Browse Forums Building A New House Re: How often do you visit your site? 562Mar 21, 2016 9:14 pm I'm an owner builder and we're at paint stage, so I am there almost every day. We also live 7kms away so that helps. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Custom owner build in Hume - VIC - Tiling Stage http://goo.gl/qpPglB Re: How often do you visit your site? 563Apr 13, 2016 1:11 pm We are doing our own works on the block atm so going down once a week, We hadn't been down for 2mths untill 2 weeks ago and we have 1 new neighbour nearly at lock up stage and last week another has started footings, We should have 4 in our estate by the time ours is complete. Re: How often do you visit your site? 564May 02, 2016 11:17 am i'm within walking distance of my block of land and drive past quite often to see how other builds are progressing. i love seeing other people walking through the frame of their houses and see their excited kids. ive only just signed up but i'd probably go there at least every few days once work starts but i wouldnt want to annoy any tradies that's for sure! Re: How often do you visit your site? 565May 07, 2016 10:02 pm We started to visit our block once a week since our neighbours started construction, because their tradies started dumping garbage on our land We do photo any movement on their block near our borders. Photos clearly prove that Saturday that sewage shaft in the corner of their block was covered by a round cap, the next Saturday the shaft demolished and the cap is on our land, along with other garbage. Plus they leveled their block creating slope on our block... And all this is "accompanied" by the fact that they put their fence seizing 2 metres of our land... The builder refuses everything They say that somebody else (not they) demolished the shaft, somebody else put create a slope on our lot and that all our accusation is based "on assumptions"... How annoying it is... What a bad builder our neighbours selected... (our other neighbours has no such problems with constructions having started on adjасent lots) You never know, what builder your neighbours select... We should have erected our fence once they started construction, it may cost $500 per month, but now it would be less nervous... Advice: fence your lot Building Casaview Denison 30 https://fortdenison.wordpress.com/about Re: How often do you visit your site? 568May 13, 2016 3:50 pm I was visiting every couple of days, but with daylight savings over it's always dark before I leave work so it's pretty much once a week on a saturday morning for the next few months. Re: How often do you visit your site? 570May 19, 2016 11:56 am We were visiting our vacant block every couple of weeks. The when I got a call to say they had started piering we were very excited. Then the slab was down within the week. Wow, excitement plus! Then..........................................nothing! Slab been down for a month. Apparently the frames were delayed. A coincidence that the SS was away for the past 3 weeks..maybe. Frames are supposedly arriving tomorrow, however I really dont want to go just in case they are'nt there. I'm about to flip my lid Re: How often do you visit your site? 571Jul 12, 2016 7:58 pm We've been going down every fortnight or so. It's started to get exciting as other stages have titled and building is commencing. It's interesting watching everyone elses houses go up. Hoping we will start building within the next few weeks then I will go down every weekend. I would like to go down during the week but by the time I finish work and get to the block, it's too dark first world problems! Re: How often do you visit your site? 572Jul 13, 2016 9:03 am My land doesn't title for another year, but I go down once a month to see other estates coming up around my estate. The closer it gets, I'll go down more frequently. Unfortunately, I live 20km from my proposed block's location and the hours I work make it difficult to get down during the week. I'll definitely go every weekend when I start my build. Re: How often do you visit your site? 574Jul 26, 2016 11:37 am Visit our empty block every couple of weeks, mainly to see how the other builds are progressing was a completely new street when we bought in Feb also impatiently waiting to see if the vacant block directly across from us will be a single or double story lol hoping they dont block our distant view of golf course when build starts ill prob be their daily maybe every second day Re: How often do you visit your site? 575Aug 04, 2016 10:38 pm I'm more hopeless than I even expected. We're at formwork/almost slab pour and I've taken to visiting three times a day - once on the way to work, once at lunch, and once on the way home. It does help that it only adds at worst 2 minutes to my drive though. Re: How often do you visit your site? 576Aug 09, 2016 10:46 am We live behind it as there is two houses on our block and we did a knock down rebuild on the front house. So I pretty much watch it all day as I work early mornings and nights and have a walk around once all the builders have gone for the day. Re: How often do you visit your site? 577Aug 09, 2016 10:48 am I slowed way down in winter but with the days getting longer I can tell I'll be back to daily drive bys soon! Re: How often do you visit your site? 578Sep 09, 2016 7:52 pm I visit everyday. We are lucky that we currently live close by. Its well worth it because I have picked up a few issues that can be corrected fairly quickly before too much work goes on and covers issues or makes it difficult to get access etc to. Re: How often do you visit your site? 579Sep 30, 2016 10:47 pm I am about to start and I visit my block about 3 times a week if I can. Really just a drive by to make sure that no one has dumped anything there and all is tickety-boo. I have had a security fence up since Easter and it is amazing the liberties people think they can take with your land. Its call trespass and is illegal but they don't seem to care. In one instance, I turned up to my block to find my security fence on the ground and the clamps had been removed so that the builder next door could store his building materials on my land. Its happened again since then with them putting their bricks on my land and removing my fence again. Both times i've reported it to the Police and they haven't done anything which has been really disappointing. This is in addition to all the fast food waste, coffee cups, pizza boxes and beer bottles they left behind. Some one even decided to dump their clothes, an unwanted printer and one crutch on the site. Put simply, people can be grubs and will use your land as a dump site if it suits them. This is when it becomes your problem. My advice to anyone with a vacant block of land is to make sure you fence it. Don't pay $500 per month. Go to a hardware shop or on eBay/gumtree and buy the temporary fence panels, feet and clamps and put it in yourself until the build starts. Even if you just cover your frontage and some of the side, its better than nothing. You can use the fence later, rent it to another unbuilt block or sell it on again but at least you will have some peace of mind. Cheers Nom Newhaven 36 by M Blog - North Shore Newhaven (http://nsnewhaven.blogspot.com.au) Build - https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=85092 Re: How often do you visit your site? 580Oct 14, 2016 12:40 pm We have been visiting our block every couple of weeks, increasing more now as we are heading towards pre-start. Messing about working out where we want the house and other items on the block. Not sure how often we will visit once building starts! 9 25363 In Victoria you cannot put a caveat on arising from a domestic building contract. 65 112997 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! 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