Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 142May 10, 2014 5:36 pm Thanks Janet.... It's amazing to think that your house was only out of pre-construction a couple of days before ours, and yours is looking like a house!! Oh well, we'll get there soon!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 145May 10, 2014 5:52 pm Pikey Well almost everyday I'm exaggerating lol lol!!! here's hoping!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 146May 19, 2014 7:57 am Im back. I have been off work for 5 weeks with a new bub. The house is coming along slowly but surely. We have the bricks finished and the roof is on. Top half of bricks are cleaned and eaves put in. Hopefully downpipes in today and the scaffolding can start to come down and they can do the roof on the garage Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 147May 25, 2014 2:06 pm Congrats on the new baby!!! Good to hear that the house is coming along as well. We had our piers done last week, so should have formwork this week, then slab the next week. Very slow progress, nine weeks in to our contract, but at least its something! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 148Jun 02, 2014 11:05 am Well we are 20 weeks into the 40 week contract. Stupid sales lady said they build two story in average in 26 weeks. Just another lie she told us. We still haven't even got the garage roof on. Its so slow at the moment. One days work two days of deliveries then wait another 4 days of nothing. So frustrating. The ss is good but for crying out loud get moving. someone I know from work builta bigger version of the villina last year in 38 weeks. Mind you they were delayed by ten weeks when they had to pull all the bricks down and redo them. Otherwise it would have been a 28 week build. No chance of mine being that Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 149Jun 22, 2014 10:21 am Lots more delays at our build, but at least there is some progress! We finally had our first slab level poured last week! We are now at the end of the 13th week of our contract, so I'm thinking they're somewhat behind schedule, but hopefully once the rest of the slab is done then things will zoom along. Hopefully? I'm just happy to see it all starting!! http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz241/GillyM63/IMG_0677_zpsf53e5757.jpg (The photo shows the top level slab, looking from the back of the house/slab, towards the front.) Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 151Jul 01, 2014 8:11 am Excellent!!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 152Jul 18, 2014 7:57 am Finally there has been some more action on our block! On the 2/7/14, the second half of the slab was poured! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ On the 15/7/14, the frame was delivered. Our SS had said that the framer was booked elsewhere, so it may be a "little while" till he was able to do ours. Needless to say, I was surprised to get a call from our SS on the 17/7 to say that the framers were there and the frame should be up within the week. Drove past on the way home to find this..... Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looks like its mostly done! Maybe just the roof trusses to go!! SS says bricks should be coming next week, so hopefully it will start looking like a house!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 153Aug 07, 2014 8:34 pm Frame was completed 21/7/14, and windows in 22/7/14. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bricks were delivered 25/7/14. http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz241/GillyM63/IMG_0745_zps9f97512f.jpg Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ No brickie until today (7/8/14). Went past on the way home to see the bricks have moved to positions around the house and some bricks actually in place at the front of our house. http://i832.photobucket.com/albums/zz241/GillyM63/IMG_0757_zpsb0484181.jpg Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Looking forward to watching progress over the next week or so! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 155Aug 07, 2014 8:54 pm Thanks Janet..... can't wait to see it all coming together!! Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 156Sep 05, 2014 2:09 pm Hi, Just wondering if anyone has used the Austral Ultra Smooth brings on their build with Masterton and if so were you happy with them? Thanks Re: Our New Home Adventure with Masterton 157Oct 01, 2014 4:13 pm We've been having fairly good progress...... a few delays along the way, but that seems to be the way it works. Bricks were completed 4/9/14. While they were doing bricks, I realised that the stacker doors on the alfresco area had been put in incorrectly (door A where door B should have been, and vice versa) so they opened the wrong way. Also, the media room window was at a very low height...... you would have to bend over to look out of it. Spoke to the SS and he had it fixed pretty quick. Glad I'm close by so we can see when these things happen as we go, rather than try to fix it all further down the track, when it might be a lot harder to do. Today (1/10/14) the roofing was finished! All moving ahead, and hopefully rain delays will be a thing of the past! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Masterton Overture 17/12/14 - Handover ...... we got the keys !! blog - http://www.mcnamaraadventure.blogspot.com 4 16750 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 23920 Is it just a report written to give to the bank initially and it is based on what and how your payments are made up for, or is it a full service where they go out and… 2 5607 |