Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Redesigned Retreat Q2 Home 20Sep 12, 2013 11:34 am EmyN How exciting Tans!! I wish we were moving along as fast as you are! The plans are looking good, what a lovely wide entry you have. We had to steal a little space (20cm each!) off both our front bedrooms to make our entry 2m wide because I think it has just such a good impact! Yours will be awesome. What happens now for you? How long have they advised is the wait between signing the contract and slab down (council approval and all that)? Also, it didn't seem to be long between your tender signing and your contract appointment? How long was it? I thought it was supposed to be around a month or so? Thanks for the feedback. Yes, I hope that the entrance will look good - we have got a lovely pivot door we have chosen rather than the standard with side windows. It's all coming along nice and quick at the moment. It was about 3 weeks between the Tender and Contract appointment. We had a good page and a half of changes, but nothing too major. Everything is meant to be going to Council within the week or so of contract signing - so should be just about there now. They told me that some approvals are coming back in 3 weeks!!! ..... lets hope that it ours!! From there, they said it would take a couple of weeks to do the allocation of materials and assign a supervisor and then it should be all go! So best case scenario in about 6 weeks. I won't get my hopes up just in case We have just got back our Developer approval so that is good. They did say that Developers can hold things up - so pleased it wasn't a long process there. We have also had to do a Build over Sewer application to Unity Water as we are building within 1.5 metres of the 3 metre sewer easement! (why they just don't make the sewer easement 4.5 metres I do not know )) so now,we just have to sit tight and wait for Council ..... oh yes and our formal bank approval! Will need to make a decision on our appliances too soon. I think I mentioned we deleted them from our contract and will source our own. I think I know the answer but just checking to see if anyone has had experience with it. I want to build a small 20 square metre retreat in my backyard, it will have a… 0 13907 Looking to tile the facade pillars rather than rendering. Builder is quoting 2500$ laying cost for upto 10msq. The 2 pillars come to be 16msq. So laying costs are 5000$… 0 7554 Hi, I'm clearing the tiles from our horrid 50 year old bathroom and preparing to lay new ones. Bugger of a job getting the old… 0 8091 |