Gardens done so everything complete now! This will probably be it from me. I’ve enjoyed using this forum to see what everyone is up to and to get information. It’s…

House is looking great. Tenants move in on the weekend and the gardens will (hopefully) be done by then.
Boutique Homes have been fantastic. Realised they hadn’t rendered one small bit…

$16,000 in the end. More than I wanted to.

House is finished now. Looks really good. Fences and gates are done, gardens are being done and tenants moving on Cup Weekend. Phew!
By the way, gardening guy offered ongoing…

Update: I was aiming for 5-8 grand and I'm spending 16 grand.
It was hard to find people to do a quote, letalone the whole place…

Hi guys. Thanks for the advice. Stanus, I'd love to do it myself but I live overseas and can't get to Oz at the moment.
Other thing I…

Hi all,
Just finished building and grabbing the keys this week. Last thing I need to do is get the gardens read for renters. It's a 25 square single storey house…

It's finished. Hurrah! Gotta say I've been impressed with Boutique throughout this process.
By the way, doesn't anyone know any landscape gardeners in Torquay? Wanna get gardens done but…

Good idea for a thread. I've been building from overseas so have left everything to the builder and I think I might have gotten lucky because I haven't really had…

Hi Katehutch,
I'm happy to answer any questions as well as I can. If you like you can PM me and I'll put you on to someone who helped me…

I think it'll fit nicely on 14 metres. Ours is a 17 metre front and you can see in this pic how much space there is in the side, if…

Hi Clarissa,
I built in Torquay, Victoria. Happy for you to drive past and have a look, but won't be able to let you in as I'm not in Australia…

Just had the final walkthrough and got someone to do an inspection for me. Good thing, as they were very thorough. They found 28 items that needed attending…

UPDATE
Final inspection has been scheduled for next Thursday. I've employed people to go through and do the check for me and once that's done and any changes are made,…

Parents in law just drove past and took some photos. Front is painted. Wooden floor boards are down. Nearly there!

Hi all,
My house is nearly done and I'm just thinking about the back fence. I want to get a nice high one for extra privacy. I'm thinking 2100…

Hi all,
I'm just looking for recommendations for someone to do my garden on a new build in Torquay, Vic.
Thanks in advance.

Hi all,
Apparently our house will be ready in 3-5 weeks. I want to rent it out asap so I've started looking for a landscape gardener. Wondering if anyone…

Boutique reckons 4-6 weeks left. Has gone so quickly.

Thanks for the advice, guys. Yeah, I'm gonna do both and just emailed them to request it

I have been in touch with Darbecca, who have been very helpful. There's about 4-6 weeks left in the build and my options are a) do a "works to…

Getting there.

Thanks. Will get in touch asap.

Thanks for your responses. So do you reckon it's worth getting an inspection at this late stage, given that so much has already been done? Any recommendations on people to…

Hi all,
I've just received the bill for FIXING COMPLETE stage and am about to pay it. I haven't been in the country to do inspections (and wouldn't know what…

Great to hear it's going so well. I'm overseas and feel like I should get over there to check it, but in honesty, I wouldn't know what to look…

Thanks for the reply. We are building with Boutique Homes. 20th September, eh. Crap, that's soon. I'm thinking I should organise the landscaping so I can…

It seems to be going pretty quickly. So far, I've received the invoices on the following dates:
13 June - SLAB COMPLETE
19 July - FRAME COMPLETE
26 July - LOCK UP…

Just got the bill for FIXING COMPLETE. Seems to be chugging along very quickly. How long do you reckon I have left?

Haven't posted in a while. A few weeks ago, my parents visited the site and took some pics. It's now at lock-up complete stage.
It's estimated to be finished in mid-October.…