We have been busy, but here is the latest update on our home. It has been VERY slow going. The two story which was a few months behind us is…

YAY brick work has started yesterday. And we finally have a meeting with our site manager next week.

YAY we have bricks finally!
4th April 2014
But there was a lot of bricks falling out of the packs, seems very careless!
Plus a lot of damage to the pipes on…

We have a slab!
27th Feb slab has been down for a couple of days
6 March Plumbing for upstairs in
Not much else has happened still.
A lot of houses around have all…

YAY! FINALLY we get a response from Switch. Our site works 'should' start on the 13th Feb. The lady at Switch didn't seem to happy with us continually asking when…

Hi mlb,
I love the big scullery. I really wanted to have a bigger one but it just wouldn't work with the plan of our house.
We have build before and its…

Hi mlb, No we didn't get a slab down before Christmas! Not happy.
Our prestart took almost a month too with quotes, things missed of plans, etc...
I'm hoping it was…

Thank you Felicity, Storage was one of our major needs. With 2 kids we need somewhere to store all their toys ha ha ha

We are almost finished with prestart. Longest prestart ever! Switch aren't very organised bunch of people. But we are almost at the end (I hope) deposit already paid by the…

We are currently living in the old section of Hammond Park, we built here 9 years ago. But the new house is in Eden Green, stage 6A.

Hello Felicity,
I wish it was happening! We are still stuck at pre start! Waiting on prices for some items so we can sign off. Paid our first deposit already so…

We have finally signed with Switch.
We negotiated with them for sometime and managed to gain some inclusions for free. More then we hoped…

Had our latest appointment with Switch. All seems good.
Haven't heard back from any of the other builders that were going to send us their plan of what we are…

Land can take awhile to sell here too. Depends on location, distance from the city/beach.
Hammond Park is on the free way to city, only land available on the freeway that…

I was one of those silly ones who camped out on that land sale release.
There was only 2 blocks at 638 and 700 sqm, most were after those. Its the…

This is going to be our second build in Hammond Park! We need to upsize the house, with two little terrors, we need somewhere to store all their toys!
Our first…