Hi MP,
Did you increase the ceiling height for your first floor? As I can see from your pic, you have 2 row of bricks between your windows and the roof…

You are correct ! they will remove some part of the upper flooring board.

Congrats to Mel and MP
Well done:-)

We do not have restricted site boundary access - we have approx 1.8 m each side.
Before construction, our next door neighbor ’s phone line was running across our land,…

Hey GFdo,
Are you building at new site? knock down and rebuilt?
Thank you for checking, I will talk to SS tomorrow regarding the extra charge for the crane.
I think it's unfair,…

I am getting the last variation so that can issue me the final invoice before handover. Can you please check your contract in the Provisional section?.

Question for everyone, Did Clarendon charge you extra for crane hire to unload materials on site (frame)? They charge me over $1000, these cost is coming surprise !!!!!

Hi Mel,
Our bricks work took almost 7 weeks to completed, we also have 2 brickies and one assistant they are from wollogoong.
Am so existed cannot wait to see the…

Hi Mel,
Fully understand how you feel, we also have face brick too and it tooks 34 working days to finished.
Anyway, our PCI is next Thursday and HO on 29th-OCT. I…

If your trees are more than 2 m tall, you need council approval to cut them. Please check with your local council before remove them.

Hey MP,
You are very lucky, that you have so many brickies working on your job. For my there were only 3 people and it took almost 6 weeks to…

Don't worry too much hope there will be a couple weeks of sunshine and strong wind before the roof is covered up.

In regarding to the landscape - I would suggest to contact PCA for their requirement they are the one who will issue to OC. Do what else they requested.
The other…

Does any one know the disadvantage to directly glue tiles on the slab?

No, I have a nice tender officer, she provided all the required information. The only thing I don't like about C. they advise us not to worry about the landscape…

Thank you we are having brick facade.

Question for those who completed their building, at which stage would be the best time to contact Telstra to connect the phone?

We put a lot of focus in the Kitchen/Meal/Family room and rumpus, most of our spare time will be round these area.
We are using Austral Whitsunday range - Keswick and…

Hi Mp,
Happy for you too to see the frames go up The frames process only takes 5 working days in a good weather.
My latest updates…

Does any one know if C will install Power meter and connect the house to the electric grid as a package? or we nedd to organise ourself after handover?

The rumpus on ground floor (we added rumpus option).

Yes we have a drop edge beam due to council requirement. No photo just yet will take some over the weekend.
I am very disappointed, C used timber infill for…

Congratulation Meatpie - You finally got a slab.
New updates - finished plastering and doors are installed

Went to the site today, all roof are fully covered and scaffolding is down. Electical, air cond and waterproffing wet area complete.

What is BOM?
If I understand you correctly, then am I expecting to have my key on 24-Sep (150 days + 2 week of running date) since I signed my contract…

The site excavated on 23 of April 2010.
Yes I have asked them but they could not provide me with a date until all roof are fully covered.
We have…

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It's almost 2 weeks now since the first level roof is covered and the ground level is yet to be covered. Just wondering does it…

I am so happy roof is covered for the first level. The SS advised the ground level will be covered and scafford will be remove…

I am so happy roof is covered for the first level. The SS advised the ground level will be covered and scafford will be remove…

Would you recommend bamboo?