~ Building our Dream ~: October 2009

Saturday, October 10, 2009

.....Building Contracts......

Apparently unbeknown to us the soil test has been completed....and the contracts are ready.

We have an appointment on Tuesday to pick up the Building Estimate contracts for us to go over (and start marking things off as we are now officially over budget!!).

Had a call from our CSR from National Builders to let us know that she was leaving today.......NOOOOOOOO...so our build will now be handled by the new CSR and I don't know if I am 100% happy with this! I will see what she is like at the appointment......so happy thoughts...happy thoughts as I know that the estimate will be nasty....

The quote that we have received from Powercor to connect the power 200m down the road to us is a staggering $59,000. which just blew the budget out of control.... and I know that we need power...so out with the red pen on the building estimate!!

Anyway I thought that you would like to see a plan of the house so here is the link Princeton 33E

Let me know what you think guys......

Enjoy the journey
Glenda

Friday, October 9, 2009

.....Site Excavation.....

Well..... the site excavation has been completed....

in between bad weather...and I must say....
it looks such a big area... but we had more cleared than just the house site...

These photos were taken on 14/9/09

The first day of work.....

And now its finished....

All I have to do now is keep the kids with the cars OFF it..
as I know that they were eyeing off this lovely flat surface!!!

The next thing is to have the soil test done....

Enjoy the journey
Glenda

.....The Weather!!!!.....

We have had some pretty bad weather lately..... and I don't mind the rain but the wind has been SOOO BAD!!!!

And wouldn't you know it....the week that we arranged for the site to be excavated (as we are doing this privately..not through the builders).....we had a huge windstorm.....and this is the result....

These photos were taken on the 28/8/09.

It just had to be one of the biggest gum tree that was on the block...yep....

Yes Nev...that is Ash at the side pondering!

and at the very end of the building site...
not somewhere else on the block....yep....

And it HAD to fall over the fence and into next doors dam.....yep.....

And we had to get a crane in to lift it back off....yep....

Well at least we hadn't started building and it didn't fall on the house!! But what a mess!!!

So the boys spent the weekend at the block re-acquainting themselves with the chainsaw..and doing bloky things and this was the result.........

Good to go with the site excavation....YEAH!!!

Enjoy the journey!!
Glenda

.....Not alot happening except Paperwork!!!......

Well long time no post....
there has been a lot going on with the building process...but not much to tell...if that makes sense.

A lot of paperwork and visiting display home to sort out extras etc...scary stuff money wise... but I thought that I would post some photos of the block before the work begins!

These photos were taken on the 18/9/09.

The view from the driveway........