Day:19 on Site and we have plumbing and pipes!!

We are finally having some progress on the site, things are moving slightly slower then expected, due to the amount of rain we had last week. Dean (SS) rang and introduced himself on Monday morning, and ran me through what he thought would be happening in the next couple of weeks, plumbing and slab pour this week (fingers crossed), he would like to meet us on site next week once we have a slab to walk on for an introductory meeting with him, then frame should start the week after that, Its nice to finally know what to expect to some degree from the next few weeks, Dean seems like a nice guy.
So since my last post, we have had the toilet arrive and all the plumbing and pipes go in :) hoping tomorrow will bring the prep for the slab and Friday maybe just maybe a slab??

So here are Finally!! some pictures of the progress so far (Tristan is working rather close at the moment so he is on photo duties for me)

 From the back of the block

Fencing and Toilet

 Front Right corner: Electrical box and pipes

 More pipes

Front Left: Garage and pipes

Fencing and Electricity..... no slab yet!

I received a message on Tuesday from Janine one of my lovely Avenuers that we had fencing being put up, so we couldn't help ourselves but to go down and have a look, wondering if anything else would have been done, but there was just our new fencing, its was good to see as you can get a real feel for the size of the land when the fencing is around it.
We went for another drive down on Friday evening and found an electricity box that had been connected but nothing else, maybe, hopefully something happened on the block yesterday (probably not tho) Its so hard to stop ourselves from going down, i wont to go down everyday to see if something is happened (its great that we have other people looking out for us to, love getting little messages coming from the our blogger friends :)
Hopefully a slab this week???  I am going away Thursday afternoon to Canberra to visit some friends so it will be up to Tristan to let me know what has happened!! 
I still have not heard from me Site Supervisor once yet, will be interesting to see if he contacts me this week, hmm!!
No pics yet it is to dark to take any by the time we get down there and we were to busy this weekend to go down :(

Scraped into April...

So true to there word, we have been scraped on Friday the 29th April, we had an email from our csc Nicole(she is our new construction Csc) confirming that site start was done Friday afternoon so Tristan and I quickly jumped in the car and with little light and it was done, its amazing the feeling when you arrive and there is something actually done :) It has been 9 months since will made our first deposit!!
Because we could not hardly see i decided to take a drive down with my sister in-law Saturday afternoon to get some photos (Tristan was working) And to my surprise someone had been there on Saturday working, putting pegs in (the ones with the nails on the top of them, i don't no what they are called lol)
Hopefully we will see more progress this coming week :)

Moved to Site!!

I was on the phone all day yesterday sorting out this mess with the pegs and crushed rock and finally yesterday afternoon at 5pm Kate rang and said you have been moved to Site everything is done, this is such a relief!! So the site supervisor, Dean Frith (we have a name, has anyone dealt with him?) went back out to the house and check our 3 pegs that we have made very obvious with a handy yellow spray can, and said this would be enough for them to work off thank god no new survey Yay!! And we dealt with the crushed rock and came to an agreement, lets just say we wont be paying for it :) So Kate seems to think we will be on site next week, but i think it may be the week after, oh well we are on our way now!!! Thank guys you have all been so helpful, couldn't have asked for a better bunch to be going through my build with :)

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??