Yes storm water is connected to the washing machine and the toilets.

We have some surround sound stuff being installed by them. Our SS has had massive trouble getting in touch with them to get it installed now that we've moved in,…

Thanks everyone for your kind words, I want to keep this thread going to show the landscaping and things too. At the moment, imagine the site looks like this (us…

PS the laundry bench we extended and upgraded to Caesarstone as well. It wasn't crazy expensive, under 1k I think. In the scheme of things it wasn't the worst.
We'd…

The tiles are charcoal from the basic range at tiles direct. The white ones are a very subtle marble, also from the basic range.
The stone is Fresh Concrete, the…

Handover day!
The house was cleaned really well, which I didn't expect - I've read a lot of horror stories about very light cleans being done, but this was very…

I think they're used to mark out the build area, like how far back they'll scrape/cut/fill.
Exciting times ahead!

Two more sleeps! The bank has sent the final payment, and honestly at this stage unless the roof caves in we're taking it on Friday!
The painter still hasn't finished,…

Where is it from Nawsome?

Gerro this is looking amazing and seems to be flying up! Congratulations, you have a beautiful home.

After a long wait (4 weeks, but it felt like ages), our flooring is finally in! I've only got ** pics from outside but I love love love it in…

We had our pretendy-PCI yesterday. Everything went well - there's one downlight not working and a patch needed in the eaves that they've known about since the eaves went up,…

Pro tip: we are using versawall from adbri masonry for our wall. They supply a technical data sheet that can be used to satisfy the requirement for engineering, as long…

Today, I got a bit of a surprise in my inbox: our final occupancy certificate! A bit strange since I thought we had to get the driveway and retaining walls…

I was looking into solar panels and mentioned to the companies that we hadn't made any allowance in the truss design for panels. Not one company seemed to think that…

Does anyone know if you have to use the same certifier that did the interim? I don't want to pay 1k+ for the OC if the council can do it…

Would you not just call those "2 sleepers at base of fence post" as I've seen in a few council submissions?

He's a good guy. He went to the house today to measure a window for me so I could order a blind.

Salfield what are you building?

We have Dale! I like him. He seems to care about the finishes and the outcome of the build, although he's not a proactive communicator. He's efficient and he's done…

So we should be having PCI this week and handover 2 weeks later, BUT.... The flooring is out of stock.
The supplier offered us an 'upgrade' which had longer boards…

We used Taubmans Silver blaze for the walls and good old Crisp White for trims. Thank you!!

I'm not sure why they all decided to post sideways, sorry

Here's a few photos of monument frames from inside. I've read that black frames are less obvious because they fade into the view better? Who knows if it's true!

We got a personal loan for retaining walls. They didn't even want to see a quote. That was CommBank.

Should have added this in the last post

No more site fence!! The SS was saying flooring goes in this week, carpet next Monday, then PCI and finally keys, probably by the end of August!

Wow that's gorgeous!

Progress:
I'm so happy with it. The painter is there today doing external painting, the the nbn guys are hooking us up now, and it doesn't seem like there's too…

So to update: we got hold of the SS and had a walkthrough. He was great about fixing up the basins and actually even started to talk about handover dates!…