Love your wood-look tiles. We went with the blackwood plank tile https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/ ... 8633_o.jpg but they didn't give us a choice for the grout…

My neighbours are getting quotes from others as well. We will just compare each others and go with the cheapest
The only comment I would make is to check about the…

Initially we were with Origin, but when we got the panels we switched to Diamond because they offer more for the power sold back to the grid (although only for…

Thanks for posting that!

We're looking to put a concrete border around the back and side of the house where the utilities are. If anyone has a recommendation I'd be happy to hear…

We asked about weather-stripping before we moved in and the site supervisor said they didn't do that. Luckily it isn't that expensive or difficult to do - and with…

We had the same thing - a complete pallet of bricks vanished from our lot and we had planned to use them for the mailbox. According to our builder,…

Question for any Vodaphone users who are building or have built at Brooks Reach - how good of reception do you get on your phone? You can PM me…

We're finally getting our yard laid! Which should be the last major thing - so it's taken us almost 2 full years from when we started talking to the…

This is the first house I've had with a walk-in pantry and I love it - but it could be bigger! (or maybe I just need to have fewer kitchen…

We went with Exetel. Because our work also has them as a provider, we get a $5/month discount (which covers the cost of the voip phone service we also…

A welsch corgi. It seems like a very dog-friendly neighbourhood.

I thought I recognized that house - confirmed when I took the dog for a walk. We're just down the block from you, same side of the road.

Yes, we were initially a BAL40 but when final approval came back we'd gone to 0 as well. It certainly saved us some money, but we kept some of…

Congrats on the impending key transfer. Beautiful house, and Wow, that's a lot of kitchen.

I'll agree that if you leave the rainwater toilet sitting for a while it will seem a little more cloudy or settled out than tap, but if you clean them…

We've really enjoyed ours, which surprised me because we've had patios before when we rented, but I didn't spend much time on them. I think I've grilled out and…

We went with standard ceiling height but in our last house we had a vaulted ceiling. The extra head space does help the place seem a bit more grand.…

With Clarendon, they had partners for a lot of those finishing touches and if you went with those partners, they could go in and get it done before handover. …

We were stage 6 and land registration was a good 6 months later than we originally expected and then the build process ("6 month"), with delays and what they count…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mending_Wall
Robert Frost "Good fences make good neighbors."

From what I've seen a lot tradies use the holiday break to schedule smaller jobs that they can bill directly. I know for us it's been a bit of…

This won't affect any of us, but just think how much time (and cost) it would shave off the process of building a home in the future.

Just wanted to throw out to people thinking about getting/upgrading a wireless router with their NBN. They still sell a lot of "N" wireless routers, but you probably want…

I was a little disappointed with our electrical options. They seemed outdated. Since we knew we were going with NBN, we planned on not getting an old type…

I've seen them doing a lot of painting around the back of your house, I'll have to take the dog for a walk around the block and get a better…

With as much rain as we got last weekend I don't think there is anyway we could have avoided the abundance of water. It will help a lot when…

I will do my best to keep an eye out. (I've put some temporary covering over most of my office window until the curtains I've ordered arrive, but I…

The first phase of the most important aspect of our new house happens today - NBN