The strange thing is that we haven't been notified, at all. Thank you. This is very interesting.

I am a little bit worrying about my neighbours who put their pool quite close to the boundary. 80cm to the to-be water line.
Blacktown council (NSW). Is it legal?

Nothing visually happens on our site by the way, we hope all activity is about internal finishing, kitchen and appliances.

We are building a smaller (if not smallest) Denison, we have a "concealed timber beam", I hope no C.J. will be there.

By comparing invoice numbers issued by head office towards our property I can conclude that in reality it is closer to 80 houses in construction by Casaview. I am playing…

meanwhile we received the 4th progress payment (internals are completed).

Congratulations. You are in the game now

There is no need for them to wait now.
You may check my blog for example timing, I cannot browse it now from mobile.

Tile is not bad at all. If we are talking about colours and patterns, not textures though. However for popular patterns there are choice of gloss matte and semi gloss.
Carpet…

Shouldn't be a big deal methinks.
BTW. When our inspector said he had never heard about Casaview, s.s. told him Casaview had 100 in construction at the moment. For comparison: Clarendon…

Is there boom now? I thought market has the same pace. And established property market is even cooler than 2013-2014

What I read myself and can remember, is this: http://bennelongatvillagesquare.blogspo ... dover.html

For our size of door Casaview only proposed the very expensive door. We have wider opening. So we went with muuuuuuch cheaper option (just standard door with small windows to…

Casaview started gyprocking on our site. Great progress, but, alas, will not be finished this year.
Yet there have never been such promise from them.

But does it make sense sense to make garage rolling door in wood? Or we are talking about the hinged door between garage and the rest of the dwelling?

We asked for quote for wider door in merbau.
4.5-5K AFAIR.

Our time line was:
beginning of Nov $10K
mid Dec initial plan
mid Jan - mid May variations (we have 20+ )
meanwhile in…

Nowadays everybody should go through the council, otherwise it is not possible to build a good thing (8m setback is an awful limitation).
But waiting time really depends on a council.…

Everything in the blog

The inspector explained why he did like the framework. And he said that whatever really required had been done well. As example of what is not required but some builders…

Also had a discussion with SS and the inspector about Graniteguard and T2 termite protection.
Both agreed that Graniteguard is doing all the job and T2 is more like an extra…

Mid-construction inspection passed. Yahooooooo!!!!

My "suspicion" was right. Yesterday we saw: they started to lay down all the tiles including lower roofs.
Pretty sure that at due date of the progress payment all will be…

Let's wait till Thursday and opinion of professional inspector
As of me, in general I do like it.
Joints are ironed. And for this brick they are…

Thank you.
Inspections will be with an independent inspector.

Sure! We did
As simple as $1000 per sq.metre But in Denison balcony results in big increase in size of bedroom.…

We are planning to invite an independent inspector for presheeting inspection. Could cost up to $800.
What do you think guys? Does it make any sense?

i see your frustration, i have the same thinking when comparing to the base costs of the house. There is like 100k of unknows and it hurts as costs are…

Well they typically send claims with ~2 weeks in advance to their due dates. And the due date is that day we must pay within 10 business from. Will they…

Our roof'n'brick officially done. Received the next progress payment.