Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Builders!!

This is the state of our block courtesy of the builders next door. We have spoken to them and they will fix the crossover and remove the rubbish. All we have to do is to email them the pics and contact our builder to see when they would like the crossover to be done...before or after they build our place.....personally i'd opt for before.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

We have Holes...!!!

Some of our lovely neighbours to be let us know that yesterday we had holes bored in our block....after all the hassles we had last week we just couldn't believe it.

So here Ladies and Gentlemen is a pic of one of our holes..ta dah... we have 3 holes approximately 1.8m deep. Yay!!!


Friday, December 18, 2009

Soil Update...

After numerous unreturned phone calls and unanswered emails, I went down to Porter Davis this morning to catch our CSC before she went into meetings.
Don't think she was too impressed to see me there at that time of the morning but stiff...told her i was there because she hadn't responded to us and that we had to resolve the issue of the soil or non soil testing.
Pointed out to her that the only real issue we had was with the report on what they had found in the soil cores.....how can you do a report when you haven't done the cores?...

And that we didn't want to be held up in getting our house started, that was when she dropped the bombshell that we weren't starting till mid February...Shit a brick...we had previously been told that we were starting in January...okay so its only two weeks later but that doesn't help Tony who when we move into our new house will now have finished his holidays....he cant change them again as there is now no time available the weeks have all been filled.

In the end we agreed to have a 3rd (2nd?) test done by a different company, if the results come in similar to the phantom test then we will have to pay for the testing but if they come in different then PD will pay for them. We wont be penalised for not starting in Jan...just as well as its not our fault.
So, come the New Year we will have a new soil test done, PD will finally order our building permit, final plans will be drawn up and maybe, just maybe we can get this house started.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009

Grrrrr....

According to our builder we have had our second soil test done...when was it done?...last Friday according to the report she has...funny thing is that there are NO holes bored into our land. Same thing has happened to another couple also building with our builder at our Estate.

The company contracted to do the holes have filed a report saying that we now will need piering as alot of fill has been put onto our block....hmmmmmmmm, think they are saying that cos when they did the first test there was alot of dirt sitting on top of our block, but our block was being used as a stockpile for the dirt before it was being distributed to other blocks.

Not happy!! If we need piering then good, but to say so when they haven't done the testing is rubbish. So it makes you wonder...how many times have they pulled this stunt before....we have to pay for the second test, our builder will be paying the company for the testing...who's getting money for nothing here???

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Taps...

Yay!! We have taps........but our site start still isn't until late Jan 2010. We paid to have our taps moved to the other side of the block so they wouldn't end up under our driveway.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

House

the block and house pegged out, taken from top of the dirt pile (Mt Berner) in the park.








Block with house shaded in. Looks sooo big.