Saturday, February 18, 2012

RICHARD FROM ELDERTON PUT A SIGN ON OUR LAND SO EXCITED



Today Richard from Elderton put a sign on our land at jordan springs it was very exciting to see it, anything on a block of dirt is exciting it makes you realise your dreams of a new home are on there way....Top photo taken dec 2011 2nd photo feb 17th and last photo we seen over 20 ducks hanging around on lot 1113.

Friday, February 17, 2012

2ND PART SENT OFF FOR APPROVEL COMPLYING AND DEVELOPMENT

Wednesday 15th Feb our plans got sent of for complying development its much faster than going to council, council can take approx 4 weeks. Complying development can take up to 10 days. Great the sun keeps on shinning after all the rain we have had lets hope we get our slab down before the rain starts again.. We are keeping track of when the approvel has gone thur by the council website (planning and developing link) Its shows all the history on our land and whats been approved on it. Once its all been approved our slab should go down within 20 days!

Saturday, February 11, 2012

FIRST PART APPROVED BY JORDAN SPRINGS LEND LEASE

Yesterday Friday 10th Feb our plans got approved by Rebecca from lend lease she was very quick and onto it. It took a total of 5 working days and now the next step on Monday will be to send them off to our builders private certifier which can take up to 10 days. We are doing this instead of going to council as they can take up to 4 weeks. Anybody building a home knows its a very exciting process and you just cant wait to move in and the kids are very excitied aswel. My son wants to start building the house himself lol

Thursday, February 9, 2012

LUKE VRLJIC FROM TILE DIRECT AWSOME TO DEAL WITH

We had a choice to deal with Color Tile or Tile Direct and are so very happy we went with Tile Direct. Luke was so good and gave us some really good deals, we are very happy with the selection and they did everything to help us. We highly recommand them and its been the best part of building so far. Thanks guys for bringing some fun back into it for us and babysitting:-)

Laundry
upgraded black polished porc floor
white gloss cupboards
black benchers
black gloss splash backs

Ensuite/Bathroom
matt black floor
black gloss wall tiles
white/crome feature strip in shower
white gloss cupboards
white benchers

Main Floor
upgraded black polished porc

Alfresco
matt black floor

Porch
bluestone

Kitchen
upgraded black ultra glaze kitchen
white stone benches
white splash backs
upgraded mosaic black feature

we upgraded all floor drains to the ones with the tile


White kitchen splash back we decided to go 900 tile easier for cleaning and black feature glass tiles

laundry black splash backs with black benches and white gloss cupboards


black gloss wall tiles with white and crome feature tile stunning love it!
LUKE VRLJIC
1 STANTON ROAD
SEVEN HILLS NSW 2147
02 8801 2701
luke@tiledirect.com.au


POST CONTRACT ELECTRICAL VARIATIONS

We recieved the variations the other day on the electrical and havnt signed as yet, we were quite shocked on how much extra a tv point is. We need the extra due to the optic fibre if you want foxel you have to put 2 tv points in one for the tv and one for the foxtel box. We are short 2 lights an extra in the alfresco and a extra in the garage but might just leave these and do later and 1 powerpoint as they dont provide an alfresco powerpoint which i think every builder should as its a living area. We also moved our indoor gas point outside so no-more worrying about gas bottles for the bbq there was a small charge but worth it for the coinveance, 1 gas bottle wouldve cost more so happy with that. Overall theres enough powerpoints and we upgraded to downlights in living and hallway so theres enought lights. We got Elderton to do just the wiring in the piers as bunnings have great big bunkers with sensors for $50.00 each great buy as other lights shops can sell them at $149. One thing we wanted to do was move the electrical box inside the gargage but with the cost of it too much we found out our electrical company can come put a lock on it and only you and them would have the key so we are going to go with that option instead.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

EXTERNAL COLOR SELECTIONS

Friday 3rd Feb our plans got sent off to Lend Lease (Jordan Springs) for approvel by Rebecca it can take up to 10 working days for a response back the external colors we decided to go with are

upgraded roof tiles: vogue in gun metal
upgraded bricks: PGH Espresso with off white morter
upgraded render to piers: equal to surfmist

gutter in ironstone
faccia in surfmist
downpipes in ironstone
water tank comes in paperbark only
windows in wideline pearl white
garage door in surfmist
concrete driveway in gunmetal (we would've liked to do paved but no color was suited)






Tuesday, February 7, 2012

NEW TO BUILDING NEW TO BLOGING JORDAN SPRING

Today i thought i might start a blog. I call it my special online diary and i wanted to share it with you, we have decided to build with Elderton at Jordan Springs and i look forward to sharing the building process with you:-)