Great news vortex, congratulations! When did you find out? And how did they notify you? We got a letter recently saying that handover is approaching..

Hi Vortex, our gyprock arrived early last week (we saw it on site Wed) and it was all installed including the ceilings by Friday afternoon. So yeah it goes on fairly quick!

Hey everyone, hope your builds are going well. Does anyone know who built the retaining wall on (lot 15?) Tischendorf St? Not that I'm an expert bit it looks like they did a good job!

thinking about calling fairmont and asking if they have a start date of my site works.... any one here comment on how warmly they were received when call fairmont construction? Can't really be bothered calling if I'm going to get given attitude The footings contractor called us the day before they ...

Hey havent been on here in a while. Does anyone know who the best people to contact (down the track) regarding finding out neighbours regarding fencing in the estate. Builders should be at sight this week (fingers crossed). Great to see some happenings throughout the estate now! My wife called Mari...

Hey all, good to see some progress in the estate now. We had our builder's interview last week with Fairmont and the footings contractor should be there in 3-5 weeks. I mowed our block on the weekend so no-one has any excuses to not start work on it, or charge us to clear it! Just wondering what you...

Hi AJA, true, split levels do add cost. Apparently it reduces the cost of retaining walls and footings though. Hi 1stBuildFR - our land just settled on Friday, I'm shocked to hear that your settlement won't happen until December 30th! Our block is one from stage 2, are you from stage 3? We got a let...

My wife and I are also building with Fairmont in Field River Estate. Our block is also around 1:10 incline (from front to back though), so we have a split level (560mm dropdown I think) as you enter the kitchen / living from the hallway. Whilst the split level wasn't arranged from the start, we were...