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• Flooring. The tender allows engineered timber to the marked areas. At Solomons we shortlisted a laminate — Elements Laminate Hydro, Cedar Mist DR6616 or Blackbutt DR6601 (1515 × 237 × 10, painted micro-bevel). Can we select a laminate against the engineered-timber allowance, and is there a price difference either way? Or should we be choosing from the engineered range? If we do go with the laminate, it must go down on a quality acoustic underlay, not the standard one — these are attached two-storey townhouses let to guests, so footfall noise upstairs matters. Please name the underlay and price the upgrade. Update, 8 Oct 2026: Harriett recommends staying with the tendered engineered timber in place of the laminate, as the better floor; not yet decided. Whichever is chosen, John's requirements for the main floor (everywhere but the herringbone in Bed 3): a colour close to Cedar Mist; long boards (about 1.5 m or longer); and it must look like floorboards, with a fine bevelled groove between planks on the long and the short edges, as the laminate's micro-bevel gives. Please offer engineered boards that meet all three, with samples, and say if the tender allowance covers them.Meeting notes
• Bed 3 floor. The tender allows direct-stick timber herringbone; the original brief (section 01) asked for a darker hybrid-laminate herringbone. Confirm the product and colour.Meeting notes
• Showers. The tender includes shower niches and hobs. The working drawings (rev H) show shower ledges at 1200 and a step-free, 45 mm set-down floor marked NCC Livability compliant, which is the design we've followed (10c–10f). Confirm no hobs, and whether the niche allowance can go against the ledge stone tops or the glass.Meeting notes
• Shower screens. The tender excludes them. The design now has a frameless 12 mm glass panel on the half-height wall in the downstairs bathroom and the ensuite (recessed channels, 150 mm radius corner) — please price as a variation, × 3 dwellings.Meeting notes
• Stone tops. The tender includes Lavistone LSU401 Taj Classico (Gen Surface Ultra Print, matt, 20 mm) — the Taj Mahal look the design is built around. We'd like prices for three options on the same basis: Kaya Sienna (understood to be cheaper), the tendered Lavistone Taj Classico, and natural Taj Mahal quartzite honed (AMS). Both Kaya and Lavistone are printed faces: how are cut edges, the undermount/vessel basin cut-outs and chips handled?Meeting notes
• Kitchen splashback. The tender allows a tiled splashback (a small tumbled marble mosaic with pink and lilac veining). The design uses the benchtop stone as the splashback (and in the cooktop recess, section 05b). Please price the change.Meeting notes
• Stone veneer. The tender includes Sandstone Ashton Light Irregular, supply and install — we assume for the entry foyer wall (section 11a). Confirm where it goes, and whether the stronger rust-coloured accent stones can be left out or kept to a minimum.Meeting notes
• Joinery. The tender allows laminate from the standard range, which suits the design. Confirm that Laminex AbsoluteGrain (Classic Oak, and a paler oak for the kitchen) is within that range, and that the custom details — floating vanities with a recessed shadow-line pull, the timber-lined cooktop recess, the stone waterfall island — are within the joinery allowance.Meeting notes
• Pool tiling is excluded from the tender — noted.Meeting notes