hello Chuffy!!!
howz everything going on your part of the building process??
we are getting settled in now. quote from my partner the other week "i could get used to living…

awesome to hear that you guys did that!!!! i'm excited that you did.
another thing that i had wished we had done - is…

so we have moved into our house now.
I LOVE IT!!!!
tilers did an awesome job. looks great - soo happy with the tile that we picked.
Carpet went down yesterday…

tiling started yesterday - cant wait to see the end result. got a couple of pics on the camera, so will just have to load them onto the computer.
so…

been a very quite week at the new house. nothing really happening.
painters finished on monday.
tiler has us booked in for monday to do our job.
after many…

so yesterday we realised we didnt have hot water!!!!
my partner had checked the hot water when we did our inspections. but i think due to it being so hot…

i think i jinxed myself.......... ran the hot water... and no hot water coming out...
perhaps we have the same pronlem as you had?!?!?!?!
partner convinced…

sorry westy!!!!
well today we went looking at tiles again... looking at 600 x 600 porcelain. i'm sooooooooo fussy. i like the light colours. but cant be too creammy or…

have you tried mopping the floor with vinegar and water????
thanks for the name of those plants. our dogs seems to like eating plants... and i thought, maybe with a trunk…

meeting the painter at the house 6.30 tom morning!!!!
said to my partner:
"maybe we should stay the night there tonight - sleep on the air mattress so we are…

i'm hanging out for my time off work in a couple of weeks so i can get stuck into moving outta this rental and into my house!!!!
i just wanna get…

yes its very exciting!!!!!
we had our first dinner in the house last night. good ould hungry jacks on the concrete floor!!!!!
my partner decided to go to straco and get the…

picked up the keys today!!!!
whooooooooooooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooooooo!!!
WHOOP WHOOP

i could just spend hours at the display house!!!! i think thats when you know its the right house.
hangin to get the keys - hopefully towards the end of…

this is our second build and there is sooo many things to think of.
i'm glad i could give you some ideas. i'm just "chuffed" that there is another "home1er"…

we used licroice linea in our kitchen too. its an awesome colour

what are those trees in the backyard with the thick truncks called????

we decided to block off the door way infront of the shower.
didnt really wanna be having a shower and looking out the bedroom window and looking at the postie…

huh??? i havent heard of this before????
dont some banks approve of some insurance companies???
bloody banks!!!! always a catch!!!

I think with the bedroom you may be able to make it a lil longer. but i guess you would still lose a lil bit of space with the hallway.…

trying to get insurance quotes at the moment.
doing my head in
so many differant companies and policies
what they do and dont cover
is…

we forked out quite abit for our tiles.
tiling all up cost us bout 4 and a half grand!!!!!! (ouch!!!!)
but its what we wanted.…

It's sooo goos when you are able to find someone else whos built the same home.
One other major thing i thought of doing, ut it was too late was…

agabob,
you dont think the charcol looks too dark in the kids rooms???? thats what i'm a little worried about. putting a dark colour in those rooms, making the massive…

we are in 2 minds with the painting. we have been quoted $3500. which from the sounds of other quotes is quite good.
to save the money and just do…

oh no agabob......... sorry to hear you arent having a good run with them at the moment.
we were told today to allow approx 2 weeks for the spa pump…

yeh it went well this morning. signed off.
just chatted with our SS most of the time we were there. we were there for about an hr in total. (you…

do you really need hot water in this weather agabob????

paying someone to paint our place seems like a good idea!!!!!

10 hrs and 15 mins to go!!!!!!!