Lessons Learned - Building a House

[Squawk]

any updates Dutchy or dont think do?

[Dutchy]

struggling Squawk...still with the ******* council...went there before Christmas...builders ready to go...very frustrating.

One of their problems is the house (a display home) behind us is lower than us and our backyard overlooks them....we have a sliging window door facing out the back and they have asked for that to be frosted glass for privacy reasons...the house next door to us is in the same position and has a bigger window door than us and isnt frosted!!...plus the house that we back onto in a double story and their upstairs windows look into our backyard, not frosted!!! FFS!

One question - what sort of A/C are you guys getting? we have always had evaporative, however the living areas of this home will cop the full afternoon sun so thinking refrigerated...

[Squawk]

Have gone for refrigerated r/c to get heating as well.

Best mob is Climat I found. I asked 10 suppliers to quote and got 2 decent ones back - one from Rite Price as well. We are going for the Mitsubishi Electric - a bees whisker short of the Daikin in quality but $2k cheaper.

Climat do sponsor NFC but regardless they were the best by far to deal with. They also threw in a $600 gold upgrade.

Have you done your electricals yet? Make sure you ask to get an aerial hooked up to your tv points!

Also got a good paving guy if ur interested - he does all the Rossdale work but I contracted him direct and saved 33% on the builders quote! That translates to a lazy $5K!

[dont think do]

All quiet on our front, council approvalls all done, just waiting for it to start this month.

We are thinking about have a R/C air con as that way the heating is done at the same time and while evap is much cheaper to install and run dosent seem to work as well on the days you really need it.

Have a quote with a big air-con unit and the idea is that you turn it on full blast and cool the whole house down to start with and then zone of the areas you want and just run it on low fan. Or at least this is what I have been told keeps costs down a little bit.

[mighty_tiger_79]

struggling Squawk...still with the ******* council...went there before Christmas...builders ready to go...very frustrating.

One of their problems is the house (a display home) behind us is lower than us and our backyard overlooks them....we have a sliging window door facing out the back and they have asked for that to be frosted glass for privacy reasons...the house next door to us is in the same position and has a bigger window door than us and isnt frosted!!...plus the house that we back onto in a double story and their upstairs windows look into our backyard, not frosted!!! FFS!

One question - what sort of A/C are you guys getting? we have always had evaporative, however the living areas of this home will cop the full afternoon sun so thinking refrigerated...

obviously you want to get things up and running ASAP but you could easily ask that your neighbours have frosted glass on their upstairs windows.

[Squawk]

Selections all but finalised.
Private certifier has given the green light.
the warm up lap is about to begin. Hopefully we wont have to start from the pits!

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Ok,

All we have is the okay to start date of 19th of feb, we are building with Stateman Homes and are building out at Angle Vale. Nice big block of land enough so I can kick the cat.

Have been told it should only be 6 months to complete the house from the OK to Start date, but was also told the paper work would only take 4 months and it took 7, so if thats anything to go by am expecting to be in by christmas 2034.

Really am hoping to be in by the last saturday in september for a big piss up, (sorry dear i meant house warming)

Yeah ?, we're working on the new Child Care centre there next week.

Have seen a couple of new child care centres going up there, whcih is good as we have a kid on the way now. Its becoming a big town now, just not all on the main rds there. We have a block in the St Ives Estate which has 100 blocks all 1800 sq metres.
Beats the courtyard stuf.

Took a semi driver around the back of the shopping centre to find a good drop off point for the child care centre. There are some seriously monster blocks back there. Where's the St Ives estate?
Whoevers bought that old church on the main drags got a bit of work to do but it'll be a belter of a residence when complete.

[dont think do]

The St Ives estate is on the just of the Angle Vale rd on the way to Gawler. You turn of helslip towards Gawler and its the first left with the foder store on the corner.

[Squawk]

any updates Dutchy or dont think do?

We're inching closer to starting.

The starter's gun should go off sometime between March 14 and March 20 hopefully.

[Dutchy]

any updates Dutchy or dont think do?

We're inching closer to starting.

The starter's gun should go off sometime between March 14 and March 20 hopefully.

well well well got the phone call we have been waiting for tonight...verbal approval is through from the council...earth works starting Thursday!!!...Believe it when I see it!!!

[Squawk]

Thursday! Lucky you. Hopefully the Starter's Gun doesn't discharge twice to signify a false start!

Mate, you will have to take a pic and post it here when it happens! (If u can - I have no idea how to do this myself!).

don't think do - where are you?

[Dutchy]

will post a pic once I see some dirt moving!!!

[dont think do]

Dutchy,

The race is on, as we have been told that they will be starting this week, my guess is they will turn up at 4.45pm Friday


but like you will believe it when we see it

I have leave coming up soon think I shall be spending most of that time at the builders.

[heater31]

The race is on, as we have been told that they will be starting this week, my guess is they will turn up at 4.45pm Friday

not likely most tradies finish early on Fridays is only us dumb office Staff that have to keep working friday arvos.

Very interested in how the competition does things too dutchy have heard some stories from our Concretor about how we are the best in preparing a base for him to work with so keep those pictures upto date



if you still have any questions drop me a PM and I will do my best to answer it.

[Squawk]

Dutchy,

The race is on, as we have been told that they will be starting this week, my guess is they will turn up at 4.45pm Friday


but like you will believe it when we see it

I have leave coming up soon think I shall be spending most of that time at the builders.

Hard to believe we may all be starting within a couple of weeks of one another! This thread could have at least another 12 months left in it yet!

[dont think do]

How are you boys going?
Things are starting to move for us, they have started doing the footings which is great news for us after 10 months waiting.


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[smac]

Another tip... Keep the site (particularly the slab area) as clean as possible - go and sweep it every night if you have to. The tradies all appreciate it and everything you can do to keep them smiling is a bonus for you.

Dust blows up with nail guns, mud gets in tools/on materials, rubbish gets in the way - worth the effort chaps.

[Dutchy]

any updates Dutchy or dont think do?

We're inching closer to starting.

The starter's gun should go off sometime between March 14 and March 20 hopefully.

well well well got the phone call we have been waiting for tonight...verbal approval is through from the council...earth works starting Thursday!!!...Believe it when I see it!!!

Thursday moved to Friday and thena call this morning putting it off until tomorrow

still growing weeds at $33- per day!!

[Punk Rooster]

tip-
hire a skips bin for tradies to put their rubbish in. It will keep the site clean & save a costly clean up at the end

[heater31]

tip-
hire a skips bin for tradies to put their rubbish in. It will keep the site clean & save a costly clean up at the end

That should be the builders responsibility but do they do it................ highly unlikely. Best thing to do is to wait until it gets messy then contact your supervisor or Project Mangager continue to contact him until he gets off his arse and fixes the problem