the hood

so, thought I give you a picture of our neighborhood. the best way i thought was through pictures - you'll soon see why.

The house with the fountain at the front of the house - Whow!

The contemporary house.

The park.

The house built on stilts. 

Ok house.

The AWESOME double story house with nice lights.

The house with the bunker windows

I like this house because of its awesome entrance.

Street view with a nice lamp

Still vacant. Nice cutting of the grass *thumbs up*

We've been circling the block for a while. At one stage there was huge rocks dumped here.

Neigbours

Neighborrs - I like the front render and bricks 

Neighbour too. Not yet complete. 

Slow and steady wins the race.

Nice.

Ta-Dah! Chocolate!

Further development on the land continues.....Here is what we saw today. TRENCHES!

Does this shape remind you of something??

Our 'overpriced piece of dirt' looking more and more like chocolate

Broken pipe

Pipes, Rocks and More dirt

We're watching the progress of the house and have been visiting the block almost every day since we've discovered that the fence was put up. Yesterday Chris found a new delivery of pebble/gravel thats laid on the ground to support the pipes that are going down under. 

Today, lo and behold the pipes are placed in the dirt (supposedly already connected to service??) and the red gravel above has been moved around.  It looks like that these pipes are quite high, so that may possibly mean that our house slab might just be on the same level as the neighbours garage. We'll wait to see and find out.

We also noticed that our next door neighbour has moved his temporary fence.

Image from the back end of the block

Theres also been small boulders scattered around the area - hopefully they dont find too many more so it doesnt delay the slab being put in. Either way, we've gone with a fixed site cost and any future rocks found will be dealt with Henley.

Who is z boss of this house?

I receive mail from the bank and Henley. Chris says its because the the 'primary' contact on the bank papers.

The other day, Chris got all the contract paperwork from Henley to his home address.

Today from the State Revenue Office (who granted the 20K), the letter was addressed to Krzysztof but it had my home address and I received it in my hot little hands today before Chris. We do not know...

But Chris resolves this for us today.

Jubie . says

WHO is da boss

dat is z question

Krzysztof says

u r 

im just treasure


**whip lash**

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, off the way we goooo!

Today we organised:

• Our independent inspector
• Asked for a copy of the building permit plan
• Got approval for the first homer's grant - masssive whooooo hoooo!! KACHING, KACHING!
• Spoke to our Site Supervisor (Paul) and queried the neighbours land which is currently looking like it is higher than normal. Essentially,  this looks like we may need to get retaining walls so the neighbours soil is not compromised (and so their house doesnt lean bcos of the low compact soil/height of our land). Hopefully this doesnt become an issue when the slab goes in (apparently next Monday - if things go according to plan).  You'll see in the picture below the different levels of the land.

The plan

Ma, the fence is ere!!

On Friday, 21 October, Chris and I decided to visit our block of land. 

Lo and behold a fence and port-a-loo arrived! In our utter amazement our hard working bumble bees had already scratched the surface of our land to ensure the soil and land was evenly distributed. Chris was in his hiking boots and walked through the fresh muddy soil and was a little wee excited and took a lot of dark photos (which I couldn't upload because they were not good quality - sorry babe).

We went back the following day in the afternoon, after a light drizzle and took some more photos (below). You can see the pegs where they marked off where our third garage will start, where our study and living will be situated and there's a section towards the back of the house where they trenched it deeper for the grand alfresco. 

Picture above: Where the grand alfresco will be.

Picture above:  

The cable for the fuse box has also been set up! 

Our neighbours double story garage.  It looks as though their house is sitting higher that our base ground. Im sure the engineers will attend to this  - just hoping it doesnt compromise anything. 

A couple of days before all of this, the house was pegged. The neighbours were overhanging on our bit of land but now all is ready for some dirt shuffling :) 

justice of the peace

We met a really cool JP today at the local police station. He was the best Ive ever seen in a long while. He took careful consideration of all of our paperwork, and was very inquisitive too. Turns out he use to be an engineer architect - boy did his knowledge come in handy :)

Shook the man for his time and service - it took him 1 hr to sign and certify the paperwork for the bank.

A big thank you also to my witness who signed all the legal bank paperwork too :)!

Now just waiting on the last building permit from the council - yee ha!

Hard Yakka

Dear Supervisor,

We have been working hard on the weekend and managed to clean up the whole block. Grass has been trimmed and rubbish removed. Photos attached

Cheers,

Got told to clean up

So today we got told to get the land ready and cleaned so they can commence inspection of the site so they can construct. It'll be back breaking, tears sweating kinda job to cut the grass that's knee high and removing 9 tyres!

We'll be sure to make it look as pretty as pie, like this

We have water!

Today we signed our contracts - there were so many documents to sign. There were 3 books (all about 100 pages each) that we had to sign and initial on every page and even more, there were two copies of everything too -  carpel tunnel syndrome.....!

More good news, we gave them the first stage cheque and of course, they were happy to accept.

Its now 7pm, and Chris just tells me the best news today. Because we havent been to our block for a while, we found it a massive surprise to see a water meter installed! So freggin awesome and so fast I tell you!

*Can you imagine us jumping up and down right about now?*



Whats next 


The water meter is the first step before they commence construction. *Tick*

Now we just have to get rid of all this rubbish on our land (overgrown grass and 9 tyres) before the builders can commence construction. Henley advise us that we can see a slab, frame and roof by November this year - oh my *big smiley face*

There is small amount of paperwork to finalise and thats the first homer's grant and that (hopefully) should be instant. *Kaa-ching  - thank you government!*

Lastly, just waiting approval from the council for our building permit!! Yeee-ha! Thank you melton shire council!

So Chris says we're practically married now, now that we've signed the contact. All I have to say is: LOL

Got the first cheque ready

Ouuuuu, contract day is in 3 days....got the bank cheque ready! :P