PCI and handover kinda
We had our PCI date Thursday last week. Nothing out of the ordinary, we had the right tap installed and the oven arrived also. However aircon and…

What we are doing post handover
Mainly to save money and reduce our mortgage we will be doing a few things our selves after handover. The house will be ready to…

Four more days till PCI
The last week has been relatively slow, tiler finished off grouting (kinda), the hallway closet was installed and we now also have shower screens installed. With…

We have a drive way!
Our driveway has been poured this week, which is the last thing that needed to be done outside.
It looks nice and clean and fits in…

So close to being done.
We are now in the final 3 weeks before handover which is just mind boggling. We have received a practical completion inspection date of November…

Tiles and paint work
The order in which a house gets built is a bit perplexing. We had the tiler out to do the wet areas, the skirting boards went down…

A few small updates:
Our bathroom cabinets have been delivered and installed. We chose to stick with the standard cabinets however added shaver cabinets. Our builder had two standard sinks one…

So I thought I'd write a proper update since its been a while:
We are now past lock up, we received our garage door which is a deco wood casuarina embossed…

Hi Annie, sorry its been a hot minute since I've updated. Work has been a bit hectic.
Its going really great we have now reached lock up. We also received…

Roof and Windows.
We had roof tiles delivered friday last week and by Tuesday the roof was done and today the windows went in.
They also did a lot of wiring…

Frame is up!
Our frame was nearly finished last weekend and now is completely done.
Suddenly the space makes a lot more sense and the ceilings seem increadibly tall.

Slab done:
Last thursday our site was prepped and ready for concrete, our site supervisor was nice enough to send this picture through of the prep work letting us know that…

We cut site this week!
After a lot of waiting our lot is now very flat. Seems a lot bigger than it was before it was cut.
Next week is…

Electrics / Aircon
From my understanding Hallmark uses an outside company to do this work for them and a consultant works out of their selection showroom on the gold coast. However…

We had to update our faceade to fit with our covenant, the covenant states that you have to have 3 different textures to the facade. The cheapest way for us…

Our plans and an explenation to our variations.
We didnt make a huge amount of changes to our plans, we got a sliding door/window in the master to open the…

Its been a while, we have spent the last month or two sorting finance and waiting for info on the HomeBuilder Scheme.
Sadly we signed our contracts before June so…

As a long time reader of other peoples blogs, I have decided to start my own. It might help someone else but it will also be a bit of a…