Looking for some guidance here please, this is an area I know nothing about.
Stormwater to the street, is this something you can do yourself?
We have been quoted quite a hefty…

After 26mths of being messed around by our builders, we are pulling the pin. Contract had not been signed, but we had council approval. We do not wish to…

We are saying goodbye to our builders today. After 26mths we have had enough of all their bulldust.
At the very least we should have a slab down, but they…

Nothing to report, sorry
We have just amended our contract as were weren't happy with a few things. So, waiting to get that back. We did our colour selections…

the colling off period (2 days) finished last week.
I rang and questioned this with the Agent and he explanied too me, they will remove ad and put for sold…

Yes, contract has been signed by both parties

Is it common to still have ur house listed on the Internet and also For Sale sign out the front, if a contract has already been signed?
Settlement for us isnt…

Sorry to hear about your house Tamsin. I have been watching ur blog incase you were posting there and not here. Just over 2yrs for us and we…

Inc of our 25k is an allowance of 5 - 10k for rock, as we are in sheidow park, very slopey block (8m top to bottom). We have…

Good Luck
We went to our block yesterda,y and it seems the neighbour behind fancies our block as his rubbish dump.... car parts…

The quote for our footings is 25k, but we have noticed there is nothing in our contract to mention this. Now we are worried that they will try and…

Is anyone getting termite treatment with their new house build?

We have just received our contract.
Should we be concerned that there is no mention of siteworks/footings?
The contract only mentions cost of the house, it does not inc (as per our…

Sold our house today, pretty stoked and we can live in it until our new house is built... Which is even better...... No moving... Yay!

I will keep you posted...
We just got our plans back from council after 3mths, so hopefully soon, full steam ahead.
We went through the Victor Harbour one.

We are building with GJ Gardner
They have quite a few franchises in SA
Mt Barker, Victor Harbour, Holden Hill and another in the Northern Suburbs
Good Luck!

Yay!!
Today in the post we finally got building approval from Marion Council.
3/9 - 11/12

Tamsin what colour bricks are u using?

Finally heard from council, plans lodged 2nd Sept...
They want us to change our plans, either move the house back or make the height on lower floor higher. Shame it…

We need colour help please...
Austral bricks, looking at a cream.. more whitish then yellow thou
Urban Range
Now here is where we are just can't decide
Colourbond roof, do we go light brown…

Hi Mrs Smith
We bought a sloping block in Sheidow Park, thinking nothing more then the nice price we just paid, which would now allow us to spend abit more on…

Has everyone gone for the rendered look?
We had hoped too, but our footings are going to come in at 35k, so no money will be left. Everywhere we drive…

Hi all,
My name is Dena, 2 children 10yrs & a almost 3yo
Building in Sheidow Park.
We signed up with GJ Gardner Homes Dec 07, our plans are currently with Marion Council…

We NOW realise that everything we discussed with our Building Consultant, really stood for nothing. Our excitement over building our house and her agreeing with everything simply made us…

Our local council has had our new house plans since 2 Sept.
I do realise that all councils are different, but is there roughly a standard time it should take?
I contacted…

Sheidow Park..
Plans are still with council unfortunately, since 2nd Sept.
First time builders here.
So far it has been a little dragged out, but from our behalf too, as we are…

We are in Adelaide and have just signed up with GJ Gardner.
So far so good
Fingers crossed