hmmm
cleaning does sound like it varies.
I was fine cleaning things, mostly. But the window runner are just too difficult for me to clean. And they are seriously disgusting.
i'm…

Hi Mirz
i've spent quite a few hours cleaning up mess. The kitchen cupboards were gross, they were full of dust and what looked like sawdust. This was in all of…

Woohoo!!
Handover happened on Thursday! Word of warning, don't plan on moving straight in. If your build is anything like ours you will need at least a weekend to clean the…

Hi country lifestyle and inglewood, so glad you were both ok.
We are bulding down near the gippsland fires, they came so close to town, luckily not our town. Parts…

woohoo!!! two days til handover!
does anyone else have Phil has their SS? he has been just wonderful! He has made the build so much easier than our last build, with…

Hi Brian
We had our PCI today and we noticed the same thing, ie the door frames looked like they didnt have enough coats of paint. We weere told that this…

Hi
we found the same thing
hopetoun were hopeless! they didnt offer any advice reallym nor were they able to indicate and prices
it was rather frustrating.
in the end though it all worked…

sorry i'm not more help
ours was definately natural. Its quite a grey colour though in parts.

Hi Suzy
Saw ur blog, did u fix ur motar issue with PD yet?

also we used the natural mortar, not that it looks it

Hi Suzy
Saw ur blog, did u fix ur motar issue with PD yet?
hi
Yeah, the used a company called nawkaw. they stained the mortar and it 'fixed it'. Its not perfect,…

Hi
Thanks we love it too
The tiles in the bathroom are:
walls/shower: Como Latte gloss 450mmx450mm- this was an upgrade
bathroom splashback: crema…

ugh again i cant figure out how to add a pic, so i've just posted our blog instead to show the rustic nougat bolera flooring.
A few ppl were asking…

I agree, 12k was a surprise! but the girls at hopetoun didnt relaly know much about anything really, they couldnt even help we when wanted advice on colour selection, let…

so the guys came today to fix our bricks. The issue was that the bottom half of the house had a light coloured mortar and the top half was dark/grey.…

ah thats so annoying, we wanted them too, but were told it would be about 12K extra for the drysdale 30!!!! feeling rather ripped off. Oh well, life goes…

Heya,
ours contacted us today to say the house will be done in 3 weeks and we need to arrange time to catch up.
We have a pretty good…

ont he 8th of Jan some ppl are coming to stain the mortar so its all the same colour.
Really hoping that it works

thanks guys for the advise re garages.
our house is coming along really well (apart fro the bricks and mortar issue) everything seems to be ok.
the painting is almost…

hi everyone
was just wondering what people's garages look like?
Is is mostly plastered, however around the external access door there is exposed brick.
Does anyone else have this?

Here is a pic of the bricks i mentioned in my last post, they are like this all the way around the house, different colour and texture, as well as…

thanks guys
as mentioned we have had a great experience up until now, and our supervisor got in touch with us first thing this morning to suss it out. In terms…

we really dont like render, and wont be agreeable to have it, we are building in GIppsland where there are frequent mini earth quakes, and most render looks foul after…

well everything was going well with PD until our brickies started!!!! the PD expereince was great up until now. Someone (unsure who) didnt order enough bricks to start with, so…

Thanks meowsy
Lots if sites in gippsland seem to be doing it, fingers crossed PD lets us

also our frame is 1/2 up! its so exciting to see it all come together!!!!
what stage are others up to?

hie everyone
has anyone's building coordinator let them put in their own data cabling etc at the rough in stage?
We are hoping we can, but thought i'd check it out
thanks
Suzy

Thanks Back Pocket, he was with us until now, as he was only around for the slab stage, then we get Phil, who has also been doing things as he…

i have to admit so far things are going pretty well. There were a few errors (on PD's part) during the contract stage, but the slab went down today and…