Paint Colour Advice
Thanks Michelle, that's a good idea - I will start looking around for prints first. I am still undecided whether it should even be a feature wall at all, if…
Paint Colour Advice
Hi Everyone,
Hope that you all had a great Christmas.
We have been in our new place for 6 months now and we're starting to slowly get into decorating all of the…
Interesting comment....
I agree with you PrincessB, I am in a similar situation. I am 21 and my partner and I have just built a big two story house, reason being that…
BRISBANE Area Independant building inspectors
Sorry, but there is no way I would commission handovers.com to do an inspection. The reason why we had to employ BCA Group to do our inspection was because handovers.com…
BRISBANE Area Independant building inspectors
Hi Peter,
I used BCA group during our build to do an inspection on my house which was at lock up stage. He (the inspector) was fantastic and I would recommend…
Glass splashback colours.
Hi Belgrave,
We have just moved into our new house and I chose a light coloured splashback for the kitchen and yes, I believe it's much easier to keep clean than…
Joins in Glass Splashback
Thanks for all your supportive comments.
I have good news. Our supervisor just rang and left a message and said that they are replacing the splashback. The lines in the…
Joins in Glass Splashback
'chelle ours is not like Matt's where the splashback goes up behind the rangehood. If it did, I would understand why the joins were there. The splashback is a standard…
Joins in Glass Splashback
Damo, I've just checked our contract drawings and the joins are noted in there as yours were. We had our contract appointment before our color appointment and it was in…
Joins in Glass Splashback
Hi Everyone,
I went out to our house yesterday (we are building in Brisbane and have about 5 weeks left until practical completion) as our S/S told me that our glass…
ex Display Home Furniture
I went there a few weeks ago looking for furniture for our new house (six weeks to go!). We have absolutely no furniture as it's our first house as we've…
PD --> Land Delay Marriott waters = +$6,000 variation
When I went to see the house we wanted to build at the display village, the customer service person told me that there was a price increase of $3000-$4000 happening…
Opinions on brickwork problems
Hi Damo,
Did Wayne have a look at this when he did your inspection? If not, could you get him back to specifically look at this part again? I know it…
Qld Inspectors...
His name is Wayne Dyer. I cannot recommend him enough. Quite well priced as well. I think we paid about $500 for a near lockup stage inspection.
Qld Inspectors...
I used BCA group the other week to do an inspection on my house which was at lock up stage. He (the inspector) was fantastic and I would recommend…
Building on acreage
We're currently building on a 1 acre block near Brisbane but we're not in an estate. We were lucky to pick up a block of land from someone who…
choice between indigo homes and plantation homes
See this is the reason why we went with Plantation in the first place because people in our area are not building with them!!! Actually, there are not many…
choice between indigo homes and plantation homes
Yes, we were told 11 months as well, when we signed up in April....we're hoping to be in by then.
We just got given a new site supervisor and…
choice between indigo homes and plantation homes
We are building with Plantation Homes at the moment and don't really have any complaints with them at all. Construction seems to be progressing at a steady rate, our…
Opinion on Brickwork
Yes, very happy! Bring on the rest of the house!
Opinion on Brickwork
Yes, very happy! Bring on the rest of the house!
Opinion on Brickwork
Hi again everyone,
Thanks for all your replies. I'm pleased to report that we met with the building supervisor this afternoon and he took on board all of our concerns…
Qld Inspectors...
Hi Nicole,
We are building in Brisbane as well and I have searched around for an inspector to have a look at our house.
I contacted a couple that are listed on…
Opinion on Brickwork
Thanks for your reply. We will be bringing the bricks around the pipework to their attention. They have already fixed quite a lot of their work up without…
Opinion on Brickwork
Hi Everyone,
This is my first post. I have been reading this forum for sometime now, it's a great resource and I only wish that I had found it sooner.
We…