We are nearly there. It is small things now. As we entered the house for the next set of things happening we noticed that all the tapware was in place. Also, the flooring wrt tiles and carpet had been done. The second coat of paint had started. We had chosen a different shade of paint... Continue Reading →
Week 27-30 Flooring, Plumbing and electrical fit off
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 →
Week 24-26 Stairs, Doors and First Coat Paint
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 22-23 WaterProofing and Kitchen Cabinetry
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 →
Week 8-12 Bricks
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 →
Week 2-3 Slab curing and external plumbing
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 →
Selections : Day-1-Kitchen
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 →
Selections : Day 1 – Tiles-Di Lorenzo
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 →
Builder Selection and Admin Process
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 →
Dream Home Journey- The beginning ..
Real estate prices in Sydney were already sky rocketting. Here we were like most of the first timers in the house market ,waiting for things to settle down or saturate. However having observed for a couple of years we decided things may not be changing much. Also we were paying someone else's mortgage. Instead we... Continue Reading →