Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 261Nov 03, 2011 11:17 pm Follow JK's Lexington build: http://thehotdogdog.blogspot.com/ Roofing: 22/11 (current) Frame: 9/11 - 21/11 (9 days) Slab: 3/11 (1 day) Trenching: 26/10 - 2/11 (5 days) Contract Signed: 4/10 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 271Nov 17, 2011 8:52 pm Hello Guys, Got our Final inspection Monday afternoon... yippeee !!! So nearly there, The big plan of being in before Christmas should happen. Can't believe the fellas overseas swanning around while your doing all the Yakka Looking great Chatzes.. step at a times the way. Good luck with your handover as well Trudy..fingers crossed for you. Ill let you know how things go with ours on monday. Bye for now G Ger Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 272Nov 18, 2011 9:03 am Hi guys, Ger - that sounds awesome! good luck with your inspection on monday ours is on friday... we are getting so excited about it now. Kate - wow you must be feeling just so settled in your new place im so glad you're enjoying it. we are now planning for things to be done before moving in e.g. alarm system, driveway, flooring and fencing. So after handover we should be able to move in about a weeks time, as long as we can get the tradies lined up in time. Getting our wardrobe fitouts done by "kan do caminets" (AMAZING PRICES) can wait to see the fitouts all done. the guy running the show is a lovely old aussie guy - reminds me of an australian version of my dad Kate, would i be able to have details of your inspector that you used for handover? I just seriouslt dont have time to organise one before then. Trudy Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 274Nov 19, 2011 1:34 pm Thanks gerry! I'll give them a call You must be excited bout Monday! Apparently after handover inspection, we can't get keys for a week coz of the bl00dy banks needing a whole week to do a valuation!?!? We r having to call and reschedule flooring and fencing guys now have u spoken to your bank? What did they say to u bout it? Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 275Nov 19, 2011 1:48 pm Hey guys - Ger, all the best for Monday, hope it won't be too long after that you'll have keys! Trudy, our bank did the valuation after our final inspection, there was a bit of carrying on about not doing it till all the issues were completed which would have delayed handover, but our broker got stuck into them and we even had the final payment transferred two days early. I can't remember who our inspector was, but the guy we had was filling in and frankly not worth it do I'd go with Ger's suggestion. Still no Internet, now I'm raging at Chatz via text about it. Not getting anywhere..... Looking forward to hearing about handovers!!! Kate Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys! 276Nov 19, 2011 3:01 pm I can confirm Mrs Chatz has been raging at me at 3am in the morning (in India) about the lack of Internet. Can I just say we can never ever complain again about building standards, ifs rare to see buildings here that have been finished to what we would expect at the final inspection. But that is the norm here. Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 277Nov 20, 2011 8:50 am Hey guys Kate thx for the heads up re: valuation and inspector. I'll call gerrys guy tomorrow. Having no internet is so inconvenient! Do u have it on your phone at least? Argh. We are house sitting for some friends at the moment... Until we move in I guess. Thank god they offered us heir house... We were going insane without any privacy or peace and quiet where we were. This house we are staying at is actually a Henley home the wiltshire mk3. MASSIVE. Glad we didn't build a double story... Stairs r so annoying. We love the feeling of staying in a brand new Henley home though Chatz - how's India? R u wishing u were at home? I'm Sri lankan so I know exactly what u mean about building standards over there - I grew up in a house that had a home made skylight in place of having light switches and bulbs! We used to hand wash clothes outside and had an outdoor dunny! Makes me think how far we've come - from a 3rd world country all the way to aus, built our own home and have amazing jobs! Trudy Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys! 278Nov 20, 2011 2:19 pm Trudy, I am enjoying India, there is just so much to see, taste and smell! Poverty and insanely rich living next to each other, with so many things done with cheap labour rather that machines that we would use. Like a vacuum clearer or a lawn mower or a dish washer. The weather has been nice, best time of year I suspect to be here. It's a shame that they don't seem to try to maintain things in good order, they claim that houses just don't last long due to the climate, when I think if they built it well and maintained it, the house might last quite some time. We went to a market with lots of good shops, including a Gloria Jeans, but the paving around the shops is a mess. It was probably nice when first installed, but if has not been maintained. But it's not as if there is a shortage of labour... The traffic is amazing. Utter chaos but it works, you just have to be very brave when crossing the road. I've seen motorbikes with the whole family on them, husband, wife and 2 kids weaving in and out of trucks and buses. But looking forward to coming home and seeing the blinds, shelving and much of the landscaping that has been done while I've been gone. Good luck with your final inspection! Chatz Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 279Nov 20, 2011 5:56 pm trudy This house we are staying at is actually a Henley home the wiltshire mk3. MASSIVE. Glad we didn't build a double story... Stairs r so annoying. We love the feeling of staying in a brand new Henley home though Trudy Nice choice, Trudy! Hi Chatz and Mrs Chatz, So sorry to hear you still have no internet. I had to wait over 4 weeks for mine, and I was absolutely furious. I had everything planned so the trenching would go in the day after we got our keys, before the flooring, and we'd be all ready to go. We had lined up TPG for internet, but the phone connection didn't work and Telstra then had to uninstall it and TPG weren't too happy and wanted to fine us?? We were furious, and had to wait for Telstra to sort out the line, then reconnect with TPG again. Thankfully, we didn't have to pay the fine, nor redirection costs to my mobile. Thankfully that was all sorted by an ombudsman, but having planned and organised everything pretty much down to the hour we were far from impressed. In the end I saw 3 Telstra vans parked under the pole and they guy's were all scratching their heads.... Best wishes, though! I wave everytime I drive past!! Henley - Wilshire Mk 3 ... I love my house!! Site start: 4th Feb 09 Handover: 10th Sep 09 Blog: http://stormygirlscastle.blogspot.com/ Build Thread: viewtopic.php?t=7166 Re: Knockdown and building Henley's Talise Q2 - We have keys 280Nov 20, 2011 10:44 pm hiya stormy! yes, its actually your exact house we are at its rather beautiful. hey did you say we should line up our phone and internet before flooring and concreting? maybe i should get onto that! Oh and guess what stormy? i decided to go with timbershades after seeing your beautiful plantation shutters - all booked in and they are being installed around dec 20th we got silk white, the wide blades and center tilt too ... I think ours will look pretty similar. Chatz, so good to hear you are enjoying India - everything you describe reminds me of being back in Sri Lanka... its all the same really. Kate - cant imagine not having internet.... I'd be rather bored. I'm gonna get all of that organised TOMORROW. We are also going to a paving liquidation centre over the next weekend to buy our bluestone pavers for a fraction of the cost - apparently the have left overs from bigger jobs and sell them for dirt cheap. WE are going to be paving the landing in front of the front door and steps down as a pathway to the footpath. driveway will be aggregate concrete. multiple occ properties are always billed by trades at a premium, rarely per sqm for the lot. 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