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jamesb

Melbourne, Victoria
Joined 30 January 2009
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12 years12 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Builder issue with drainage.

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13 years13 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
What would you do? Levelling land.

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14 years14 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Progress Payments and Building Inspections

Hi All.
Our frame has just been completed... the whole process so far is going very quickly. :z: :z:

14 years14 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
**Site Start** James and Georgie's **PD Stanford 24**

Hi.
We provided the following supporting documentation to the SRO.
Hi ###.
RE: Additional Information Required for SRO extension.
REF: ####
As discussed please find the additional details requested.
My settlement date is Wednesday 27/1/10, which…

14 years14 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
**Site Start** James and Georgie's **PD Stanford 24**

Hi Jeanette!
Great to meet some Pakenham neighbours!
Our land was delayed as well. Seems to be the standard with developer’s lol.
The best contact we had with the updates was with Marco…

14 years14 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
ARDEN ESTATE PAKENHAM

G'day Mate.
I have just started building in the Henty Park Estate, which is right next door to Arden.
On the 16/12 PD then conducted the soil test. It was classified as…

14 years14 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
**Site Start** James and Georgie's **PD Stanford 24**

Hi All!
PD 24/7, the online website showed that we started on site 3/3/10. So we took a drive tonight and checked out the site.
They have pegged it out, and scraped…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Building Contract Date

Thanks heaps Lisa!
I love this forum :D

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Building Contract Date

Hi All.
Just a quick question. I am building with PD Acces and have my contract appointment on the 5th May 2009.
I am just wondering if the date of…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Porter Davis interiors...who designs them??

PD definantly had me with the quality of there interiors. I remember when i first started looking at displays I walked into some displays and walked straight back out. From…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Uses for leftover bricks?

definantly a letterbox in my case. any leftover borders etc for the garden :)

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Home BAR - Build into house or Buy afterwards ?

I think if I had a sink in my bar i would never leave :z:

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Home BAR - Build into house or Buy afterwards ?

I plan to buy a bar pre-build once we move in. I dont even think my builder had the option lol.
Can anybody reccomend any good bar shops / manufactures?

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Which have to go first, Tile or Carpet?

Tiles 1st. Same with floating floorboards i believe as they are messier to put down than carpet.

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Items Variation in contract

You cannot change Structual items in your contract after a certain date. Other than that I believe you can make any other changes E.G tiles, carpet, doors bricks.
What in…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
more CBA news

I spoke to my broker last week and he said we will be fine.
We have unconditional approval on the land contract and awaiting our building contract to send off to…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
How many people got legal advice before signing the contract

Same here.
Lisanne, did you get a copy a few days before so you could read it before signing (eg: a draft copy)?

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Where did you terminate your Network?

Exactly what I was planning. Yet ill probably drink the slab before its in the tradies hands rofl

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Where did you terminate your Network?

Thats what I would have liked to do to. But as far as I know they wont let anybody other than there contractors/tradies to do work on there site for…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Where did you terminate your Network?

Out of curiosity for those of you that built with Porter Davis how much did they charge to run the cables at frame stage?

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Cost of 3rd party to lay down the floor tiles & carpet ?

Thats what we have been told and put into our sales quote. Very intresting and EXPENSIVE lol.

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Cost of 3rd party to lay down the floor tiles & carpet ?

Hi iTalk.
We also thought about getting the tiles for our PD house done by a 3rd party. PD charge $79sqm extra for tiling not included in promotion, and thats only…

Cost of  3rd party to lay down the floor tiles & carpet ?
15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
How difficult to change a CSC?

Exactly the same as us. We are building P.D Access Stanford and paid the deposit 1 month ago and until today when I sent quite a forcefull email off they…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
First Home Owners Grant

Check with the SRO as it is on a case by case basis. Georgie and I are still going to try to allow the 26 weeks between the contract signing…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Cement Mixers

Cheers for that ed. Will check them out.

lol. I bought a house so Im not paying for someone elses home, so im buying a concrete mixer so im not paying…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Cement Mixers

Hi.
I have been keeping a lookout for a small cement mixer for landscaping at my new house. Probably get a fair bit of use out of it too as 2…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
How much do intercom systems (?) cost?

Basically, its running a cable from the door unit and dropping it through the wall were you want the viewing unit. It really depends on how the system operates.
Some…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
How much do intercom systems (?) cost?

For a colour system with 2 points and electronic lock release looking at $1000+ installed for systems I looked at. But they are very easy to install if you have…

15 years15 yearsjamesbjamesb posted:
Adding an Alfresco area vs patio

We chose not to include an alfresco addition on our house. PD wanted 4.5k+ to add the fancy roof extension (and the price did not include concrete flooring) but…

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