Mel's house build: Land settlement

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Land settlement

Our land finally settled today at 12.00p.
Very happy that it's finally legally ours ;-)
Can't wait for the start of our build!

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RaeleneDecember 24, 2010 at 9:19 AM
Congrats Mel... What a wonderful Christmas present for you.
2011 is going to be SO exciting!!!
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Building: Cremorne 42 (Lifestyle PD)

Upgrades

Facade/ external
- Extended alfresco
- Extended garage by 1000mm
- upgraded facade ashmont & render to portico
- upgraded front door, trans glass, tri lock & deadbolt
- deadbolts to laundry & garage
- extra water tap near laundry
- gas point to alfresco pillar (for BBQ)

Electrical
- 29 down lights to ground floor
- x5 stair lights & added light & pp to under stair storage
- lots of exta power points (min of 1 extra in every room)
- flood lights outside (x4)
- x2 fancy external lights
- ducted vacuum with extra point & sweeper
- alarm system
- upgraded heating (zoned upstairs/downstairs)
- heat lights in both bathrooms
- outside power point in alfresco & conduit for fan in alfresco roof
- added telephone, data/tv points x4

Bedrooms
- Added WIR to master bedroom
- doors to WIR master & WIR in bedroom 2

Kitchen
- laminated bench & pot drawers in Pantry
- upgraded kitchen handles
- added cupboards above fridge & alcove
- upgraded splashback to starfire glass (clear instead of green)
- added mosaic tiles to alcove

Bathrooms
- frosted windows to bathrooms & toilets
- niches in showers
- upgraded mosiacs to powder rm & bathroom splashbacks & niches in showers
- upgraded bath to biggest
- extended bathroom mirror across whole wall
- inserted mirror niche in ens bathroom
- upgraded bathroom mixer& bench to ceaserstone like ens & powder rm (per
promo)

Other
- added door to rumpus/ bi fold door off living/kitchen area to close off hallway to main
entrance & hall
- flyscreen doors to rumpus & balcony sliding doors
- window locks to windows
- upgraded carpet underlay
- floating timber floor to most of ground floor instead of STD tiles
- privacy locks to bathroom, toilet, powder rm & master bedroom
- bigger fridge space for dbl fridge

Promo upgrades (included in promo)
- evaporate cooling/ std heating
- high ceilings ground floor
- upgraded ens & powder rm: ceaserstone, basin upgrade & mixer upgrade
- upgraded ens shower head, both showers tiled bases
- upgraded kitchen - standalone 900m oven, pot drawers, overhead cabinets,
benches 20m shadow lined , dishwasher, veggie mixer, canopy range hood
-cat 1 carpet & tiles
- upgraded laundry troff with overhead cupboards & extended bench
-bi- fold doors dining
-flyscreens all openable windows & door stoppers
- garage panel lift & remotes
- door from garage to house

Upgrades that didn't make it
- original facade bronte
- Eaves around whole house (only to front facade)
- bigger garage (org wanted 3 car)
- vinyl wrap kitchen
- laundry broom cupboard & extra bench top
- glass overhead cupboards in kitchen
- 40m bench tops
- upgraded staircase
- down lights to 1st floor

Building Timeline
- 21/4/10 - deposit on land
- 15/9/10 - 1st deposit to PD & first sales Quote
- 7/10/10 - Tender app
- 21/10/10 - Colours, electrical & tile selections
- 3/11/10 - Contract signing (deposit paid)
- 23/12/10 - land titles
- 15/2/11 - Site cut & filled
- 12/4/11 - Pre slab prep
- 14/4/11 - Slab poured (stage paid)
- 21/4/11 - Frame begins
- 5/5/11 - Frame completed (stage paid)
- 10/5/11 - Roof tiled & all windows fixed
- 15/5/11 - gutters & ground floor wrapped
- 19/5/11 - bricking ground floor begins
- 9/6/11 - bricking ground floor complete
-1/7/11 - Scaffolding goes up & 1st floor bricking starts
- 8/7/11 - ducted heating & cooling roughed in
- 15/7/11- electrical all wired & ducted vac, alarm system installed
- 22/7/11 - bricking first floor completed
- 1/8/11 - lock up stage complete (stage paid)
- 3/8/11 - scaffolding comes down & site cleaned
- 4/8/11 - plastering begins @ wk 24!
- 12/8/11- plastering completed & garage roof frame up
- 19/8/11 - Wk 26 stairs being installed & garage roof tiled!
- 22/8/11 - kitchen installation & fixing begins
- 31/8/11 - wk 28 fixing completed (stage paid)
- 3/9/11 - painting begins @ day 200 since site start!
- 10/9/11 - wk 29 - 90% of painting completed & portico rendered
- 13/9/11 - wk 30 Tiling begins to laundry, powder rm, bathrooms & balcony! Kitchen splashback installed!
- 1/10/11 - wk 32 garage door fitted. heating, cooling & ducted vac fitted. Data, tv &
telephone points fitted.
- 4/10/11 - wk 33: carpet being laid & robe & linen shelving /rails fitted &
floating floors installed.
- 11/10/11 - wk 34: electrical fit offs, render painted!
- 18/10/11 - PCI - wk 35
- 28/10/11 - Handover day
- 2/12/11 - driveway

Thursday, December 23, 2010

Land settlement

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