There hasn't been a lot of activity for quite some time. We have now cut the grass on our block! It took 4 hours as it was so long, and the block is just over 1000m metres. We did it over two weekends, Sunday after church, and the following Saturday. I was using the mower and Nath was using the whipper snipper, as the grass to too long to get through with the mower in parts. Mum also came is great timing and helped out for the last bit, as well as bring drinks. So here is our lovley block, ready to build on....
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| There's mum at the back of the block.... |
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| You can see just how long the grass is in this photo. No wonder it took so long! |
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This is how our house will be positioned on the block. We weren't that keen on it to start with. However at the VERY start PRD had our house aligned with the fence of the right hand side, only 1m from the fence too. Given that we would be getting no light coming into the house, as the main living areas were on the other side, we opted to flip the house and centralise it. So splitting the yard into two. I really quite like it now. I mean one side can have the side access and the shed and clothes line etc and the other can have the lovely garden and kiddy play area (for when we have them of course).
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| Our house on our block :) |
We ended up asking for a dispensation so that our setback could be smaller. Local council rules were that the setback had to be the average of the two houses next to you. So ours was 5.8m. This meant the distance from the back of the house to the fence was only 1.2m. We didnt think this would work very well. Lucky we have two very good neighbours who were both ok with the setback being brought forward, so we now have 2m from the back of the house to the fence. Feeling much better about it now.
I'm really looking forward to seeing it call come together. Given we have so much land at the front, we are tossing up the idea of making a semi-circle drive through driveway. Will see how much it costs before making up our minds :)
We have been advised our start date is the 5th sept for the site scrape and then 17th sept for the slab. Starting to get there now. So with the 168 days it has in the contract that puts the finishing date at 21.2.14! PD tried to tell us that 168 days doesn't include the 28 days off over Christmas! But in their own contract it clearly states it includes it. Silly duffers!
