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julia1301

FANTASTIC NEWS!!!! So happy for you! Definitely time to pop the wine bottle! You are another step closer to your house wohoo!
Isn't it funny how at the start of this process site costs and added upgrades were so expensive but you soon learn to get what you want you need to spend the $$ unfortunately.
Enjoy your celebrations xx

bank

Thanks for the tip Surtees! We've fortunately had the contract drawings and specification for quite a while now so we've been able to check it thoroughly but we will be going over it again! If you think of anything else that might trip us up let me know :-D

bank

We've read the MCP that he sited and that seems more in our favour, it allows facade treatments, porches, eaves etc that extend into the setback to be higher than rescode. We're almost wondering if we have misunderstood his broken English. Maybe he has chosen the wrong word. Doubt it unfortunately. It was a poorly written email so we're really not sure where we stand at the moment.

kylz4

Oh no bank!! I hope you find out soon what the result will be! Sucks that the builders one got approved and yours may not!!

Author:	bank [ Oct 10, 2016 1:15 pm ]
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julia1301 FANTASTIC NEWS!!!! So happy for you! Definitely time to pop the wine bottle! You are another step closer to your house wohoo! Isn't it funny how at the start of this process site costs and added upgrades were so expensive but you soon learn to get what you want you need to spend the $$ unfortunately. Enjoy your celebrations xx Yes the budget/expectations have seen a few revisions upwards . Fortunately we have had more time to save with the land delay, not long enough to cover that jump but we had been pretty cautious with what we spent early on and mentally allowed for it to go up. I was too conservative with some things though, I wish I'd gone handless for the bathroom cupboards, another couple of hundred seemed too much amongst the all the upgrades, now it seems silly that I ever worried about it. We probably should have put a fan in the alfresco too, I was worried we would never use it, but with our low roof it will be hard to in the future. Oh well, must stop thinking about these things.

Author:	surtees [ Oct 10, 2016 2:16 pm ]
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yippee!!!!! enjoy the bubbles that is reason to celebrate! We can always over think things but hopefully it all flows foward now.

Author:	bank [ Oct 11, 2016 12:28 pm ]
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Picking up the contract this arvo and have an appointment to sign on Thursday! It's all happening! We have our daughters high school enrolment night tonight, hopefully we're not stuck there too long but it will probably end up being an intensive reading sesh tomorrow night. A bit of pressure but we're keen to keep the ball rolling quickly .

Author:	surtees [ Oct 11, 2016 1:18 pm ]
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nice one, good luck and happy reading, check the little thing like handles on sliding door and then swinging door at the same finish ie gloss or brushed. I know it's hard to review it all.

Author:	bank [ Oct 11, 2016 1:49 pm ]
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Thanks for the tip Surtees! We've fortunately had the contract drawings and specification for quite a while now so we've been able to check it thoroughly but we will be going over it again! If you think of anything else that might trip us up let me know

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Author:	RegVic [ Oct 11, 2016 1:54 pm ]
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bank Thanks for the tip Surtees! We've fortunately had the contract drawings and specification for quite a while now so we've been able to check it thoroughly but we will be going over it again! If you think of anything else that might trip us up let me know One thing I would suggest is, give equal importance to everything in the plan...we all have a favourite room and tend to focus too much on that and miss other things. I checked my media room a 100 times to make sure everything is perfect and after signing the documents, was going through the plan again one night and noticed there is no GPO in laundry...lol (My builder is kind enough to add one without charging me)

Author:	surtees [ Oct 11, 2016 3:10 pm ]
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Um so much to check and I think you learn from what you missed. check power point locations are exactly where you want them. If you are getting the pipe put in the wall for tv cables make sure it is listed on plan with exact location, our lounge is a bit off center, the TV will cover it but still not 100% but is right by plan. Ariel point/heights. If you are getting a home hub (internet, tv ect) and want it in a WIR or somewhere other then the garage wall relocate it (garage is default spot) tap location for bath, towel rack, toilet roll holder location Roof height as you go from inside to out, we have a raised section as you come out the door same height as inside then it steps down for eaves. Make sure materials are right if you are using timber for facade make sure it's listed. More for knowledge when payments are due and the definition of what classes as that stage is complete. Check engineering drawing and try understand what they need to do pre-concrete and then check they do it pre-pour (we didn't have an issue) bench heights including bath/ensuite, fridge hole and height ie is it from the concrete or tile/timber floor? Extra noggins and hieght for TV, washer dryer, big pictures anything you want to hang on the walls. Um sorry that is a random mix but just things I thought of some of thing are just little things we'd change, but you are at the time to catch them now.

Author:	bank [ Oct 11, 2016 3:33 pm ]
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Thanks Surtees. I think I have checked most of that along the way, they called me pedantic once, and for good reason . I hadn't thought about porch ceiling height, looks like its set level with inside. I have always been concerned with how vague the electrical plan is, that program the electrical girls uses is hopeless! I did make her put a note for the tv point location and height but to most of my other requests she said there was only room for so many notes .

Author:	surtees [ Oct 11, 2016 7:52 pm ]
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Yes we are spending a lot of money so we are allowed to be pedantic!

Author:	bank [ Oct 13, 2016 3:25 pm ]
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Signed and delivered to broker! Got an update on the dispo shortly after. Looks like the height at the front isn't even going to be considered on the basis that it is outside the rules! Gee really! I thought that was why we needed to apply for dispo. Not sure what is going to happen now, waiting on a call back. So we've just signed everything and now it will need to be changed somehow. We're pretty devastated and angry. Certainly don't feel like celebrating the contract now.

Author:	surtees [ Oct 13, 2016 6:48 pm ]
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Ah that sucks. Hopefully they can work out a fix quickly.

Author:	bank [ Oct 13, 2016 9:44 pm ]
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We've read the MCP that he sited and that seems more in our favour, it allows facade treatments, porches, eaves etc that extend into the setback to be higher than rescode. We're almost wondering if we have misunderstood his broken English. Maybe he has chosen the wrong word. Doubt it unfortunately. It was a poorly written email so we're really not sure where we stand at the moment.

Author:	RegVic [ Oct 13, 2016 9:49 pm ]
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bank We've read the MCP that he sited and that seems more in our favour, it allows facade treatments, porches, eaves etc that extend into the setback to be higher than rescode. We're almost wondering if we have misunderstood his broken English. Maybe he has chosen the wrong word. Doubt it unfortunately. It was a poorly written email so we're really not sure where we stand at the moment. Hi Bank, My portico is higher than the allowed height and the council asked me to push the house a metre to maintain the street view... Each council is different and so the people working there... Hope this will be sorted in your favour...

Author:	bank [ Oct 13, 2016 10:45 pm ]
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Yes unfortunately I think we've come across the wrong desk. The display with our facade is setback the same amount, same council, so no one expected this. The builder was pretty confident on both but it was the boundary wall height we thought we could have trouble with. We really thought it was just a height problem but this guy seems to have taken issue with the setback entirely.

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Author:	kylz4 [ Oct 14, 2016 6:29 am ]
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Oh no bank!! I hope you find out soon what the result will be! Sucks that the builders one got approved and yours may not!!

Author:	bank [ Oct 14, 2016 9:58 am ]
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kylz4 Oh no bank!! I hope you find out soon what the result will be! Sucks that the builders one got approved and yours may not!! Yes and they had no trouble at all. No dispo needed. Our developer approved it but with a note saying that the building surveyor also needs to ok it. I just feel sick today. Our admin is away for the weekend so won't know anything until Monday. The building permit was meant to be applied for today .

Author:	bank [ Oct 31, 2016 2:28 pm ]
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Finance finally went unconditional today! No dramas, they just took their sweet time with the valuation, then we got picky assessor who asked for a few missing weeks of our savings account statement which must have sent us back to the bottom of the pile again. We had given them everything back when we got preapproval, and 3 months worth this time but there must have been a bit of a gap in between. Not sure what exactly they thought might have happened in those weeks, ridiculous! Still trying to sort our setback. We still feel like we are in the dark unfortunately. What we have managed to figure out is that a clause about setback encroachments was removed from our MCP back in July, 11 days prior to the developer approving our plans. The council is saying that the current version of MCP prevents anything encroaching at all so they won't process the dispensation for the pier height. We still haven't had a clear answer from the building surveyor, first they said if we move it back 90mm we will satisfy ResCode (we would be stoked with that outcome at this point) but they hadn't yet seen the MCP. When their preliminary report came back they said it needed to move back 590mm and we needed an extra downpipe near the front of the house. Perplexed by the downpipe we rang them again and once we explained the construction of the porch they realised they had misinterpreted the drawings so it wasn’t needed after all. If what they are all saying about the MCP is correct then it is at complete odds with the design guidelines and we should never have received developer approval so we sent the developer a please explain email. They have replied apologising for the trouble that we are having and say that they believe that we are correct and that the council has is misinterpreting the MCP. They have said that they removed the clause to remove any restrictions on the verandas etc from the MCP to prevent any inconsistency between the MCPs and ResCode/the Design Guidelines, the council seems to think it has done the opposite. So they are going to try to help us but we are waiting for them to decide what exactly needs to happen.

Author:	RegVic [ Oct 31, 2016 2:43 pm ]
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Finally Bank approved Bank's application... Great news Bank..now give a solution for the setback issue please...

Author:	surtees [ Oct 31, 2016 7:15 pm ]
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Good news for the bank and hopefully the developer can help get stuff sortrd for you.

Author:	bank [ Nov 08, 2016 9:58 am ]
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Finally we have, what at least feels like, movement on the setback issue. We eventually managed to get a written explanation from the building surveyor to give to the developer, the first guy that was going to do it ended up in hospital . Every surveyor seems to have a slightly different take (and he admitted that), if the MCP didn't exist this one had no issue with the 590 pier as he sees it as part of the portico. However he took issue with the smaller facade treatment on the right hand side , nobody else, including council, has even mentioned that one. We forwarded on his email last night and got an immediate response this morning! The developer is going to try and get a letter from cogg that supports their intention of the MCP, good luck guys! I keep hearing about their difficult nature. We also got the loan docs signed yesterday, the bank has been S L O W too! Not that there was any real hurry since it looks like a while before we will have a building permit. I'm not stressing too much about the time, until someone tells us its definitely not going to happen, we would prefer correct over quick!