Pipes!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and New Years!

We had our site scrape on 11th Nov, and then nothing until this week... Basically to cut a long story short there were some delays with getting approvals for our drains / pipes though City West Water as the Developers did not pass them on for approval earlier. Unfortunately this took approx 1 month to go through and by then Carlisle did not want to do anything else until after Christmas.

Ended up signing our final plans just before Christmas...

In the mean time we had a few small issues.
Firstly, our chosen timber laminate was discontinued. Went in and rechose another similar looking one... Although I think I like this one slightly better. Glen didn't come as he 'trusted' my choice!
Secondly, had to change a couple of kitchen door handles to the smaller size to fit smaller cupboard doors. Somehow this was not picked up on until the last minute and Carlisle tried to charge us a variation fee for it. Got ourselves out of that one though... It should have been picked up by the draftsmen!


Below are a few pics which have been taken since the last update...

Site scrape was carried out on 11th Nov. Here are some pics taken about 1 week later (clearly after some rain). I don't think I ordered any swimming pools... One for the porch

And in the background you might be able to see a super dooper one for the alfresco!

Visit to the block on the 10th Jan found a tap!

AND a water meter!!

We also found a nice pile of dirt in preparation for the drains. This green thing along the front of the block was called a "sediment barrier". Not many people in the estate have one though... so not sure why it is there?

Monday was 43degC, Tuesday night was the hottest night ever... and Tuesday morning (12th Jan) didn't drop below about 34degC... Some time during during that heat they put our pipes in!

Good work boys =D

Two days later (14th Jan) the land was flattened and we have a temp fence...

Had a call from CLE (a diff one as 'M' is on holidays)... Our slab is definitely going in on Saturday (16th Jan)! Things are moving so quickly now! (Clearly they want money.. But I want our house too!)

Some more land pics...

Just a couple of new pics from our visit to Alamanda on Friday afternoon.

First is from the back of our block looking towards the street (and my car.. lol)


Second is of the wetlands progressing down the back of the estate (a few houses down from me). They are really starting to come along and look great! I can't wait to see the finished product :)


Also noticed the other day that the block a few down from ours has a temporary fence already!! Quick starters, especially seeing as our land only titled 2 weeks ago!

LAND TITLED!

Our land titled on the 10th October! Was very excited to hear it had been titled, especially after so many months of waiting! *fingers crossed* we start building ASAP

Rang the council today and found out our street number! Was also happy to find that out... seems that small things make me happy.. Don't know what will happen once I actually see something on our land!

Settlement is booked for next Monday 24th. Then the land will be OURS!! =D

Waiting...

A few dramas over the past month or two...

Firstly, our CLE "moved on" from Carlisle Homes. We were left without a CLE for a good month (in which we had to speak to various different people about getting things organised for the house). We have just been allocated a new CLE "J". She comes across as being a lot more helpful than previous CLE, so hopefully this is actually the case!

Our land has also been delayed even more. I think it was originally supposed to titled in May when we brought the block. That quickly went to June, then July, then August, then start of September and now the end of September! *Fingers crossed* we actually get our land by the end of September. We have been booked for an October site start with the builder and will possibly incur penalties if we don't start in October =(

On the plus side, we heard that our plans have been approved by Alamanda design panel. Hopefully they pass through council ok when the land gets titled so we can start building ASAP! Lucky we are not in a HUGE rush for the house to be built at this stage...

Can we start building already?? Land!

Another update post for today.... Two in one day!

We have also been visiting our land quite often...

Most recently we found that our land is basically ready to build on!! Our land is all flattened and we have street signs, lamp posts, foot paths, driveways and asphalt roads! I think we should just start building now :)

Our land should title at the end of August however. There was a hold up in the previous section with laying a main sewer. This problem has been resolved and now the previous stage needs to catch up and be titled at the same time.

Now for some pics!!!

Our land - with our driveway!

A park nearby. This is going to be a prep - 9 school and have a main sports oval at the back. We are about 2 blocks away from this area.

Our street sign!! How exciting.. hehe

Looking down Tobago drive - near our street

Looking down our street :) Those aren't our tyre marks by the way! We are about halfway down

Looking over stage 7 land

Fire hydrant on our front nature strip :(... not happy! But we will have to deal with it. Lucky we have an 18m frontage so hopefully still some space for parking on nature strip if required.

Fingers crossed for settlement at end of August. Hopefully it all goes through without a hitch! Apparently our loan manager already has the loan papers for the land :)