Since we have not had a blog so far, this first blog will contain a lot of information. We are building our dream house in Sydney. We are building the Wisdom Manhattan 43. Floor plans can be downloaded from the Wisdom Homes website: http://www.wisdomhomes.com.au/double-storey/manhattan
We settled on our land in April 2011. It has been a long journey since then. Our dream home is under construction now.
We looked at various builders as we have a significant fall on our land. Our land falls front to back about 2 meters in the building area. Because of this fall of the land many builders (Allworths, Masterton) won't even touch our land. Others (Clarendon, Eden Brae, Allcastle) will build at a ridiculous site cost. After checking out about 10 builders very closely, and after five official tenders (each costing about $1000), we settled on Wisdom Manhattan 43. While we waited for these tenders to come through, we wasted considerable time (about 4 months). I still think we made the correct decision to take our time before we jumped in with Wisdom Manhattan 43.
Here are some pictures of the site before the demolition:
After we got our complying development certificate around mid November, it rained and rained and rained more in Sydney. So even though the sire was cleared and construction certificate issued by November, we had to wait until early Feb for slabs to be poured. Those were some frustrating 2 months.
Here are some pictures of the site after levelling and ready for slabs:
And some more pictures during boxing stage and after slab completion.
Deposits: Eden Brae: Mar, Allcastle: Mar, Clarendon: Apr, Wisdom: Jun.
Land settled : 1/4.
Tender: Others: Jun.
Wisdom Tender: Jul.
Contract: Aug, 2011.
Demo: Nov, 2011
CDC: Nov, 2011.
Pegs: 01/12/2011.
Slab: Feb, 2012.
Frames: 10/03/ 2012.
We settled on our land in April 2011. It has been a long journey since then. Our dream home is under construction now.
We looked at various builders as we have a significant fall on our land. Our land falls front to back about 2 meters in the building area. Because of this fall of the land many builders (Allworths, Masterton) won't even touch our land. Others (Clarendon, Eden Brae, Allcastle) will build at a ridiculous site cost. After checking out about 10 builders very closely, and after five official tenders (each costing about $1000), we settled on Wisdom Manhattan 43. While we waited for these tenders to come through, we wasted considerable time (about 4 months). I still think we made the correct decision to take our time before we jumped in with Wisdom Manhattan 43.
Here are some pictures of the site before the demolition:
After we got our complying development certificate around mid November, it rained and rained and rained more in Sydney. So even though the sire was cleared and construction certificate issued by November, we had to wait until early Feb for slabs to be poured. Those were some frustrating 2 months.
Here are some pictures of the site after levelling and ready for slabs:
And some more pictures during boxing stage and after slab completion.
Slab is on. I can see the sunken home theatre on the left :)
Frames have arrived. It's been all timely since the slab. The rain had also settled to some extent, though raining almost everyday once or twice.
Between the slab and frame stage there was a minor hiccup.
Here are some approximate timelines:
Deposits: Eden Brae: Mar, Allcastle: Mar, Clarendon: Apr, Wisdom: Jun.
Land settled : 1/4.
Tender: Others: Jun.
Wisdom Tender: Jul.
Contract: Aug, 2011.
Demo: Nov, 2011
CDC: Nov, 2011.
Pegs: 01/12/2011.
Slab: Feb, 2012.
Frames: 10/03/ 2012.
