Absolutely go into planning within council.
I don't know how times I went in with our design to seek advice. But in the end all the visits were…

Anyone have info on these people.
They are up the road from scottt salisbury but their pricing seems to be far less than those at the display villages. …

We upgraded to 3 phase only to find during the build that it wasn't available. We had to downsize our aircon, pool heater etc. At first we thought…

Fair enough, not your everyday spec home. If it's where I think it is I look forward to watching it's process. It does get quite exciting once they…

Hey Spud,
Did you have any particular problems that held things up so long. ? We signed in April 09 ( not Ren )and moved in July this year. I…

We have recently finished building and have an idea of what costs what.
Some friends are getting quotes for a typical family room type extension of the back of the house…

Brand is Rinnia and we are happy with 50c but it just seems too much water and time to only finish up with luke warm water.
RE smart start, this is…

At the longest point about 18 metres. We went with the builders standard heater and he said we should have no issues.

Hi,
We paid about $5,000 for about 25 hours wk, @ 200ph and didn't have any costs for soil removal.
Mr. X

Hi,
We have just moved into a new 2 story place, internal space just under 300sqm.
According to the builder and manufacturer the gas heater is preset to 50c max. in…

Hi there,
We want to paint some outdoor furniture to match our annodised aluminium windows. We are after the colour that people use on aluminium windows to try and look annodised.

Anyone know of the name, type or colour of the paint that looks like annodised aluminium.
Mr. X

Has anyone from RH explained why it takes so long to get strted?
Mr. X

369,000. 2000sqm. 10km from Adelaide CBD.
Mr. X

Our 2 storey place was locked up last week.
The builder says 18 weeks all going well.
At present they are on time.
What have others taken?
Mr. X

No other display village comes close to Blackwood Pk.
They have places starting at around 100,000 through to 2 million dollar mansions.
Mr. X

Would this H & G software be of any use to design a garden.

Caroline, Are the monitors you refer to the baby type or something more technical..eg hardwired ?
Mr. X

We thought long and hard about that one and decided against. We've found things wrong that the builder missed, an inspector probably would have as well, but they aren't…

Anyone from ADELAIDE recommend a decent pool/landscaping company. Plenty too pick from but anyone have good stories to report.
MR. X

As we thought. Checked the site and noticed it wasn't down yet. Is now being rectified, it pays to check things for yourself.

Who has had this particular product installed and can you remember when the perimeter part was laid. eg. before or after timber, brickwork etc.
Mr. X

It would seem we are getting somewhere.
The builder's theory is that someone stuffed up, no kidding. They have now accepted fault and we are pretty sure that we…

Yep fair question and we wondered if tapes differed. The builder has also measured and come up with the same measurement. The third party engineer is simply someone…

Is it safe to come out?
Since the initial post we've made plenty of calls to the relevant people.
The issue has been submitted to the builder in writing and…

Anyone else had this issue where the slab has been laid and is smaller than the plans. It is short in width and in depth. Obviously the…

The only real way to get to as near a fixed price as possible without any PC's is pay for working drawings and engineering before signing a contract, around 4,000…

We're building a one off design with a medium size builder who have their "standard builders range".
We've upgraded to buggery and have gone about 100,000 over the standard.
Tiles and…

Thats interesting what you say about Rendition. We considered them for a while but they were extremely slow with any reurn correspondance. We chose someone else who are just as…