Hi Max02, it would be great if you can share your prices for selections/ colours. We built with hickies, moved in about a year ago. We thinking of buying some…

Hi JessieKay- been while since been on the forum- finished building a year ago.. Thinking about doing it all again possibly.. Saw your post re statesman homes, not sure if…

Gold! Liking your sense of humor newbie! Of course we need to be wary of the orientation of the house.. If your living room faces south it'll get no natural…

Hey we used Spencer stormwater.. Good price, and did a good job. Don't know what the demand is like at moment but all companies suggested would be min 3-4 weeks…

Cheers for that!

Thanks for that- have just contacted them re: quote. Fingers crossed they reply (unlike the 3 Co's i have contacted previously!!)

well they did the "clean".. we could still see crap all over the site so we asked them to do it again.. asked for it to be done properly- looked…

yeah neither did we... builder leaves the site a complete mess! the site cleanup/ site scrape basically involves burying everything under a thin layer of soil! finding bricks, iced coffee…

Hi Pugs- don't suppose you do paving as well as electrical???
Actually while you are here- we are planting our front lawn soon but want to run a conduit for…

Hi Theresa- thanks for your view on lawn.. i'm guessing everyone is busy watching there homes being built (or enjoying playing poker- impressive poker table a few posts ago) lol!…

The admin time is the slowest- but you will (hopefully) find that once they actually start the build flys along!
anyone with paving Co suggestions/ recommendations???

Hi all,
been a while!
With the weather improving we have ventured out of our house to discover our front and back yards still haven't miraculously been landscaped since moving in...
We…

Hi Saffy22,
Reckon i may have discussed this earlier in the hickinbotham forum so sorry for repeating if i have..
- sales guy said of time of signing contract that we could…

hi all,
been a while.. our house is going well, no leaks even with the horrendous weather over the weekend! so all good.
i'd say hickies and all the other bulk builders…

I do what i can...
Neil was great, we went to site after the frame was done (which only took them a day).. and we discovered two of our windows were…

we had two because their zones got "re-aligned".. that is client liasion speak for "someone quit because they were sick of our constant stuff ups in head office- and therefore…

We started making sure that every week our rubbish bins and recycling bins were very full leading upto the move.. we had lived in a rental for about 6 years…

Yep moved in about 3 weeks ago now, very easy process. New house is great, need to do something with our front and backyards but the inside is all sorted!…

we were reasonably blunt with them- told them we have a budget, we will be sticking to it, and unless we have an idea of prices beforehand then we would…

ours was pretty quick, reckon it was within the 4 weeks to be honest.
re: selections- we told our colours person that if they expected us to decide on the day…

Hi guys, can someone PM the details of an electrician happy to do halogens at a good price..
cheers

Hi all,
Updated the hickinbotham forum but forgot this one yesterday...
Good news - we finally had official handover and got the keys!!!
Thanks to all that have helped with advice…

I reckon Medallion and Alan Shepard are the top of the food chain when it comes to display home villages..
People with that sort of $$ should really be using architecture…

think this a fairly key point.. i really don't understand why people would not do this to be honest, even if you have no budget concerns it seems ludicrous…

WE HAVE HANDOVER THIS AFTERNOON!!! FINALLY!!
(to those discussing timeframes- roughly ours was:
signed on land 11months ago, house contract 10months ago, colours and council approval late Nov-early Dec, finalised Jan, "ok…

Hi Tammy;
We did all our communication with head office via email (or registered post).. came in handy later.
General client email is:
liaison@hickinbotham.com.au
otherwise if you know the name…

That seems pretty good. Our new neighbour put our fence up (23m x 2.1m high).. our "half" was $900, we basically paid for most of the materials and they constructed…

We went to stratco (a supplier of good neighbour fencing).. from memory they indicated it was $45m/m for supply and should be about $35/m for install for a 2.1m fence.
We…

our house is 150m2 (ie small)- took at least 3 weeks for painting to be done. it was a solo effort- this painter looked like he should be in a…

Yeah its certainly dragging out isn't it! Took couple weeks negotiating this extra charge with the builder.. we sent final invoice to bank last tuesday... they are still waiting on…