It looks like 2-3 months from that photo... the things that will hold it up will be council and if you have traffic lights in your stage then vicroads are…

Yes, I had exactly the same thing (BOM), land spot on, but building contract was over priced and the valuers excuse was that the pricing was overinflated because of the…

We'll looking through my photos of the plaster, I noticed that our door and window alignment looks redicoulus as apposed to the lady at contract saying it will be aligned…

jnkbids, YAY, you had a win for once that’s great hopefully you keep that momentum and your stairs get sorted out!
I went to my site today and noticed that the…

LOL, I don't think the water usage is so much the cost than the supply charges, we had a water bill of a $150 of which $8.50 was for 5000l…

That's well and truley ..omit words here..
Did they at least meet you half way in the costs? and when I say costs I mean supplier cost, not their 25% added…

Was…

Drill 20mm hole in the top plate either side of your range hood where your kitchen cupboards will be drill another hole in the nogging in the wall where you…

LOL, I just read this same post from your BLOG and I must admit it made me pretty angry, because I know exactly what you’re going through, how it happens,…

Wow, it’s amazing to see that so many people have so many issues with their tender and contracts with errors that turn into incorrect construction drawings and many PCVs. Having…

Added some more posts showing bricking and insulation work, Nearly caught up with the blog. hehe.

Hi rocky, great to know someone is following! Gives me more reason to update it
I've add some new posts on our Electrical Selections, plans arround…

It's been a busy month, we now have a roof, bricks, electrical and plumbing rough in done.
We are just waiting for a few items to be fixed up like the…

Hi All,
I thought I would post on how this all went.
Monday our roof was installed, On Tuesday all the roof capping was completed and the framer had been back and…

How quick is quickly? How long from when you raised the issues to them being fixed? How many issues did you have?
Thanks!

It's been two weeks since I raised all the issues with my SS in regards to the frame stage for the frame/slab/window issues, a total 22 items in fact and…

After speaking with the SS the day before yesterday, he advised that the carpenter would be out today to fix the outstanding issues. We had a very long discussion about…

Hi,
I spent a long time trying to find the right colour brick, as such I updated my blog a while ago of all the various brick photos I found. You…

Congratulations!! It is so great to be able to see your site start after such a long…

So frustrated!!!
I went to visit the site again to find the…

Thanks for the feedback!
We visited the site again today and all the window frames are in, Woohoo! They look great, and because they…

We spent 8 hours on Tender with a 9AM start and they still had to make some adjustments after we left and signed the final tender a few days later.
We…

WooHoo frame this week! We also have the roof frame up and the window frames have all been…

We have had lots of progress this week after a delayed start. We were supposed to have our framing start on the 7th of Jan. Half way through the week…

We had that issue, and we were ready to walk away until we meet a really friendly sales consultant on the other side of town. I'd suggest going to a…

Hi Lurgen,
We were going to build the Queenstown 33 but we ended up building the Kallara 33 as we wanted to see the house first from the standard floor plan…

This Monday our framing started, about 1/4 of it was completed, Tuesday all the wall framing was completed, well 95% of it, and today we have a roof and our…

Very helpfull! You can also see the thickness and spacing on the sticker 5mm glass, 8mm air space, 5mm glass, making a total of 18mm thickness.

So, My BC is away until the 14th, the site supervisor is away until the 21st, and I am now told that my frame will start on the 14th, which…

Had another look today... still nothing at all. The PD behind us had heaps of hebel added, and house across the road had 80% of their framing done...
I wonder what…