Frame is going up fast!

Hi everyone, this morning we drove by & saw that on a saturday morning they were working on our frame :-)
Just drove by again & took some pics.

227 days to go!!

Hi everyone,
Thought I'd get all my folders out today & go thru all our choices, colour selections, electric selections. Amazing how u forget some small things. Lol
I wanted to make sure we put in a power point for the microwave in the walk in pantry, yes we did!
I also checked our contract, apparently it states 297 days with holidays, weather delays etc.
So as this title says, 227 days to go. Arghhh
Roughly 7 1/2 months! Which means november, let's hope we are in by xmas!
Mel

Frame has started

My hubby just drove by our site & our frame must have started yesterday :-)

See pics

Change to kitchen & splashback

So after having to get some costs down I have made 2 changes to my kitchen. Downgraded to polar white laminate cupboards, instead of vinyl wrap! I then thought I can't have a white glass splashback with Matt cupboards. So I have gone a red colour. It's called redbox in the delux paint range. Thanks to pd for allowing me to make changes too. See pic below for the splashback colour! I will have white benchtops though!

Pic taken from: http://dsjlgcremorne41.blogspot.com/

Slab down

Hi everyone,
So excited our slab is down!
Frame should begin this week hopefully!
My hubby drove by on thursday night & saw it had been poured!
We then got our first invoice yesterday!
Pd move quick!

Frustrations!!

Hi everyone,

should I talk about my frustrations on my blog?
I thought it wouldn't be an honest blog if I didn't share what was happening throughout my build!

So over the last few months some things have been happening & today it has been quite annoying really!
Have waited quite a while to share with you all, as I was hoping pd would give me the credit I feel owed from the changes in my site! !

1. Was lied to at tender - told didn't know who my neighbours were when they had signed up with the same builder 4 months prior.

2. Upon signing off my neighbours plans saw that they were building with same builder & we both had a retaining wall each on the same boundary! Theirs was alot smlr than mine though! When I questioned them was told if we went to site together this would become one wall!

3. So we went to site together & one wall was built 2 wks ago. I was told that we would both pay 50/50 for that one wall!! Doesn't seem to be!! My credit was not half of the cost from original tender, I am paying 80% of the wall!

4. Lastly a big chunk of the wall wasn't built because my neighbours garage is going on our boundary, fine by me to help my neighbours out :-) but apparently I'm carrying some of their costs for their garage wall!

Feel great venting my frustrations!

Slab no go today :-(

Update: due to heavy rains last night in Melbourne our slab did not get poured today! ;-(
Driving past last night it was all ready to go though with those waffle pods & all boxed up!
Here's hoping it is poured next week! Apparently they have to wait for the dirt to dry up a little first.
I have to admit seeing the outline of the pre slab on my block is making me think it looks tiny! Apparently that is normal!
Mel