Recently joined this forum after trying to get a bit more certainty/confidence around building with 101 and thanks to a bit of positive feedback have signed up for the PCQ and progressed to site survey our property in Rivervale. We bought it at auction recently with an established house so we plan to demolish later this year once we have all our plans in order.
We grabbed a copy of the "things you forget" check-list so will be using that a fair bit as it is our first time building. I am curious to know just how much people had in writing at each stage - I had a reasonably detailed PCQ but no idea really whether that was more/less than other builders. A lot of things were fobbed off as being pre-start activities but just wondering whether that results in plenty of costs with very little leverage.
For those who recognise the Frappe display home our plans are a very customised version:
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The sort of detail that makes me feel a bit unsure is the fact that North is pointing to the side of the block. Most of the blocks in Rivervale are NE/SW in a grid - so the North is actually NW, with the front of our block being NE facing. It is a minor detail but when you have a survey in front of you (or even if you don't, Google maps isn't hard to use), it seems like a fairly trivial thing to overlook.
I have setup a blog at http://rivervale.tumblr.com/ to document as I go. Will get some photos up eventually but too many things todo and not enough time to do them in