We have had our plans with CDC certifier for 2 weeks so far, hopefully will come through this week as Clarendon said that it is normally 3-4 weeks. Our demolition approval was also received this week so we are ready to go - just have to move into the rental home now. Tiles was surprisingly reasonable...Best and easiest $900 odd dollars spent )
We haven't received our final kitchen quote yet but we went with the thermal laminate (around $7K) for our cupboards. We have done kitchen, butlers pantry and WIP with Clarendon - I got a quote from Nobby for $19k to do just the WIP! I nearly dropped the phone so I won't be calling them back anytime soon.