Week 4 - ho hum......

Well here we are at week 4. Not much has happened since last week. The guttering has been installed and the roof tiles and door frames have been delivered. Hurry up already, lol !!!!

Found out on Thursday that our supervisor has left PD and our new one starts on Wednesday.

Hopefully this week will bring some noticable changes so I can take some more pics !

Week 3 - Framed & Trussed !!!!!!

The front !!!!!

The back ! The master bedroom is on the left &
alfresco area on the right.


The sides............

The frame is up and so are the roof trusses. It was great to go out there today and be able to walk around and imagine what it is all going to look like.

Windows and roof tiles are yet to be delivered....Maybe tomorrow.....

That's a good looking slab.....

Even if I do say so myself, lol !!!!

Stood in the boys bedrooms, the kitchen and lounge and our bedroom, not sure how they are going to fit the rest of it on there, lol.......

Foundation Friday.....

We have a slab !!!!!!!

Although, am a bit concerned. Slab was poured this morning and it has been steadily raining for the last 90 mins.......Hope our slab hasn't ended up in the wetlands at the bottom of our street........

Will take some pics if it is still there on the weekend, lol.

Week 2 - Slabless :(

Slab was meant to be laid today. We were also meant to meet our supervisor at 10am on site. At 9.50am we recieved a call to say he had a client meeting that had 'forgottten' about and would give us a call about 1pm......Headed out to the block ourselves at 2.30pm to have a look and no action or slab :(......Still haven't heard from our supervisor >:(

*sigh*

Edited to add: heard from David late today, was too wet to lay slab this morning so are aiming for tomorrow morning. If all goes to plan frame will be delivered on Monday and will be put up early next week.

Mud, mud, glorious mud.............

Day 3 - Digging to China ???

We have trenches and pipes !!!!!

Will grab some photos on the weekend.

YAY !!!

Day 2 - Fenced in.....

We have temporary fencing........ YIPPEEEEEE !!!!!!

Week 1 - Day 1

8.58am -

Rain rain go away, come again another day.

Enough Said ! Grrrrrrrrrrr !!!!!!!!

1.30pm-

We have action !!!!!!!! Never before have I been so excited to see a 'big dig', lol !

Excavation has begun and we have a tap....WOO HOO !!!!!!!!!!

Ready......set..........

1. Rebate cheque from developer - yup
2. Confirmation from financier - yup
3. Building permits approved - yup
4. Signed, sealed and about to be delivered - YUP !!!!!!

Offical site start, "touch soil' date is July 4th !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally we will see something physical.

WOO HOO.......

happy happy joy joy :)

You heard it here first, finally we have formal approval !!!!!!

Oh happy day !!!! We finally have formal approval so as soon as PD received their deposit from the land developer we can start building !! WOO HOO !!!!

It's terrible, the longer they take to start building the more I am stressing over all of our colour choices *sigh* I am sure it wil all come together nicely....

Hmmmmm, I wasn't so sick at the moment I would be popping the top off some bubbly tonight :)

and on and on it goes.......when will it stop? nobody knows....

After the stuff up with the first valuer, a second one was sent out on Thurs. Jase received a call from her saying she was at the block but where was the house ? Apparently she was not told by R**s that she needed to value a house that was to be contstructed and land. Therefore, she wanted to know if he had house plans etc...... He advisd her to contact R**s as they had everything and surely should have passed the info on the her that she required ??????

We have not heard anything further today and as Monday is a Public Holiday (bloody Queen) we will have to wait until at least Tues. We are nearly halfway through the month already !!!!

SOOOOOO FRUSTRATING *****grrrrrrrrr*****

Far out brussel sprout !!!!!!

And so the R**s saga continues........They sent the valuer out to value the land today, only problem is the address they gave the valuer to value is the address of the property we are currently residing in, which is a rental !!!!!!!!! Why do the words moronic, hopeless, useless and crap come to mind whenever I think of them...Even the valuer was p*ssed......

And so the band plays on.......................

So close, but yet so far..........

Jase got a call from PD today. They are ready to start !!!!!!!! However, we are still waiting on R**s to pull a finger out *ho hum* going on past experience they won't break any records........We were also advised by our Mortgage Broker that because we are now combining the land and construction mortgage R**s want to charge us ANOTHER valuation fee on the land, even though they valued it for the land mortgage 3 weeks ago !!!!!!!! I KID YOU NOT ! They want money basically for breathing.......Who's idea was it to de-regulate the banking industry.......

Anyhoo, at least PD are ready to go :) So as soon as the ok comes from R**s, off we go !!!

Ch ch ch changes.........

Have finally settled on laminate choices for the kitchen......Ta da !

The Overhead cupboards will be in white

Lower cupboards will be in Nocturne Oak

The benches will be in 'Cosmos'.We are having drop sides to the island bench.

Bring it on !!!!!!!!!

Settle Petal.....

At 11am today we will settle on our block of land and our old house will settle, YIPPPEEEEEEE !!!!!! A huge thanks to Angela Naylor from Ideal Conveyancing, Karli Wood from Manorwood conveyancing and Kim at Choice, you ladies rock !

On another note, have decided to change the laminate colour in the kitchen but I am not sure what I want to change it to.....Have til mid next week to decide, the pressure, the pressure, lol.......

ARRRGHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here's a little tip, If you ever consider obtaining finance with R***S, then don't ! They have only had 45 days to get our documents organised for the sale of our house which was supposed to settle on Thursday, but guess what ? We find out today that they haven't done anything yet. Despite repeated contact from our Mortgage broker !!! Our MB is just about to lose the plot with them and can't believe their lack of service and incompetence. The rsult of this is that the new owners of the house are doing their nana, we have to wait longer for payment and we have to delay our land settlement again !!!!!

ARRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

As soon as our house is built we are changing lenders.

Busy busy busy.......

Have a fair bit to update today. Am finally back online after waiting for over a week for broadband to be connected only to find out that it is not available in our area (even though we have moved less then 1/2 a km away from our old house *eye roll*)

We signed our contracts for the new house on the 27/04 and were told that building would start in June instead of July, YIPPEEEEEE !!!!!!! Only a few minor problems with some detials in the contract and these have now been fixed.

Got the keys for our rental on the 27/04 and moved in that weekend. We have finally settled in are happy for this to be home for the next 7 months or so. Spent 4 hours cleaning our old house, that settles on the 17/05 so I am glad we had left plenty of time. Had a bit of a cry as I looked out into the backyard and all the boys toys and play equipment were gone, it seemed so empty and lifeless.

Am getting used to the pinkness of our rental, although I don't think I will be buying anything in pink for a long time, lol.

I think we have sorted out the lounge we are buying for the rumpus room and the outdoor lounge. Now to find the 'prefect' barbie !

We have a rental !!!!!!!

YIPEEEEEE !!!!!! And whilst it is a little 'pink' (pink carpets, walls, skirting, laminate and sinks) it is a great size and is a means to an end.

I will be tripping the light fantastic when our house is built, lol.....

Looks like we will be moving around the 26-29th of this month...better get packing !

Runaround............

No luck with the rental app. Apparently the landlord doesn't want dogs and wants minimum 12 month lease.....Why in the hell the RE agent couldn't have told me that before making me inspect the property, fill in applications and ring the references is beyond me...... ARRGHHHHHHHH !

Anybody want a 4 year old Golden Retriever ?