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22 h22 hAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Thank Alex
Appreciate your advice.
Design is still early days. We may change it all completely as I have some new ideas I want to try and incorporate. So we will see…

1 d1 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Thanks for your comments.
I disagree with most of what you are saying, not all but most.
74 Eton Road is a renovated 1950-1960 split level home with no garage and that…

4 d4 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Still early days with the facades. These ones with curves and arches seem to be really on trend here in Sydney at the moment, so tossing this idea up rather…

4 d4 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Work in progress.
We got round 2 designs back today. Will review over the weekend and make changes as necessary.

5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Every Day is a school day - Dilapidation reports

Thanks!
Not only specsavers....I think some medication may be needed as well

5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Contract Works Insurance - Why your builder should have it

Hi All,
I just wanted to close this topic out with an update.
So we ended up agreeing to a number with the insurance company, and after an extensive amount of hand…

Contract Works Insurance - Why your builder should have it
5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Every Day is a school day - Dilapidation reports

Something happened to us this week that I thought might be interesting to share and also a good lesson for all of us.
In NSW for CDC approvals ( and often…

Every Day is a school day - Dilapidation reports
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5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Concrete swimming pool builder in sydney

I am asking as we build pools and do pool renovations as well ( mainly with the houses we build & renovate) but we are doing just a pool and…

5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Concrete swimming pool builder in sydney

where are you located and are you just doing a pool or other landscaping as well?

5 d5 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Concrete swimming pool builder in sydney

Premier pools do amazing work and are a great family company, been around for ages and the owners are super nice.
Speak to Damien Long.
I can PM you details if you…

6 d6 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

And this is the design brief we prepared to guide the designers:

DESIGN BRIEF
Address: 8 Lyle Ave Lindfield

OVERVIEW

Modern stylish home with a super amazing facade ( to be confirmed)
Maximise the 21m…

6 d6 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Hi All
For context, this is the design the previous owners had done, not approved though.
We think we can do something better and use the space more productively, so let's see.
Cheers
Simeon

6 d6 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Hi Everyone
In my first post, I mentioned that I would give an explanation as to why we chose to purchase in Lindfield rather than one of the other suburbs on…

6 d6 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Are you talking about the one on the RHS? if so that's on our land and I am 99% certain it is dead. Sending my guy out to take a…

7 d7 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield

Hi Everyone
I have some super exciting news.
After taking a break following the successful journey of developing a duplex In North Ryde last year, on Friday we exchanged contracts on our…

Designing, Building & Developing a Luxury home in Lindfield
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8 d8 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
water seeping through from under slab into post hole

Hi Basher,
You can't imagine how normal this is, especially in the areas that we build in.
I would only start to worry if water comes through your slab into…

9 d9 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Beacon Lighting 20% Discount

Hey Lisa
Yes I can still share them.
Just PM me your details and I put them in the Beacon system and it sends out the codes to you
Cheers
Simeon

11 d11 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep site

Hi All,
Running on the theme that every day is a school day, I just wanted to follow up yesterday's post with some pictures explaining how we are dropping the ceiling…

11 d11 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
PCA needed for EBH or Tyrell is good enough

This is a really interesting point.
You are right Council can certify but I am wondering if anyone has used a council inspector recently and how was the experience? I…

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Sydney Water Board Sewer across House

Thanks for clarifying. Sorry I misunderstood your point

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
PCA needed for EBH or Tyrell is good enough

These guys are pretty reputable, I have used Mark Young a few years ago and found him to be very thorough
https://newhomecertification.com.au/

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Cladding crack

Hey Rob
is that foam?
Cheers
Simeon

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Sydney Water Board Sewer across House

This one will need encasement as the sewer is directly under the house. Your driveway wouldn't need encasing as your structure would have been outside the zone of influence.
Encasement is…

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
PCA needed for EBH or Tyrell is good enough

Get your own certifier if you can.

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Retaining wall to garage wall

Vivi
I believe it will, however there is one massive caveat to my advice.
We specialise in KDRBs in established suburbs so I have zero experience in new housing estates which allow…

12 d12 dAshington HomesAshington Homes posted:
Building a flame zone house in West Pymble on a steep site

Hi All,
Time for an update.
Since my last post the weather has been good to us and we have been steaming ahead. We are really proud of the progress, and our…

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