It's a sign of the times

Last night David & Meg went down to the block to put up our sign, and what a great job he did considering it was his birthday  and I was out wining & dining with the tennis girls!



Waiting for paperwork to arrive in the mail today then we should see a site start soon I hope.

Lost....but now found!!!

Yes, people, those pegs have now been found.   Armed with trusty mattock, shovel & my little digger, Mr GSI actually did DIY and after much digging we found those elusive pegs - one of them was within a bees appendage of one of the fence posts at the back of our property, so its amazing that the fencing guys didn't either dig it out or just pour concrete over it.   We feel much happier now and have actually put a mark on the back fence to show exactly where they are (I suppose it would have been much too much trouble for the fencer to do that).

While we were there we did our usual rounds and checked out Reinsey & Lozs house.  Now I only have one statement to make:    Where's the coffee Reinsey?

We have a building permit!

Baby steps continue with us, but surprise surprise, we received a copy of our building permit in the mail today!

Dated 15/3/2011, our contract states that the builder must commence works within 21 days of the date of the permit, so that makes it by early April!!!

Posts and Pegs

Visited today to try to recover our surveying pegs so we are ready for the builder.   Discovered that our front pegs are still there but the back ones have long gone.    There have been houses built at the back of us and the builders and fencing companies have absolutely no respect and consequently, we have no survey pegs left anymore at the back of our block.   So apart from us measuring the distance from the nearest fence, we are only guessing as to the position they should be.
What does one do?   Is it our responsibility to make sure the pegs are in the correct position, somehow I think so.   Will the developer come back and replace them? - probably not.   Me thinks I need to get the block surveyed ourself and make sure the pegs are in the correct position.   More expense!!
 But better than the alternative - and we wouldn't want to find we had built on someone else's land.

Builder Update

Just a quickie, received email from Romeo Homes on Tuesday to say that our plans are currently with the engineers and are due back next week.   They can then apply for a building permit - when they obtain it, they must commence within 21 days.   Will I still see a start in March or will we be April Fools?

The lengths people go to.....

There is an old saying - "Mad as a Meat Axe", that is how I describe Tonia and Chris AKA  - Building our Home Metricon Fairhaven 33 on my blog list.

The delightful Tonia decided that she needed to do some shopping and also wanted to check out some other Metricon displays.   Sounds like a nice day out you would think.   The issue is that she wanted to do this is Melbourne, and they live in Sydney, so what does one do?   Well you just hop a 6.00 AM flight down to Melbourne on a Sunday morning and by the power of the internet contact Facebook buddy (Me!) just on the off-chance that I may be down at the estate on Sunday morning catching up with Deb & Reinsey, she would just breeze on by and say hi.

Tonia, Deb, Reinsey & Chris

Well, I love it when a plan comes off, so I organised to meet Deb & Reinsey at Deb's house for a look see at her new carpet and guess who just pops by for a visit - Tonia & Chris.   Well, Deb & Reinsey couldn't believe their eyes when they realised that this stunning girl walking across the road was in fact Tonia, our blog buddy.   Poor Chris just shaking his head at her madness!!

Such a pity they couldn't come for a coffee, but she was a woman on a mission, and we were ever so grateful that she gave up some of her valuable shopping time to pop by and say hi, and we have promised to do the same after they have moved into their beautiful home sometime in the future.

The power of the internet - never ceases to amaze me!!