Uh Oh

Got a call from our construction manager today - it turns out that western power hasn't finished connection in the area we are building and won't until late August . AAAARRRRGH. Meaning we now have to pay for a generator fro the brickies to have access to power and possibly the roof carpenters as well. They are putting it in as a provisional cost of $2000 but say they only end up normally costing $500-600. Payable at the end of construction but we may have earthworks money left to cover it. Not happy :(

Concrete Me

Went up for a visit today and amazingly the slab was laid on time. Exactly when they said it would be. I'm surprised to date that things are happening on time at the moment since i keep hearing some peoples horror stories. I know it early but still nothing has gone wrong to date. As you can see below this is our house, 4th in the street to have the slab down!!!

More work on Friday to have some drains, power, water etc connected, excess sand and a clean up on Tuesday and brick are meant to be delivered next Thursday so well see how we go.

Apologies for the not so good quality of the photos only had the mobile phone camera with us. I forgot the digital (who does that when they are building a house???)

This is me and my partner. You have already met the dog :) thats all for now

Ready set go !!!

Well sine the last post the have started the earthworks, given us some pipes and plastic as well as some footings and the slab goes down on Monday if all goes according to plan. Well that all for now . . . . . so excited to see where our money is actually going.

Oh and we are very excited that we have gotten our water rates bill when the house doesn't even have water :)

It's starting

Got a phone call at 8.30am this morning. Bit early but was happy to get it. It was our Building Liason Officer. It all starts on Thursday.

I'm so excited. So was the other half. . . . . . . . when he woke up a few hours later (night shift). . . . . . until then he was more interested in sleeping. No if the rain would just stop for a few days.