Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building in Brooks Reach 22Mar 11, 2013 2:00 pm Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 24Mar 12, 2013 7:36 am Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 27Mar 13, 2013 6:55 am Nat84 LOL rubyam I swear we drove past you and your hubby on the weekend, I only know it was you now cos hubby n I drove past a couple mowing their grass and we said "oh how nice, they're mowing their lawn" LOL!!! And as Wiz said I think you guys are building next door to hubby's work colleague (yep, my hubby works with Wiz! And the 5000 other people who have purchased in BR!). Haha Nat, that's great! You would have seen Hubby sweating it out dong all the work and me trying ot pull out a few weeds with no gloves (:s not fun!) I wish you'd stop by to say hi! One passer by stopped to talk about builders etc but that was it, there was lots of traffic though in the 2hours we were there! Is anyone going along to the Neighbour day at Brooks Reach?? "Stockland are holding a Good Neighbour Day Event Sunday 24th March from 12-2pm in the Brooks Reach Park. Bring along friends or family and enjoy a sausage sizzle while the kids take part in an Easter egg hunt and play in the park while you meet and mingle with future neighbours!" DH & I will be there with my little sisters -Rubyam Re: Building in Brooks Reach 28Mar 13, 2013 9:20 am Rubyam Is anyone going along to the Neighbour day at Brooks Reach?? "Stockland are holding a Good Neighbour Day Event Sunday 24th March from 12-2pm in the Brooks Reach Park. Bring along friends or family and enjoy a sausage sizzle while the kids take part in an Easter egg hunt and play in the park while you meet and mingle with future neighbours!" DH & I will be there with my little sisters Hey Ruby, Not sure at this stage, it is my daughter's birthday. We might pop down around 12 but may not stay the whole time, even if it means we can catch up and say g'day!! Will let you know if we come down. Wiz Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 29Mar 16, 2013 7:50 pm LOL rubyam if I had known it was you I would have said hello! I didn't know til I just read your post saying you guys were mowing the lawn then the penny dropped that would have been cool doing a bit of block maintenance, can't wait til we can get onto our block and do that sort of stuff Didn't know about the neighbour BBQ but we may turn up depending on what we're doing! Re: Building in Brooks Reach 30Mar 17, 2013 12:40 pm Hello everyone! What a crazy two weeks we've had! But I can now finally say that our file with Clarendon has been moved to production! Hopefully next week we'll be given a start date for the builders to be onsite. The only worry i have now is the actual ordering of supplies for our build; apart from our tiles & electrical selections, we chose all our colours and materials over a year ago!! Tile choices: Threshold/laundry exit Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Laundry (Minus mosaic; Though it is pretty!) Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bathroom tile & mosaic Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The laundry tile is a darker shade to that of the floor tile. We hadn't visited Dons Tiles previously but as we're having a local company do our flooring throughout the house we didn't take too long to chose the wet floor tiles. We spent just under $2000 in upgrades. In bathroom, ensuite, W.C & laundry we are having the tiles brought up to 1.2m height. In the laundry the tile will also wrap around the left and ride walls (not very big area) on the side the washer & sink will be. We are also have the mosaic tile above the ensuite vanity and one strip along the face of the bath. A standard strip of mosaic tile is included in the showers. So overall we think we did pretty good. We were really happy with the selection Dons had and Holly, the rep we had our appointment with, was lovely! If only they had finished the construction of the carpet side of the business - we would have looked at getting a quote from them to do all our internal flooring too. Woohoo! So here's hoping for more good news re: construction date next week. Re: Building in Brooks Reach 31Mar 18, 2013 12:19 pm Congrats Ruby! So hoping they start your construction next week, awesome news! (Oops, edit here, just re-read your post and you said construction date to be given to you!! lol Exciting news anyway!!) I really like your tile choices, they look lovely! And the mosaic is beautiful.... So excited for you, can't wait to see your house progress! Cheers Wiz Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 32Mar 19, 2013 8:37 pm WizardofOz ::celeb:: Congrats Ruby! So excited for you, can't wait to see your house progress! Cheers Wiz Aww thanks Wiz it's nice to be able to celebrate with you guys Re: Building in Brooks Reach 33Mar 22, 2013 12:45 pm Hi everyone, Just a quick update to let you know the new Brooks Reach community website is now live and can be found here http://www.stockland.com.au/residential ... unity.aspx Hope you all have a great friday afternoon and a lovely weekend. If anyone makes it out to the BBQ on Sunday, come say hi -Rubyam Re: Building in Brooks Reach 34Mar 25, 2013 9:30 am UPDATE! Hubby got a call from our Site Supervisor this morning to say that the piering was being done today and they hope to have the slab completed by Tuesday next week (2nd Apr!!!) OH MY GOODNESS. We knew that something was happening as we visited out lot yesterday as we were out at Brooks Reach celebrating Good Neighbour day. To our happy surprise out lot had been cut/filled & smoothed out ready for what we now know is today's piering! I am going to try and pop out there on my lunch break today to meet him and snap a few shots. I will post a photo later as well as a shot of the block we took on the weekend. The neighbour day event was nice and the Stocklands team are always friendly. We didn't meet anyone new (sadly ) but we did get to show my sisters around the park, have a free sausage sizzle and some chocolates! It was another scorcher at 30degrees+ in the sun! Hopefully this sun sticks around until our roof gets put up! Happy days! Re: Building in Brooks Reach 35Mar 25, 2013 11:37 am Rubyam UPDATE! Hubby got a call from our Site Supervisor this morning to say that the piering was being done today and they hope to have the slab completed by Tuesday next week (2nd Apr!!!) OH MY GOODNESS. We knew that something was happening as we visited out lot yesterday as we were out at Brooks Reach celebrating Good Neighbour day. To our happy surprise out lot had been cut/filled & smoothed out ready for what we now know is today's piering! Yay Ruby!! What exciting news! It's all happening for you now, going to have to check our your progress this afternoon when I walk the dog... (We're still waiting on council...soooooo slow!) Had my daughter's birthday celebrations yesterday, so couldn't make it down, would have like to have met you guys! Soon though I'm sure we will meet up! Cheers Wiz Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 36Mar 25, 2013 11:49 am WizardofOz Yay Ruby!! What exciting news! It's all happening for you now, going to have to check our your progress this afternoon when I walk the dog... (We're still waiting on council...soooooo slow!) Had my daughter's birthday celebrations yesterday, so couldn't make it down, would have like to have met you guys! Soon though I'm sure we will meet up! Cheers Wiz Wiz, Happy birthday for your little darling for yesterday! There really wasn't a big turn out at all so i can't say you missed much; But yes, one of these days we will meet up!! When council get their act together it'll be nice that we can look out for one another's lot (though my dective skills still have to figure out where you are haha!!) The lot next to ours looks like their frame will be going up this week; McDonald jones don't seem to mess around! The lot across from ours has their frame up too and some of their windows too! -Rubyam Re: Building in Brooks Reach 37Mar 25, 2013 12:04 pm Rubyam When council get their act together it'll be nice that we can look out for one another's lot (though my dective skills still have to figure out where you are haha!!) The lot next to ours looks like their frame will be goign up this week; McDonald jones don't seem to mess around! The lot across from ours has their frame up too and some of their windows too! We're lot 325 - Morson Ave.... I am quite amazed at how quick things happen once the slab is done. Hopefully this will be the same for us when the time comes! Wiz Wiz Built @ Brooks Reach Built the Verdelho Guest with Beechwood Re: Building in Brooks Reach 38Mar 25, 2013 5:49 pm Wow Rubyam how exciting!! I'll have to go for a drive past during my lunch break one day this week! I saw the people next to you had their frames delivered at the end of last week, lucky ducks! It's amazing how quickly some places have been progressing the last couple of weeks, every time I drive by so much has happened. Rubyam, can you tell me if the cut and fill was expensive? You don't have to give me a price but just curious how they charge as we will definitely need one on our lot, and I'm sure it'll be quite a bit more as we have about a 1.7m cross fall, but just so I've got an idea of how they charge. Your block looks so flat I can't believe they had to do a cut and fill! Re: Building in Brooks Reach 39Mar 25, 2013 5:51 pm Oh, and sorry I didn't make it down yesterday, spent the day with family and friends at the beach it was a hot one! Re: Building in Brooks Reach 40Mar 25, 2013 9:33 pm Hi Ruby, Congrats, very exciting to see your block of land cut and filled. I contacted Stocklands regarding seeking a potential contact for grass cutting for our block of land, and Rachel responded by stating that she is unable to recommend a contact. I think I will have to call Jim' Mowing. Hi Nat and Wiz, Jumping into this forum for the first time. Ruby and I have been posting on each other's blogs for a while. So, here's my introduction: Venkat (and Viji, my wife) are building a two storey house. Our block is in Stage 2 and we are hoping to have a site start in mid-May. You can check out our building adventures on our blog: ourmetriconphoenix.blogspot.com.au Nat, Our Builder is charging approximately $3000 to excavate 1000 mm and fill approximately 600 mm. Note that this is on the top of standard site costs. Cheers, Venkat. Building Phoenix 41 in Brooks Reach, Horsley Blogging about our build at: http://ourmetriconphoenix.blogspot.com.au/ 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 11726 Hey guys building a new place through a volume builder and just wondering if i should complain to the site supervisor as we just had plasterboard installed. Looks like… 0 11599 |