Next Stop Construction...

After 5 weeks of waiting for our bank to get their sht together, we're finally all approved and have submitted all the documents required to progress our file to construction.

I am glad we're finally off the admin train and on to the next chapter.

We should start seeing some progress on site too, well at least some fencing and a portaloo.

End Panel and Construction Plans

We have now received our end panel and construction plans. There were some errors on the construction plans but it was quickly fixed up this time. I'm amazed at the stage they are still making mistake.

All docs have been signed and sent back to Wisdom and another copy to bank to finalise our loan approval. Hopefully that won't take too long.

Think we're finally seeing the light at the end of the admin tunnel.

Final Cabinetry Drawings, Sink and Basin...

We have now signed off our kitchen, laundry, bathrooms and stairs cabinetry drawings.

There was a slight delay because we've changed the kitchen sink and bathrooms basins.

Next up should be draft end panel, so we should be close to site start now.

Kitchen Sink

Bathroom Basins & Taps

Final Electrical and Landscaping Plans, CDC Approved

Since our initial electrical appointment, we have added a few more things to the plans. As it's a bit hard to do this after handover, we had to do it now.

- 5 x Data points to outside of the house for future security cameras
- Power point inside all bathrooms cupboard linking back to light switch, for future under cupboard LED light strips
- We'll be adding a pendant in the foyer
- Power point to niche outside HT with HDMI run from ground linen and rumpus to this point, for future security TV monitor and HDMI splitting from rumpus
- Added boring LED side lights for stairs (we wanted LED light strip but Wisdom and Designer Stairs won't do it)

What we want...

VS

What we have... 😡

Final Electrical Drawings Ground Floor

Upper Floor

Our landscaping plans was also slightly changed, to get approval from CDC we had to move the house back by 0.5m.

Bigger front yard but a smaller back yard, we was tiny in the first place. Not what we want but not much we can do.

Final Landscaping Drawings

With that we're CDC approved. Hopefully build should start in about 4-6 weeks.

Landscaping Plans...

Our revised landscaping plans has arrived. We wanted a wall added to the alfresco area for a future BBQ / outdoor kitchen area.

Looks pretty good I must say.

Contract, Colours, Electrical...

Contract has been signed and the rest of the 5% deposit has been paid.

We have also done our colour appointment and below is what we've selected.

Brick: PGH Dark Rum

Roof: Colorbond Basalt

Gutter, Barge, watertank, Meter Box, Downpipes: Basalt

Fascia: Surfmist

Windows: Trend Ultra Matt Black

Garage: Timbercoat Maple

Internal Walls: Taubmans Grey Comfort Half Strength

Internal Woodwork and Doors: Taubmans Crisp White

Home Theatre Walls and Ceiling: Taubmans Knight Grey

Door: Hume Savoy XS45 1200mm Wide

Bricks

Front Door

Colorbond Roof

Fascia

Garage Door

Window Frame

Wall Colour - Grey Comfort Half

Home Theatre - All Walls and Ceiling

Ground Floor

Upper Floor

Next up was electrical, We've decided to get down lights provisioning and install it afterwards.

Air-conditioning Upgrade

We have decided to upgrade the default Actron Air Classic ducted system to the Actron Air ESP Plus.

The upgrade will give us 4 zones and 15 outlets and we'll be adding an extra 4 zones to make it 8 in total.

We'd like to be able to only run the area which we're using, so zoning off each rooms was decided.

The total for the upgrade is $7230 and we'll get;

Actron Air ESP Plus 23kw system
15 outlets
8 zones
2 controllers
Wifi control

Zones will be setup like below.

Have added the price list below for future reference.