We've been busy settling into our new home so thought I would share some pics

We got keys! No (not so pretty) towels but we did get a reduction in variations which I much prefer.
Good luck to all this moving over the break, we…

NJC I would be asking for the variation to be complete before you sign, even if you have to sign both at the same time it is safer this way.
We…

Redwynne our main concern was the variations they charged us without approval and some things not even telling us about and just getting an unexpected invoice at the end. We…

Congratulations Mgardz!!!

I agree, we've had a really bad time as well. It's taken the excitement out of moving into our first home.

MGardz I love your blog, I wish it was compulsory for every customer to read it before signing

Had another inspection with SS yesterday and we now have a date for keys! Carpet is going in next week along with fly screens then handover an appliances on the…

Just check your bill to see if it says they read the meter or if it was an estimate. We got a $350 bill but turned out it was just…

Wow that's terrible Joel

Yeah they itemised the invoice broken down into their invoices and their builders margin.

Redwynne our final invoice was a lot more than contracted. We were told $6.5k variations during build but we were invoiced $12k variations. The additional was rock- we only got…

What stage are you up to Elizabethhills2013?

We haven't had any work for weeks either, they must til after PCI.
Those that have received their final invoice has anyone received unexpected variation amounts?

"We just want to be done with Masterton"
Couldn't agree more cassynunn!

You must not be far from moving in Joel! You'll have to update us with some pics.

Well PCI was booked for Today but we asked to move it until next week so we could have a building inspector attend with us. We were persistent with asking…

I think it's 20 working days from your validation date.

So our SS Says he's going to be doing his own walk through tomorrow and if all goes well we could have PCI this Friday.
Any tips from those before…

Are you Lake Macquarie council S-VE? We are and ours was painfully slow, it took 10 weeks because they had to make some changes during the process and get an…

Someone broke into our building site and stole the left over boxes of tiles. A holes!
In other news SS Said he should be able to give us a date…

So happy for you Shell, hoping we aren't too far behind. Can't wait for your pics!

Cello Mahm I would say 6 months from 13th may (after the 20 days) so 13th November plus any public holidays and if they have claimed rain days.
Michelle our…

Redwynne ours started Feb this year. First tender was May 14 and signed contracts August 14. When did your build begin?

Marina generally we call the ss for updates and that just depends on how much work is happening. Generally if we get a phone call something needs running by us.…

Fingers crossed for you shell!

Oh and we were told by our ss we can't be given an end date yet because they are having trouble getting someone to build our few steps at our…

Very slow progress for us at the moment but our garage door is in which is the most exciting thing to happen in a while so here's a pic.
We're…

That's our WIP, hope it helps.
Congrats on the keys BB!

Villinaelitres you are so right... Just went through my colour docs and yep, It does say "M special- overlapping vanity doors to powder room"... They have also charged us for…