Pippa1987, your house looks fantastic! I love this colour scheme and the timber windows. Love it!

Hey everyone,
It's good to see so many builds happening now and I'm enjoying seeing all the progress.
We've been in our house for about 5 months now and haven't had…

Aussie, I'm glad there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Fingers crossed everything gets sorted so you can pick up the keys next Friday. Boutique install…

Oh my god Aussie, I am floored. I cannot believe the mistakes Boutique have made with your build. Just one of those things would've stressed me out completely, but to…

Aussie, that sucks! I'm so sorry you're going through such a crappy experience. I think we were exceptionally lucky in that we had one site supervisor throughout the whole process…

Yep, afraid so. It's a bit of a hassle when you have a baby and a toddler and you don't live near the city...

Aussie, yes, we filled out a post-build survey. It was mainly about our site supervisor from what I can remember. But there are definitely spaces for "comments" so feel free…

Aussie, the heating seems to be a separate problem but the a/c and electricity are connected. We had a power blackout that lasted about 5 seconds on the first night…

Yikes, geez Aussie, that's really poor service on their behalf. I'd be really annoyed too if they made that mistake and then didn't let us change it to what we…

We had a similar experience to Aussie - our consultant was pretty helpful at our colours selection, but translating that to our addenda was another matter. We ended up having…

I'm with you Shalee. We've added doors for functional reasons - it's impossible getting a 7-month-old to sleep when there's a toddler creating chaos. At least with doors the noise…

Theon, we've had cavity slider doors added - 5 in total (2 WIRs, 2 to the living/dining area and 1 in the WIP). As far as I know they didn't…

Quarum, our HIA contract included the plans and our PWC, but not our electrical plan or colour selections. We signed the contract the same day we did our colours. We…

Hi Aussie, thanks for asking. We're settling in pretty well, although we still have old sheets and ripped garbage bags on the windows and dirt (now mud after this rain)…

Aussie - sorry to hear about the dramas you're having. Even though your grievances aren't the end of the world, it's still a pain in the a*se having to experience…

You know how people recommend taking a hairdryer or something to test all the power points at PCI? Follow their advice. Turns out only half the power points in our…

Oh, and here's a pic of the kitchen/living area with the timber floors in. I have to say that even though the installer botched the sliding doors (which you can't…

Great stuff Wazza. How have you found your SS so far?
I have to say our SS has been amazing. Apparently the floor installer rang him this morning and was stressed…

Hmm. I just remembered we had landscaping and fencing allowances built into our contract and despite me asking our client liaison person ages ago (twice) about these, we haven't seen…

hypminoktiq, we're building the Knightsbridge 26 (now obsolete) in Melbourne's outer east.
We don't have glass splashbacks, we've got tiles and so they were done when the bathrooms and laundry were.…

Hi hypminoktiq! Which house are you building?
I agree Boutique's communication process could be better - we had a couple of consultants, one of whom made a truckload of mistakes in…

Not sure yet Wazza. I'll let you know as soon as I find out.

Picked up the keys this morning. Will be moving in this weekend. Egad! There still needs to be a few things fixed - eg a power point needs to be…

No, only ADSL.

Thanks Wazza. Had to throw a Star Wars reference in there somewhere. Got the inspection report back last Thursday and it was long! Thankfully most of the problems were paint…

Thanks for that Bandha. Our situation is really similar to yours - tiled roof, no sarking and the rangehood is on an internal wall. I think I still might get…

But yeah, the bathrooms would be a worry too.

We didn't realise things were vented into the ceiling as standard until it was too late so we're going to have to get them vented externally after handover. I'm more…