Hi Jai,
I think thr should be a min to max mortar thickness tolerance between the concrete slab to the first brick. I tried searching couldn't find anything, someone here should…

hope ur home meets the expectation.
We opted legal avenue to get things as per contract

Tried posting earlier with no much response, so trying again.
We have had our first PCI, the builder has been dragging the rectification of the PCI defects. Since we know that…

Had our PCI on 14th of October 201, its been 15 days and they haven't still fixed majority of the defects.
What I undertood from the tradies is the regional…

I would like to put a 1.6m long X 0.6m wooden framed mirror against plasterboard/gyprock what would be the best solution
1) What would be best glue which would stick fast…

Thank you guys!!!!
I would like to have a building inspector, but with Simonds homes I can't take the inspector in unless and until I have a fight. I had enough…

We will be having our PCI next week, we are building with Simonds.
It would be helpful if someone could share what all I should watch out for, there are certain…

Thank you guys for the vaulable information provided.
I had it measured today the gap between the ceaserstone and the glass splashback is 6 to 7 mm.
I have attached the photos…

Hi All,
Building a new house, the kitchen glass splash-back has been installed and we have a PCI coming up very soon.
The splash-back is meant to be 650mm high, but…

Hi All,
Building a new house, the kitchen glass splash-back has been installed and we have a PCI coming up very soon.
The splash-back is meant to be 650mm high, but…

Thank you for your response.
I was having a look at the Aton HDR44 I couldn't see anyone selling in Australia.
I wouldn't want to buy one from USA as they use…

Hi All,
I would like to buy something like a starserve or Hills home hub for distributing normal tv and pay tv signals to other rooms.
I have installed cat6 cables to…

We are building a new house. The contract has 40mm ceaser stone to kitchen bench and to the servery/benchtop included.
We casually measured the thickness of the ceaser stone for both…

We are building a new house. The contract has 40mm ceaser stone to kitchen bench and to the servery/benchtop included.
We casually measured the thickness of the ceaser stone for both…

must be some low life. good everything is ok

finally carpetings done
http://abrahams-leneva.blogspot.com/201 ... -home.html

As far as I know there is no extra cost going with steel frame, i had asked a few builder before we started building.
National Builder
GJ Lewis
JG King

Hi Matt,
Thank you for the information, they look good but can't find any which are enclosed and has a glass front door

thanks Matt
Would like to have a glass enclosed one, wouldnt mind a good looking open one either

thats blessing in disguise,
not painted yet

rendering done

Yes it should be possible.

wud b interested in knowning about the tester

Hi Jovi,
Great to see tiling happening, ur building journey is coming to an end.
All excited to move into Leon, Jovi?

Hahaha , was very jealous with ur build I paid them - to catch up with ya.
will wait…

Finally we have colours on wall

Excited- very much
the fluro downlights was in the promotion, werent they?, so u gonna change them to led ?is it that easy
we have 50 downlights , thats gonna b very…

thats fantastic.
wud they charge extra for the 300mm cupboards?
pls post front facade photos too
who is doing the led lights?
ours they hav started the painting

Jovi,
It's good to speak to Simonds.
If I was you I will also contact the sparky and getting them do something about it

Hi Jovi,
Do u know ur sparky, talk to him and get it fixed