Housing the Tribe, Gold Coast

It's so very exciting and a huge relief to know it's actually happening now. Can't wait to see your site start, have they given you an actual date or is it just pot luck you drive by and see it happen? Our csc arranged with our ss to let me know when the site cut is so I can take our 18 month old and 3 year old to see the earth works (the boys are digger obsessed)

They sure will, it will be a struggle to make them come home.

Oh gee that's not overly helpful, no wonder nothing has happened on site. Great news that it's going to all start on Wednesday, looking forward to the pics

Woohoooo tribe, this is great news!! Wish we had a 22 week build as well!

Hopefully we aren't far behind now with ours

Your so close monalisa, from final drawings it took just under 2 weeks to be given a site start and completely finished the admin phase. I'm not sure if NSW are the same but it won't take long. The 22 weeks is really good for us we have completely out grown our house and I NEED to get baby out of our room and into her own.

I've finally caught up... Yay for Thursday!! Exciting

Yay indeed can't wait till Thursday

Thanks tribe7 i think i need you as my spokesperson.

Wowzers thats amazing. Think i should take over job of communications in my house. The deal was i design and choose colours and he take care of build side of things. But im a planner and a control freak so i am having to sit on my hands and be patient. Something i am not good at but learning. Good on you mrs tribe keep up the good work.

If your skills fall to communicating and planning take the job and run with it, I've learnt so much through our land development and have spoken to so many different people from town planners to electrical engineers, hydrologic engineers, developers, council management and certifiers to nbn co (we had our nbn Pitt located in our driveway cross over and I needed to obtain the legislative location requirements and give them to the developer to move to a new location I selected) the amount of time I spent chasing information has been crazy but has also benefited us greatly, everything was for Metricon to give them all the required info to get to site.

Our latest drama is we have no power!! All the green power boxes have been installed at each lot but not connected?? I spoke to the developer who was rather detached from the situation but I obtained the electrical engineers name so I contacted him directly he was extremely helpful and informed me that the constructed pad for the estate is waiting on energex certification and once granted the transformer can be installed and the hv switching application will be lodged at the same time with all works completed within 3 weeks. The engineer was kind enough to call me Thursday to let me know the approvals had been granted and works are commencing and the developer emailed me the same information Friday (I think he knows I'll chase him up so he just updates me when he knows) I was very worried about going to site without having clarity on power what would happen when we got to framing stage and power is required??? A generator bill!! Hell no. Thank goodness I followed it up as now our build will fall into line with the power connection.

We went for a visit to our block and our digger obsessed 3 year old decided he must start our site cut.



He was so thrilled when the big boys arrived to finish what he started.



Our 4 Forman watched over the site cut and all agreed they would have to come back tomorrow to see the end result