Crushed...... Rock?

I received a call from our Csc today to check how we were going with our final plans and to tell you the truth they were pretty good we only had 2 problems with them and they have been fixed :)

Also she rang to tell me that our site supervisor has been out to the block( no name yet) and has said that we need Crushed rock on the front of our block to provide better access to the site as it is really soft, we can either do it ourselves or get metricon to do it for a fee of $850(are they serious) well it seems they are so i have rang some company's and got a quote for 10m3 of crushed rock which is what they are saying we need( Tristan thinks this is quiet alot as its only for the front of the block) i have been quoted $44.60 per m3 delivered which sounds pretty good to me and Tristan and he's work boys will laying it down so either $446 to do our slefs or $850 for metricon to do, i think we are going to do this our selves.

But this is not the only thing that our new site supervisor has said, he has also said that there are no pegs in which is a load of bullocks because we went looking for these only a couple of weeks ago, no they are not easy to find, but they ARE there, so we will go out to the block tonight to make these a little more obvious (i intended to take a bright yellow spray can with me, there wont be no missing them then) :) If they were to do a re-establishment survey it would cost $1190.

Kate said that we will be at site next week, and if not at least the week after, but i am not holding my breath.

Progress

I received an email yesterday afternoon from my Csc with a copy of my final plans and letting me know that our building permit was applied for yesterday, finally some progress!!!

Cold feet... and i dont thinks its because of the weather!!

Why is it that once something is locked in, I get cold feet about our choices, although we have signed and excepted our colour choices sooo many times on Friday i signed it off for the last time before "ordering". Its the windows i am worried about but only because when deciding Tristan and i didn't agree on this and i won out with a little bit of help from our Studio M colour consultant with surfmist against he's preferred choice of black, As we are having such light bricks, nearly most everyone i have seen has put black with this brick and this is also what Tristan wanted, but i just think it looks a little harsh, keeping in mind that the front of the house windows and door frame will not have any effect in  this problem because they are all merbu timber, and so are the bi-parts in the kitchen/family, so the window colour will only be seen from the side of the house and on the inside, the inside does not bother me at all because our walls are all very white and i think the surfmist i have chosen goes well!! Am i stressing about nothing or does everyone agree with Tristan and think black would have been the way to go? Also keeping in mind, the gutter/roof tiles are monument and the fascia/downpipes are classic cream, to many colours??

SETTLEMENT FINALLY!!!

We had settlement today!! Only 5 days late but done!
We had a little problem last week something wasn't filled in properly, to do with the Fhog, which was the finical adviser's mistake so we didn't settle last Thursday and we have incurred a fee for not doing so, tho the adviser will be reimbursing us this (which we have in writing).
So exciting its ours now :) 
Hopefully we will be on site as soon as possible!! 

Water Thief's!

Tristan and I decided to go down to the block yesterday as Janine has been speaking about her lost pegs and it got my thinking, do we have Pegs?? and if we do where are they?? Well anyway once we got down there we did find our pegs with a little bit of searching! But when we first arrived, we had a lil surprise hose connected to our  new taps!!! Well i was not very happy it seems that the couple of house across the rd decided that since we have taps on our block why not use them?? Tristan check the water meter which read 1035!!!! So after a little discussion we decide to
1) Take the handle off
but knowing tradies (Tristan being one him self) I didn't think that this would stop them they would prob just find a way around it.

2) Off to bunnings to buy a padlock
Tristan turned the water off and we padlocked it so unless they cut our padlock which we are hoping they don't do, they have no way to steal our water now

So what does everyone think?? Will this work?? Are we actually aloud to do this even tho it is ours?? and do you think it will actually stop them??

I plan on getting in contact with Kate(csc) tomorrow morning to let her no what we have done, and also the padlock we brought is a  number padlock with a code, so if metricon go out there all they need to do is have the code and they can unlock i will give the numbers to Kate tomorrow!

We have TAPS!!!!

We went down to the block yesterday and found a nice lil surprise on our block, we have been tapped, and the first in our stage too, i think this is a good sign!!!

                                                                 Our Beautiful Taps

WE HAVE A DATE!!!

I finally got the call we have been waiting for at 11am this morning!!!

Are you ready for it................... 24th of March is our Settlement date, this date is also shared by Tristan and my 3yr Anniversary as well, what a great present!!! I cant stop smiling!!

This beautiful block will finally be Ours!!

Sorry guys just a bit Excited here!!!