It feels like it takes forever… we got preliminary drawings 18th December and pretender wasn’t until 20th May. Hoping to get to site late Sep or October.
Once you get to…

Hi, they said they can demolish late July (after abolishment is complete, we will apply for it to be done from 28th June and it could take 4 weeks but…

BR Demolition in Mentone, they’ve been great to deal with so far.

Sorry for late reply.
We had our style appointment last week which went well although now we wait to see how much extra it will cost.
We did get one surprise,…

Sorry for the delay, just saw this now.
Timeline was just to get to sight.
Pretender meant to be next week but no confirmation of date or time yet so might not…

Apparently the base price can increase if they don’t start building within 9 months.
We were aware of this but aside from that, since costs have increased due to supply…

Hi. Our pretender is now meant to be in March, although we don’t have a date yet. We have a full timeline though which is encouraging, with site start slated…

Thanks, some good ideas there.
Is there a stage when we get to discuss this with TA? Does HVAC appointment cover this stuff? Or is it too late then? Seems like…

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I think we already had around 28k in our psq for AC, and around 18k for oak flooring with herringbone pattern. They also added in cranes,…

As far as I know we could be courting multiple builders if we want, we have only paid 3k so could always walk away. Obviously we couldn’t take the Thomas…

When we paid the deposit in March 2021 build start was always going to be around May 2022.
Obviously things haven’t been great for the industry re: supply and services so…

Hi thought I replied to this but can’t see it…
Haven’t got the pre tender yet, though we have a zoom call set up for next week to go over the…

Thanks, looking forward to seeing more posts!

Hi there. We are are using TA but only made some small changes to their Nouveau design, however I think we are in the same boat. We paid our deposit…

Hi Sminters. So have you just received these plans? We paid our first deposit mid march and got our plans late July. We have made some small changes (widen garage,…

the facade on Master was not reflected what i picked on PSQ stage, it was so annoying as they simply changed my bedroom floorplan to suit their facade. I reckon…

We are building the Nouveau. We strongly considered the evoke but when it was sighted it was a few metres longer and didn’t leave enough of a backyard. From memory…

Hmm interesting. I can’t imagine TA would be happy being on that list, and it will be interesting to have a conversation with TA about it sooner than later (tender…

Hi JayxZara, we are doing a knock down and rebuild in Cheltenham, and we have also chosen the Thomas Archer Nouveau, with a study too, so very close to your…

Thanks!
Ok so it’s white cardboard for your doggy, lol. I couldn’t figure it out, sorry!
Thanks for the tip about the pool. I remember now you mentioned way back that the…

Looks amazing land thanks for sharing!
We just got our external elevation drawings today so still a long way to go…
I have some questions:
What was the reasoning for blocking out the…

Oh, that’s disappointing. I suspect we will have some similar issues. Neighbors house is already 2 storey and we are knocking down and going up to 2 storey. I…

Interesting. At what point should we approach the neighbors? Once we have the elevations and master site plan etc? We have told them what we are planning in basic terms…

Hi jool, we are waiting to get our master siting plan, I guess when we see that we can do some research on council (Kingston) regulations. I don’t think we…

Wow, that’s so cool! Such an amazing feature to your home!

Hi, just saw this and wanted to help. Our sales consultant (with TA) was able to make changes to our predesigned floor plan. We added a study and also some…

Thanks for sharing, the plans look awesome!
We are doing a knockdown and rebuild in Cheltenham, and have settled on the Nouveau (TA) with only minimal modifications, though we are planning…

Yeah if you add a fireplace when deciding on the floor plan before the PSQ then it’s early on and not really a variation. I reckon it’s more them up…

I think the variations are there to protect the builder, basically they are allowed to make variations if they need to without giving you a discount, etc. If you want…