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.

Building Permit Applied

Building permit applied yesterday! My liason expected to get council approval at the end of next week.

About the sound batts, I decided not to go since the quote is around $1500 for between ground & 1st floor. I did not expected the price is soooo high, way above my budget ($800). Maybe I will discuss with my site supervisor after construction start to see if I could install some sound batts from bunnings by myself. 

I will do some site cleaning before getting my building permit. Too many rain these days!

Yah~Final Drawings Done!

Got my amended final drawings yesterday and signed today!!!! 

Here I share 3 pages from the final drawings:

As I required before, my admin raised a variation to make the shower rose move further away from the mixer so I can change it to a shower head with rail after handover.

I want to add some insulation/sound batts between garage and the living area, also between garage downstairs and bedroom 1 upstairs to avoid exhaust gas or noise from cars. My admin said it could not be done until my energy report is out. She told me to wait few more days for my energy report. 

I was bored during the waiting period, so I used Studio M to create a drawing about my bathroom, just for fun(:

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!!!!!!!!!

Happy OR Not

After a long weekend, we phoned my admin today and finally got some progress there. 

1) I requested them to vent my rangehood externally, cost me $250, not too bad.

2) Relocated my rear garden tap to the outside of living room wall with no extra charge, which is good. 

3) BB accept my rear offset peg as a building peg, so 'SAVE ME' $720 for resurveying.

4) Got 820+620mm 2 doors instead of 620+620mm doors to the study room on ground floor at no extra costs.

5) Got a quote back for providing Cat 2 floor tiles (instead of concrete) to the storage room beneath the staircase, not cheap ($320)! But I can't be bothered to tile that area by myself after handover.

The bad thing is,

1) my admin says I can't relocated my ground-mounted clothesline in the back yard, I don't understand why!

2) When I was in colour selection, the staff told me I'll get a set of pot draws in the kitchen as standard , so I add 2 no. drawers at $100 each. After I got my drawings, I found that only the added 2 drawers appear in the kitchen. Now my admin told me no drawers come as standard. When I requested to add 2 more pot drawers today to make 4 no. all together and I'm willing to pay another $200, she was kind of saying 'no' and needs to confirm with the colour selection staff. Well, since the I don't have a write-down email as evidence, I can do nothing! I really want more drawers in the kitchen for storage convenience (having enough cupboard and pantry shelves already)!!!

Furthermore, I asked the progress of amended drawings, my admin said 'soon'~~Hope this is true.

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!