Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 2May 08, 2017 11:01 am Follow my build: https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87724 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 3May 11, 2017 12:17 am Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 4May 11, 2017 12:20 am Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 5May 11, 2017 2:49 pm Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 6May 11, 2017 4:12 pm Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 7May 11, 2017 4:31 pm Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 8May 11, 2017 5:00 pm Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 9May 11, 2017 5:51 pm Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 10May 11, 2017 5:58 pm Gumdale is a really popular area, has your land been registered? Dalton 33 looks really nice as well, be interested to see what your plan looks like. Do you have a build thread on here? Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 11May 11, 2017 9:41 pm No I don't have a build thread here. Yes gumdale is a great suburb. Have been living locally since 2012. Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 12May 12, 2017 12:57 pm You are building a MANSION! Love it! I am following along, can't wait to see it progress. Make sure you post your colours up too! Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 13May 12, 2017 9:10 pm How did the colour selection go? I'm nervous about ours next week Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 14May 14, 2017 10:40 pm akashsethi10 How did the colour selection go? I'm nervous about ours next week Colour selection went pretty well on Friday, I have to say we probably took less time than we through we would, we did however spent about 4 - 5 hours on the day. To make things easier I would recommend to have a look at all the suppliers website or showrooms at the samples available i.e. external bricks we went and saw Australbricks and the lady was really helpful on deciding our external colours for us and it made our job a lot easier by looking at some of the different colour combinations, and you also get some sample bricks to take away with you. We ended up doing a lot of internal upgrades we originally didn't have in our contract. Another thing to make your job easier is talk to your partner first in terms of what you guys like and when you go in you are better prepared so you not there having to decide on what type of handle you want on the cupboard, or what colour you want for your gutter etc. Also if you have have any tile samples you want for your main flooring or bathrooms bring them with you this will help with choosing your internal colours. Marissa was the lady we had for the appointment and she was pretty helpful with going through what we need on the day. Just don't rush things through, take your time can always come back to it if you not too sure which selection you want. At the end of the day you are not locked in so to be speak, there will be things you want to upgrade to or enquiry about and they will get the estimating team to give you a quote and then you can decide on if you want to go with the upgrade or stay with the standards. I hope this helps with your selection this week. Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 15May 14, 2017 11:51 pm So on Friday we did our colour appointment, we spent about 4 - 5 hours there and we were a bit exhausted and overwhelmed with everything, however I think we did pretty good job and the ladies at the studio was more than helpful. We started off doing our electrical stuff like light provisioning, light switches, power points, data and TV antenna allocation. We are doing the light installs after handover, we were advised by our electrician mate for the ground floor you would rather to go overboard with light provisioning because its harder for him to add down light after the plaster board is up. So we were allocated 30 lights provisions by Ausbuild for this home and we ended having 95 lights provisions on our plan haha we thought we went a bit overboard but were told on average its about 80 - 90 lights for this size house this made us feel a bit better. We ended up having around 5k upgrade for the electrical part. We then did our external selection, we liked one of the bricks from Australbricks but it wasn't in the standard range. We told them we want the Metallix Bronze and a feature wall with different types of bricks. We were prepared to be told this will be an upgrade because its not in the standard range, however the lady surprised us saying we can select as many bricks from the standard range without needing to pay additional cost and we also can have the Metallix Bronze that wasn't in the standard range as our facebrick as long we don't need to have the whole house in that type of brick. So we ended up having the Metallix Bronze as our facebrick for the garage part of the house, the pier and the media centre part we be using the Urban One Cloud Grey bricks and the rest of the house we using the Urban One Chiffon bricks. The garage door we went with Colorbond Terrain this gives that timber look in the standard range. The roof we selected is the Bristile Classic range Coal this is in the standard concrete tile, along with Monument gutter colour, and Woodland Grey for the fascia and Monument frame for the windows and sliding doors. Other upgrades we did was changing to a pivot door, kitchen benchtop to 40 mm silestone, all bathroom benchtops to 20 mm silestone, undermount basin, upgrade to larger sink in the kitchen, and upgrade the bathroom bath tub. Will now wait for the estimation team to come back with the cost of the upgrades, fingers crossed is not too much. Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 16May 15, 2017 3:57 am Thank you so much for sharing will do our homework before we go Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 17May 15, 2017 9:46 am Mai Panda So on Friday we did our colour appointment, we spent about 4 - 5 hours there and we were a bit exhausted and overwhelmed with everything, however I think we did pretty good job and the ladies at the studio was more than helpful. We started off doing our electrical stuff like light provisioning, light switches, power points, data and TV antenna allocation. We are doing the light installs after handover, we were advised by our electrician mate for the ground floor you would rather to go overboard with light provisioning because its harder for him to add down light after the plaster board is up. So we were allocated 30 lights provisions by Ausbuild for this home and we ended having 95 lights provisions on our plan haha we thought we went a bit overboard but were told on average its about 80 - 90 lights for this size house this made us feel a bit better. We ended up having around 5k upgrade for the electrical part. We initially went with 65 lights in our contract to which the home and land consultant thought was too high. But I couldn't understand how this was high. 80 would be ideal for us. Mai Panda Other upgrades we did was changing to a pivot door, kitchen benchtop to 40 mm silestone, all bathroom benchtops to 20 mm silestone, undermount basin, upgrade to larger sink in the kitchen, We did all these upgrades before the contract signing. Really appreciate your help. Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 18May 25, 2017 8:04 pm Hi Mai, Congrats you can start building soon and probably get in before christmas. One thing with pivot door you will be unable to put security screen or mosquito screen in the future due to the way the pivot door works.. Looks good but not that practical i think in Brisbane weather. Otherwise all your plans looks good! Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 19May 25, 2017 9:31 pm You can put security screen on a pivot door. We currently have a 1.2m pivot with crimsafe. They leave a bigger gap between doors if it's a pivot door that's it. Land deposit: 17 Nov 16 Build contract: 17 Apr 17 Land settled: 16 June 17 BA: 23 June Slab: 3 Aug Frame: 21 Aug Enclosed: 10 Oct Fixing: 6 Nov PCI: 14 Dec Settlement: 21 Dec 17 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=88597 Re: Ausbuild Stretton Heights - First Home Build QLD 20May 26, 2017 1:14 pm KangaBanga Hi Mai, Congrats you can start building soon and probably get in before christmas. One thing with pivot door you will be unable to put security screen or mosquito screen in the future due to the way the pivot door works.. Looks good but not that practical i think in Brisbane weather. Otherwise all your plans looks good! Thanks KangaBanga, hopefully we can get in before Christmas that would be ideal. Cheers for the info, I have seen people who has pivot doors that has security screen in front of them so its possible I guess. I just like the idea of able to bring large furniture through the door if need and we both like the bigger door design. Follow my build on https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic. ... 9#p1705289 Building Standards; Getting It Right! We bought a house in 2015 advertised as a 7/2/2, 4br up, 3br down (7br), and to date, it’s a great house. However, we’ve just had it valued and it’s come in as a… 0 10170 Thanks NativeZen! I can't wait to start landscaping, though it's going to be a while away yet. No movement on site yet as of the weekend. Hoping to see some earthworks… 3 2148 Hi all. Anyone know when the $11,000 limit was set in legislation for renovations in QLD? Ive been renovating for 5 years now and this was the limit back then. As we know,… 0 2049 |