There isnt a great deal more I can really tell you. We have never had the pleasure of building, or buying for that matter, a home before. SPH did mention…

Hi Tarty,
That does sound like a long time to receive council approval. It does, however, differ from council to council. Our pre-start was easy going, only really took a couple…

Well pre-start has been and gone, and it was a very plesant experience. A little over 4 hours wasnt too bad. Its been a couple of weeks since then and…

Yay pre-start booked and less than 2 weeks away

Next exciting bit of news has happend for K and I. Sent of some required info and we have pre-start booked in a week and a half.

Soil testing today. We were happy to go for our evening walk and see 4 neat little circles of freshly turned dirt with bootprints.

Grats Tamamontu
K and I are happy to report that our welcome to SPH pot plant arrived today... it will go nicely near the window to keep the seamonkeys company …

Now we are waiting for our friendly 'welcome to the builder' letter with not much else to do in the meantime but post some stuff here. So here goes with…

Luckily we are looking at half the waiting time as we already have the land title. A hopeful 12 weeks was suggested - I think that means we are the…

Well there’s been a bit of time since anything has happened. Today we signed a prelimenary agreement with SPH and handed over the deposit.

Not much to say about paperwork at this stage, we are hoping to get pre-approval from the bank within the week. Once that is through we are ready to get…

Thanks Bec2010... the block is just a little over 700sqm. Appatently there is a promotion this month which also throws in one of those ducted vacuums and a wired alarm.…

Some great news today. Bank is offering a loan which is enough to build, and the deposit for the builder is ready and waiting

Ah so that can be sorted out at prestart, nice. CFLs certainly are a much cheaper option to go with. Just had a call to confirm our meeting and that…

Building in Canning Vale, a little down the road from Livingston Shopping Centre

Thanks very much Rex. We fell in love with the place as soon as we walked in the door, even before really seeing all the rooms. Just felt right.
A few…

SFC...
The floor does look great. During the homeshow a couple of months ago we had a look around with wooden flooring in mind. Ended up coming across Kempas which we…

Really enjoying comments in this thread. We are starting out soon with SP and some of our questions have already been answered, particularly lighting. It has been of particular interest…

I wanted to start something here about building our first home after having read some very useful posts on this forum. So a quick thankyou for all the wonderful information,…