The journey towards building our first home -The Majestic with Wisdom Homes in Sydney
We had a house warming ceremony of another friend close to where our build was happening. We decided to take a visit of our build and see the progress. To our pleasant surprise a lot happened since our last visit. All the bathroom flooring was complete. Ground floor tiles were also in place. The only... Continue Reading →
The stairs had been delivered and installed at the beginning of Week 24. That meant the carpentry work both upstairs and downstairs could progress. We skipped visits to the house as things were slowing down . We had been informed that the doors , door frames etc were being worked at. We had most of... Continue Reading →
Week 22 we had a call from the Supervisor updating that the waterproofing had been done and they were waiting on the stairs for the rest of the work to be commenced. Later on he called once again stating owing to the supervisor changes there was no communication initiated with the Stairs suppliers . 😐 ... Continue Reading →
We had Pre-lining inspections around Week19 and the report had arrived with a few defects.Some walls required straightening, balcony posts were not installed, lower gutter was not installed. We spoke to our Supervisor about it and he set aside dates to work on them. The Week 20 was when Gyprock was to be installed. We... Continue Reading →
As we progressed to Week 13 the upper level bricks were completed. We also saw that the upper Roof was installed . The structure of the house was all coming together. We also got acid wash for the upper level of bricks.The eaves for the upper roof had also been painted. The balcony... Continue Reading →
Week 7 was more of the long weekend with the Queen's birthday coming in. The bricks had been delivered however there was no work started till week 8. We had neighbors across the road who were like a pair of eyes to us . They mentioned to us about brick laying not getting started .... Continue Reading →
The slab was left to be cured for a couple of weeks. Also the external plumbing work was carried out. We got a progress payment claim invoice for the slab to be sent to the bank .We received a call from the landscapers for a quote for removal of the soil and leveling the land... Continue Reading →
I forgot to mention in the previous post that we had a short landscaping appointment just to chalk out a rough plan to be submitted to the council along with the construction plans. In our case the plans went to the Development Application Council and were approved within a surprisingly quick time period of 2... Continue Reading →
Our second day started at the W head office in Gregory Hills. We were greeted by our Colors consultant. We were already prepared with the the external colors. The brick was the main selection under external colours and everything else revolved around the brick. As stated in the previous posts we had selected a PGH... Continue Reading →
I was a overload of some really helpful information from the forums (forum.homeone) and a few other bloggers who were building with W. Almost everyone advised us to do a lot of homework and preparation prior to the selections. We had already selected our brick Vino ( as mentioned in my previous posts) and also... Continue Reading →
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