OH NO WHAT NOW BANKS!!!!!!!!!

So we are all set to go to site and what happens the bank! It was suppose to take a few days for the final construction approvel to come thur but its turned into 17 days so far and still waiting! So now the 20 days to go to site has to start from the date the bank decides to pull there finger out of there a** its a joke how they play God and blame someone else! 20 days is alot when you are building and dont have a home and your family is split up! Its been great weather for a change perfect for putting down a slab so i hope the rain stays away. Im sure most have had bank problems and its exspected.

ALL APROVELS AND CONSOLIDATED PAPERS SIGNED GOING TO SITE!

We signed the consolidated documents today and going to site in 20 days! So excited as not much has been happening just waiting for all the approvels to come back, there were a few mistakes but easy fixed. It pays to pay attention and read everything as we did over a nice brecky at rouse hill today the weather was great and hope it holds out for us. The excitement of building our home is coming back, after the paperwork dragged on i thought we were never going to get started. we spend 21k over budget we aimed for $215,000 with a cut off at $220,000 but ended up being $236,000 so easy to do and still we have to do fencing, letter box, clothes line, grass and the pool or spa! We figuered once its built we cant change it and most of eldertons standards were old style things or cheap things, we should of looked further into it but didnt think building a new home you would get dated features. I guess its good if your on a budget and dont care but not good if you like modern. few eg were all cupboards linen pantry were cheap wire shelving not good for a pantry if you have any spills, we had to upgrade to melamine shelving. Bathroom sinks we upgraded to the bowls that sit on the bench rather than the molded standard ones as i wanted to choose bench colors. we wanted a black gloss kitchen that wasnt standard and the kitchen appliances was another upgrade as the ones that were standard were in our 30year old home we just sold so we didnt want that again. Overal we did get discounts and other things put in at no cost but we paid for them in other ways, as nothing is for nothing. Looking forward to posting photos soon xxx

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.

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!

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

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.