Browse Forums Building A New House Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3303Aug 30, 2012 7:28 am fourgs coobri So settlement booked in for tomorrow cant wait Congrats! Ours is on Friday . Hopefully there will be no more major issues. Otherwise, we don't mind waiting. We have told our SS from day 1 we wont take the house until we are 100% happy Reminded him of that this week and also let him know we have this rental for 3 more weeks so we can wait Site Cut 8/04/12 Slab 13/04/12 Frame 18/04/12 Roof 07/05/12 Lock Up 06/06/12 Keys 30/08/12 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3304Aug 30, 2012 12:09 pm Sorry another question Has anyone who is building an Affinity home and using the Your Home Your Way promotion upgraded from evap cooling to refridgerated cooling? How much was the difference? (We are building the Atlantique) We had out colour selection on Monday and after seeing everyones photos in here we found the process so much easier. We were set on going with tiles but changed our mind after seeing all the photos on here with the floorboards Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3305Aug 30, 2012 12:26 pm coobri We have told our SS from day 1 we wont take the house until we are 100% happy Reminded him of that this week and also let him know we have this rental for 3 more weeks so we can wait lol, too bad if the SS wants to be a douche and holds out settlement for 3 weeks :p willow2012 Sorry another question Has anyone who is building an Affinity home and using the Your Home Your Way promotion upgraded from evap cooling to refridgerated cooling? How much was the difference? (We are building the Atlantique) We had out colour selection on Monday and after seeing everyones photos in here we found the process so much easier. We were set on going with tiles but changed our mind after seeing all the photos on here with the floorboards Willow, our promo had evap included and we upgraded heating and cooling to 5.5 star heating and the 18.1 kw cooling, all up was 11k. Worth every dollar imho. As for the floorboards, they aren't great, we will be replacing ours with real timber boards in the coming months, they are a pest to keep clean!! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3306Aug 30, 2012 8:47 pm So had handover today all went good 3 items that need to be fixed will be done in the next week Site Cut 8/04/12 Slab 13/04/12 Frame 18/04/12 Roof 07/05/12 Lock Up 06/06/12 Keys 30/08/12 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3309Sep 03, 2012 1:21 pm Concreter starts in the morning 85sqm of exposed for the driveway and 150sqm coloured around the house cant wait its going to look so good Site Cut 8/04/12 Slab 13/04/12 Frame 18/04/12 Roof 07/05/12 Lock Up 06/06/12 Keys 30/08/12 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3311Sep 03, 2012 1:22 pm fourgs coobri So settlement booked in for tomorrow cant wait Congrats! Ours is on Friday . Hopefully there will be no more major issues. Otherwise, we don't mind waiting. How did you go fourgs are you in ? Site Cut 8/04/12 Slab 13/04/12 Frame 18/04/12 Roof 07/05/12 Lock Up 06/06/12 Keys 30/08/12 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3312Sep 03, 2012 3:51 pm coobri fourgs coobri So settlement booked in for tomorrow cant wait Congrats! Ours is on Friday . Hopefully there will be no more major issues. Otherwise, we don't mind waiting. How did you go fourgs are you in ? Ours went well with 3 items in letter of undertaking! In possession of the house now and quite busy with the post-handover tasks.. TV antenna, blinds (partial installation), appliance installation - all check! Tomorrow is commissioning, driveway concreting. Really glad I didn't return to work yet and I'm able to look after these things. Guess I have to get my hands dirty though and "wear the pants" to take on the task of putting the grout sealants. Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3313Sep 06, 2012 10:47 am Hi guys! How many storm water risers do you have in your house after handover? Ours only have two, one on each side of the house while the sewer was at the rear. Is that enough? I'm afraid some might have been cut-off and covered with dirt underground. For proper drainage outside the house, did you engage external plumbers ? and what kind of works did you engage them with related to proper drainage? Hope somebody can shed some light on this as I have no idea . Thanks! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3314Sep 06, 2012 11:13 am Hi fourgs. We had 2 also. This would have been plenty but our dead side of our home was cut approx 200-300mm lower than our neighbors block so when it rained the water just pooled there. So we had an extra 3 riser pipies added and our concreter put the drains in at the correct levels when he did our path down the side so in essence we now have 4 drains spaced over 17 meters. The path has been laid so the run off is angled to each of the drains... And now we have no pooling in there what so ever! Sleven Moved into our Atlantique MkII 36 by Carlisle Homes Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3315Sep 06, 2012 4:53 pm sleven Hi fourgs. We had 2 also. This would have been plenty but our dead side of our home was cut approx 200-300mm lower than our neighbors block so when it rained the water just pooled there. So we had an extra 3 riser pipies added and our concreter put the drains in at the correct levels when he did our path down the side so in essence we now have 4 drains spaced over 17 meters. The path has been laid so the run off is angled to each of the drains... And now we have no pooling in there what so ever! Thanks for sharing sleven! That's clear enough. I also got a better idea after talking to our SS and concreter. We'll have more added by the concreter. SS also said there's only two riser for us and the other risers we saw earlier in the build were attached to the downpipes. I'm a bit relieved now! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3316Sep 07, 2012 11:40 am fourgs sleven Hi fourgs. We had 2 also. This would have been plenty but our dead side of our home was cut approx 200-300mm lower than our neighbors block so when it rained the water just pooled there. So we had an extra 3 riser pipies added and our concreter put the drains in at the correct levels when he did our path down the side so in essence we now have 4 drains spaced over 17 meters. The path has been laid so the run off is angled to each of the drains... And now we have no pooling in there what so ever! Thanks for sharing sleven! That's clear enough. I also got a better idea after talking to our SS and concreter. We'll have more added by the concreter. SS also said there's only two riser for us and the other risers we saw earlier in the build were attached to the downpipes. I'm a bit relieved now! Thanks for bringing up this topic. We've been in our house almost 3 months now and while we've already done concreting around the perimeter of the house, we have yet to do the front and back landscaping. Same with you Sleven, our block was cut lower than our neighbors left and right. Our concreter made use of the drains that were placed by Carlisle on either side of the house. We still have close to 4 meters of backyard which we're thinking of putting artificial turf on. Will we need to add drainage on that area, too? Building Pagoda 31 MkII 28/11/11 - Tender 20/12/11 - Contract Signed 12/06/12 - Settlement Now on to never-ending post handover activities! Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3317Sep 07, 2012 9:00 pm fourgs Hi guys! How many storm water risers do you have in your house after handover? Ours only have two, one on each side of the house while the sewer was at the rear. Is that enough? I'm afraid some might have been cut-off and covered with dirt underground. For proper drainage outside the house, did you engage external plumbers ? and what kind of works did you engage them with related to proper drainage? Hope somebody can shed some light on this as I have no idea . Thanks! Hi fourgs Re my pm had plumber back today to fix storm water 4 risers broken off and covered in dirt and 3 brakes in pipes So concreter back in morning after a lost week So happy ( lucky ) I found this before concrete was done Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3318Sep 09, 2012 6:51 am coobri Hi fourgs Re my pm had plumber back today to fix storm water 4 risers broken off and covered in dirt and 3 brakes in pipes So concreter back in morning after a lost week So happy ( lucky ) I found this before concrete was done How on earth did they break for risers off and not notice this? Given they usually only have the risers in for downpipes it seems weird. Hope you are enjoying your new house Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3319Sep 09, 2012 7:00 pm CBPH coobri Hi fourgs Re my pm had plumber back today to fix storm water 4 risers broken off and covered in dirt and 3 brakes in pipes So concreter back in morning after a lost week So happy ( lucky ) I found this before concrete was done How on earth did they break for risers off and not notice this? Given they usually only have the risers in for downpipes it seems weird. Hope you are enjoying your new house Hi CBPH We had an extra riser at each down pipe section for future drainage due to site cut on that side of house Looks like someone has broken them off and covered them over to cover their as$ The one I found they would have just pushed back into ground to make it look like all is good Im happy that Carlisle fixed the problem but the thing is it should never had happened as I have been telling SS about this for a cpl months and he told me the plumber had capped the risers that were missing And yes we love our house will post some pics in the next cpl days Site Cut 8/04/12 Slab 13/04/12 Frame 18/04/12 Roof 07/05/12 Lock Up 06/06/12 Keys 30/08/12 Re: The CARLISLE HOMES & SPECTRA General Information Thread 3320Sep 09, 2012 9:19 pm coobri, that is pretty poor given the points should have been on the plans. Sad that they cannot catch the culprit. Well on our news, our pool will be all in and done by this time in a fortnight, we are racing against the neighbours site start to use their block as access. Thankfully Dennis Family Homes (builder going to be starting beside us) have been bloody brilliant in advising us on when permits went in etc and will call us when planned site start is, they say it is 3-4 weeks away. 0 4975 We are at the stage on our build in Kilcoy, Queensland where we need to get our fencing installed but we cant get any contact details for our neighbours to give them… 0 6155 You should check your detail drawings, it may show downpipe within brick pier. 14 14089 |