Thursday 26 November 2009

Site Supervisor

He rang yesterday to set up our first meeting on site and I had left my mobile at home, doh! Someone rang with a question about the tiles for the alfresco area, not sure what that is about.

Forgot to say that we brought 5 ceiling fans and the lady at the store only charged us for 4! Saved ourselves $130.

Ian is getting sorted for building the retaining wall, need to find someone to dig the holes. This will be our last weekend with anything happening at the block. The come and scrape the site on the 3rd and then we have a short time to put the retaining wall up before the builders return to do the concrete slab.

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Build up ...

Well we had a letter from Coral to confirm our start date and the name of our site supervisor. He will apparently ring us to arrange a meeting on site where we can organise our retaining wall.

Today, Ian also received a phone call from someone at Coral to say that the laundry room sink was a bit bigger than expected, could they take 200mm from our laundry linen cupboard? We had already made it a tad smaller because we wanted the tumble dryer to have a home. We said yes, I hope it looks ok...

We took a drive up to Daisy Hill showrooms the weekend to confirm our roof tile selection because they have it (mind you, it's too late now to change our minds).

Thursday 19 November 2009

We have a start date

3rd December ... this is when we will start building new house.

A lovely lady at Coral rang this morning while I was being served at a counter, I asked her to ring back in 5 minutes. She took 10 minutes to actually ring back and when she did she gave me the news that we had been waiting for. If she was next to me I would have kissed her. What she said apart from give me the date is anyones guess, something about sending a letter etc ... sorry but I didn't really hear the rest.

Anyway, all go from here, I wonder how much they will get done before xmas, probably get the slab down at least.

Off to buy a bottle of bubbly now ...... c ya!

Sunday 15 November 2009

Catch 22 ....

All we are waiting for is for the bank to issue one bit of paper and we are off. Unfortunately, our financial lady and the girl taking care of our build have not hit it off at all. On friday they had a few words both of them blaming the other. Not what I need right now, feeling quite stressed about the whole thing. The bank want's a start date before they give us approval and Coral wont give us a start date until we have approval ... what's a girl to do?

Fingers crossed we have good news this week.