Wrapped

Got some more pics from another friend(Thanks Imran).
House is now wrapped. It seems to be roof tiles are not yet completed.
Bricks are delivered now and I think the bricks might have started by now. Can't wait to see how they will look like.

I think brikie is organising bricks

Nice silver foil inside and green outside

Is something wrong with this, there is a gap or not nailed properly.

Hope the bricks will be completed before Christmas slow down period. Base and Frame invoices received and sent to the Bank. Hope will get the FHBG will be processed soon. RBA has increased the rate again, wondering when they will stop rising the rate.

Plubming rough and Roof tiles...

My friend(Thanks Anand) has sent some house pics.
Looks like plumbing rough has been completed. Roof tiles seems to be completed.
Wondering where the bricks are??
Quite happy with the progress.

Roof looks quite big

Quite happy to see the roof tiles color is blended well with fascia/gutter.

Timber Frame, Fascia and Gutter are done..

Received photos from a helpful blog Friend(nice work Fruitty, thanks), looks like its really progressing well.
Also got update from CA about the progress till now and Plumbing and Roof is scheduled for next week.
So if things go well will be all wrapped up before Christmas.
Relaxed a bit now!

Some pics.

Front view..Wondering if Timber post needs to be in the concrete.

Side view

Corner View
Right side view

Front temp door

Upgraded timber windows to the façade

Meals area

Roof...Looks good

Double Garage

Left side view..we wanted more space on this side as living and meals are on this side, unfortuantely(long story..) ended up on having 2.7 M on North side of the house.

Thanks for sending the pictures in, when I am still away Fruitty.

In India..

Reached India(Hyderabad - click if interested to know know more about my home town) on 27th, will be here till Jan 1st. Taking care of Mom, she got diagnosed with Gall Balder cancer...

Received 1st Invoice today by E-mail for the Slab, they also sent the Inspection report. Looks ok, all it says is H has built the slab according to specifications, plans and BCA.

I hope things will progress well in my absence...
Will try to post some pics soon..

Will keep on posting about the previous things, so dates will be out of sequence.

Search for Dream Home

Started to look around display homes to get an idea of what we need.Selected one home from each of the big builders like Porter Davis, Metricon and Henley.Discussed with sales guys about our choice but Alas!! every one told us that our block is meant for two storey homes.We very depressed as we needed just a single storey home, moreover two storey home was not very affordable.Luckily the sales consultant of Henley told we can fit Regatta 288 now Regatta Q1 on our land provided we chose a smaller porch. We were very happy as we really loved that home.
Finally we are building Regatta 288 with many surprises coming ahead, which we were not aware of at that time.
Here is the link of Original home plan:
http://www.vic.henley.com.au/#/House/clendonvale/25/FloorPlans/25/

The story about how we got the Land

We always dreamt to own a brand new home but never thought it would happen so soon.
The process started in Sep 2008 when we luckily got this block of land released by VicUrban.
Was very happy and excited but at the same time very tensed as we haven't planned anything about it ,as we got married in Feb 2008 and were still in the honeymoon period. Had no idea what type of house we should build, what type of land we should buy, which suburb we should choose.
All this just happened , probably we were destined to it.