Timeline

• 16.06.2013 – Paid Initial deposit
• 11.07.2013 – Signed Tender
• 10.09.2013 – Signed Contract
• 30.09.2013 – Colour Selection Appointment (Clarendon Create Studio)
• 18.10.2013 – Tile Selection Appointment (Tiles Direct)
• 28.10.2013 – Electrical Appointment (Clarendon Create Studio)
• 01.11.2013 – Plans submitted for CDC approval
• 27.11.2013 – Demolition approval received
• 11.12.2013 – CDC Building Approval received
• 20.12.2013 – Old house Demolished
• 14.01.2014 – Final site survey
• 23.01.2014 –  Site pegged out
• 24.01.2014 – Excavation
• 29.01.2014 – Piers
• 30.01.2014 – Formwork
• 31.01.2014 –  Internal drainage
• 01.02.2014 – Pods & Steel installed
• 04.02.2014 – Slab poured
• 11.02.2014 – External Draining underway (we have been held up here due to a large tree root blocking the sewer junction, our site superviser is coming back to us later this week with another option)
• 14.02.2014 – Frame delivered
• 18.02.2014 – Framework commenced
• 24.02.2014 – Windows delivered
• 24.02.2014 – Onsite meeting with Council Tree Officer, we will be connecting to a sewer junction further down the road, and will have to pay extra $ to have old sewer capped off! Quote yet to come
• 03.03.2014 – Roof trusses complete, windows installed and bricks delivered
• 04.03.2014 – First course of bricks laid, window protection painted on
• 05.03.2014 – Damp course and first 20 courses of bricks laid to half of home
• 07.03.2014 – rest of home first 20 courses complete, internal plumbing and gas installed
• 10.03.2014 – scaffolding erected
• 20.03.2014 – brickwork completed
• 24.03.2014 – brickwork cleaned
• 27.03.2014 – gutters and fascia to top floor installed
• 01.04.2014 – roof tiles to top floor complete
• 03.04.2014 – rendering to parapet do
• somewhere around this time, internal pluming and gas done
• 09.04.2014 – Eaves complete
• 10.04.2014 – Cladding, well half of the cladding
• 12.04.2014 – External paint done to completed areas
• 14.04.2014 – Second level scaffolding removed and single level installed
• 15.04.2014 – Roof trusses completed to bottom level, Alfresco and dining room
• 18.04.2014 – bottom level gutters fascia installed
• 23.04.2014 – bottom level roof tiles installed, internal electricals, aircon and alarm system all complete
• 25.04.2014 – flashing redone and windows reinstalled.
• 02.05.2014 – installation of roof and wall insulation, waterproofing to wet area done
• 03.05.2014 – pre-lining inspection and gyprock lining commenced
• 04.05.2014 – today we went and moved the nature strip as we are on a corner and as we have almost 1,000 bricks left the SS allowed us onsite to move them up the back of our property.  Looking rather neat now.
• 10.05.2014 – remainder of cladding installed
• 11.05.2014 – internal linings & cornice completed
• 12.05.2014 – remainder of cladding and eaves painted
• 13.05.2014 – staircase installed & down pipes fixed
• 15.05.2014 – doors and architrave delivered and partial lock up
• 21.05.2014  – lock up
• 22.05.2014 – internal doors hung, internal painting commenced, external laundry door hung
• 23.05.2014 – first coat internal paint on, kitchen, kitchen bulkhead and vanities installed, front door delivered, gas & electricity connected, holes cut in gyprock for power outlets…. Steaming ahead now 🙂
• 26.05.2014 – Onsite meeting with tiler regarding positioning of the mosaics in bathrooms
• 29.05.2014 – Sewer conntected with new junction,tiling to bathrooms, laundry and front porch complete, skirtings and architraves complete
• 02.06.2014 – Painters in to work on internal paint, putty and fill.  New WIP door delivered as the old did not have translucent glazing.  Starting to get quote from Landscapers for retainer walls and paving and Concreters for drivway
• 04.06.2014 – Rainwater Tank installed. Recieved 1 landscaping quote @ just over $30K, this includes paving the courtyard, rendered retainer walls to boundary, timber fence, leveling of block, drainage pipes, plant boxes and turf to all grassed areas. Also recieved a driveway quote for $12,500 for approx 52m sq of driveway in coloured concrete.  Handover costs are now starting to come into play.  We have not allowed near enough :0
• 07.06.2014 – went for a drive past today and the painters were having their lunch break, decided to go for a walk around the block and the painters asked me to come in to discuss the feature walls.  He also gave me the opportunity to have a good look around and take photos.  Painting is well underway, bench tops on, sinks and basins installed, garage roller door installed, alfresco ceiling now painted.  The painters are doing a impeccable job and it was super nice of them to allow me to take my time and have a good look around.  As of yesterday SS said walk through at end of month and handover mid July, which will put us ahead of schedule. Sewer is now all connected up, toilets are going in on Wednesday, then the floor tiling and carpet is next on the list.  We ordered our beautiful curtains today for the 3 stacker slider doors we have.
• 10.06.2014 – Painters are continuing the internal painting, they will be back to do the facade parapet and the internal feature walls.  I have decided to remove the feature wall in the dining room as the colour I chose was just too dark.  Instead we will leave the wall to match the main wall colour.  I ran in the house on Tuesday morning when the painters were there and left them instructions.  Bath and toilets delivered.
• 12.06.2014 – Have a meeting with Landacaper today so will have another sticky beak around… hopefully they have left a door open for me somewhere :0. We have gotten quotes for a coloured concrete driveway approx 52 sqm, one quote $12,500.00 and the other $7,500.00, I know who will be getting that job…………….
• 12.06.2014 – Ok so we couldnt get in today, however items that have been completed today are: all downlights, baton lights, powerpoints, dimmers have been installed, also bathroom exhaust fans.  Tap wear has been installed and painted doors have been rehung.  Painters have completed all the gloss work and painted the rendered parapet.
• 16.06.2014 – airconditioning ducts and controls installed, toilets and bath installed, shower heads etc
• 21.06.2014 – been a busy week onsite. Internal floor tiles are down, kitchen splashback on, carpenters have been back and installed all door handles, shelving in WIP, WIR and bedroom wardrobes.  Painters were onsite this week and today to continue top coat.  PCI is Wednesday week 🙂
• 23.06.2014 – we are getting really close now, feature walls are now all done.  Cableing has been done, conduits for wall tvs are in, Alarm system is in.  Shower Screens and bathroom mirrors have been installed and the place has had a clean.  Windows are clean also.  It seems we are only waiting on a few items to be completed including, Gas connected, carpet laying and two timber stairs need to be stained. The flyscreens and plantation shutters are also due to go in this week.  Looks like the showers and tiles are yet to be sealed.  Painters will need to do touchups and there are a few things that gyprockers will need to patch also.  The site will need a masive clean, I dont think I have ever seen such a messy job site, it looks like a tip and that is no word of a lie.  Being on a corner block I think half the suburb has been kind enough to dump crap over our site fence.  Great to see it all happening though, it is really coming together and I am pretty happy with my colour selections.  Now I just need to jazz it up with some accents here and there.
• 24.06.2014 – front door stained, more painting done.
• 25.06.2014 – fly screens / fly screen doors have been put on today, and the security screen door has been put on the laundry.  Timber  steps stained black, maybe a little blacker than I had hoped for.  Water meter relocated, as the old one was in the way of our new driveway area, cost $550.00 to move the meter about a foot, but it had to be done.  Site clean up tomorrow, I cannot wait to see that.   And plantation shutters are scheduled to be installed tomorrow, so it should look more like a home than a building site when I do the afternoon drive by.  I am so happy with our site supervisor, he has done a great job on coordinating our build and has been very accommodating with requests we have made along the way.  It has taken only 5 months to build our home, and we had only one set back along the way which was the sewer connection that had to be redirected.
• 26.06.2014 – Site cleaned up, looks sooo much better.  Carpet has been paid to upstairs are. Gyprock guy has been back to do some patching up.
• 27.06.2014 – Carpet all completed to downstairs theatre room and study and stairs have now been covered.  Had a good look at the staining on the bottom two treads and it is perfect, not too dark at all.  Brick work cleaned again.
• 30.06.2014 – bath, sinks and showers sealed and grout touched up in all bathrooms.
• 02.07.2014 – PRACTICAL COMPLETION INSPECTION – more to follow when I recieve report from private inspector, all in all the place was in pretty good shape, lots of paint touchups to be done and a couple of hand towel rings missing.  Also a few major things – details to follow and nothing that wont be fixed before handover. Worst part of the build according to the Inspector was the brickwork, but we aleady knew that! He did say that for a project home this is one of the better ones he had seen and that it was pretty good.  HAND OVER is on the 18th.  Cannot wait!  right now I am in the process of co-ordinating, landscaper, concreter for drieway, aircon people (as they put the unit in after handover), curtain installation for the stacker doors etc.  Plantations, amenities/appliance gas unit and appliances are last to be installed before handover and a final clean up is scheduled after all touch ups are done and they will also be there on the day of handover giving it one last polish.
• 03.07.2014 – Gas connected – what a big job that is, the street is half blocked off and there about 8 guys onsite for this one job.
• 10.07.2014 – Not much to report on as the home has reached Practical Completion.  The front Facia board has now been added to the facade and just needs painting. We only have 8 sleeps left then we get our keys 🙂 🙂 :).  I hope to god that handover goes smoothly as my SS is on holidays this week and the bank have not done their final inspection. My curtains for the stacker doors are ready to be installed on the afternoon of the 18th and my Landscaper starts on the 21st as well as the aircon unit being installed.