Somerfield Estate Keysborough

havent heard or received any emails about 1J for awhile now, went pass over the weekend, it looks pretty much done.. i cant really see what else they would need to do actually.

Yeah i rang them last week. What happens now is they need the council creditation or something. that takes a few weeks as the council are the ones who take there time. and then titles will be released and settlement soon after! then we start building, and we start stressing and once it's finished we move in to an empty house then we start filling it with furniture and then once that is done we do our landscaping and everything else! out of breath just thinking about it...

good times!

i cant wait to just start building as well, and hopefully finish by July 2011,
How long on average are usually build times?

Our builder says 20 weeks, which is probably with no hold ups, like rain and supplies etc.

I rang up on monday. I was told that at the moment they are at council compliance which is due by the end of this week.

Then it goes to titles office, which means titles end of next week to end of week after.

Then settlement 14 days after that. They said that both 1J and 1K will be within a couple of days of eachother.

I wish they would hurry up!!!

I think at this stage, seeing the holidays in December, quite possibly settlements will only be possible in January. Perhaps to our favor since builders tend to take sometime off for xmas+newyear, meaning can't start building in Dec eventhough you're able to settle in Dec. Just my opinion ...

ok i just asked my builder. 24th december till the 4th of jan will be there holiday period.

sweet! so its not 4 weeks... when i asked them last year they said 4 weeks to me.. i reckon they were saying that so they could rush me to sign the contract.

I rang Somerfield last week and they mentioned that Stage 1L will be titled during second week of december. Has anyone else been informed on this?

yeah hehe, that probably is the case..
by the way i noticed that they already put in the land dividers,
underneathe those pink stick poles, there is these little square blocks with the lot numbers on them

hi neighbours, havent been on for a while, we are now up to lock up stage. wanted to share my dramas with you. we are building with metricon, building the same house as the santorini on display in our estate. anyway, for those of you who havent signed your contracts, my advice is check your drawings carefully! our facade is now completed, however it does not look the same as the display home we chose. when we asked the builder, apparently the facade was built to our drawings. just a minor error which we didnt pick up cause it was sooo minor (and we were busy checking the other 101 things we did change), a narrower timber beam sits between our two front pillars. this beam should be about 20cm, instead ours is only about 10cm and the bricks are not capped. because the measurements are not on the drawings, it really was easily missed, we did go through everything with a fine tooth comb......., but this minor error has resulted in a different looking facade!not happy! we are waiting for the builder to get back to us , its a headache we could have avoided! also, for those of you who are umming and arring about little upgrades here and there.....my advice is just go for it! we ummed and arred about a lot of things, deciding not to upgrade on some minor things such as shower base, sink, tapware, doors etc........ as the house is nearing completion, i am now regretting it! its money saved, but its going to be a hassle after hand over! sigh..... Good luck everyone and is our BBQ still on? our reserve is looking really nice, think it should all be done by xmas!! cant believe xmas is only 6 weeks away!!!