Site Plans

We Signed the contract!!!

Today we had our contract presentation appointment. We received the contract just one day before, so didn't have much time to read through it fully. We sent to our solicitor immediately and he let us know the contract is ok to sign. But on the site plans we found some errors which are being fixed on the contract presentation day. We made a note for all the questions that we got before the contract appointment. The tender and the contract presenter was the same person. So it was quite easier to consult with her. After she finished her contract presentation we raised the below issues.

·         No indication where would be the hot water system – She draws the hotwater system next to meter area (behind the living room).

·         A window between alfresco and dining which we were not aware of, as all the display homes we went had stacker door between the alfresco and dining which makes it look more open. So we asked a quote for sliding door and stacker door. The quote for sliding door was around $590 and for stacker door $1850. After little bit negotiation we decided to have stacker door, as we wants to have the same door that we are getting on our family room. So the final price for stacker door is $1600.

·         We asked for a fixed window on the dining area instead of sliding window on our tender appointment but they didn’t change that. After notifying her, she removes the sliding window and includes a fixed window on the dining area.

·          We didn’t like the 3^rd bedroom window height, so we asked her if we can increase the height and she gave us a quote for $215. After negotiation she gave us the final price $100 to increasing the height which we agreed to pay.

And we signed the contract :)

Before

After

house plan and Facade!

Ground Floor

1st Floor

Facade

Tender is signed!!

After so many changes and negotiation we finally signed the tender acceptance. Have done some changes on our home plan and the changes are- 

·         Additional shower to Laundry approx 900mm wide x 900mm deep $2,200

·         Ensuite with WIR $2110

·         Increase depth of Living and Bed 1 approx 500mm towards front boundary $4438

·         Fixed window into the dinning room

·         Sliding door  to Media room and Ensuite $300each

·         Tiles to Living and Media room

·         Reverse upstairs Linen Press to get access from Bed 3

·         Reverse Bed 3 robe to get access from Bed 4

·         Add Best Value Ever promotion

·         We asked for Sliding door but the price they give us was expensive, so deleted that from our tender as we will do ourselves after handover.

·         Moroka painted Facade and letter box.

Chosen One!!

Now it’s time to look for the perfect house which we will turn into a home. Our Home. We had seven builders to choose from them we preferred Eden Brae, Clarendon and Wisdom. We had a good experience from all of them. We liked Ferndale 30MKII from Clarendon, Washington from Wisdom and Lincoln30MKII from Eden Brae. After a lot of thinking we select the Lincoln30MKII.

We have put the Initial deposit $750 on 29^th February 2015. And we got our tender appointment on 7^th April 2015. Between these times we checked all the options that we want to include in our tender for example bricks, roof tiles, floor tiles, kitchen appliances and others. It was a good idea indeed as we know what we are getting as a standard.

Beginning of Our Dream!!

I have read many blogs over the past few months and found them very helpful and insightful for the whole building process. So time to start writing our own! Hopefully it will help others on…let’s start....

Around April 2014, we have decided to build our new home where we will have backyards and plenty rooms for our family. Then we start looking for land and house and land packages. We tried to secure land in Edmondson Park but didn't have any as we work full time and it was almost impossible for us to line up there.

One day I and my husband were passing through Georges Fair project and we thought of checking the price and procured and it was the same but was possible to get a land. On their August release we couldn’t secure a land but on their October release we finally got a land to build our dream. We bought our land on 18^th October 2014 and our land being registered on 5^th December 2014. That was the first step towards our dream.