Site cut & filled

Hi everyone,
Spoke to my csr yesterday & was told site would start tomorrow. Decided I'd do a drive by tonight after work at 7 & surprise, surpride my site has been filled & cut.
So my official start date is today 15th of feb 2011! Let's see how long it takes. Contract says 260 something days. I have worked it out to be roughly 9 months! So we should be in by november!
Countdown has begun!
My gosh was shocked at how much dirt they filled! See pics below!
You can see on one pic that they have gotten the dirt ready for the retaining wall! Wow it looks so high!!
Slab hopefully isn't to far.

Portaloo delivered & site mowed

Very excited tonight when I drove past our block to see that a portaloo & site crossing has been delivered. It's all about to start :-) some of my husbands friends mowed our blk yesterday too. All ready to go!
See pick below of our site now.

Site start within the next few wks

Finally after waiting for a few weeks for our valuation & then finally finance coming thru it is all ready to move :-)
Porter Davis called me today to let me know that we need to mow the block & make sure our land is pegged, ready for site start.
One of the pegs is under some dirt/ temp fencing of neighbors behind our block building! So this weekend have to try & make it be seen for the builder.
Now we are getting excited :-)
Hopefully we have a slab by march ;-)
On another note our customer service manager A has finished up with porter Davis today :-(
She was excellent & onto of everything, as well as very efficient in getting back to me. Wish you all the best A..
We have a new person, a guy called P. Very nice, and he has been ontop of everything already.
So watch this space ;-) pics should be posted on my next post of our site cut!

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!

Settlement finally :-)

Hi everyone,
It has been ages since I have posted as nothing much has happened since contract signing.
Today I received a call to organize our settlement, yeah.
Our land should be settled by the end of the year. It will be between 23-29th december.
So I quickly contacted porter Davis to inform them to quickly organise & book a site start for January. My rep came back & informed me that Jan is looking good.
Now I just have to wait for an actual start date to be booked in & hopefully notified.
We are very excited and looking forward to the start of 2011, which will become the journey of our house build ;-)

Merry Xmas to you all too.

House plans

Below are a few scanned pics of our house plans drawn up.
1. How it will sit on our block
2. Upstairs & downstairs floor plan

Contract signed today :-)

Well what an exciting day it was today to sign our life away. ;-)

we started our appointment at 9a and finished at 1.30p.

I was quite surprised that the contract was pretty much 100% correct with all my upgrades & selections. Have heard some horror stories. We decided on a few more things too & changes, which they were quite happy about in terms of making variations on the contract.

We added in a gas point to the alfresco & another outside tap on the other side of the house :-) I also decided to change our floating timber floors to Kempass from tassie oak. And bonus was that it was much cheaper. Was rapt :-)

We took out the broom cupboard in the laundry & extra bench, and made the benchtop in the pantry laminate, so it is sturdy for heavy things :-) we also decided to frost the 2 toilet windows.

My csv A, I will call them was really good. So far my experience with pd has been positive :-)

Am now rapt that it is all done. Well part 1. My csv said second soil test is being ordered as they had just received an email this morning stating that our land should title by end of nov. Yippee I say. Can't wait for the actual build to begin. Even though we have signed up for a dec site start (no set date as of yet) think it will be prob be Jan.

See pic below of new flooring chosen from their brochure.
Mel