bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes taking so long with Tender...
have a look at our timeline, I think it took six weeks to get a fixed price contract on a casuarina 30
http://buildingwithcoralhomes.blogspot. ... eline.html
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
If you have a solar hot water system then it may be tricky to integrate that with an on demand gas boiler... on the eccononmy front we have had free…
bgkdavis posted:Building in Hunter Region with Coral Homes
The problem with brick above any opening is that it requires a lintel, and brick above a double garage door with 3m high ceilings requires a fairly significant lintel, because…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
we remember slab and frame stage.. its kind of like the excitement that surrounds giving birth... overnight you go from being fat to having…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
here are some prices for fans and installation
for a......
-clipsal supplied and installed fan $329
-clipsal supplied and installed fan with light $365
-install owner supplied fan with light $147
We went with the…
bgkdavis posted:Building with Coral Homes - The real story!
here is a step by step blog on building with coral homes covering all stages from tender through to handover, please feel free to ask any questions
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
yes they charge for installation of all owner supplied item, we replaced the master bedroom fan with a martec wraptor, exhaust fans are extra as well.
At this stage you dont…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
Coral will always be at least 20% more expensive than a third party, our drive is 80m etched and sealed, and it cost us slightly less than the 50m drive…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
Hastings on a Casuarina was $15,980 back in April
bgkdavis posted:Coral homes indulgence package inclusions
It was 10 months from the point we decided to build and started everything we signed with coral in april and buld started in june
bgkdavis posted:Coral homes indulgence package inclusions
We just completed our casuarina 30 with indulgence package, most of the finishings are standard and you can see a load of pictures here on our blogg
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
Well its all over, we have moved into our new house and enjoying a well deserved beer!
I've put up some furnished pictures on the blog (link below), we are pretty…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
Just did some checking on our AC unit and got a pleasant surprise... I was wrong
I thought we had the 14kW standard…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
Because we built on a developed estate, water sewage and power were already serviced to the lot, so it was no problems, however if this is not the case with…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
We took the 'free' 1.5kw solar system out of the contract and got a credit of about $2500, then spent $7500 on a full 5kW system with a third party…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
It really depends on how you see yourself using AC, we deliberately subdivided the entire house so we can only heat/cool the rooms we need at any given time (and…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
We just had the standard Coral supplied AC system, we did consider removing it from the contract, but chose to remove other things instead as they were less invasive on…
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
If coral were to have installed the AC then....
The house slab would have included features for the AC unit, this includes some pipework and the slab extension
They install the internal…
bgkdavis posted:Stylemaster/indigo/coral homes, which i should chose? HELP!
well, we have just had handover with out coral home and are very happy, we were able to take a standard design, make extensive customization and the final product is…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
Corals quote of $8k for a 5kW solar system is the upgrade quote from the 'free' 1.5kW to 5kW, when you factor in the $2.5K rebate you get for removing…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
Have a chat with your carpenter while hes putting up the frame.
If your going to buy a TV wall mount then probably a good idea to do it now, that…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
here you go, the dishwasher
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r95712psup00o ... .12.45.jpg
bgkdavis posted:Our Casuarina. Building with Coral Homes in Heddon Greta
TV antenna.... that's the one thing we forgot and I still need to sort out, we had 4 TV points fitted yet no TV antenna! Fortunately its easy to fix
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
I think its rather ironic that the 'designer facade' == a facade that has had no input from a designer, but yes that is the basic designer facade, when it…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
As I've already stated, we are now at the end of our build time with Coral, frankly at the present moment I'm more than a little irritated with Coral, but…
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
Well Spotted, we made the exact same change for the exact reasons, but it wasn't until the final plans that we spotted this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9bnx634ud1rzp ... .30.02.jpg
bgkdavis posted:Coral Homes - Casuarina 32
We have just about had our Causarina 30 completed, just waiting for handover
We made a few modifications to the basic design
redesigned en suite bathroom
rearranged Utility room
redesigned Patio
added more storage…
