Excited to post on here after trawling through the forums for a good few months - and getting some tips and tricks along the way! I wanted to post a log on here because I find the info very useful, and it's interesting to see what other people pick as well as the process they go through. Also I found some of these very helpful in ultimately deciding in what builder to pick as well.
My partner and I are building our first home in the northern suburb of Alkimos in WA, specifically in the Trinity estate. We purchased our land in February so are currently in the process of waiting for titles. They were initially slated for June but they've since been delayed to July, fingers crossed it's no later!
We have signed with our builder, Celebration Homes, so are hoping to knock out prestart and all the other "hard" stuff before titles so we can get up and running asap!
Our block is 465m, 15m frontage. We're planning on building a 4x2 with study and activity nook. We also extended our garage by 1m to allow for extra storage room instead of a shed. This should leave us with about 4.3 in the backyard which we're pretty happy with, since most backyards these days are pretty tiny and we wanted the option for a pool later down the road (especially for resell).
We have picked out a lot of our internal fittings and fixtures as well as most of our exterior choices, so assuming nothing impossible comes up in prestart we're pretty set. If anyone has any tips or advice to give beforehand that'd be much appreciated.
Cheers
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(I will try post photos of layout and photos of features later on!)
Timeline
February, 2014 - Bought our land
June, 2014 - Prestart complete
October, 2014 - Titles issued
November, 2014 - Land access is allowed
December, 2014 - House plans approved by council
February 2015 - Slab goes down
March 2015 - Bricking starts
April 2015 - Bricks complete, roof timbers start
May 2015 - Roof goes on!
End of May 2015 - grey float, plaster and windows all go in.