Newcastle33 has hit it on the head. If it isn't in the tender it isn't included.
When we built with Coral we had the Eclipse inclusions. Which was their top…

Ours was based 90% on design and price. And by price I mean was it within our budget. I found the inclusions a little confusing as well as most of…

We moved into our Coral home on July 26th this year. We built in Bolwarra Heights so in the Hunter region. I would say mine would be a mixed review.…

Did anyone who has finished building with Coral find they had issues towards the end? Our house flew along up to painting. Once the painting was finished the house has…

We have built a 900mm retaining wall on our boundary. Wasn't a problem at all. Hopefully it might be the other way around. Your first builder might have had a…

Your house is looking gorgeous. Love the plan. Sounds like you are in the same waiting pattern as we are. We were told the building would take 15 weeks max.…

It depends a lot on the set up with the builder and the tiler. We had a mosaic tile on mesh as a feature tile in the bathroom and the…

Estate: Forest Ridge, NSW
Land: $230,000 - 1300sqm
House: $293,000 - 291sqm single storey

Sorry. They still haven't painted a wall. Not going to be able to get you a pic before you have to choose a colour. I have a blog but no…

I promise I haven't forgotten. We went out there over the weekend and the colour on the walls whilst nice wasn't quite right. Now they have started cutting in, it…

Long list here...
1. Not having rental inspections
2. Having a dishwasher that actually fits plates in it
3. Paying our mortgage and not someone elses
4. A lot more space
5. Having a backyard
6.…

I can't help with the colours you have mentioned. However we are using flooded gum which is a medium grey. Painting stated yesterday so we might have some colour on…

Love your plan. Can't wait to see it all come together for you. We are building with Coral and at about half way through we can't fault them. They have…

I think it can work. We are having dark cupboards and benchtops with white flooring. So similar dark theme. I was worried about ours at first as well but we…

As I mentioned before I am also in the Maitland Council district and we were advised of the same thing with the retaining wall. We had to build one along…

Wow that is crazy. Ours was only about $350 and we did our colours selection in January. Surely it couldn't have gone up that much in 4 months. Maybe it…

Thankfully the quickness of our actual build has well and truly dulled the pain of the wait between contract signing and start date. But the pain of the retaining wall…

How is everyone's builds going?
Thattime I see you are nearly finished. Your house is looking great.
Has anyone one else started building yet?
We should be enclosed this week. Bricky thinks he…

I am also building in the Maitland Council area and have had to call them out for an inspection for an issue I was having. They came out about a…

I agree with Kiwi. I don't think it is too close distance wise but I would consider a sliding door to block off the entire area when dining.

We have also noticed this in one place on our site. When we went out there yesterday we had some fresh concrete in the gap. Glad to see we are…

I'm not sure what the split was rock/H class soil wise. All I know is that the site costs went up $20k fromm quote to tender and a majority of…

We had to have the retaining wall built before they would start building. I would say you probably won't need one on the RH side but will need one on…

Hi Tanga,
So far we have been very happy with Coral. Your block is sounding similarish to ours. If you have been given a quote expect an extra roughly $20k for…

We have had lots of positive and negative feedback given to us as well when we were looking at builders. We went with the theory that all builds are going…

Just giving an update.
I have received an email from council stating that they have been out to the block and recorded the damage and we will not be held responsible…

I would also try to talk to Eden Brae directly. However another option is to contact council. My local council will instruct builders not to use other peoples land if…

If it helps it cost us an extra $350 to go to off white mortar instead of natural. But we are having the Perisher so being so light it was…

How exciting. I am also building the Coral Norfolk 279. But mine is just the standard design. Our bank had the same issue as we are using the first home…

Thanks for the advice.
A bollard probably won't work as the area they can get through is 30 metres wide. Plus we are hoping to start building soon so don't want…