantastic. Chin up Land Deposit - 18/12/2009 Became a land Baron - 21/12/2010 Site Start - 27/1/2011 All moved in!! Re: Building the Sahara Q1 by Henley - Our Blog 180Jul 09, 2012 10:09 am destiny No one knows the pain like the bearer. I eagerly await your happy moments when the slab and frames go up me too..... Im hoping this week is a better one and we can see some light at the end of the tunnel..... Hi, If you give a set of criteria as to what means 'good' to you, it'll give others prompts to respond. We considered Henley early on but there were two factors that… 1 10396 You have mandatory building inspections and privately engaged building inspections. The difference between the two comes down to inspecting the building so it's safe and… 3 18019 6 11469 |