Hi Carlswil, thanks for the comments, we are getting our floors done this week starting tomorrow so I will be posting some pics soon. Our gutters are Woodland Grey

WE HAVE KEYS AND WE'RE NOT AFRAID…

@ rockabilly Kid, have you signed of on the design yet? As I posted earlier the Lamont kitchen design is borked by Homestead. The fridge and pantry should be swapped,…

Hi Lee, our kitchen cupboards are the same as what's in their show room, Chocolate pear. The bench top is just laminate, Formica "Escarpment", can't afford the real stuff LOL.…

Hi Kyma, keep persevering but don't blindly persevere. The side bricks are Austral Settlers Grey with the front face brick being "King" something,I can't seem to find them on the…

Awesome stuff Jess,well done and congratulations. We are almost timed perfectly as we had our PCI last Monday and get the keys on the Monday the 8th of Nov.

Hey Lee and welcome aboard Nathan, we originally chose full strength Dulux Grand Piano but whimped out and went half strength. We get our keys on the 8th of November,…

Just a quick update, they started our bricking and we are happy, happy, happy. Now turn off the rain!!
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Sorry to hear Lee, we signed in January and we now have a roof 98% complete. Must be excruciating waiting, maybe approach the HIA or some other advocate body to…

It's amazing how much soil is "created" when the sewer trenching is done. Ours was done in two stages and in both instances the amount of soil blew me away.…

356 tonnes!! Whoa! Yep, I reckon you're going to get slugged. Soil removal costs vary a lot, I ended paying $3500 for 200 tonne and I'm not finished yet. I've…

Hi Laura, dare I ask which company, my demo company left part of a concrete path buried directly where the kitchen drain needed to go. Fortunately the path was 400mm…

Congrats MissyMc, we just had ours laid 4 weeks ago and to see it go down made for a great day. Our frames are going up as I type, I'll…

I got slugged another $455 for "stockpiling of soil", not happy. Tried to argue the case but got stonewalled. It was finally explained that because I'm on a narrow block…

Happy days in the midst of winter, congrats to the lucky few that are progressing well. We are all slabbed up with timber sitting on top waiting for the chippies…

We had our sewer dug in today and at some point our framing material was delivered, woot, no real problem except for the amount of excess soil from the sewer…

Don't panic yet, I'm building on a demo site as well, one thing that caused a delay was the crossover. In my case I needed to change the position of…

The 90 days actually starts from when the builder signs the "plain language" HIA contract, we signed on 18th of Jan but the builder only signed on 9th of Feb.…

We have a slab, all done done and dusted. I have to take my hat off to the concreting team 12 hour+ day, setting up…

We only had one soil test but the block was resurveyed to check the original bench and FFL was still OK.

All righty then, trenching done, soil removal almost done and no one needed tissues. Everything is looking good except for a potential clanger when the house was demolished, they left…

Thanks guys, I have a bloke who has given me a quote for 180 tonnes. My problem is the communication between the trenching contractor, the builder and me. When the…

Who here has organised their own soil removal? I am having an interesting time getting all parties talking atm, the left is not talking to the right and I'm stuck…

Woot!! Foundations started today, was meant to be this coming Friday. One week in front, muuhhaahhaaa.

Hey there everyone, I been a keen follower of this thread and most if not all of my posts have been made in the "Homestead SA" thread. Our project…

Hi Guys, we had our HS sign planted in front of our block today, it's too dark or too wet to take any pictures yet. We also recieved our first…

Hi there Lee75, at signup there is a clause that states that they 'the builder" must be "onsite" within 90 days and they reserve the right to review the quote/costings…

Hey there Rockabilly Kid and welcome to the forums, I'm a Lamont builder (rephrase that to funder) and as of right now I am looking at a in progress demolition…

We are about to demolish very soon, by the end of the month, we only got the demo approval through this week. We are using AC demolition, very good communication.
The…

Hi Lee, we had our first draft plans through about a week after we had soil testing done, after that we got a reality check with our footing costs. Give…