Browse Forums Building A New House Re: why dont major building companies let you alter anything 6Apr 18, 2016 4:54 pm M Y C U S T O M C O R A L B R O N T E 43 ...............Kitchen! 16 Nov 2016 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79581 Re: why dont major building companies let you alter anything 14Apr 18, 2016 7:11 pm Unfortunately none of the suppliers we deal with have any round windows as part of their range, and we cannot use anything supplied by customers because of the warranty implications. I can understand their POV, but i think it goes further than that. Framing and brickwork would be more fiddly to accommodate a round window, and it's likely they don't even know if their trades are any good at this, since it's not a standard feature. To them it's just something they don't want any responsibility for because it's not something they normally do. I think your best option is to do it after handover, then it's not the builder's problem (because I definitely think they see it as a potential for problems and that's why they won't do it) Re: why dont major building companies let you alter anything 15Apr 18, 2016 7:19 pm Project builder = limitations for a number of reasons and the price reflects that. Custom build = whatever you want and the price often reflects that. You can have what you want, but not with this particular builder. Many people who build with a project builder have to let go of something because it's not something they're willing to do. Only you can decide if the windows are importsnt enough to you to go to another builder. Re: why dont major building companies let you alter anything 16Apr 18, 2016 8:06 pm Thanks for the advice. I'm gonna change the square window into a round after handover. Not changing companies as i like the size of rooms, layout, facade just the way it is and not going custom as its already how i wanted it. I had the layout of my custom house before i started going to displays and its exactly the same.. a 2 storey house with a master suite on the bottom floor balcony at the front and back of the house etc. so saves me time and money using a project building company. The symbol that i had apart in something to do with the house that makes it diff will be a circle window right in the middle of the house top floor back of the house. Re: why dont major building companies let you alter anything 17Apr 18, 2016 8:14 pm Build thread viewtopic.php?f=31&t=81011 I had an old shower unit that broke on me and when I took it off, there were only 2 water pipes, instead of the normal 2 water pipes and a shower head pipe. S o I… 0 36934 6 11528 That sucks! Hope it all works out. Good to move away from steel anyway for all your reasons, but it's also thermally poor. 16 17774 |