Introductions

Mr Milburn got the call from our new site supervisor, Scott, yesterday.

He said that he was nice, straight forward, and that he said it would be "a long job, but a good quality job"! Haha

One thing that has me worried, is that he apparently he has another 25 projects he's working on, which goes against the Wisdom 'Five Star Pledge' which states that their supervisors work a maximum 15 projects in order to give us the best service?

I am worried because that means he will be struggling to divide his time between all his projects (that's a visit of 5 sites per day, per 5 day week on average), not including all the enquiries he must get from each respective customer on a day-to-day basis.

To me, this means we can't rely on the SS to 'supervise' everything, and we will have to make regular trips in to make sure everything is being done properly. I won't start to stress yet but...

Anyway, he said he'll be on-site this Thursday and will contact us every Friday for a commentary on the week that was, and the plan for the week that will be. Looking forward to hearing from him on Friday so we know a little more about when our slab will be poured, and more generally the expected timeframes of our build!

Cx

Builders Signage

Went past the lot today, they've put up the builders signage to end the week. Should have the piering started next week - fingers crossed the weather clears up so our slab isn't delayed!

Happy Australia Day long weekend!

Cx

All Cut Up

Tonight we visited our little piece of land, and again were surprised when we turned the corner into our street and saw that our site has been cut!

We haven't even had contact with our site supervisor yet, but we are seeing little bits of progress weekly. This bit of progress we think is pretty huge, though! Too bad we've missed all the action with the machines though it would have been nice to watch the first dig. 

What's next I wonder?!

Cx

RHS Site cut (sorry about the angle)

LHS driveway - Mr Milburn is knocking on our theoretical front door

A happy Mr Milburn

Fenced in

We made the weekly visit to our land to find that we now have a fence up - we have a secure portaloo now!

Guessing next week will be builders signage and hopefully we'll meet our SS and get more information on the timeline of our build.

Suspense is killing me. 

Cx

The construction fence

Mr Milburn jumpic!

Portaloo Happiness

Just like many other fellow bloggers, after months of paper work we were so excited about visiting our block of land today, only to find that happiness has been found in the form of a portaloo!

This is the first sign of life - the ball is rolling now, thank you Wisdom!

Cx

Sewer Peg-Out & Production Estimating

Thus far, it has been a Happy New Year for The Milburns!

We visited our block during the break and noticed that at some point in the past couple of months we had our sewer peg-out completed! That was a bit of a surprise. We also see that the house next door has now gone up and they're almost done. See pictures below.

This morning, we just got an email from Wisdom saying that our file is in Production Estimating and we have been allocated a Site Supervisor! They did say that there will be some delay because of shutdowns of trades people and other suppliers. However, once estimating is done, we'll meet our SS and find out more about when our site will be scheduled for benching, piering and slabbing :)

Exciting exciting times! Bring on 2014!

Cx

Picture 1: Sewer Peg-Out

Picture 2: Neighbours on both sides, and where did our grass go!

Authority to Commence

We've had the absolute worst time with St George Bank - after receiving our mortgage documents a month ago, it has taken daily phone calls, a formal complaint and still more following up and we finally received the Authority to Commence letter last Friday.

Wisdom's offices have closed for the year, so this will not be actioned until 2014 now.

Our tender cutoff date is 31st January, so we need to begin construction before then otherwise we are going to be affected by any price adjustments! If that happens, I will definitely be giving the bank a call because it's taken a whole MONTH to fix all the mistakes they have made to our documents, and hence have pushed us backwards an entire month. It's unbelievable. 

Anyway - hopefully that's all the paperwork done, so 2014 should be all about the build.

Cx