Thanks, your garden looks great!
yes I think l will try and get some fill from a pool dig or similar and then some topsoil for the top. Unfortunately I don't…

Definitely option 1, for the reasons mentioned above. And you will be able to see the TV from the kitchen

I have finished my house build and now turning attention to the backyard. There is around a 60m2 area where I would like to have grass, however need to raise…

Looks to me like the whole thing is upside down. Maybe they stuffed up and installed it on the wrong side, so had to flip it. Looks really strange

Permit cost around $250.
But before I started I just phoned the council and a friendly person explained it all to me. I suspect you could do the same?

I am in Melbourne, and in my council you need a crossover permit to do anything to your crossover or kerb (in my case just to fix it as it…

So is there a strip like that on the outside, and you are still seeing light though??

Agree, and what about when it is cold and windy?

I am in Melbourne and got prices starting at 300k (very basic - just a couple of bedrooms upstairs) to 500k+ for something reasonably decent. And as mentioned you want…

I often used to get stuff cut at Bunnings, but I think not all stores did it. They were meant to charge $1 a cut, but often didn't bother. Maybe…

Can't you just buy a small panel from Bunnings and get them to cut it in store?

I'm no expert but that looks terrible to me as well and I wouldn't accept it. Apart for the mound around the drain (unless water flows uphill in your part…

I use these , but pricing seemed to be similar for other I spoke to as well.
They all seem to have a minimum price, which includes up to 6 months…

Hi, we have been in our new house for a couple of weeks and after some rain have noticed a potential issue. One small section of bricks next to the…

Not sure if this had been mentioned, but try out the bath. I don't bath so don't know about such things, but my wife loves to lie in the bath…

darb74, you are very lucky that your builder allowed you to do that. I would have loved to do it all myself as a friend of mine did, but…

Power and gas took about 2 weeks each (they said to allow a month). I also had to do an overhead to underground power conversion which took about a month…

If your street is NBN enabled, you can order it to be installed the day after handover. Mine took 2 weeks from date of order.
My builder connected the electricity for…

I would not rely on wifi only and wifi mesh to provide good wifi performance to the whole house. This may be OK in an ideal scenario, but the real…

Hiring is pretty cheap (cost me $360 for 6 months, front and side of house) and they came and set it up and took it away afterwards
If you can be…

The color is usually mixed into the render, so it doesn't need painting. They can do any color. Are you sure that is not what they mean? I think it…

Just curious why you are painting over render?

There is a house near me where I think the brickies have used it as challenge to see how many different type of bricks they can use.
On my house they…

How long ago were they installed? It basically means that something has moved/flexed

Depends on how much space there is and whether there is plumbing available - it will need connections to water and waste.
Why won't the builder do it?

Agree, that's a very interesting read.
I think it is a situation that many (or most) volume builder customers find themselves in. The house is complete, however there are defects that…

Agree with the others, I would keep the timber, much nicer than floating floor. Even though it is not perfect...that is part of the character

Ah OK, I also thought it was due to the light reflecting differently off the top
In that case I also agree it is very bad

Also consider your finish. Render is like paint and will look old and worn after a while and need repainting if you wish
Brick will pretty much look the same…

I agree that brickwork looks terrible. To me the Metricon one also doesn't look that bad.
I find if you look at any brickwork critically (which is the way you look…