Could these be our new Neighbours??

Rachael and Zeke Kinsky.......neighbours everybody needs good neighbours.......

We've been Framed!!

It is now the 22nd May and over the past few days framing has begun and we can really see what the house looks like on the block. There's no one working on the block today and that seems to be the same for all the blocks around the area. Maybe it's a builders day off.

However, we are pleased at the rate at which things have progressed so far. There is a lovely smell of cut wood in the air up there, lets hope there no hungry termites about. More packs of oz pine have been delivered ready for the next installment. Bit disappointed with the driveway as it is a lot steeper than we thought it would be but I expect we'll get used to it.

Thank you neighbours!

Our builders have managed to use electricity from our neighbours so our build is back on track thankfully. There were two huge trucks by the block yesterday and a bobcat was doing some digging, hopefully they're going to tidy up the block (plot) a bit as it looks a bit messy at the moment.Framing should start this week with fingers crossed.

Here are some pictures showing the view down our street..........And here is a picture looking up our road from the park at the bottom of the road.....and a picture of our slab which was put down on Friday 16th May...

Our Doreen House Build

Welcome to David and Fionas House Building Web Blog. We bought our block in Doreen in December 2007 and chose our house and builder at this time as well. It is being built by Hen3ley homes and it is called the Sutton.

We went for our first appointment with the builders on January 7th 2008 to decide on the colours we wanted to put in the house. We had to choose tiles and cupboards and doors and sinks. Lets hope it doesn’t look a mess when it’s all put together. Best to ask how much more the tiles are because they may be cheaper than you think.

On 29th January we had our tender meeting and they told us how much our site costs were. They were around $14000 because we are building on a slope and the builders don’t like this.
On the 29th February we signed all the contracts. Boy, what a palava that was. We had to inital every single page and sign quite a few others.

The site supervisor went up there and said that we didn’t have all our pegs in which would cost us more money for a resurvey. However my husband went to check and they were there so good thing we checked.

On the 5th May 2008 the house build finally started.

It is now the 15th May and the plumbers have been to lay the pipe and the foundation hole has been dug.

However, it is the 15th May and we have hit a problem. Our builders failed to inform us that we would need to get power connected to our block and are now saying the project could be delayed or they will charge extra for a generator to be used. They should have told us before that the electric needed to be connected but didn't and now all they're saying is it's in your contract. Boo, Hiss, we're not happy. Lets hope this is not the start of problems for the future.