Thanks Onc, I will see if I can get the tilers back to replace the broken tiles. I do recall there being a huge crack spanning from our study nook…

Hi Everyone,
Just wanting to get some advice on some hairline cracks I am seeing appearing on my bathroom floor. The crack is so small you can barely see it except…

Hi Wizard,
I'm a bit confused between so many different paint products out there at the moment and being told different things from different painters/paint stores.
We will be painting on 'new'…

Fingers and toes! .. Thanks for the details 16.SFC , the BH has it all planned out so hopefully it will be a smooth transition.

Tama, plate high is when all the brick work has been completed prior to the roof going on. You should have your electrical wiring installed, bathroom and ensuite plumbing completed…

Wooohooo Congratulations !!! .. I'm hoping the BH and I will be doing that by mid December.
With Xmas only a week after our handover, we are concerned that the bank…

If there is anything else you want changed you should also include it in the same variation to avoid another $200 fee. One oversight we had was the location of…

We have our PCI with SPH coming up in a few weeks and are looking at getting an independent inspector but we are still considering it. It's certainly a very…

Thanks for explaning it Psjoland.
Are we allowed to change thing once we go into construction department. We were thinking of chaning the color of paving.
Has any one made any changes…

Hi Louib,
We were confused about this as well and it is probably easier if I show you the different types of benchtops.

With our house, we got the square postform benchtop…

I found MVH very hard to use and ended up using Google SketchUp instead. Much easier to use and there are heaps of training videos out there as well as…

Did you use an independant inspector during your PCI meeting?

Your looking at $244 to have the cabinets installed horizontally. We didn't get charged for the benchtops as the grain runs horizontally as standard (sheets are manufactured this way).

Yep, we were charged to have our laminates installed horizontally for our bathrooms as well - psjoland are your basins going to be semi-recessed?

For those of you who are getting diamond gloss laminates, I would suggest you get some samples from the Laminex store in Osbourne Park and get a nail or your…

I believe Rex was refering to Diamond Gloss ..

Wow 5000 grit. Would that be equivalent to a mirror?
I feel as though I know more about polished concrete now then what I do at work!.

Hi Ben,
We've spent the last few weeks looking at polished concrete and have opted to go ahead with it but unfortunately we have only ever seen it being used in…

Locus your right on the money. Ours was about $150 to upgrade from the standard bath size of 1.5m to 1.7 which was the multiform mystery 08. (

Hi Dragon,
It is a 85mm slab

We are building in Aubin Grove, a few suburbs over from you!
The house was flooded this weekend but it was nice to see the roof timber close to completion and…

The house was flooded from all the rainfall from last night but I was able to get a few closeups of the cracks. Unfortunately I dropped my camera in the…

As far as I am aware, polished concrete has a slip rating of between R9-R12 (what you see in shopping malls) so it wouldn't be anymore slippery than say polished…

Termite protection has been included so that shouldn't be a problem. I only just had a look at some pictures we took of the slab and realised that the cracks…

That's fantastic news Rex! Where abouts are you building?
The walls were plate high last weekend with some preliminary roof work so we are hoping that the roof framing will…

Hi Rex,
It should only take three weeks from scheduling to site works as ours did.
10/06/09 - Scheduling
24/06/09 - On slab list
01/07/09 - Site works
05/07/09 - Footings were done
19/07/09 - Slab…

Unfortunately I won't be able to get any close ups until next weekend. Here are some other pictures that I took, are these any good?

I'll be sure to take some…

Sorry to hijack this threat Franco but I too also noticed some cracks appearing in my slab and would also like a second opinion. They all appear to look like…

Is anyone else suffering from Myokymia (twitching eyelid) caused by stress, lack of sleep and high concentrations of caffeine?

We signed up with Scott Park 3mths ago and will be going to prestart shortly. We're building in aubin grove so not too far from canningvale!
As for the timeframe…