Building with Bentley homes
Kenny,
Keep in mind that RedEnergy is just a billing company and they don't own any infrastructure or cables. Find out who your electricity infrastructure is and chase them.
I had similar…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
The story of our knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes is now finished. We had a handover o 6 Sep.
We're living in the new house already. On the…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Right.
I think you mean the building surveyor as council inspector. Yes they provide the approval for some stages, but surely not all and usually spend something like 10 minutes…
Building with Bentley homes
Hi,
Things progressing well at our site. Painting and tiling done. Still the floors, handles, taps and driveway to be done.
Estimated 6 weeks till handover.
Can't wait.
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Another milestone: Fixing stage on 16/6/2016.
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
The bamboo floor (in lieu of laminate) was about 5.5k. At that time laminate floor wasn't in the standard and it was to be purchased separately with the carpets as…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
We have 69cm level difference, 4 steps there will be, exactly between lounge and grand family.
This was designed by Bentley especially for us, as they never did Ritz split level…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
The additional cost consists of:
- additional earth works on levelling the ground on two levels
- stronger and split level slab
- some additional site costs, like small retaining walls on the…
Building with Bentley homes
Hi lilyh2o, see this topic for our house updates:
http://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=79265
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
With this kind of slope you can probably forget Carlisle, they refused to built on our land, and we have 2-2.5m uphill slope (it looks like nothing untill you see…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Another milestone reached: the lock-up stage on 25/5. Estimated 10 weeks till handover. Can't wait.
The house looks like this now:
Building with Bentley homes
Hi all,
We're reaching the lockup stage with our Ritz 400. Plastering starts tomorrow.
Estimated 10 weeks to handover, which is really not bad. Can't wait.
Building with Bentley homes
Our construction of Ritz 400 in Ashwood is progressing slowly. A whole lockup stage lasts 7 weeks already and still far to go. The roof and the windows are in…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Quick update: the frame stage is finished now, so the construction is progressing quite well. Although our independent inspection listed about 50 issues on frame stage, some of them reasonably…
Building with Bentley homes
There were some reviews before. Although not many.
We're about to finish the frame stage in our Ritz 400.
Building with Bentley homes
It took us 6 months from colours to the actual construction start. Although we had to knock down the old house first, which was quite a lengthy process finally.
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Some update from the building site: The construction started in Dec 2015 finally. The Xmas period delayed the works so the foundation slab was poured just recently, on 1/2/2016.
So…
Building with Bentley homes
We just started building the Ritz 400 with Bentley Homes.
The slab to be poured soon, hard to review at this stage.
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
Today is the new milestone in my saga: the gas connection has been abolished. Multinet Gas becomes a strong candidate to the title of "the worst service ever". It took…
Knock down and rebuild with Bentley Homes
I'm starting this topic as we just signed the contract with Bentley Homes to build a Ritz 400 in Ashwood (Victoria) on a site with a slight slope of ca.…