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…

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…

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…

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!

Someone posted this question in the Metricon Home Builders group of Facebook, and this was suggested:

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

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

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

It was 12 months allowance from Jan 2020, without price change.

No price change, we already paid the 5% back in November.

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…

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!

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…

Which part of Geelong is this?

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!

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)!

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…

Surfmist

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…

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…

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.…

Hope our view is a bit better than this low level one!

@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…

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…

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…

What about these then? Genuine Italian fabric!

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

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…

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.

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