Hi all We finally have a house..... we went from virtually nothing to slab, frame and colourbond roof within weeks! I would love to post pictures but for some reason it won't let me upload any.

Thank you - we were actually originally rated FZ then we cleared all the dead trees within 20m of our build site and suddenly we were Bal29 - But I am still not sure why that is - there are some other houses in Kinglake with less trees around and they have higher ratings so who knows.... We are buil...

We are building with DFH in Kinglake - we originally had the BAL-40 as well but this was downgraded and now we have the mid-rating which puts us at about $10,000 extra for building. We signed our contract August 31st and we only just got a start date of Feb 7 - so far it is now March26 and we have a...

Well the saga just goes on and on and on!!!! When we first purchased land in Kinglake I called the SRO to ask if building in Kinglake would attract the "First home owners regional boost" - I was told that yes it would. I also checked on their website and under "eligable regional munic...

Thank you. We are building the Murchison 321 - but with an older facade that they don't offer anymore (with a verandah at the front). However we have changed the plan - the games room is turned on its side to fit the building envelope and we have put a two-person bath in the ensuite and only one va...

:o Thank you all for the concerns! Just as we were starting to get very depressed about the whole thing we got a start date!!!!!! FINALLYYYYYYYYY!!!!!! Our start date was Feb 7 so the 251 building days is up on October 16. So that means between buying the land and moving in it will have been a 2 yea...

We haven't been given any real reason apart from the usual 'we're busy because everyone rushed for the FHOG'.... Well I don't really see my initiating things in February 09 as a rush.... It is nearly a WHOLE YEAR!! To clarify, our land is in Kinglake and was fire damaged. So while we have been waiti...

Hi All I was hoping to be tracking my build on here but so far it has just been one massive waiting game! I signed the initial go ahead contract with DFH in February 2009. I didn't receive my full contract until the end of August 2009. Now I still don't have a site start date and its mid-January 201...

Yes apparently we are Flame Zone - even though we are about 3mins walk from the Kinglake Pub and most of the beautiful trees which originally surrounded the bottom and side borders of our property were burnt beyond regrowth in the fire and a heap of them were hacked down by the army during clean-up....

Hi All My fiancee and I signed our initial go ahead with Dennis Family at the end of February. We still have not received a contract (no fault of Dennis) because our block of land has received a fire rating which apparently requires the roof to contain a structure which will withold fire for a perio...

Hi All I posted a while back looking for builders to build in Kinglake. I'm back to document the progress and Well today settlement day for our land has finally arrived! For those who are interested yes our block was fire affected - the before and after shots are quite something! Luckily for us howe...

Thank you - I will also check out Bentley homes and would love to keep up with your building experience along the way!

Thanks for the Silkwood Dreams reference we will check them out this weekend. They certainly look suitable and not like too large a company.

Hiya My fiancee and I have just purchased one and a quarter acre in Kinglake, VIC. We plan to pay off some of the land while we look for a builder and start building in June (just before the extended grant ends). We've looked at all the display homes and they are all meshing in our heads to be hones...