Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 41Jun 21, 2017 3:44 pm Our build thread with Smart Homes for Living in Wellard https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=86092 Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 46Jun 23, 2017 1:00 pm Follow our build with Express Two Storey (Ventura Group): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85122 Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 51Jun 29, 2017 1:57 am Follow our build with Express Two Storey (Ventura Group): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85122 Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 57Jun 29, 2017 2:39 pm Natasha It's actually looking big now haha the slab looked so tiny! We were legit shocked.. Its a 400sqm block I think and the backyard isn't much - so it's quite a decent size Oh good, when I saw the slab the first time I had a mini heart attack. Even when I first saw the blocks I said to my partner how on earth are they fitting 4 houses across this space, it seems so small. I don't know how we have managed to get a big of a backyard as we did, just praying the house doesn't feel pokey. Was any of the rubbish/sand pile cleared by any chance when you went there? The land developers said they would look into clearing it, which is a win Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 58Jun 29, 2017 4:43 pm jad33mily Oh good, when I saw the slab the first time I had a mini heart attack. Even when I first saw the blocks I said to my partner how on earth are they fitting 4 houses across this space, it seems so small. I don't know how we have managed to get a big of a backyard as we did, just praying the house doesn't feel pokey. Was any of the rubbish/sand pile cleared by any chance when you went there? The land developers said they would look into clearing it, which is a win Yea I was the same! Haha Nope, the big sand pile and washing machine were still there Some people dumped more stuff on the vacant blocks further down too! I was telling my partner we should go there this weekend and clear up some of the bottles, rubbish, etc on our block.. I've read horror stories of some builders burying rubbish rather than clearing it!! Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 59Jun 29, 2017 5:08 pm So I completely spaced to update this with our tile selections!! I think my partner is more relieved about this than I am so I can finally stop annoying him with my indecisiveness haha We've decided to continue on with the same selections in the ensuite, bathroom and laundry so the theme 'flows' through the house.. I know quite a few people like to change it up in each room but it's already hard enough picking colours for one room.. Plus I wasn't keen on choosing other selections that I didn't LOVE, just to have a difference in every room.. Our selection was from Crosby Tiles. We've decided on: Wall Tile: Mattoni White 200 x 400 Floor Tile: Marmo Bianco 300 x 300 Benchtop: Essastone Pure Cloud Cupboards: Formica Snowdrift in Gloss Finish Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ (sorry for the bad lighting!) I LOVE the Mattoni White tile - so we've also chosen this for our kitchen splashback as well.. Benchtop and cupboards will be the same as the bathrooms etc. We did have a look at render colours and we were thinking to have Colorbond Shale Grey as our main render and Colorbond Windspray as our feature render. I'm still tossing up between Windspray, Basalt and Wallaby though so please let me know your opinions! I was also thinking to get shale grey as our garage door colour,.. We are still going through our electrical plan too (I feel like I'm going insane trying to understand all of this..) but that's the last thing on our list before prestart Re: Our First Home Build with Commodore Homes in Seville Gro 60Jun 29, 2017 6:40 pm Natasha mrsdoe Conduits are installed so you can run cabling to other services after handover without having to do damage to the house, they're particularly helpful in single leaf walls where you don't have a cavity to run wiring. We had had 1x conduit to each bedroom, 2x to the study, 4x to family room and 6x to theatre (4x front and 2x rear side walls for speakers). Luckily Mr Doe is a licensed electrician even though he hasn't worked professionally as a trade for many years but he'll use our conduits after handover to run network cabling to all rooms, to run all the cabling for the theatre concealed inside the walls (speakers, projector etc), to hide all the wiring for the wall mounted TV in the family room inside the walls then to install an intercom system. We'll also be installing CCTV again but the cabling for this will run through the roof space so don't need conduit for these. Depends on what your needs are technology-wise, I doubt many people would have need or want of a system as extensive as ours will be but Mr Doe is a tech head and loves this stuff plus we'll only being paying for the physical cabling and equipment some of which we already had from our last house then all the time and labour will be done ourselves. Follow our build with Express Two Storey (Ventura Group): http://tinyurl.com/jlykgph Thanks so much for that mrsdoe! Definitely making more sense now... Yea I think we would just need them for wall-mounted TVs and maybe an alarm system somewhere in the hallway? You're definitely very lucky to have Mr Doe as an electrician.. I've seen some of the prices for installing all of that and I nearly had a heart attack! Yup we got a quote of $13k just for the network cabling, intercom system and cabling for 4x CCTV cameras (not even including the cameras, they were to be supplied and installed after handover) so I said no way, I will be Mr Doe's assistant and help him pull the cables through and he can do all the work himself for the $10-11k it will save us! I'm not sure what you'd need for putting in an alarm system, maybe worthwhile contacting a couple of security companies and talking to one of their technicians and asking them what provisions they'd recommend putting in place during construction to make it easiest for them to do later? 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