Happy Valentine's day!

Good to tell you all that finally all our paperwork has been signed off and now waiting for the site supervisor to contact me regarding slab date!!

The weather is better an better, still patchy rains but not long and rather warmer now.

Well, this summer has been the wettest ever ...

14 February is my son's 9th birthday and we are so grateful for him in our life!

It's also the mark of the new journey with Wisdom homes.

Thanks to B from Wisdom admin who has helped us along the way, responded to our emails promptly.

Now hoping that we'll get one of their best supervisor...:)

Waiting for Final sign off

We are still waiting for the final sign off, which according Wsdm will be next Monday 13 Feb'12.

Then fingers crossed, excavation can start within 2 weeks after that, pending on weather...

Rain. Rain.. Go away....

So exciting, finally, after more than 2.5 yrs waiting....

Checking Building Contract

After almost 3 months, we haven't started yet, mainly because we lost 1 month to Christmas/New Year, then about 1 month to relocate the underground rainwatertank, then all those tiles/carpet drama, then now waiting for the final sign off.

I've been checking today of my building contract, it said :

Commencing the Building Works

- The builder is to commence the building works within 20 working days after the day that :

a. The builder receives all necessary building permits 7 planning approvals for the building works to commence

b. The owner satisfies all of the requirements of clause 4.

Well, I have got my CC and everything's else last month, so they should start the excavation soon...

The House Plans

With the help of my new Home 1 friend, Jo, I can finally upload these plans, as promised...:) thank you, Jo!!

Our facade called Grand Portico (modified slightly of course).

We added a garage, 2 windows, upgraded the cladding to all bricks (which cost so much..), that's why we couldn't afford to upgrade the bricks to the smooth face.

Luckily, we found a new range from Boral bricks that close to what we wanted. So, quite happy with our choice of Grays Point bricks.

Rainwater news

Well, great news that yesterday Waterboard has approved our new underground watertank within 1 day. And Wisdom delivered good news that there's no additional piering needed or architectural drawing.
But they'll still need 7 days turnaround to finalize the paperwork and they can't do this until they receive the additional fee of relocating tank ...
Not happy about this...:(
They shouldn't placed the tank in the zone of influence in the first place, where there was the rest of big yard there to choose...

The girl in admin. has been good since she came back from her sick leave, trying to organise everything for us in a quick way & polite emails.
She also told me that there'll be no charges for the fridge's depth changes from 650mm to 700mm.
A news that I've been waiting for almost 2 months! Happy now...:)

That lovely Pegs..:)

I drove by the land on Friday last week, not expecting that WH has done the pegs!!

Excellent, only small but at least a progress...:)

Only 1 peg was too close to my neighbour's boundary, G. So hopefully her builder doesn't knock out the peg.

Carpet

Got my carpet quotes as well on Friday, prices as expected. But we're kind of run out of budget, but we don't want the standard carpet inclusion, so we'll go tomorrow again to Dlorenzo to choose other carpet in medium range around $40-45/m2.

Meanwhile, I have sent my kitchen drawing today. That's another progress too...:P

Mowing..mowing....

After that great news about council approval, WH organised a peg out with 5 days turn around last week. So hopefully this week, we'll see something happening on the land..
Meanwhile, hubby finally decided to mow the grass himself.
So we went to the land on Saturday, met our new neighbour accros the street who happened just finishing mowing too.
had a quick chat and I think our new neighbour is very nice!
It's going to be a great community there....:)

Here's a few photo during and after the mowing...