Pre-construction

This is the first step of the Allura custom home build process, which includes initial budgets, home design, costing the entire project, interior and exterior selections, approval of your new home, construction plans and site start.

Stage 1 - Demolition

You move out and Allura moves in. Before the large machinery arrives to knock down the home, all services are disconnected, then the demolition begins. More than 80 per cent of the old home is recycled with the materials sent to recycling centres to help reduce land fill.

Stage 2 - Pool Shell

If your new custom home design includes a swimming pool, then at this stage the pool excavation takes place. Excavation of the pool shell opening and all pipe work is installed, steel fixing and formwork completed, and pool shell is then poured.

Stage 3 - Concrete Slab

Your new custom home begins with the right foundations. This stage of the build includes survey and site levels, cutting the site, the piering of your home, internal drainage, formwork, steel reinforcing, termite collars and pouring of the concrete slab.

Stage 4 - Ground Floor and First Floor Frames, and Roof Trusses 

The house structure starts to take shape, built to engineers’ details and specifications. This stage includes frames, bracing, beams, floor joists, Hebel flooring and roof trusses. Your home is now really starting to come together.

Stage 5 – Brickwork and External Cladding

Learn about the insulation of an Allura custom home using Thermoseal wall wrap, and the difference between common bricks with render, face bricks and external cladding options. The external facade of your home is coming alive with texture and colour.

Stage 6 - Upper Storey Roof

There are three main roof styles: skillion roofs, traditional pitch roofs, or low-pitched roofs. This stage includes roof sarking or anti-con insulation, fascia and guttering, followed by roof tiles or Colorbond steel roofing, and finally solar panels or future provisions for solar.

Stage 7 - Internal Linings

This is the rough-in stage for electrical, plumbing and air conditioning. Following this is ceiling and wall insulation on external walls for energy efficiency, and acoustic insulation for internal walls. The walls and ceilings are finished with plasterboard, followed by square set cornice or traditional cornice profiles.

Stage 8 - Internal Tiling

All wet areas are waterproofed, underfloor heating is installed, shower and bath niches are finished, and the inside of your home comes alive with colours and patterns from your internal tile selections.

Stage 9 - Final Fix

At this stage, your new Allura custom home transforms with a lot of internal fittings installed. It includes the addition of staircases, kitchen joinery, bathroom vanities, all internal doors, wardrobes, skirting and architraves, and the painting of ceilings and all internal walls.

Stage 10 - Practical Completion (PC)

Final items are installed and tested including appliances and hot water systems, shower screens and tapware, the driveway is poured, landscaping, pool and fencing are all now completed. After the construction team conducts final touch ups it’s time to hand over your home, and for you to move in and enjoy your new custom built Allura home.