Beechwood were quick to send me a letter of achknowledgment of the defects and they called me earlier this week to say they were going to speak with the plummers.…

Hi Everyone - haven't logged into here for ages! Our house is going well. Still doing landscaping but its progressing well. Will post some pics when I get a chance.
We…

We have moved in but yet to put an aerial on. We are having Foxtel put on next Monday and that's all we really watch. When we get around to…

Looking awesome Ryalls! How good is ikea...I went today and spent 2.5 hours there. 2nd trip this month and need to go again in a few weeks.

Yay! Congrats

Looks awesome, love the bathroom!

Update on our issues - council are going to amend our DA for a $150 fee. Happy days!

The paint is taubmans Gemini silver and the tiles (the main tiles) are from the Tempo range in Charcoal from Tile Direct

Hopefully not. The funny thing is that councils interpretation of that condition is that ALL landscaping needs to be completed so back and front!! Quite obviously not enforced

We are trying to get it but our certifier won't issue it. Appletree grove does have conditions but there is no consistency with the conditions being enforced

My parter went in to council in person and it's being referred to a higher person. Our argument is their inconsistency with enforcing DA conditions. Why do other houses get…

My partner just out from council and its being referred to their senior building surveyor. Waiting now for the bloke who looks after the area we built in to get…

Here are some post hand over pics of our house though

They cant physically stop us lol. They can enforce the DA and fine us though.
Anyway, I had some tables due to be delivered today, no where to put them in…

Are you dealing with the Beresfield office? Does it have the condition I mention in your DA? She was pretty adamant saying we couldn't move in

that's my fear

I wonder what the process is to appoint another PCA?

Yep, these stupid Appletree grove rules...while its ok for others in the estate to move in, we cant becuase our certifier is a cow and council said they cant influence.

Yes its buildcert

Just got off the phone with council. They cant do anything and cant influence. They said its up to the certifier. Lookslike i'll be trying to appoint a new certifier.

lol Beechwood couldent give me a straight answer when I spoke to them yesterday. ahh so frustrating

I know..it's the way it should be but certifier won't even do that

This is the condition in our DA they are referring to. As I say, every new house that has been built in our estate has this condition, still people are…

The private certifier is saying it. Apparently it's illegal to move in without any occupation certificate and we can get fine for doing so. They said council need to put…

Yeah they have given us the keys but said we can't move in till we get the certificate.
I'm hoping for a resolution by tomorrow so we can move in…

Well got the keys yesterday. Still fighting with the building certifier about interim occupation certificate. She said I need driveway, front landscaping and front fence to get it because if…

Did you have any dramas with your interim occ cert Ryalls? We got our keys and still are being told by the certifier that we have to have driveway and…

We paid $1300 for all the nbn set up into a hills home hub and it included telephone and 3 data points. We did it direct through electrician

We had to remove our excess ourselves . It said in our contract it was our responsibility. Unfortunately it cost quite a bit as we had heaps to get rid…

We are off to get our keys tomorrow!!!
Will post some pics as I never got a chance to take any decent shots during PCI yesterday.