Empire Zoysia and clay issue
Hi all, I installed EZ at my place about 3 months ago. It is struggling in some areas due to what I believe would be inadequate soil prep. Unfortunately I…
Question about retaining wall...
Hi there, I have a house almost finished construction. It is a corner block. Due to flood zoning issues, the slab is 30omm above footpath level, so naturally my whole…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
I just spoke to our site supervisor, he said handover will be before the end of this month
They started site works at the start of…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Woohoo Don't worry, once they start building and get the roof on, its full steam ahead... our house will be ready in maybe 4 weeks…
Evaporative Cooler: Brivis, Bonaire or Breezair?
Yeah who installed that unit for that price? I am shopping for that unit at the moment myself
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
All I know is that a "P" class lab pretty much stands for "Problem" slab and costs alot more, which I found out the hard way...
In other news, construction of…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
And yeah leeamj i think we are in stage 17 or 18, I forget which exactly... and in my case, the CBA doesn't want to release funds because of the…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Thanks Pippa. I'm waiting now on Bisinella's solicitors to provide a "case study" to the CBA to show them a case where they have supplied funds to someone else's home…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Thanks pippa I actually received a letter around xmas/NYE about the caveat, yet the block settled in our name in like October/November... So it threw…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Hi leeamja, our house is 26sq and site costs came to 16-17k from memory. I don't think size of the home has as much to do with the site costs…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Hiya, I think they might be
I can't believe Canterbury Road isn't sealed yet either! Slack!
In other news, got the call from Boutique the other day…
Boutique Homes
Nice
We signed our HIA contract yesterday. We were hoping to have our slab before xmas but unfortunately the deadline for slabs is Nov 27th…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Thanks heaps for that
I'm a noob on these forums, I think I know how you inserted the image, how did you insert the pdf file?
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Pippa, the sarking is that silver foil sheeting they put under the roof. Always on colorbond I believe, but not always on tiled roofs. I don't know everything about it…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
I'm also concerned about our site costs being at 16k... Was first quoted 12k when we signed. I understand that there may be a difference in soils/compaction etc, but from…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Brian just called, he advised that site costs are gonna be 4k more than what they originally thought... He's gonna call me later and go through it all with me…
Boutique Homes
Cool, thanks for the advice Genghis77 Good luck with it all
I don't think they will be on site until next year as we sign (if…
Boutique Homes
I'm a little confused as whats what regarding contracts etc. We've signed the PWC and we have now signed the "post PWC" that has all the variations etc on it.…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
18k? holy crap... we are waiting to get our exact site cost back too, Brian quoted us around 10-15k... better not be 18 lol
Boutique Homes
Hi all, we are building with Boutique aswell. Going with the Barcelona 26. We had our color selection appointment on the 14th October, now waiting for the final contract signing…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
That is just frikken disgusting human behaviour... fair enough if you gotta steal to get by, but then to flood the house too....
Hmmm insurance job?
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
And thanks Nickvee for the info You may hear from me again come installation time mwahahaha
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Hey, I have had exactly the same problems... I asked for some prices like over 5-6 weeks ago and only got some half answers last week... They have either taken…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Just a question about the Fibre setup... I have the color/electrical appointment in 2 weeks but can't be bothered waiting for the answers
Having…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Hey Pippa, we are still waiting on exact site costs aswell, but Brian said it would be around the 10k mark... Our fill report showed we had 0-400mm fill only.…
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Cool story Dammit I think that's the same facade I like
Grand Lakes Estate, Lara, VIC
Yeah I think he quoted it the other week when he ran through everything briefly, we have it written down somewhere lol - I dare say we will have a…