Hi Charlston01, nice to hear from you, I will have to keep a look out for your build. Have you started yet? We sort of resolved the stobie pole issue…

Hi everyone
Today's been a pretty disappointing day for us. We had our first on-site meeting with our site Supervisor Ross, and discovered that: (1) Simonds have actually installed the wrong…

Hi all!
Just a quick update - lots of progress recently which has been great to see!
Bricking has been finished, gyprocking done, kitchen & bathrooms are on their way in too!…

Ok, so its been a couple of weeks, lots of progress in the meantime, but I've been a bit slack posting up photos. In week ending 05/09/14 our frame went…

Hi neighbour, fancy running into you on here!!
Great to hear from you. How have things been going? How is your build shaping up? Looks…

Wow, looks like your build is coming along nicely! Love the paint colour & the house looks so open and light... can't wait to see more photos.

Hi everyone! So its been just over a week since our foundation was poured. We have now got our bricks delivered and they are expecting to start the framing in…

So we drove past the block today and they have put down our slab! Super excited! Things got started very quickly this week, started off with some dirt last Friday…

Let's all take a moment to appreciate the progress that has been made on our neighbours houses!

Nice colour selections for the exterior, I think we went with very similar colours with the bricks, etc. Hope they get started soon!

Update: we have dirt on our block! A truck load of dirt! Hopefully they start this week, but I will give thema call on Monday just to check.

Hi Deluxes, its great to have some more people to share my frustrations with
We found out on Monday that although they were supposed to…

hmm... were told Simonds were going to start this week, but followed them up on Monday and were told there is a shortage of equipment in our area.... now probably…

Great to hear that you've got all your approvals! Hopefully they get started on your site soon. We got DA officially back on 23 July (actually approved 17 July), but…

Some more pics of the block, you can see we've put the fence up to keep the other builders out:
Quite a bit of rubbish dumped on our block:

Here is our block at the start of winter - you can see the stobie pole is roughly 4m into our boundary:

Thanks StephyD, I have been following your build whilst waiting for ours to start!

Our kitchen colours:
Alto eggshell for tiles, olive fabrini for benchtop and Bliss W for paint colour
For our bathroom we went alto ash for floor tiles, starstone for wall tiles, white…

This is what our facade should look like - we went with St Ives facade, rendered front

Hi everyone
Thought it was time to start my own thread for our build.
My partner and I are building our first home - the Stamford with Simonds SA - in north-eastern…

Hi Simondscleo we are also building with Simonds in SA with an anticipated start date of 08/08/14. By the way, do u happen to work for a bank? If so…