Building the Santorini MK 2 by Masterton Homes

I finally got the news that I will get my tender next week (I already had the revisions emailed) and followed by the plans 2-3 weeks after that. So we are looking mid to end of May for the process to start. Hopefully there will be minimal mistakes or none! so we can sign and submit to CDC.

For some reason they needed to upgrade the slab from 'M' Class to 'H' Class, costing extra $2,500. So I requested the soil test report to be emailed. Guess what? Few hours later I get an email informing me that my M sales rep will be asking the engineer if the upgrade is necessary. Amazing what can be achieved by showing that you know what you are talking about and ask them for evidence.

I hope you get your plans soon. We paid our plan prep fee to Masterton on the 14.03.12 but we received our first draft set of plans on the 18.04.12 (approx 5 weeks all up).
We sent them back with our revisions within a day or 2 so we are back in the queue and its now almost 3 weeks again.

Hang in there. Its definitely worth the wait because when you see the drawings, it starts to all look in perspective and like its really happening

Will keep and eye on your thread (already watching your blog).

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Thats the offer we got. It was available lae last year. It all works out at around the same price through.
Just tell them what you want and they will comply.

A quick look at the plans and it all looks good! Only very few minor changes, mostly outside taps location, manhole location etc. Will go in detail over the weekend.

One major issue is the front setback, it is 10m! I was expecting 7m, like where the current house is and like our next door neighbour. I will need to chase it up. As it is dawn now, I have more front yard then back yard! lol.

Well the council has Min of 6.5 meters, but CDC uses average of adjoining houses.
Unfortunately, the idiot next door built his house 12m back, and did not care, since he sold it to the current owner year after he built it. So now I have to take the average of 8.1m. I will try to move forward by 1m, to see if I can convince CDC.
I'll keep everyone posted on the result, hoping someone in the same situation can use the result, one way or the other.

In my previous post I mentioned about a $500 charge to have 2 different colours of bricks, to enhance our facade, turns out it is the cost of getting 1 extra palette of bricks to make sure we have enough of each colour to finish the build. We will end up few extra bricks, but that is ok, I can see a nice BBQ or wood-fire oven on my alfresco

M delays and plans so well that contract sign off date is exactly on 90 days! No room to move...