This is my first time on this site and thought I would start writing down our building progress and sharing some photos. We are building with Dreamstart Homes and have had the most amazing experience with them.
Our slab went down on the 27th of May 2011 and we recently went to lock up two weeks ago. Our house is going up so so so fast but the workmanship is a really high standard and we are very happy with everything so far. Touch wood nothing bad happens to stop the fast progress between now and hand over.
The main issue we have come accross was being told by our builder that our water meter was stolen...THREE TIMES!!!! My partner is doing the electrical work at our house, and has been going to the block almost everyday since the slab went down, and he swears black and blue there never was one there. Our builder said it had nothing to do with them as it was in our contract that we were liable to pay for the replacements of any stolen meters They charged us $240 for each stolen meter eeeeek!!!!!
I wrote a furious email to Water Corp demanding proof of installation and a week later and received a phone call from them appologising and said after investigating the situation they have found we were right. There was never a meter there and were sending a cheque back to our builder!!!!!