Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 13Sep 30, 2015 12:42 am Hi Holly if your concern is to have a bigger laundry and you can't visualize the change, I would suggest you visit the new display home at Greenvale if you have the time. They just built the Edison 2800. Burbank made a few changes on the floor plan but its not available to be viewed on the website. The laundry space at the display home is now twice the size and they also managed to built a butler pantry too. In my opinion, it the best Edison design I've seen so far out of the 3 that on display currently. Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 14Sep 30, 2015 5:50 am 5k? That's not much if you think about it. So there wasn't a specific fee for the drafting itself, just the costs of the extra materials and labor? Our land won't title until next year we have a fair wait ahead of us. I need to get my bum down to the edge studio to see what comes standard with the house but I just haven't had the time, recently picking up weekend work too. It would be nice with all this technology if they would put it online for people to view as well before they get down there. I'm going to have to get to that display!!! Sounds amazing. Will you be starting a thread for your build? Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 15Oct 07, 2015 11:35 pm I just look at our variation home order today, it was actually 3k? that just extra materials and labour for the changes, so no additional fee for the drafting. I went down to the edge studio on the weekend as we were already in the city, but we were unable to get in. I'm not sure, whether you need to book an appointment first or sign the house contract in order for you to visit the place. I'm going to see my sales consultant this week and finalize the changes and paper work, so I'll ask him about it. Our land isn't titled till march 2016 now due to some council issues, but I will definitely be starting a thread with my progress. May I ask, where about are you building? were building in up north in Kalkallo. Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 16Oct 08, 2015 5:09 am Oh that's great! My only concern with making changes is resale value by removing an extra room to extend others, will I be ruining potential resale value down the track. We are building in Mernda. I'm also concerned about the final price as the original house we looked at was part of the gen collection and therefore much cheaper. I would love to know what the standard tapwear and things are for this collection. I haven't had a chance to get to edge, plus it's 2015 we should be able to find it on their website at our convenience. Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 17Oct 09, 2015 9:51 am if your buying the house for investment property, try to keep all the room. By decreasing it to larger other room will definitely decrease the value of the house and also when you apply for your loan the bank will valuate your house a lot lower. Try to keep all the room as possible, it will help in the resale value. In regards to the inclusion in the gen collections, everything is pretty much basic, as it reflects on the price of the house. when you move up the collections, it cost more but it comes with better inclusion, so you get what you pay for. Currently burbank has the feel free promotion, when we sign with Burbank we had the free shopping list. It the same as the feel free promotion which they currently have on offer. Burbank gives you up to 18k of free upgrade to use at the edge then for extra 5k to get to 24.5k of free value. If you haven't got this promotion n haven't sign any house contract ask your sales consultant if you could have this promotion instead as it will help with the cost of upgrades at the edge. Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 18Oct 19, 2015 4:17 pm Hey Daniel, We're actually nearing the end of our build with Burbank - luckily got in with the land a little early so ours titled early this year. It took a while to get the build going after that as we didn't commence the build until June when earth works and slab were done. Though that wasn't Burbank's fault, it was ours - we couldn't decide if we wanted the grand Alfresco or not! My only issue with Burbank to date has been the lack of communication and follow through with the site supervisor/s (we're on to our 3rd or 4th SS now and it's getting a little old haha). Find out who your supervisor is as early as you can, and maintain direct contact with them for accurate updates on your build - any issues, go directly to them and then follow up with an e-mail (so that it's in writing) to your client relations officer. The reason for maintaining direct contact with your supervisor is that they tend to update head office on their current builds once a week - whereas if you're on good terms with them they can generally provide you with updates much quicker with more detail. The biggest issues we had were a. our second supervisor was planning on resigning so he didn't put any effort into our build (or anyone's that he was managing for that matter) and a lot of the original proposed timelines lapsed with little/no actual work being completed. After he resigned though we got a new supervisor who's been with Burbank for a longer time and really knows his stuff - he's got us back on track and fingers crossed to move in well before Christmas this year. The other issue was that the supplier for plumbing fixtures (tapware, toilet roll holders, shower heads, towel rails) had issues so we had to re-select everything from a new supplier. I'd say always ask for checks that all of your stuff is still in stock when it comes to your basins, sink, tap ware, toilet and other plumbing related fixtures. You're not likely to have this sort of issue with your building materials such as bricks, roof tiles etc.. If we didn't ask, they wouldn't have checked until it was time to order the items and at that point, it would have caused us major delays while we waited on everything to be reordered and then arrive (then of course waiting for a tradie to become available to fit everything etc...). The best advice I can give you mate, just stay on 'em and stay friendly. They are helpful when you approach them and they do try their best to keep the customers happy. Good luck mate, Mo Re: Burbank Edison 2800 - Trillium, Mickleham 19Oct 21, 2015 5:57 pm fnt0603 if your buying the house for investment property, try to keep all the room. By decreasing it to larger other room will definitely decrease the value of the house and also when you apply for your loan the bank will valuate your house a lot lower. Try to keep all the room as possible, it will help in the resale value. In regards to the inclusion in the gen collections, everything is pretty much basic, as it reflects on the price of the house. when you move up the collections, it cost more but it comes with better inclusion, so you get what you pay for. Currently burbank has the feel free promotion, when we sign with Burbank we had the free shopping list. It the same as the feel free promotion which they currently have on offer. Burbank gives you up to 18k of free upgrade to use at the edge then for extra 5k to get to 24.5k of free value. If you haven't got this promotion n haven't sign any house contract ask your sales consultant if you could have this promotion instead as it will help with the cost of upgrades at the edge. You raise some great points. 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