Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 10, 2010 10:04 pm Anyone lived on site for their build?? We are building on the front part of our block of land, so I can literally look out my study window and see it while i'm on the computer. Today was our site scrape.. so just the beginning. I felt a bit ** for watching them work, i don't want to be too nosey! But i love seeing it all happen. However, they only started at about 2p.m.... and all morning I was glancing out the window for them to show up. So that leads me to ask.... is it a blessing or a curse that i get to see every little detail occur?!!!! Living the dream. 4 horsey acres in the country. What's the next project??? Re: Living on site.. a blessing or a curse?? 2Mar 10, 2010 10:14 pm Bit of both Allows you to pick up on mistakes quickley, but at the same time, you get to see how much little work they get done at times Like my house, painters where due to start that week, they came on Fri, finished up saturday. Didn't come again till the following friday. So 2 weeks to paint a 18sq home, but actually only took them 4 days... Interesting... Built with Eden Brae Now building with Fairmont Homes NSW Re: Living on site.. a blessing or a curse?? 3Mar 10, 2010 10:15 pm Hey Kristi, congratulations on your start! I think it would be a blessing! Check out Anna1's thread, she is living in a custom shed on their block while their build takes place! Still I can't complain too much, once it all starts on our old block it's only a few minutes away from the kid pickups every afternoon. Good luck! You must have a great block, you'll have to show us! ~ cheers, J _______________________________________________________________ We're a knockdown | rebuild ~ Melb SE burbs Building modified version of the Fairhaven Glenaire Homeone thread: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28429 _______________________________________________________________ Re: Living on site.. a blessing or a curse?? 4Mar 10, 2010 10:42 pm Gildea: yeah, i was thinking i'd definately pick up any problems straight away! So that's got to be a good thing. But I cannot imagine sitting here watching our block not have any tradespeople on it for a whole week! lol.. vanilla tree: thanks! i will check out her blog. Our block is not huge.. 1525m2.. just big enough for both houses to have a decent yard. I'm glad I'm going away this weekend, and won't be back until Monday, when they are meant to be on site again! Kristi Living the dream. 4 horsey acres in the country. What's the next project??? Re: Living on site.. a blessing or a curse?? 5Mar 11, 2010 1:11 pm We started to do just the same thing until 4 of us living in a 2 bedroom home just didn't cut it LOL. It would have been wonderful IMHO but we ended up moving to another suburb (for the sake of our sanity) and instead did daily visits (me) and twice daily visits from DH. Our business is only 3mins away from our site so it wasn't that much of an inconvenience to call past. Plus it came in very handy when we noticed things going badly for the company - we were able to surmise that they were going bankrupt way before anyone else had an inkling. Which then happily for us led us to sack them before we got dragged into the whole administration process. Good luck with your build - and remember at least you can take daily photos without any problems. Some things are worth waiting for. Re: Living on site.. a blessing or a curse?? 6Mar 11, 2010 2:06 pm Living 500 meters away from the block and own a dog so walk there every day. ( Dog will never get lost when we move in, probably wonders why we keep going to this sandy crappy lookin half a house ) Also drive past it regularly as I work on the road a lot. Sub-divided the block into two green titles before we purchased ( building the first now ) so when building the second house will be watching out the window too. Is great to see progress but I find more frustrating when nothing gets done for long periods and you get to see no progess for days ( sometimes weeks ) at a time. But is easy to complain to builder when my office is also 500 meters from builders. When CLO is not available to take my call just now, the Phrase " No need to leave a message I'll be round there in 60 seconds" works well as suddenly CLO is off the phone and available Timeline Aug 08-Land Mar 09-Demo/Titles Sept 10-Handover No1 Sept 11-Handover No2 April 12-Sold No2 Aug 14-Land/Demo Jan 15-Slabs viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25736 I would be wary. Is you site demilished but nothing else done? Sounds like liquidity problems to me. Our builder did the same. Got hundreds of thousands of dollars of… 2 15393 3 5588 Can anyone suggest a house layout where the kitchen-dining - living runs the length across the rear of the house left to right where our best view will be we… 0 4348 |