Whew, handover happened without any issues and the house is fantastic now madly packing and doing odd jobs around the house before the tilers come…

Our kitchen bench is caesarstone ice snow, cupboards are laminex polar white silk finish, bar back is laminex white ash silk finish and the splashback is integral glass "Thriller", we…

We used the same colour as the rest of the house, taubmans gemini silver. Waiting to see how dark it is with the cavity sliders and blackout blind closed then…

Congrats balified on handover:)
Our place is almost finished now, just the shower screen in the main bathroom and flyscreens to go. The site is being cleaned on monday and…

Good to hear it went relatively smoothly, hopefully everything gets sorted out in time.
What changes did you make to your pantry? I ask because we had some issues with our…

I'll make an album and post some photos next week, out of town until then so I can't post any earlier.
On the house front we got given our handover date…

woo, our painting is finished, just tilers, plumbers and electrical to go.
I also had to get the gas isolation switch, and was told the same thing about it being…

Yeah, i'm glad we were able to get on site during the week last week or else we could have been looking at some serious delays. I spoke to the…

Welcome to all the new people in this thread
Our benchtops went in on monday last week, with all our trim being finished off on tuesday.…

Good to see everyone progressing in this thread
I thought i'd give an update on our build since it's been a while since i've made a…

well things have been progressing well with our build, week 3 down and frames are up and windows and sliding doors are installed. Got a call from my SS yesterday…

Just met with my site supervisor today, block is set to be cut on tuesday, plumbers coming on friday and piering and slab being done the week after with frames…

Woohoo, we are on the construction list. Not long now

I'm tiling my floor after handover, and if you look closely at the mcdonald jones display homes in waterford county, they've laid the skirting then tiled afterwards(i took a tape…

After my post yesterday we got the welcome message that our DA has come out of council today, which was nice and quick, we were only in council for 3…

Good to see everyone progressing nicely and without *too* many issues.
I'm still in council at the moment, had electrical selections yesterday, didn't go over budget which is a nice…

I had a solicitor look over it, his advice was basically that unless you really have your heart set on changing something it's not worth it as it'll be extremely…

Finally our contracts have been sorted! Just waiting on the developer to provide owner approval to submit the DA since we haven't settled on the land yet and we should…

An update from us, we are basically at a standstill while waiting for the finance to be approves, contracts are with the bank for valuation, we've also been informed we…

Ah, cjamum beat me to it. Cost us $750 to have it ducted to atmosphere, though we were originally told $790, didn't mention it to them when they gave it…

They said the only options were to atmosphere or recycled into the kitchen. Did you have to pay to get it ducted into the roof space?

thanks for the responses re: CDCs vs DA, for those who did end up having to do a DA, what were the main reasons you didn't qualify for the CDC?

Quick question for all those who are already past the council stage, how many of you were able to apply for a CDC rather than a DA? Is it something…

how high is your fence? i was just reading about exempt development and it reminded me of this thread. Here's what NSW legislation says in regards to satellite dishes.
Subdivision 12…

We're hoping to be in by then as well, just depends on how long it takes for them to get the building agreement together and for council approval.
Did you change…

Awesome, I knew we were one of the first to build it, loved the layout of the kitchen meals and living areas. When did you get your initial quote on…

we were considering engineered wood to begin with but it was far too expensive, we decided on 600x600 porcelain tiles which are costing us $30 per m2, and we are…

Just got quotes on flooring and we came in $4000 less than what we had allowed for in our budget, a nice change so we will be able to spend…

So how much is your's going to cost if you don't mind me asking? is it on a relatively flat area? how many square meters it is?