Great news! I was waiting for details. How is everything? How's it feel being in your own home :) I love my new home, such a relief to finally be in. Our build ended up being 25 weeks from site start, it felt like forever. We got an independent inspector and although they picked up quite a few thin...

I had my final walk through on a Monday and was in the on the second Friday.

impish73 Now I cant wait for our floors to be done! Can I ask what internal theme you went with or if you got to choose your own colors? Thanks Juannamo, We got in to the colour selections before they made you choose themes. The first pic is a bit weird as it has made the walls appear a taupe colou...

why haven't you had a great build? There have been several problems with our building. Tomorrow we will be in our 24th week on site. We have had 3 site supervisors. During the frame stage they didn't put enough studs to hold the tiles in the bathroom, so the plaster had to come off again. We change...

For those who've finished their build and have the spotted gum laminate boards can you please post pics. I'm a bit worried there might be too much variation with each board (ie the whitish streaks) for my liking We haven;t had a great build so far but I do love our spotted gum floor. http://i896.ph...

A quick update. We are now into our 22nd week on site. Our third site supervisor. There has been problem after problem and I can't see the end in sight. I think I need to take up drinking. I swear on this night - I will never build again.

I don't have my paperwork on my but from memory that sounds about right, although I'm not in a flood zone. Have you been charged for Bushfire zoning? I got told by the SC I'm definitely NOT in a bushfire zone, yet my developer contract says that I am! So confused by that. You can type in your addre...

Hi Michelle, I am in love with Carpet Court Trellis Multi rug. Can you tell me if they every go on sale. I have been eyeing it off for awhile now but I just can't get the budget to stretch that far :( Thanks Sonia

Impish!!!! Oh my gosh. I am so sorry to hear about the stand still. Have they said why?? The shutdown period is only from now. That is disheartening. I'm so sorry to hear it. Thanks for everyone's concern. We have been told that people just made some mistakes and then it was too hard to get the tra...

So things are not going so well for us. Our house has been at a stand still for a month (completed fixing stage) and the trades are not going to come back for another six weeks, so that will be over 10 weeks with nothing happening. I can't tell you how furious my husband and I are. Part of the kitch...

Congrats Box27! Wonderful news.

All spa's require a safety fence. It is the safety fence that requires a building permit. I work in the industry and you would be surprised how many people are dobbed in by family / friends / neighbours. If you are caught without a building permit the fine can be many tens of thousands of dollars no...

HI Mate that is looking gr8 , can you please tell me, what stage did you purchase your land? What was said to you about the time line for your land to be released by developer? and when did they actually released? Please let me know, i have another mate, who bought in Stage 9 and bit anxious about t...

Suranga - I just had a look at your blog. It looks as though we are neighbours. I am only a few houses away. We started construction last week.

So I basically put my heels in and didn't budge about the extra price guarantee fee. I told the sales guy that he mislead us to get us to sign and we were quite willing to forgo the deposit we paid and go with another builder. It didn't take long until he remembered what he had said to us and said n...

So upset... We are being handed over to construction tomorrow after a long wait of 12 months. We received an email tonight asking for an extra $891 as the price guarantee that we paid ran out 2 months ago. I asked several times before signing 'what if we are a couple of months late' and was assured ...

mine stage 7, and its been 6 weeks now, today got a email from pre-start consultant that they have spoken to developer and they advised mid next week we should receive approval. by the way r u building in aspect? or timber top? I am in aspect I am in Aspect stage 7 too Suranga. We could be neighbou...

Thank you so much for the tickets. Can't wait to go on the weekend

[quote="bkoolrocks"]no it is not...I added path 500mm wide just for one side and back side of the house...[quote="_chylatte_"] Bkoolrocks - did you organise the path after the build had started with the concreting person or was it in your contract? Can I ask how much it was for a...