
Building a Doulton in Geelong
They asked me to remove the rubbish and the props holding up the fence. But there are lots of small broken tiles, lumps of concrete, pieces of timber, etc, and…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
I spent a couple of hours cleaning up some large lumps of concrete and pieces of wood, nails, etc on the block (had to break up the lumps with a…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
No, it didn't happen. Quickest? 16 months?
The start date we were given now is April 26th.
I complained that it was past the 21 days…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
I chased them up to nail down a start date, they said next week start! Woohoo indeed!
Finally, we've been waiting for this since January. 2020!

New here we are building the Doulton 56 with extension
Someone posted this question in the Metricon Home Builders group of Facebook, and this was suggested:

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Yeah, just in time for winter rain to wet all the timber frames and flooring!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
We have our building permit! Oh, now we have to wait up to 10-15 business days for them to start?

Building a Doulton in Geelong
We paid the 5% deposit on contract signing last November, so the only issue was waiting for building permit before the finance offer expires!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
It was 12 months allowance from Jan 2020, without price change.

Building a Doulton in Geelong
No price change, we already paid the 5% back in November.

Building a Doulton in Geelong
And just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water!
We have been advised our building permit has been approved, but.... wait for it....
Because we are building…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Finally got some information. It's the neighbour's consent that is required! Hope they don't object, it's taken us a year to get this far!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Still waiting for building permit, apparently the council is looking at report and consent required for set-back?
And they already approved the planning permit, so why the delay now? It's still…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Thanks! It's been a loooong journey! We paid or $1,500 deposit around November 2019, and with all the Covid stuff last year, it has dragged out far longer than expected!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Finally got all docs corrected to our satisfaction! Docusigned all, they will be passed to the Permits team next week, and maybe we will have some progress (finally)!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Finally got the tiles sorted out, all other documentation has been corrected, just waiting on the final variation doc and docusign for all of them. Hopefully we can get a…

Advise building with Metricon Fintona 37
We already had to change our island benchtop colour, as the Dekton colour we chose (in May last year) is now obsolete and no longer in stock in Australia!
And despite…

Advise building with Metricon Fintona 37
They told us that Beaumont's would contact us to make an appointment after the slab was poured.
Beaumont contacted us last week and booked us for Feb 11th, but we haven't…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Finally got the planning permit, now waiting for a building permit (they said 2-3 weeks).
Not sure what (if anything) will be done prior to Christmas shutdown period in January.…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Hope our view is a bit better than this low level one!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
@sparkyf looks great!
You've done well to get the approvals through, with big retaining walls and what looks to be about 1.2m fall across the building envelope. Great effort and good…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Finally got planning permit and approved plans. All the fuss for that green stamp! Paid deposit. Now we are in business, off and running, probably just in time for the…

Face masks
My wife makes masks, and she colour co-ordinates with her clothes for work!
If we have to wear masks (still, even with no Covid cases for 2 weeks here), then they…

KDR Customised Brighton Homes Jamieson
We might do something like that also, as we have a 1.7M retaining wall along the back at the easement!

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Moving forward slowly it seems!
Finance approved, valuation done.
Planning said we don't have to advertise, but they haven't approved it yet, waiting still.
That was the response after I rang them…

Building a Doulton in Geelong
On which price do they base it on? We added a lot of non-structural changes and additions, widened the garage, and added a balcony.

Building a Doulton in Geelong
Now we are at the waiting stage. Contract signed, submitted to bank. Planning permit submitted to council.
Hopefully everything will be approved.