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7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

A bunch of extra site costs which we told them they wouldn't need and asked them to take out before contact. They said they would refund at end of…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

I gave ET as a CSC and she is just as useless. Every time we call we get told "oh we are discussing that in a meeting tomorrow" this has…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Took 12 weeks for my frames to go up.

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Hi BrisBuild. We have this design in our ensuite and love it. I love that the toilet is away from everything and the double shower doesn't feel squishy at…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

We found standard tiles and paint great. Carpet looks good but feels pretty yuk under your feet. We got carpet done by another company after handover.

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

If they got it wrong they will fix it. Let you SS know asap

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

We are arguing this with them at the moment. We pointed out before final contract that a bunch of the site costs won't be needed. For example extra fencing…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Did you have a big gap at the top of your dishwasher?? Looking at the model size it is the same size as display home but the display has a…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

People that have recently had handover and was on the sapphire pack did you get a really small smeg dishwasher?

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Also still have a brickie there today fixing bricks do I assume they will need a brick clean again too!

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

I'm meant to have PCI on Monday and handover Wednesday. That could be interesting since they haven't finished tiles, need to repaint pretty much the entire house, need to…

7 years7 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

We use housespect and have been really happy with them.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

I was told at the electrical appointment that clarendon will not allow any client to purchase extra bayonet holder for downlights....
Must be qld thing. I'm sure they are still…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Must be qld thing. I'm sure they are still allowing this in nsw

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Yeah QLD is much much quicker.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Yeah the old Claredon contacts were 36 weeks for double story. I think that's changed to 40 weeks in NSW. That said my 36 week contact has been going…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Yeah you can get a sheet that breaks that $65k into individual line items. Gives you more of an idea on what the likelihood of using it is.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Just had our toilets installed. Im not naive, I know tradies are going to use the toilet, they could at least have the decency to flush…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Haha. You were a lucky one. We were bricking at the same time almost and ours took about 3 -4 months to finish bricks.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Love your pendants. Where are they from?

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

They would loose half their business. We would have gone elsewhere had we not made our changes.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

We had heaps if changes. I think he is just been silly. We extended or entire house by 1.2m in width, changed rooms around internally and reconfigured our entire…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

On Saturdays they do tours and show you what is standard to each package. Call and ask them what time

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Get as many add ons put in your tender as possible. They are often cheaper if you do it at tender stage instead of colour stage.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Contact the SS from the neighbours build. Should be on the front fence.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

We break in everyday. SS knows and doesn't give a crap. He even let us go in during the weekend to lay our own data cabling.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

I'm here lurking around. Since getting construction area manager on board we are full steam ahead. Tiles are hopefully getting finished today ( only in wet areas). The…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Probably helps that there have been major delays on our build. They are even letting us bring in some people to do provisional wiring for a solar electricty system.

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Claredon are well aware that people go on site. My SS gave us permission to go onsite this weekend to install extra data cables. Dont stress. I haven't heard…

8 years8 yearsSpartSpart posted:
Who's building with Clarendon??

Our SS contacts us once and week and we still can't get anything done on our house! Soooooo far behind both of you and started the week before. …

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