Hi champ243. Can't help with the CEO but we did use commonwealth bank for the building construction

Thanks sanremo! It was a long wait but we got there in the end.
Yes, land prices are high at the moment. What goes up must come down...

Thanks
New home is great. No major issues discovered so far.

and don't forget the "industry shutdown" of 5 weeks over january.

Nik24, it takes different amounts of time for different builders, but I'd say you're looking at months rather than weeks.

You should be able to look up the standard (A.S. 3959-2009) to see what is required (may have to pay to access it).
We had BAL 12.5 and flyscreens to the…

It shouldn't really be up to the builder to accept or deny a report, that's the councils job. Ask Champion for a copy of their assessment if they are not…

And a word on the "minimum requirement" in the guidelines- there have been instances where the minimum was just not enough. For instance, the guideline says you can have a…

I really can't say. You're best to ask Linc, who will tell you that if you want to make ANY deviations from the plan that you must submit a new…

Yes. The DRP will come and see your house to make sure it complies with your approved landscape plan.

Who knows what you are and aren't allowed... I just think it depends on what mood they are in when they receive your plans.

Hi,
No we were not asked to pay a road damage bond. I know some other people had to pay a bond but they were a council application not CDC.
It…

yes, we've been organising everything for a while now.

Hey Transformation, no not packing yet, still got a way to go. How long did your internals take?

I think most people have been drawing it themselves with sketch up etc.

Having said that though, often he won't answer questions without you sending the plans to him and the whole thing can take weeks.

Hi aspiration35
I'm building with Wisdom- in stage 5. Unfortunately, all I can say is they are SO SLOW! It starts slow and continues being slow. We've started the construction process-…

Congratulations! Wonderful news.

Supervisor is the same as yours I believe. Definitely keeping an eye on things. What happened with yours?

Thanks! bit excited, but mostly still angry that it's taken this long

This is interesting discussion- BASIX was designed so there would be flexibility in the way we meet the targets. So if you can meet the target by being more energy…

Just thought I'd update those who aren't following my blog- our land has been cut so construction is finally starting! We started the admin process on the 18th of may…

Congrats

Fact and fiction. Could be a good laugh!

I feel like there should be a whole page dedicated to all the things we were told that didn't hold up.

Got the damn paperwork just now. Its taken them a whole month to send me a copy of things I've already seen. Ridiculous.

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Bah, nothing!
Time to start phone tag.

Yeh, we will get there. We are expecting to hear back "mid week", which I'm guessing is today. If we don't I think my partner will start calling them every…

I would complain if I had any confidence that it would make any difference. Despite the frustration, so far they are only a month behind schedule, and the contract makes…