Good news...
So work has started.
On Tuesday I took a day off of work and Sue, Steven and I spent the whole day at the block of land watching the earthmoving contractor prepare our house site.
It was interesting to watch and now we have a level surface ready for the house.
Rant...
We were told during the sales process that we could have the excavated authentic red Australian dirt put anywhere on our block that we wished, as long as we told the contractor.
First thing on Tuesday morning we asked the contractor to put the dirt up the back of the block near the gumtree.
He told us that was too far away from the house site.
So we asked him to put it near the fence behind the house site.
He agreed, but during the day we watched him put it all directly behind the house thinking he was going to move it at the end of the day.
When he started to pack up I asked him if he was going to move it to where he agreed to put it.
He said his job was to clear the site not to move the dirt.
I said that he agreed to put it near the fence and that he has now put a mountain of dirt right at our back door, I told him we won't even be able to move in to our new home as he has blocked the backdoor and the view from the house.
He reluctantly and angrily said it would take him hours to move it all, but he will clear a meter of it away from the back of the house.
Then he dropped his grater blade onto our new stone driveway and dragged a big chunk of it across the paddock as he headed back to work.
Sue was in tears and I phoned the site manager to complain.
It took us 3 hours to repair the driveway that night.
The site manager took photos the next day and is meeting with Sarah Homes construction manager on Tuesday to see if they will do anything about it.
Rant 2...
I have been asking Sarah Homes since October if they will be waiting until 2016 to start the build, every time I asked I was told no it will start this year.
Yesterday I was told that they will be delivering the construction supplies Jan 5, 2016 and starting the build a few days after that.
Rant 3...
We were told during the sales process that the build will take 12 - 14 weeks.
Yesterday I was told that it would take 20 weeks.
So now it looks like we won't have our new home until the middle of 2016.
We are not enjoying this process, no one will communicate to us what's happening.
I have to phone them when we get fed up with waiting for info, but no one answers their phone, it takes days to get answers to our questions.
...End rant...for now
Pics of the work done on Tuesday...