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Jaycastle

Barossa Valley, SA
Joined 12 February 2015
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8 years8 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Today the bank did their evaluation and released my funds,
I went to the bank at 1:30PM, grabbed a bank cheque, this took a little while but after grabbing the cheque…

8 years8 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
How often do you visit your site?

We attended our site at least weekly for the first few months sometimes multiple times a week, we would have gone more if it wasn't a 20 minute drive, we…

8 years8 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Alright here is an update on the last few months which in short seemed to be turning into a nightmare, but it got sorted out very quickly when I mentioned…

8 years8 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Sorry about the delayed post, been super busy with work, I've hardly had time to go to the building site myself and Sarah has done most of the site visits.…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Alright so its been a long time between posts, and a lot has happened. Slab is down, septic is done, frame has gone up and its all moving along really…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Hi Claypot, just had a quick read through your build thread, I love the floor plan! Wish I was in a better financial situation to build something a little bigger…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Here is another update of what the block looks like now,
This is all earth works done with 50mm of quarry sand for the house pad.

We also received our the rest…

Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".
9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Still waiting on the variation report for the kitchen and carport doors, not looking forward to the cost

Progress was made over the weekend anyhow, myself and a friend who is…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Today I went and staked out where the house and carport sit on the block (as requested by a good friend preparing the house pad for us), also yesterday got…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

So went and did selections today, colours are as follows,
Exterior
Bricks (These are also far less yellow than the sample photo shows), Oyster
Roof & Gutters, Colorbond Monument
Garage Doors, Entry Door, Gables,…

9 years9 yearsJaycastleJaycastle posted:
Building our first home with Sterling Homes "Watervale 176".

Hi Guys,
So after going through this forum I was blown away by the amount of useful information present in regards to everything to do with building a home. In light…

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