Day 1 - Site Scrape

Our block is on the right of this path, they have put down some base material before they finish off the concrete footpath, the sun was out today a little chilly but I can imagine this scene in spring or early summer with the sun breaking through the trees, what a thought!

Today was the first day of our build, how exciting, I went and sat in my car and watched the 2 guys starting the site scrape, as you can see in the photo I did get out of my car and take some photo's around the block and I did have a chat to one of the blokes working (I think he thought I was someone who worked for Metricon, so I just played along), he mentioned that they would be done today, I had a call from Jarrod our builder and he mentioned that they had been there and completed the scrape (I didn't tell him that I went there and watched what they were doing, especially on the first day - stalker) and that the toilet and bin would be dropped off next week and also that the plumber would be in to do the pipe work. It is all happening and if it goes to schedule it should finish around Xmas eve, we might do lunch if that is the case!

Build Date

Well the time is finally here! we have been given a start date for our house, 16-07-2010. Just over 1 year ago we purchased our block and started the process of getting our new house built. So now it is time to drop in after work or before with the camera and start the Album.

Floor Plan of our house

I have added a floorplan picture of our house so that when it all starts it may make it easier to understand what room we are talking about. It is the Santorini 29 design with a few a few changes to the original design. The garage is at the back of the house, the dining area has been extended as has the master bedroom and we have added a walk in linen closest to hide all the crap Mel has in the house ( no its really all my crap!)

Rylie's Report

Hi It's me Rylie.Sorry that i have not typed much in the past few weeks.As you can see what dad has written there has been a lot happening.We went and had a look at the block of land,i did'nt hop out of the car because it was so muddy but i could still see houses being built around our land.Well see you next time.Rylie

Jarrod is Our Builder

I have put up our first photo of the block, I had a call from Jarrod who is going to build our House, we talked through the Marker situation and hopefully have that resolved. Jarrod has our house on his agenda to complete, he wasn't able to give me a start date but with all the action that we have had in the last couple of days I would say that next week may see some dirt starting to move. So hopefully the next photo will see some action. The next edition I will try and add Video.

Street coming together

The 2 pink stakes in the ground represent our driveway off Castlemaine drv, temporary fences have been put up on either side of the driveway.

Same as below only on the left hand side of the street

This Photo is from Eynesbury Rd looking down Castlemaine drv right hand side

While there checking site markers we took some photo's of the street, there would now be 10 housing being built. In Feb there was none now they are popping up everyday.

Site Markers

Now with the stake I hammered in. You can see our built side fence on the Golf course side.

Site marker is the sqaure peg and the spray painted line heading towards the marker.(this was all there I didn't spray the line)LOL

Call from Chantze about missing site markers on our block that we needed to get rectified before any work can start on our block. They offered to get the markers surveyed at a cost of $1099.00. I said, not a chance in hell are we going to pay to get these markers found. We went to the block today and found the Markers pretty quickly, our neighbours temporary fence had covered the markers so I took my hammer with me and put the stakes back in place. took photo's just in case they were required, i will attach some of the photo's.