Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building in Brooks Reach 5Feb 27, 2013 6:08 pm Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 7Mar 01, 2013 7:11 pm Building the Nova with MJH http://thehousethatj-lbuilt.blogspot.com.au "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." C.S. Lewis Re: Building in Brooks Reach 8Mar 01, 2013 7:47 pm Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 9Mar 02, 2013 12:32 pm Building the Nova with MJH http://thehousethatj-lbuilt.blogspot.com.au "When you are arguing against Him, you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all." C.S. Lewis Re: Building in Brooks Reach 12Mar 05, 2013 10:17 am Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 13Mar 05, 2013 12:03 pm Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 15Mar 05, 2013 12:47 pm Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 17Mar 07, 2013 6:50 am Things are starting to pick up momentum for us now in the lead up to site works commencing!
Yesterday we received our CDC pack and Bank pack from Clarendon via email. The pack contained a few Post Contract Variations (PCVs), letters to our bank asking for unconditional approval of loan amount and authority to commence construction (ACC), CDC conditions report and CDC approved stamped plans and Reconciliation/Progress Payment Schedule. So lots of reading to do! The most important part of it all is that we get everything done and signed off on before the 28th March or they hit us with another price increase! YIKES It's frustrating as a lot of the conditions that need to be met are out of our control. So we went through the PCVs and made sure everything was ok; only a few things to clear up (we had to pay to upgrade to a H class slab and one of the new PCVs mentions a waffle pod and M class slab which is cheaper than a H class slab!). We've also tried making contact (several times ) with Allison from Dons Tiles (as Clarendon apparently changed providers and didn't tell us until now) and arrange an appointment for our wet area tiles asap! I've emailed the sales department so at least i have some proof in writing i've tried to contact them. We've already had a quote for tiles and carpet post handover that is more affordable and better quality than what Clarendon could offer us. Update: The manager from Dons responded to my email and called me first thing this morning to make a 3 hour appointment for next Thursday (ealierest they could fit us in ) Today we had our Electrical meeting with Your Home Consulting. It was great and everything went smoothly, especially considering we only made the appointment late Tuesday afternoon! Thankfully we'd already sat down earlier the planning process and drawn out a rough idea as to where we wanted lights and power points etc. Our tender had some provisions for lights/power points but ended up spending about $3000 on top of that. We had also previously completed half of the electrical appointment with Sentinel alarms, but as they no longer work with Clarendon our quotes and items were just copied over to our plans with YHC, which worked for us as Cat6 cables with YHC are more expensive! We had a few two way switches added, 4 extra double power points, 1 weather proof double power point, upgraded our meter box to 3 phase power in preparation for our air con, both bathrooms will have 2 lamp fan light heater (no ducting) installed. The other big costs were extra light and power circuits because of the amount of lights/power points we added. Thank goodness we only had to get an extra one of each! We didn't go to crazy. Kiah was the consultant who handled our appointment and she was friendly, knowledgeable and did not try to sell us anything we didn't want. It was refreshing to feel comfortable asking all those silly first home buyer/builder questions. We signed the quote after the meeting and were advised that it would not be sent back to CH until we had contacted YHC again to confirm we were happy. If we wanted to make any changes we could let Kiah know and she'd send us out the new paper work to sign. Break down of individual prices for anyone interested (note that prices vary depending on who your builder is):
Extra power circuit w/ safety switch $250 light points $53 junction box for front light on side brick $70 Two way switch $50 double spotlights with motion sensors $105 Double power points $68 Weatherproof double power point $125 3 Phase power $480 Wire, supply and install 2 lamp fan light heater (w/ extra circuit & safety switch) $440 We had already added two Cat6 cables, phone point and two tv points to the plan prior to this electricals meeting. So that's our little update for now Hoping to post some more good news soon. -Rubyam Re: Building in Brooks Reach 18Mar 07, 2013 8:09 pm Hi guys, thought I'd jump into this forum we just deposited in Stage 9 (Wiz, I think you know who we are!) and very excited but also a bit daunted by it all, especially after reading the Brooks Reach Nightmare thread LOL! But it'll all be worth it I'm sure. Looking forward to sharing all the highs and lows throughout the process, will be especially great to read about the people building in the stages ahead of us so we can get some tips and a general idea of what to expect! Nothing is ever smooth sailing but bring it on... Nat Re: Building in Brooks Reach 19Mar 08, 2013 8:14 am Nat84 Hi guys, thought I'd jump into this forum we just deposited in Stage 9 (Wiz, I think you know who we are!) and very excited but also a bit daunted by it all, especially after reading the Brooks Reach Nightmare thread LOL! Nothing is ever smooth sailing but bring it on... Nat Hi Nat, WELCOME As you can probably tell from any of my posts I had no idea what we were doing along the way (Hubby & I are building our first home!) So make sure you ask lots of questions, read lots and get everything in writing from both your bank and builder (and any third parties the might end up being involved!) Don't worry too much about posts on the nightmare thread; before our land got registered we went to a few different 'meetings' that stockland held at brooks reach to discuss different delays etc and there were a lot of angry people there that had deposited on land and were held up by delays. Just know that Stocklands is wanting to get the land off their hands as soon as they can, they don't like paying your rates!! Make lots of calls/emails to Barry or Rachel at Stockland and talk to people on the forum All the best, HOW EXCITING -Rubyam Re: Building in Brooks Reach 20Mar 08, 2013 11:28 am Nat84 Hi guys, thought I'd jump into this forum we just deposited in Stage 9 (Wiz, I think you know who we are!) and very excited but also a bit daunted by it all, especially after reading the Brooks Reach Nightmare thread LOL! But it'll all be worth it I'm sure. Looking forward to sharing all the highs and lows throughout the process, will be especially great to read about the people building in the stages ahead of us so we can get some tips and a general idea of what to expect! Nothing is ever smooth sailing but bring it on... Nat Hey Nat, Yay! I like your powers of deduction! lol How exciting for you guys, I'm loving the journey, hope you guys do to! Welcome...I'm beginning to love this forum, so much handy information - almost too much to take in sometimes. One of the best threads to check out in my opinion is the Things you Forget thread under Building a new house....I wish I had seen it before we had finalised our plans/tender. Some great information in there. Heard you are confirming everything this afternoon? Excellent! @Ruby - great news regarding your electrical appointment, sounds like you have it covered! We haven't done ours yet, but we will probably keep most things as it is as my hubby works for an electrical wholesaler and knows a few sparkies, so the only major change we will do is to move all the baton fixtures to the corners of rooms as we want to install downlights once we are in. It's frustrating relying on everyone else for all the documents and other stuff that has to be done, especially when there are time restrictions in place, fingers crossed for you that everyone plays nice! (At least it isn't Christmas time!) Cheers Wiz Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11121 go upvc window frames ensure insulation under colorbond. not just sarking, lighter color roof also not sure if you have seen this viewtopic.php?t=5823 last couple of pages… 4 110587 |