Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1042Nov 26, 2016 11:00 am ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1043Dec 08, 2016 1:31 pm Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1044Dec 08, 2016 1:33 pm Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1047Dec 26, 2016 10:29 pm ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1048Dec 26, 2016 10:45 pm ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1051Dec 27, 2016 10:35 am Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1053Jan 03, 2017 10:40 am shellby Scubabe - I thought I had replied before, sorry for not doing so. Haha! No bother, I accidentally hadn't clicked "notify me of replies" so I hadn't seen your response either! Thanks for taking the time to get back to me though, I do appreciate it. shellby I'm guessing you would need to buy a plate that fits your stovetop - you have these grates things over your gas elements and basically you remove it and put the griddle there instead - so you would need to make sure it fits your top. Ahhhhh yeah that totally makes sense. Oh well, will wait and see if I can find one for my cooker after I move in, don't want to buy it in advance in case the builder ends up changing the model or something (I'm probably still 8 months away from a finished house!) shellby The size of my WIP is 1.8mx1.1m I think, looking off the plans. Hmmmmm. Mine appears to be 1.4m x 1.5m according to my plans, so maybe it won't work as well for me... Thanks so much for the dimensions, much apopreciated! I do love the idea of having the microwave and kettle and toaster and things out of sight. Plus I don't have a heck of a lot of bench space in my kitchen, so when space is at a premium... Cheers!!! Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1054Jan 12, 2017 1:23 pm Did I mention after driving into the door I then put the car in drive again while hubby was doing his nut and confused me and then drove into my dads car in the garage - luckily it wasn't parked close to the wall in front otherwise I would be up for a new wall. Still waiting for garage guy to come back from holidays next week so I can book in for a repair. We have changed ideas for our front landscaping. Thinking of doing a platform in the front from front door to front retainer and across the front of the house with like pyramid steps up side of driveway. See if I can find a photo to explain. We have found we like sitting out the front sometimes. Still haven't done anymore landscaping due to heat. Can't wait for summer to pass and get back into it. ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1055Jan 12, 2017 2:50 pm Oh no, must have been pretty scary at the time?!? Sounds nice with the platform Build thread http://tinyurl.com/llgc7yk Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1056Jan 12, 2017 3:01 pm ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1057Jan 22, 2017 1:59 pm Started my next garden bed, got some nice weeping cherries and planting blueberry bushes between them. I will have a 3rd cherry but I won't get it until September though. Hoping to have the front gate up this week - still repairing the stupid rain water tank piping. Plan is to then frame that piece in front of that garden bed and have gravel laid. Then we will have our visitor parking and trailer parking spot. Next I hope to do the boarder for my weeping mulberry beds and same on the other boarder so my poor neighbour doesn't have to stress about my 'weeds' looking like it's their front yard as they are a battle axe. Tomorrow my garage door will be fixed - yippee! Here is a photo of the start of the garden bed I started yesterday - not a great photo sorry. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1058Jan 31, 2017 6:31 am Finished planting the bed, just getting some soil and mulch to fill it this week. We have left the back part uncut etc until we have placed the fence and gate across to make sure it all comes together. We had big plans for this coming weekend with the yard - but they are predicting 37-38 days so that may not happen. Here is what I have for my bed. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ This is my pre planning for my edging for my front bed with my weeping mulberries. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Here is my mess of my front yard we are hoping to fix sometime this next month depending on the weather. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ And where my pyramid stairs will be going. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ I have good news - my neighbour no longer speaks to me ☺ it's bliss. She hates the weeping cherries and my garden bed being just on my side if the boundary. I actually had to move her garden edging as it was on my side by a heap - which she hated. She now knows I don't give her an inch and stick to my rights and what I can do. Everyone normally gives in to her to shut her up or keep her happy - and well I'm not that type of person with people like her, I know her history - country town - so no way I was going to bend down to her as next week she would push for something else. Turns out they were kicked out of their retirement village in yamba because of their behavior wanting everything their way weather it would affect them or not. So life is nice not having to pretend to smile at her. Rest of my neighbours are great, we all chat and hang out each other's chatting etc while she death stares us - as everyone is now doing what I do and not bending to her. ~Shellby~ GJ Bridgewater 203 11/3/2016 - Site Work Started 29/9/2016 - Handover 142 Work Days 6 Work Days Over https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=80174 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1059Jan 31, 2017 7:06 am Your beds look great!! I love the tricycle, super cute!! The pyramid stair will look lovely there and will suit that spot perfectly! Hahahaha seriously had to laugh about your neighbour!! Hahaha that's perfect that she doesn't speak to you anymore!! Good on you for moving her garden edging, it's not her land so not her right to have it there. Seriously not surprised the old bat was kicked out of a retirement village GJ Gardner Modified Coolum 277 viewtopic.php?t=83643 Re: Our First Build - GJ Gardener Bridgewater 1060Jan 31, 2017 2:20 pm Wow looking good lovely!! Quick question. What are pyramid stairs? - otherwise known as Kym - hi guys. Please be nice. First time home builder in Qld. I would like some feedback please on whether I should build my granny flat first before my main house at the… 0 5343 Soak wells and electrical run in happening this week! Summit has told me they will relocate the laundry plumbing after the walls are completed. I'm actually pretty happy… 13 37078 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. 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