New Updates

We got a new admin as site coordinator and we already received the Site Start Letter. So, officially, we move into the construction stage. YAH~~

Something I forgot to mention in my earlier posts:

1) We received the Home Warranty Insurance letter.

2) The Final Construction Drawings done.

3) The energy report states that my house will have R3.0 insulation on roof and R2.0 insulation on external walls, which I'm pretty happy with it.

4) My house will have H class base according to the Engineering Plan and soil test report.

5) My admin clarified that all downpipes of the house will be PVC not Colorbond (metal) material but painted with Colorbond colour.

6) My admin also clarified that the storage room door will open towards entry. She said the standard one should be opening inwards. Since my drawings show it opening outwards and no one corrected it, so she just write it down in my variation at no charge.

Now show u the fenced up site:

and the workflow up to today:

Building Permit Done + Site Cleaning

Got the building permit on 19th April!!!

We went to our site to do some cleaning, twice. I hate those irresponsible builders who dumped rubbish and rocks on our land! Since the rocks are super heavy, my back hurts all day.

Now waiting for the site start letter. Please just give to me ASAP!!!!!!

BTW, just to let u know my neighbours down the back and the east-side have already had their fence up, that's good.

Re-pegged by My Developer

This is really a surprise! I've no idea why my developer re-peg my northwest corner, but this is good! Now the boundary can't be more clear!

And my land......kinda messy, need a site clean before construction started!

I've heard that BB has a long admin time and I've hoped that I could be a lucky one to skip the long waiting period. But..........still waiting for my amended drawings!!!!!!!!!

Got The Developer Replied

The developer replied my email on Fri. They explained that is not a wrong peg, it is an offset peg. Since my west-north neighbour's land belongs to the stage developed before mine and already fenced up, the developer couldn't put an peg under or very close to the fence post when they were developing my stage, they just managed to put an offset peg to state the actual peg is the fence post, blah blah~

I forwarded the email to BB, hopes they could accept this answer and this offset peg.

Still Messing Around The Pegs

I think I found a wrong peg on my rear boundary! Where does that one come from?

Though the peg should be the land owner's responsibility after land settlement, but the wrong peg was not hammered into the ground by me! I took a pic and drew a graph to a guy whom is in the developer's customer relations office, and I request him to follow up this peg thing. Hope this can be solved ASAP!

By the way, according to my admin in BB, there are 3 cases in front of me are delayed, so mine is delayed as well! Not happy Jan!

Other's Fence Is Not A Peg

BB responses about my peg pics, my admin says other's fence might on a wrong place so it doesn't count. So the rear 'peg' we thought we had means nothing. BB do only need 3 pegs to start building. Since we only dug out 2 pegs in the front, another digging day is on the way~Let's say, hmmmmm, how about tomorrow? Hope everything goes smoothly and we can dig the third PEG out to save $720. Finger crossed!

Missing Pegs = $720!!!

I got an email Thursday from BB said that the pegs are missing on my lot, and offered a $720 deal to redo the land survey by BB. Gosh, that's a rob! I'm not paying that! So We grabbed a shovel and went to our land on Fri morning to dig. After searching the pegs based on the pics we took before, it turns out that where the pegs should be were temporary fenced inside the houses (which are under construction) next to our lot. It is inappropriate to dig without my neighbours permit since the pegs we shared are inside their fence at that time. 

When we was trying to contact council to get this problem fixed, we heard some one was talking in the house right-hand next to our land. We went inside and found 2 workers and asked for the contact No. of their site supervisor. Well, how lucky we are! And lucky again, their site supervisor is really really nice and made us stick around so he could meet us on the land 4 hours later, furthermore, he said he would like to help us to find our pegs. As he promised, in the afternoon, he and another person showed up. They took their tools to dig the pegs out for us really hard, and helped us to find 2 pegs in the front. It turns out that the pegs are not missing! They are just buried under some mud! Ughhhhhh~BB is so lazy and can't be bothered to dig at all! 

Since our rear pegs on one side is other's permanent fence already, so we got 3 pegs. We took a bottle of spray paint to mark out the pegs as pic showed below. Hope that BB can accept this result. If they don't, we're going to dig the hell out and locate our last peg, which would save us $720!!!

I can't believe my eyes!

Today we went to our land just for a regular check out, and to guarantee there is no rock or any other rubbish dumped on our site by some irresponsible site supervisors (which happened before). When we got there, OMG, there is a tap! We got a tap on our site! How exciting!!!!

I don't know why we got a tap so early since we have not signed on our final drawings and I believe our building plan haven not been logged in council yet. We will call BB tomorrow to find out what is happening. Anyway, I love my tap, lolz~

By the way, I love the tree in front of my land, beautiful green colour and swing in the wind (:

21 Sep 2010, 5th time visit

the rocks was cleaned on my site!

12 Sep 2010, 4th time visit

The footpath and driveway entrance was done, the road in front was under construction.

16 Aug 2010, 3rd time visit

The rocks was still on my site, and the footpath in front was done!

08 Aug 2010, 2nd time visit our land

09 July 2010, 1st time visit our land

 

The rocks was dug out, and the road in front was not completed

Dig gold, find gold.

After long search in Melbourne and a lot of research about houses & lands, finally, me and my partner decided to go with building our own house instead of purchasing an existing one. We know it is a long journey, also, it requires patience and all the careful with the details, but we have confidence in it. Of course, excited all the way from beginning. How good is that!

We got a land in Mel in July, not big but enough for us. 400m2+, 16m for the frontage. There is no easement on it. The land is facing south direction, witch means we will have a beautiful north-facing backyard, we can enjoy most of the sun there. The environment around the land is quiet and green, simply love it. The biggest surprise for us is that, there are hundreds of roos jumping around in the reserve park next door, purely natural place.

Things went smoothly after the first amount money being paid, the settlement just less than a month behind the expected timetable, which means it is really 'on time' among most of the land's development. The developer is great! The land fully belongs to us in Oct 2010, we got the certificate of land from our solicitor, he's being very helpful along the way of contracting and titlement. On that titlement day, we celebrated with champagne and I got a bit high, lolz~