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7 years7 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Our Glendale 39 - Metricon (Blackwood Park, SA)

Hi TF, house is looking great. Do you mind if ask for the tradesman that did your front bessa-block retaining wall?
Thanks

7 years7 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Ok, an update. In June our SS decided he would retire without letting us know. Poor communication from Metricon. Our new SS seems to be on the ball and very…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Thanks Dulie. Unfortunately they're using the garage as a storage facility and the scaffolding is still up throughout. Once the scaffolding is down I'll get another pic for you

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

We've had some progress over the last week. Our cladding framing is finished, most of our eaves are completed and our cladding has begun. The tradies doing the cladding are…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Thanks very much. Pity the house seems to be progressing slowly now. We are around 2 months behind :(
Our eaves and cladding frame work are…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Hi, sorry for the late reply. We've just our baby girl!
I'll upload some plans of the house for you soon. I've just updated my signature, thanks for the info…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Bricking is all complete, other than the rear. Been let down a bit lately by Metricon and our SS. Lack of communication and the rear doors still aren't delivered nor…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Bricking is taking a long time and progress has definately come to halt. Our SS is stating that the hold up is the back doors that need to be installed…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Our Glendale 39 - Metricon (Blackwood Park, SA)

Hi TF. Yes our view is great. They gave us a rough handover date which is end of June, however I don't see that happening as our bricking is taking…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Our Glendale 39 - Metricon (Blackwood Park, SA)

The little guy and I were walking past your place last week. Looks like things are going great. We're building ours two streets back on Verco. Good to compare the…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Bricking has started! Stoked with the light colour grout and Oyster colour brick we selected :D



Gaslines have been run also. Here's…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

So we have had a bit of progress in one week. Our ground floor windows are in, roof sheeting and guttering finished on the top storey, our garage has roof…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Go for it NabeelC, it's your home after all :D

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

We have a second storey with roof trusses! Starting to look like it should. Now waiting for the windows to be installed and also the trusses to be finished on…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Ground floor frames are finished. We now have the second storey flooring down. Looking forward to seeing what the garage roof height structure looks like. Our SS said the…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Things are going up nicely now. Floor trusses are almost complete. Have a meeting with our SS Thursday to go over a few things. If things go to plan, second…

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8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

More progress! It's not pretty, but at least the first fix frames have started to the ground floor. It's great to see the height of the 3.00m and the 2.7m…

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

Bpglendale pretty sure i've seen many a tumble-weed over your place. Could be haunted by now it looks so abandoned :D

8 years8 yearsfamilymanfamilyman posted:
Building the Metricon Glendale 38 - Blackwood park Adelaide

My gorgeous family and I are building with Metricon this year. We have had the land on hold since November 2015. We have had an interesting time to say the…

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