We finally have some ACTION!!!!!

We finally have the beginings of a house, site start end of February. Kat and i went out late one night to go and check it out, and we had pipes and holes etc.. Then i came back and found this...

Only a few days later i wasn't expecting a finished slab... Not bad... One week past, and i hadn't been out to visit, so drove out yesterday morning, 17th March to find a frame, and half a roof..... Tradies on site were so friendly and offered for me to come and check it out...

Not too sure when i'm looking out for with good quality workmanship, but i'll have a closer look when we go out there on the weekend...

back and forth!!!

C called me today to let me know she recieved fax and that the council had it wrong with the cross over. So i was right, the house will be flipped back to the original way ( opposite to the display house)
She said she had posted new plans out on the 8th Jan (although still havent recieved them) as at 13th Jan. Wish they would just get it right for once to save us all these hassles of posting and faxing back.
She said she wanted to move forward and get things moving... I hope so... It would be nice to have a start and finish date so we can plan things around it.

New Year!

Called C today and told her that the cross over was on the right side not left as per the plan they posted out. also noticed that a couple of the Power Points were in the wrong spot so she told me to fax over a plan with the changes
Really hoping we get a site soon start i think its starting to feel more real knowing its just around the corner.

Rush before the xmas break...

Spoke to C (sutomer service) today as we had received another set of plans which had gone to council with the whole house flipped and back to the basic 1st set of drawing which were done around April. So i rang to let her know that we had made many many changes since this first set of drawings. I also questioned which side the cross over was on as the drawings were showing them at the left side, even though the contract, lot drawinngs and the actual block showed it on the right. she said the council plans were right and she'd send out the new drawings.



We went for a drive out to the block to check that we actually had the right block as i thought maybe we had been looking at the block next door. But i counted the lot numbers back from the house 3 doors up that has a sign with the lot numbers, and we have the right block. So now i have to wait til they are back in the office 5th Jan to call them and tell them. Not even sure who will be back, but this is just dragging on too long and i want them to start builging already..

So much for having a slab before Christmas. ha

Waiting for settlement.

Settlement for land is meant to be the 27th of November, i have called the property conveyancing and asked it to be moved closer, so we are just waiting for a reply from the vendoors solicitor. Hopefully we can settle land asap, then the council approval can go in and then we should be able to go to site. I'm hopeing by the end of November, that give them a couple of weeks for site works and the slab before the Christmas break. This whole process take so long i wish we would have known what was going on so we could have taken less time on our end.

Bricks: I finally re found the photos of the same bricks being used on another build and they really aren't what i had in mind, i wanted a darker more chocolate brick. Hopefully they will look darker with the off white mortar in them.

I'm really unsure about the dune for a render colour, i think it looks to grey and too light, i think its easily painted though, so not too worried.

Final Documents sent, decisions made, now we just wait.

This is the last set of plans, everything is right except for laundry door.

Sent off all our paperwork for bank, conveyencers and the PCV to builder

Changing to exposed aggregate driveway, mixer taps in bath and shower, off white mortar. Now that its all finished i'm wishing i would have made a few little changes, like adding 2 wall lights to the portico and another couple of tv points. We will be getting the Home theatre room wired up so i'll probably get some cat5 and tv points put in then. I also want to change my handles for the kitchen cupboards they no longer have the bar handles that i want so we chose like a satin curved one, but i don't really like them, and would prefer to mount them horizontaly on cupboard roors. This was all the choices we had.

Still lots to think about even though the big decisions have been made.

Hopefully our next drive out to the Block in a couple of weeks we may see some action. I think it still needs to go for estate approval and council. Wish they could give us a date for site start. Its all getting very exciting now.... waiting is killing me.

We had our coloutr appointment today, met with out colour consultant at 9.30 am and i think we got out of there just after 12.00.
I knew i would be indecisive but it actually wasn't too bad.

There are only a couple of things that i'm not sure of, such as the colour we have chosen for our bricks, they just look a bit too light and there isn't much colour vatiation. Would be good to see it on a house. Off white mortar should look good with them though.

Happy with the rest of the exterior colours, dune and paperbark, and charcoal roof tiles. Also having aggergate driveway. I would just love to see it all together now.

Interior we are having

walls: wattyl Kid Leather

white ceilings and architraves

Pearl dust kitchen cupboards with an Osprey Cesar stone bench top. white tiles (as in pic) for kitchen and laundry splashback.

Bathroom cupboards are going to be pearl bisque with ginger Ceasar stone bench and a brown 400x400 floor tile. (its called Chicago Khaki)

they probably took the longest to decide on because there was nothing there that i liked. everything had a pattern going through it and was too light.