We had finally left the admin behind. Bank approval came though and our LACC had arrived.It was time for our file to move to production estimating. The site was cleared and toilet installed. We had a Eureka moment looking at the below site(sight) 🙂 Once the site was cleared it was time for the... Continue Reading →
DA approval and End Panel milestones
I forgot to mention in the previous post that we had a short landscaping appointment just to chalk out a rough plan to be submitted to the council along with the construction plans. In our case the plans went to the Development Application Council and were approved within a surprisingly quick time period of 2... Continue Reading →
Selections : Day-2-Colors and Electrical
Our second day started at the W head office in Gregory Hills. We were greeted by our Colors consultant. We were already prepared with the the external colors. The brick was the main selection under external colours and everything else revolved around the brick. As stated in the previous posts we had selected a PGH... Continue Reading →
Selections : Day-1-Kitchen
Once the tiles were done we sped to an Aircon appointment with Ultra Air which finished fairly quickly. At the end of it we had upgraded to the ESP Plus module with 5 zones and a Wi-Fi based controller which cost us approx $5k. We had no time for lunch and had to do with ... Continue Reading →
Selections : Day 1 – Tiles-Di Lorenzo
I was a overload of some really helpful information from the forums (forum.homeone) and a few other bloggers who were building with W. Almost everyone advised us to do a lot of homework and preparation prior to the selections. We had already selected our brick Vino ( as mentioned in my previous posts) and also... Continue Reading →
Land Registration and House Contract
After a few tender revisions and a long wait for the land to be registered we are finally here in September 2017. We were one of the fortunate few who registered within 6 months of buying the lot. We know a few people whose wait was a year or two. The South West moment We... Continue Reading →
Tender Walk Through , Changes and more for Majestic35
Our CSR for our Wisdom Homes, Majestic35 happened to be a lovely lady who paid great attention to even the minutest details . She was one of those people who loved her work and made sure she went that extra mile to achieve perfection in whatever she delivered. Our tender walkthrough was as detailed as... Continue Reading →
Builder Selection and Admin Process
After booking our block of land we had some wait period till it got registered with the Council. This was the time for most people like us to do the builder hunt. Like most families who build a new nest in Sydney do, we were up for numerous round of display home visits. We had... Continue Reading →
Dream Home Journey- The beginning ..
Real estate prices in Sydney were already sky rocketting. Here we were like most of the first timers in the house market ,waiting for things to settle down or saturate. However having observed for a couple of years we decided things may not be changing much. Also we were paying someone else's mortgage. Instead we... Continue Reading →