Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 13Mar 21, 2017 7:12 pm haha thanks nicolawhitelaw! Yes my wife looked at it as the best of both worlds for me. A pool whilst watching tv in my home theatre! You can't really beat that. Yes the rain is frustrating but after months of nothing happening I will take the action so far any day of the week! By the way I love how far you are into your build! I can only wish we were at your stage. Hope the rest of your build goes smoothly and thanks so much for stopping by. Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 14Mar 21, 2017 7:21 pm krusade25 haha thanks nicolawhitelaw! Yes my wife looked at it as the best of both worlds for me. A pool whilst watching tv in my home theatre! You can't really beat that. Yes the rain is frustrating but after months of nothing happening I will take the action so far any day of the week! By the way I love how far you are into your build! I can only wish we were at your stage. Hope the rest of your build goes smoothly and thanks so much for stopping by. Well when I first started stalking other threads on this forum I was waiting to start and other builds had started and now their all moving in it's like omg comeeeee ooonnnn so closeeeee!!! Lol you'll be surprised how fast it goes Building with Perry homes: viewtopic.php?t=84756 Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 15Mar 25, 2017 7:34 pm 25 March 2017: I've been stalking so many of these forums over the last 6 months and I could sense the joy and excitement people showed when they had a slab party! Well today we felt that joy and that rush as we saw our slab being poured. Our pour had already been delayed over a week due to rain and it was booked in today in the hopes that it would not rain during the pour. Well a lot of our prayers were answered as the first drop of rain began to come down the minute the workmen got in their cars and left for the day leaving behind a beautiful slab. My wife said that it was the most beautiful piece of concrete she has ever seen! She had stated previously to me that she wanted a slab as her birthday present (27 March) and sure enough it was delivered! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ We stood there for a long time just taking in this next step in our long journey. We are so grateful for the many blessings that we have experienced along the way and today's slab was just a reminder of that. Better Built Homes continues to provide excellent service backing up what they say with action. Till next time everyone! Happy Building! Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 16Mar 25, 2017 7:44 pm Yay!!!! Congrats! Welcome to the crazy building roller coaster! Building with Perry homes: viewtopic.php?t=84756 Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 17Mar 25, 2017 8:53 pm nicolawhitelaw Yay!!!! Congrats! Welcome to the crazy building roller coaster! Building with Perry homes: viewtopic.php?t=84756 Thanks so much nicolawhitelaw. Very happy to just be on the ride!!! Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 18Mar 28, 2017 7:12 pm 28 March 2017: Just happened to be wandering past my land today (which is a 10 minute drive in completely the opposite direction to where I live!) and it looks like there has been a bit of action happening. Frames have been delivered and frame markings have happened on our slab which is great. We got to have a really good look at where all the frames were going and got to see the outline of what has only been on drawings up until this time. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Next step external drainage on Friday and hopefully frames up by sometime next week! Exciting times in our household. Enjoying the fast progress while it lasts! Till next time, Happy Building everyone! Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 19Mar 31, 2017 3:43 pm 31 March 2017: Met Troy and Aaron our site supervisor (and joint owner of the company) on site today and he was extremely helpful. He went through my concerns and was more than willing to discuss the issues which was great. Today they did the external drainage around the house, began connecting our water supply and we also saw the delivery of the rest of the frames and roof trusses for the house. Very busy site which is what any new home builder wants to see! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Next week carpenters come in and start putting this badboy jigsaw puzzle together so that it finally starts to look like a house!! Till next time, Happy Building! Re: Our Better Built Homes Journey 20Apr 07, 2017 4:54 pm 7 April 2017: Got a great text this morning from our site supervisor Aaron who told us that the frame carpenters were on our site today working to get our bottom level framed up. Sure enough on my way to visiting our building site we saw these beautiful structures rising from the ground! It is one thing to imagine what the house would look like with a big slab of concrete. It is something completely different altogether to see the outlines of rooms and hallways and living spaces (and our second floor is not even done yet!). Better Built is saying that they expect all of the framing to be done before easter! Looking forward to a really good week next week as we get to see more and more of the puzzle come together. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Bricks are also scheduled for delivery next week but from what I hear brickies are chasing their tail at the moment after being delayed a month due to rain! Again we are grateful for good communication from our builder Better Built Homes and excellent progress in the space of a month. Thanks for visiting everyone. Until next time, Happy Building! Any advice on how to ensure the kit home granny flat that im thinking of buying will get council approval. The kit home companys wont release plans without a deposit and… 0 7960 Bigger the better for storage for me IMO. But I guess it's harder to tell the cost/benefit in your example - mainly the 'cost'? If you go 700mm, what are you doing extra… 2 3259 4 2318 |