The journey towards building our first home -The Majestic with Wisdom Homes in Sydney
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 →
Frames had been delivered at the end of Week 3. By week 4 we were happy to see some progress on the ground floor frames. Another week had gone by and the frames were going up pretty quickly. We saw some scaffolding onsite as well We also found our neighboring site was fenced and excavated... 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 →
We had finally left the admin behind. Bank approval came though and our LACC had arrived.It was time for our file to move to production estimating. The site was cleared and toilet installed. We had a Eureka moment looking at the below site(sight) 🙂 Once the site was cleared it was time for the... 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 →
Once the tiles were done we sped to an Aircon appointment with Ultra Air which finished fairly quickly. At the end of it we had upgraded to the ESP Plus module with 5 zones and a Wi-Fi based controller which cost us approx $5k. We had no time for lunch and had to do with ... 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 →
After booking our block of land we had some wait period till it got registered with the Council. This was the time for most people like us to do the builder hunt. Like most families who build a new nest in Sydney do, we were up for numerous round of display home visits. We had... Continue Reading →
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