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10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

This forum has been SO useful when researching builders, plans and all that fun decision stuff. Nothing has been exactly what i'm after though so i thought i'd put our…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

And an extra special one of my......I mean our ensuite and WIR. I'm going to need to buy more shoes!

Dale Alcock build in Roleystone
10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

We have a slab! :D
Poured last Friday. Mr H and I went up for dinner on the weekend. Its rather large!
Standing at…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

We've been so flat out these past 10 weeks or so. Clearing lots of land, i'm quite handy with a chainsaw now. Earth works has started!!!
Rock breaking is…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Quick build update:
We have started to clear our block and get things ready for DAH to come in and build us a home and the loan has been approved so…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Ok so colour selections as promised :D
Kitchen selections:
We're going to do the glass splash back ourselves but have used their sample to get an…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Fancypants our layouts are very similar!! In fact we seem to have similar tastes too, i love the all white kitchen (we're going with kitty grey throughout also!) and i…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

I have been a bad bad bad home one blogger lately, i'm sorry.
What have i been up to you ask?? Studying, moving twice and lots of little housey tasks. Living…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Hahahaha i'm hoping it will be! Thanks all. Its certainly renewed our excitement in the project.

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Unfortunately i have no updates ::sad::
The site works started around the 27th November and lots of sand was delivered for the pad on about the…

10 years10 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock in the Perth Hills...a few more pics...

Tracy try trimming the grass tree right back (so its almost just the black stump). They need lots of water for the first few weeks and some sort of…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Hi! You can totally have non standard things, I was all over that! We're supplying our own kitchen appliances, we went to Reece bathrooms and selected our own sinks too…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock in the Perth Hills...a few more pics...

Tracy my husband is a painter and he always moans when people lay floors before the painting's been done. He says its easier (and quicker) to touch up a mark…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Prestart costs all done!
We spent just under 11K in the end mostly in the kitchen.... now we wait to see what the bank have to say and we're full steam…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Thanks Team
Its just such a pain because we'd love to have everything included (this is a long term house) but not at the prices they wanted to charge....
Our prestart consultant…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Thanks Tracy and Fmac :) Glad its not just me who finds these prices crazy!
Yeah adding up the tap upgrades comes to about 7K.
The undermount sink…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

So its been a while but in the mean time we've had our electrical consults and pre start. It took two weeks to get the costings back to us (is…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Thanks Tracyw. We're thinking wall faced toilets as well, who likes non wall facing these days!?!
we're happy with the oven etc, i'm curious though was it expensive to do the…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

WOW thanks so much Fancy pants, a great list and food for thought. All of the things you have mentioned as upgrades you did go with are the things we're…

11 years11 yearsmrshornermrshorner posted:
Dale Alcock build in Roleystone

Thanks Tracy, we did visit central a few weeks back and i asked our pre-start consultant to send me a list of suppliers too.
This past weekend we spent Saturday wandering…

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