Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 3Aug 11, 2012 1:56 pm GOODLIFE - Bravo - BUTLER http://getmistyfied.blogspot.com.au Display 20/02/2012 PPA 01/04/12 Prestart: 25/07/12 Settlement: 31/07/2012 Contracts:August Slab 19/11/12 BRICKS 10/11/12 Roof 16/01/13 Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 5Aug 23, 2012 11:46 pm Jen Building with HomeGroupWA (started as Scott Park Homes ) - Grand Wisteria Check out my Build Thread!! Time line on P1. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 6Aug 24, 2012 12:00 am GOODLIFE - Bravo - BUTLER http://getmistyfied.blogspot.com.au Display 20/02/2012 PPA 01/04/12 Prestart: 25/07/12 Settlement: 31/07/2012 Contracts:August Slab 19/11/12 BRICKS 10/11/12 Roof 16/01/13 Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 9Aug 28, 2012 3:22 pm 6k is pretty good, I went by myself to both meetings with both my kids (2.5yo and 8week old) and spent about 12k. How much did your mirrored sliding wardrobe doors cost? I'm gonna add these after handover. GOODLIFE - Bravo - BUTLER http://getmistyfied.blogspot.com.au Display 20/02/2012 PPA 01/04/12 Prestart: 25/07/12 Settlement: 31/07/2012 Contracts:August Slab 19/11/12 BRICKS 10/11/12 Roof 16/01/13 Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 10Aug 29, 2012 8:16 pm jlil Hi Tracer How much did they charge you for the soft close drawers? Cheers J They were $250 for a bank of drawers and $250 for every cabinet. Seemed a bit excessive for cabinets so we just got them for the drawers. Might be able to do the cabinets after handover. turtleschell 6k is pretty good, I went by myself to both meetings with both my kids (2.5yo and 8week old) and spent about 12k. How much did your mirrored sliding wardrobe doors cost? I'm gonna add these after handover. Im not sure really. We first upgraded from standard shelf and rail to enclosed door. That set us back $300 each room. Then we went to double mirror sliding doors and that was around $750 each on top of the $300. I forgot to ask if we get that $300 back or is it part of the cost. I think going from standard to double will be ~$1000. Again I dont have the sheet on me at the moment and will update with the right figure soon. Site Scrape and Toilet 11Sep 07, 2012 6:08 pm Google Sketchup 12Sep 07, 2012 6:13 pm Slab Down 13Sep 11, 2012 1:53 pm Footings and Mesh went down yesterday with the slab going down this morning. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 14Sep 23, 2012 8:23 pm Window frames have arrived in the past week. Bricks should arrive on the 27th. Drainage has been put in. When they did it they damaged the slab. I have emailed the builder and they have assured me that it is cosmetic damage and not to worry about it. They also said this might occur when the bricks gets delivered. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ What do you think? Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 15Sep 27, 2012 9:56 am So in the past two days they have put in temporary power, got rid of all the excess sand from laying the footings, added a gemmill homes construction sign on the front fence and delivered a storage shed. That cracking I mentioned earlier is worse than I expected. It is wider than the 90mm brick that will be placed over it meaning the carpet will be layed over this chip. I will mention it to the builder and see what they say. maybe it will just get filled after the bricks have gone up. The slab scrape got rid of the top 50mm on average all the way around the house. This means that it got rid of most of the rubbish that was around the surface from the neighbouring build. This would of been great to know beforehand. Hopefully the bricks arrive today. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 16Oct 02, 2012 4:50 pm Had bricks arrive on the 28th. A day late but it had been raining for the past two days. No progress as it was a public holiday on Monday. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 17Nov 04, 2012 10:52 pm Show some pics of your bricks! You must have a roof by now?? PICS! GOODLIFE - Bravo - BUTLER http://getmistyfied.blogspot.com.au Display 20/02/2012 PPA 01/04/12 Prestart: 25/07/12 Settlement: 31/07/2012 Contracts:August Slab 19/11/12 BRICKS 10/11/12 Roof 16/01/13 Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 18Nov 29, 2012 2:31 pm turtleschell 6k is pretty good, I went by myself to both meetings with both my kids (2.5yo and 8week old) and spent about 12k. How much did your mirrored sliding wardrobe doors cost? I'm gonna add these after handover. So originally we went for the single metal door frames on the single robes. For both bed 2 & 3 this cost us $583. This was part of our intial contract. In our prestart we then changed both to the double with mirror doors and that cost $1571. I dont know if that is extra/ on top of the $583 or if we got credited. We changed from 930mm robes to 1750mm. this changed the position of the robe wall which would be a hard task to do afterwards. Unless you already have double robes. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 19Nov 29, 2012 2:33 pm jlil Hi Tracer How much did they charge you for the soft close drawers? Cheers J $247 for just the 4 bank of drawers. I can see that you can get soft closing hinges from bunnings or ikea for about $20 a pair. Way cheaper than the $250 a pair they were going to charge us. Re: Coventry by GoodLife Homes 20Nov 29, 2012 2:48 pm turtleschell obviously you had Prestart already? How did you go? What upgrades did you do? Annoying about the rubbish! I'm pretty sure site scrape is part of the provisional costs. They wanted to charge $2k+ for stormwater disposal. This was running a pipe all the way around the house to two big drainage pits. Very professional but I opted to do it myself. Just going to run some piping to a soakwell from Bunnings. There are six of them to do at ~$50 a pop. I've heard that the yellow sand is actually quite good at drainage. It rained a bit over the weekend and you could see the water moved the sand around the area of the downpipes but it wasnt very destructive. The colour specialist suggested to go with 400x100 tiles for our splashback. They looked good so we did. This cost us $14 which we didnt know about at the colour meeting. Extended the splashback up to the overhead cupboards. The tiles go all the way around the benchtop in the kitchen. I thought it was just going to go on the same wall as the cooktop. Extra tiles were $350. Overhead cupboards were $1300. They wanted to charge us $700 for going with 450x450 tiles. So we went with standard 330x330 tiles. Upgrade carpet to the next range was $1000. Upgraded underlay was $400. Upgraded the laundry from standard metal basin to 800mm wide cabinet. Matches with kitchen. $550. Overheard cupboards to match were $400. 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