
Plunge pool / water tank pool
Has anyone built an above ground water tank plunge pool? They seem to be quite popular at the moment but was wondering if someone had one what they thought and…

Cost of Turf - Building on an acre
We turfed our acreage block.. got 3300m2 turfed with wintergreen couch for $4 a metre supplied and installed. They did a better deal for more than 2000m2. Glad we went…

How to obscure shed
Hi
We have 1.5 acres of which most is our side yard. We have about 1000m2 of nature easement which you can see as you look out of our back…

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
Hi I was wondering where you cfound the walkthrough? I have not been able to find this at all!
Thanks

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
Hi seachange
wondering how you place is going? I was wondering what floor plan you had? Its strange how everyones prices vary. we ended up paying about 498 total but…

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
I think the base price changes depending on the franchise.. they told us the base price i forget what it is tho.. they should tell you it was mid to…

GJ Gardner Montville - has anyone built?
we have built the montville 462. We basically left it exactly as per the layout except we had to move our garage back to comply to covenants and removed the…

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
Hi all havent looked at this for a while. House is all complete. Very happy with how it all turned out. If I could change anything I would either make…

Project builder, custom builder or owner builder
We looked up project build vs custom build. We are building project. While there were additional charges for downlights slightly above cost price this also includes the electrician to install…

Covercrete cost
Hi
We are tossing up between exposed aggregate, stained concrete or plain concrete driveway with covercrete.
We have had a quote of $89.50 a metre for agg, and are waiting on plain…

What to do with bare concrete?
We are having a slab laid for a shed. They are doing a little bit extra concrete for a path next to the shed (just along the side of the…

Coral Homes Noosa 23 - Ormeau Hills: Life after handover
congratulations on your new purchase! We are also building having owned homes before but never built. Our loan is split in two (as said previously this is pretty standard). The…

Upgrade Costs?
Hi
As said above different builders have different levels of inclusions and within the same builder they have different inclusions based on the range of home you are selecting. We are…

Dry creek bed
Hi all
Our block is part flat (where our house is situated) then slopes away to the side down a hill. Our water tank etc is in the ground on the…

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
I am not sure how each franchise charges but we have put in a lot of feature walls and have only been charged for a 'change of paint colour' for…

Trailing/Cascading plant
Im not sure how well it will do but cousin it is a good one for cascading.. its a australian native... (casuarina glauca (cousin it)

Dragon tree?
My parents have this in their yard. I used to think it was a type of yukka but its not.
I think its either some sort of cordyline or a…

GJ Gardner Montville- First home build- QLD
So we have made some modifications regarding internal colour scheme. We had original planned to have the internal walls painted white exchange half with skirting etc painted plan white with…

Help with design for a house -wide frontage but short depth.
Some of the homestead houses are made for wide street frontages. These are generally for acreage blocks but they do make smaller ones. These are all single storey however.…

Concrete for external areas
As far as I am aware standard brushed concrete is the cheapest and can be stencilled on later, tinted (but this fades with UV), painted or tiled on or you…

Cladding ??
Did you sign the plans? We changed our facade from stacker stone to linear board so we knew exactly what we were getting. The elevations on the plans had this…

Crimsafe quote
I got another quote which was significantly less from another company. I spoke to the one we had signed with and they matched it giving us about 5 grand off!!…

Backyard Landscaping - DIY
o i cant see the pics! im sure it looks great tho

Help! Paint Decisions!
We have similar colour floor tiles (I think). We are going with white exchange half and having white white skirting architrave etc so it makes a contrast. One tip I…

HEBEL help??? Pros and Cons, need to make a decision!!!
We have Hebel in our current home and are getting it in our new home. Pros of Hebel I find is good insulation.. the walls are never got and windows…

Crimsafe quote
So after discussing with my husband that we were absolutely not going to sign any contracts regarding crimsafe we had a sales person over on Friday and signed a contract…

Backyard Landscaping - DIY
Great looking yard! Look forward to seeing more progress and finished product.
In regard to the design did you do this yourselves or get a landscape architect to design for you?…

New build - GJ Gardner
I really like those tiles!
We are building with GJ gardner but here they go with Groove tiles. I think most tile companies can get the same tiles though. I…