So it's been a month of living in Somerfield and i love it so much! such a beautiful place even with all tradework around our street. lots of friendly people…

I am fortunate enough to have my father in law do it for me as he is a retired concretor. So all i did was pay for the concrete, some…

i don't think you have to anymore. so long as it is exposed aggregate. we asked them at the somerfield office and they said no need to anymore.
so i went…

Thanks Ginz! wow yours was quick. already caught up to me!
yes i have tips. make sure you list down the night before everyroom and everything you want to look at.…

we got the keys today!! yay!! just thought i'd let you guys know!

hey ginz! and soon to be neighboor (if i am not mistaken you are across the road from me). your house is really going up quickly! very surprised at the…

Wow you are so lucky! nice work.
We started 18th feb and only last week he finally gave us a handover date of the 16th of August.
which is one day before…

unfortunately this happens regularly. Stage 1j was supposed to title april/may 2010 and it didnt title till very late december 2010. we got started building in feb and now finally…

Hey all
When the time comes for water to be connected, does the builder organise/connect it or do we organise that ourselves with the council?
thanks in advance

Hello MD
A friend of mine has built with H3nley and he suffered a lot of problems with them. not saying that it would be the same for you (if you…

Yeah well it is taking a lot longer than first expected. They began fast and then started taking their time. But i don't mind so long as it is all…

i havent written in a while! can't believe how many houses are now popping up in stage 1J! all the homes are looking amazing.
We are pretty happy with Places Homes…

finally prisdenn. good luck hope you ahve a smooth build!
ours is at brick stage (half covered)
so far we haev had a really smooth build. happy with builder for now.

i am not sure where it is in the guidelines. but i am pretty sure that by having a 5 star energy rated house it means that recycled water is…

we saw it on saturday. if you drove down the street you would of seen all the houses with broken windows. yeah its pretty bad.

hey guys. i went passed on the weekend to see our building in progress. only to find that all the houses in our street (newstead) had windows broken. i think…

a little bit of weathering will make your frame strong. i wouldnt worry about it guagua

hey all, we also had a great time yesterday meeting some of you. it was a great turn out and was a lot of fun. thanks amy for helping out…

anyone from here going to the "get to know your neighbours" gathering this sunday?? we are.

i dont think you need to pay for it or are forced to have it. its only if you do want it, we have all the right cabling ready to…

our slab is being poured right now
never knew concrete could be so exciting!

oh great! thanks for doing that then.
will be good!

Did anyone get an email from somerfied inviting you to a "meet your neighbours" bbq?
We rsvp'ed and are attending!

you might want to ask this question in here?
viewtopic.php?f=31&t=24067&p=667237&hilit=somerfield#p667237
All i know is from the date you signed your land contract you must have a house built…

i think its part of the star energy requirments that your builder has?

we had no site costs as our package deal was that if our block was under 500ml fall then there will be no site costs. so i don't really know…

oh yay! fantastic news.
We drove passed yesterday evening. we got a toilet!!

thats not good i feel terrible for you. i can imagine the anguish!

Congrats Joel & Sandy. are you guys on newstead also?
i cant believe how quickly some have gone up. already with bricks even!
guagua has yours started yet?

yay our land has been scraped!
means they are finally starting!
we were lucky as our package had site costs included. so we didn't have to worry about there being grass on…