To be truthful, we've pretty much had enough of M!

Pretty dismal performance by M so far.
It's been 8 months since our deposit and 10 weeks since land settlement and yet, still waiting for the prelim appointment.
Putting it simply, it…

Cat 1 - Austral
Access Range - Cream, Ruby
Homestead Range - Homestead Buff, Homestead Red, Homestead Redgum
Cat 1 - Boral
Brown Terrain, Brushwood, Jarrah, Rouge, Sandy Beach
Cat 1 - Selkirk
Coastal Red, Copperstone,…

Yes we're in Vic...
There were Boral and Austral cat 1's as well. I'll see if i can dig up our list tonight. From memory, most of the cat…

Hi Oshani,
Our sales consultant gave us an info pack on sign up and in that, there is a sheet that details the brick and roof tile category/colours.... maybe ask your…

Is it also fair to say that if you first build with tiles and then later decide to replace with colourbond, the changeover would be easier then to go from…

Was it an actual house building contract e.g. HIA contract that was committed to or was it a deposit and estimate that was signed off?

I'm not sure what is worse... paying 1.2K for some fine grade sand or 600 buxs for some low grade crushed gravel to be strewn across the driveway

I thought Henley had set pricing on upgrades. We saw a pricing sheet for upgrades to a comparative home we were intrested with and that's when I realised that…

Can the builder charge what ever they like for such an upgrade or is there a markup limit e.g. 30% based on material cost?? The only option we have…

Hi, just rechecked the quote.. figure was 1200 for a 30 sq house.....

Hi,
Our builder 'M' has quoted us 1.5K just to upgrade the motar colour to off white. Didn't think much off it at the time but have since seen some…

I think the prices have come down slightly. The LED light itself is $90 each + $56 for the light point.. still makes it about $150 per downlight....

Hi,
We have our electrical appointment at Studio M coming up in a few weeks time and was wondering what the quality of the LED downlights were like. Unfortunately, I'm…

We've been collecting sample bricks in preparation for our colour selections. Our builder uses Austral, Boral and Selkirk bricks.... we have brick samples from all 3. I definitely…

M looks to be quite pricey for brick upgrades. We were quite surprised as well as what they charge compared to some other builders.

Hi All,
We are getting quite a lot of dust throughout the house, basically we need to vacuum the floors and clean table tops etc, every 3 or so days.…

Hi All,
A few days ago we noticed the mixer tap in the kitchen seemed to be putting out water which was a bit warmer than usual when in the neutral…

Hi All,
We are going through a volume building for our new double storey house and are just preparing for our electrical appointment. We've been given a lighting handout which…

This article gives a listing of the top 20 and their new starts for 2010/2011
http://www.propertyobserver.com.au/deve ... 1101151886

We are going with one of the major volume builders, whilst we are yet to have our electrical appointment - I doubt they would let us supply our own products.…

Would that work for the ground floor of a double storey?

Further to my initial query, I was wondering what the difference is between having the builder install LED downlights kits vs having standard Halogen downlight kits installed and then replacing…

I guess what I'm trying to understand is whether the rule is applied at a room by room basis? or does it look at the average?

Hi all,
We recently signed up with a builder and have a question in relation to the new lighting restrictions. We are building a double storey house and would like…

Hi All,
Just wondering if anyone has built a home from the essential series? We are considering one of the designs (double storey) but notice that the 1st floor is…

Hi thanks for the replies.
As this will be the first time going through the build process, I'm not sure what is involved with the release of monies at the end…

HI All,
My wife and I are awaiting the settlment of a block of land we've purchased. We plan on building a new home on the block but are in…