wow..nice colours and fixtures...and i like that you have taken photos of them.....i have totally forgotten my colours, might take a page out of your book and copy it.

Woohoo our finance got approved today!! The valuation is up about $40K already which is very good D

Just caught up on your thread, your colours look fab!!!

Congrats on the Bank approval!! Your valuation is awesome, great stuff!!!

Building permits are being obtained and our appointment to go through everything with Rawdon Hill is soon! The lady said site start shoudl be approx 2 weeks or so after that! YAY!!!!!

Well just an update... Everything is ready to go.. We are just waiting for the building permits.. Grr!

congrats you must be sooo excited

Well.... The council didn't approve the permit because the garage is 50mm too high.. That's 5 measly centimetres. GRRRRRRRRR!

OMG what now!!!

Rawdon Hill have been negtiating with the council, but to no avail. Poop. We need to get the average height of the garage wall, which is on the fenceline down to 3.3m (5cm less than it is...)

This is despite the neighbour giving permission, the developer already approving it and the builder said they have had similar situations where Casey Council has approved 4m average height walls. Argh!

Anyway we have a solution... Which of course will cost more money. There will be a beam visible in the garage (which doesn't bother me) and it will shorten the wall a fair bit... I think from my understanding the wall will look like houses that have no eaves on that side.

WE HAVE A TAP!!!

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Still no permits though...

Well we now have permits.. We are so over this.. Would not recommend our builder now (

glad to hear you have the permits.....but not happy to hear you wouldn't recommend your builder. What happened?

Hi wertmezer,
We are also building the Montague in The Avenue Estate. It looked like we were going to have same problem as you with the garage height, and we signed off on the beam change but then the council did an about face and approved our plans. Go figure! We just had our slab poured on Tuesday. It does take a while to get going hey, but as Kristyv said once it does start, things do move along pretty well. Let's just hope winter doesn't hold us back too much. I hope to start a thread soon.

Our builder has just taken ages to do EVERYTHING 1615br. 6 weeks to get a price for a toilet? Anyway.. Apparently it's starting on the 10th of July. Fingers crossed!

Guys , I feel your pain!..Youll be right!..This weather wont be helping though so I hope for both your sakes Mother nature decides to help out a bit!
Im so happy with the choice we made, This house is awesome and Im sure you will be saying the same when its all done and dusted!.
I wasnt sure about the weathertex boards to the front when we first signed up but now Im in love with it!..Looks quaint although we removed the finnals etc as we didnt particularly like the country look.But everyones tastes are different Im sure both or all Montagues will look awesome..Good luck ,Cant wait to hear the progress!:)

Will they start on Monday....................? Fingers and toes are all crossed!

Good luck for Monday..I hope they make a start for you..

Well if it's not Monday I'm sure it will be soon. We weren't actually given a day for start we just noticed that they had!

Yay! We have movement FINALLY!

This is the view up the driveway and the cut where the garage drops down.
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From across the road.. Portaloo and skip!
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From the back corner.
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Very excited!!

Yay!! Im glad you have had your scrape...I absolutely love the retaining wall rocks..looks very rustic...awesome work! Keep us posted on anymore updates