Thanks,
I have them all filled out ready to go because I think they will be trouble.

That would be nice but who knows in each council?
So other half had it out with the Dad next door yesterday and explained our situation very clearly to him. In…

Sorry late to this one, but I was the same. I have that silly sterling colour (swear its pink) and i cant wait to repaint the whole house.
I chose…

So a little update....
I made council come at meet me and they said yes you need a retaining wall but they cannot enforce this but would send the neighbours a…

Yep, we had our place stop work for 4 weeks before they got back to us and told us they had fired our site supervisor and we had a new…

hey Keykens,
Sorry I know I havent updated for AGES! still around but mainly snooping hehe.
All going ok, front yard has been completed and now pretty established. Had all the…

wow things are moving along nicely. you have chosen pretty much the same fittings as us (not that sterling have much to chose from).
Hope they give you a walk…

I was hoping for some advice regarding a major issue we are having with our next door neighbours.
We completed our build in August 2010 and our neighbours to 1 side…

Congrats with the movement, things can move really quickly then stall which is the issue we had but had to do with the incompetent site manager we had 1st up.…

Hey Keykens,
We built with sterlings 2 years ago. We built the caufield which is nearly identical to the one you are building. We love our house. Although we had a…

Hey all, yes we have been also warned about this also. Luckily we have not had them steal from our yard but our yard is pretty established now and our…

we left ours bare (in our plans) but as grom40 said you do need 1 row of tiles just behind the hot plates to comply (thats in SA)- this was…

ours are on the architraves, i was the same at 1st but used to it now and doesnt bother me as i dont get dirty finger marks on our nice…

We asked but got no where with them. In the end we understood and will be doing it later in the picture (been in for 6months now). It is possible…

Sorry to hear about your dramas. We have handover in August as well and still have items from PCI still to be finished. Our sliding doors and windows have been…

Wow thats a lot, i dont know what you can do otherwise. We have 3.2 meter ceilings through 80% of the house. I absolutely love it, makes it so open…

all houses in the estate needed to be split level. Although it was not in the land documentation nearly every house got stung as soon as it went to council.…

OMG how horrible. We need to contact them as we have had some substansial cracking in the front door and all the window ledges and general joinery in the house,…

We were quoted from our builder about $2000 but decided to do it all ourselves. In the end we actually kept all the soil at the rear of our block…

We have large moss rocks piled on the 2 vancant blocks either side of us waiting to be put on the 2 houses on 2 other houses who are retaining…

Not sure sorry. Sorry Im absolutely no help hehe

Sounds about right.
We have just had our phoneline installed on Friday, but we were luck as DP's father works for Tesltra so he did the whole trench (took about…

OMG vacuuming. Im the same im sick of vaccuming or sweaping. dont thing DP has picked up the vacuum cleaner since we moved in.

Just realised I havent posted on my own thread for over a month oops.
Well we've been in for a month now and slowly getting…

why did you have to say that? I HATE SNAKES!!! Im with your wife on that 1. I wish our neighbours would cut their grass as its waist high and…

put the bubbly on ice so its nice and cold for when you open YOUR front door! YAY FOR HANDOVER SOON!!!!

I would def be sourcing more. You dont want 1 to crack and cant get the same tiles again. I have about 5sqm left over of mine (had to purchase…

I have been looking at this as well, we have been in our house for 3 weeks now and already have had our white grout in the kitchen discolour due…

Hey dont worry too much about it, where u are you might be ok, maybe speak to your neighbours? Is there much of an incline on your block?

Nah split level was not planned, a big shock when we got the refusal from council. Love the split now though makes the house very different. Also increased our ceiling…