Green light

What a week it's been, demolition completed and we received development approval. AC demolition did a really good job on our block, they have been snowed under with work lately but they got the job done in the nick of time. Next step is to get the block resurveyed prior to site prep, a slab is not to far away.

We have a cleared block

It does stuff, bad stuff to old houses

 

As promised the Heavy armored division has arrived, better late than never

Selections done

Finished selections this week, hell of a process. I'm kicking myself a little as I should have done more homework prior to the meeting. However we are happy with our choice of brick and I think the roof tile should will work in. Lighting was where I should have put in more thought as I was caught off gaurd and it was the one thing I really wanted to get right. We still have not signed off on anything yet so maybe a few things will be revisited over the next week. Choosing front of house colouring and trying to picture what it is all going to look like has been my biggest struggle so far.

On another front the demolition started this week, the cladding has been removed and now we wait for the heavy mech division to roll in and clear the block.

Wooot !!!! April the 1st

Well after a couple of months waiting things are really starting to happen, had a phone call from the builder today to arrange selections and get things sorted. The process is starting to get exiting.

March update

Waiting, waiting, waiting, all of March has been waiting game. Waiting for council, waiting for banks, builders, banks, council, back to the banks. But finally something actually happened, the BANK gave the OK to demolish. Believe it or not the council actually beat the bank. So now the real game is back on and we are booked in for the 12th of April for demo. I've had word from the builder that our plans have been rubber stamped by the councils planning dept. so fingers crossed developement approval should be sorted soon. I've got the site prep guy ready to roll and hopefully the builder will be on site sometime in May.

Feb 2010 update

Well it's been one month since my last post, in this time we have sorting out our respective financial messes and fingers crossed by next week I will have something to take to the bank. Homestead lodged our plans with council last week and today I finally lodged the demolition application. We had the power disconnected by ETSA this week, I only placed the requisition for disconnect two weeks ago, very fast. Hopefully the council will come back with a fast approval for demo as the demo guys are chaffing at the bit.