Hi everyone,
Long time lurker, first time poster.
My husband and I bought an acre block in Jimboomba at the end of last year (just over 4000m2). Upgrading from a 480m2 block at Meadowbrook.
We had to wait for the block to settle and then we had to sell our house and move into a rental (yay...) to free up the funds needed to put a new house on the land.
We began looking at a range of builders last year and early this year. We got quotes and extra's brochures and flyers on current offers, talked to a lot of people who were building or had built previously. We found that generally speaking a lot of builders were offering similar style acreage home designs and inclusions or extras and not one builder had ONLY positive reviews - we would speak to someone who had an amazing build and then the next person would never build with them again.
After much deliberation, and pro and con list making, we decided to build with Stroud homes.
I thought it would be a good idea to start this blog for others building in the area, so that they could see how we went with everything and also I couldn't find any blogs on Stroud homes, so I wanted to give other people thinking of building with them an idea of how they are as well (if there are any please point me in that direction).
We chose the Kentucky 304 design, which will be plenty big enough for the two of us and our dog (no kiddleywinks yet) and still leave lots of room to run around. Hubby fancies himself a bit of a gardener as well so there's plenty of space to potter around.
We are currently at the covenant approval and council approval stage of the LONG paperwork process. Hoping that this will all be done by the end of July, so that we can begin the build in early August. That may just be wishful thinking though haha.
BUILD TIMELINE SO FAR:
Timeline isn't accurate down to the day, mostly it's what we've found on a Saturday or Sunday each week!
24th September - site scrape done (week 1)
1st October - boxed up for slab (week 2)
6th October - slab invoice (week 2)
8th October - frame delivered, tap installed (week 3)
20th October - frame begins going up (week 4)
27th October - frame invoice (week 5)
27th October - gutters on, roof sheets delivered (week5)
3rd November - roof invoice (week 6)
4th November - house wrapped, bricks and Windows delivered (week 6)
9th November - cavity door frames done, bath frame done, Windows in, electrical and plumbing rough in done. (Week 7)