We've finally recieved Approval from our city council, now we're just waiting on the bank. Hopefully we'll hear something this afternoon.

Here's a picture of our block of land and the house plans.

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15/06/09 - Trees cleared
16/06/09 - House pegged
27/06/09 - Temporary fences and trenches
29/06/09 - Concrete footings poured
30/06/09 - More Concrete
1/07/09 - Portaloo
2/07/09 - Bricks delivered
3/07/09 - Started laying the bricks
11/07/09 - Piers, garage floor, and ant caps
14/07/09 - Floors
15/07/09 - Frame up
20/07/09 - Roof trusses
29/07/09 - Colorbond roofing started
7/08/09 - Roof finished, decking done, windows installed!
30/08/09 - Boards, wrapping paper, electrical
7/09/09 - Gyprock, cornices
23/09/09 - Blackbutt - solid wood flooring
25/09/09 - Floor tiling in the bathroom, ensuite, laundry
29/09/09 - Started with the new bricks
6/10/09 - Kitchen arrived
29/10/09 - Timber floors sanded and first coat

Nice layout, i really like how you have the spare bedrooms up the front and the master and living at the at the back!

Well, with one major "Oops!", our block of land was cleared today!

They started clearing the block this morning, my DH went out early this afternoon to have a look and discovered they had been clearing the WRONG block! Unfortunately, they were half way done with it before the discovery, and when I got off work and went out to see if they had done anything to our block, they had just finished. They must have decided to just finish the other one because there was nothing left but one tree lol

Anyway, here's an update

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omg will your neighbour be cranky? very pretty block BTW

I dont know what will happen now, I'm not sure who's going to have to wear the cost of it. But if it was ME that owned the block, i would be thinking that it wouldnt be me paying for it!

And thanks, it is a pretty block. There's a reserve and a cemetary back there so I dont think it'll ever be built on, which is lucky for us... and the "neighbors" are very quiet!

We're Pegged! I didnt quite expect to see anything done today as it started raining fairly early, but someone got stuck right into it this morning

What was the reaction on their face when you told them? I imagine they will just have to write it off somehow as it was their mistake . . . how much is it costing to have your block cleared?

Really nice looking bit of land you've got yourself there!

Unfortunately, I was at work so I didnt get to see. It was just an "oh shhhiii...." moment for my husband before he called our SS and explained what was happening lol.


He left it for the SS to tell the poor guy that he was digging up the wrong trees...

Sorry Pebble, I didnt mean to ignore your question

It cost us just under 4k to have the block cleared of trees (741 sqm), and they'll come back and cut them when things have dried up a bit... it has rained almost every day since the trees came down...

On a happier note, he told us they are hoping to start on friday and that they should be bricking by next week

Beautiful block

Thank you! The street is a "No Through" road too, so thats almost as nice as a neighbors on the other side of the reserve

We've had a bit of progress in the last couple of days, we now have a fence and they've dug trenches

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Wow your block is awesome!

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D&SG, you do have a beautiful block. Looks so peaceful!

I like how you have the master bedroom positioned away from the other bedrooms too.

Thank you Haven, my DH came up with the design. The house will get to take full advantage of that view to the back and it also faces to the north/northeast, so we're pretty stoked about the whole thing!

More concrete yesterday and a portaloo today!

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Wooo a loo!!

They were delivering bricks when we drove by this morning so we'll have to check back later today and see if anything is happening

They started laying our bricks today, I havent seen it yet but my DH stopped in and took a pic for me