The day we've been waiting for!

After almost 8 months of waiting. 20 April 2011. We are the proud owners of a new M. Home!
A lot of the things in my mind.. perhaps Bunnings Warehouse will be pretty much my second home for the next few months.

Will post some photos soon...

Define PCI?

Can i ask you my fellow bloggers what PCI meant to you? Practical Completion Inspection or Presentation where the Builder will present your Home at its best, cleaned, finished,well presented...

Did i just say well presented?

How come when we went onsite... Found mud inside the house! dust like a snow, missing PC items and more touch ups! Do you call it Presentation or the bulder just want us to check all the inc works coz they couldnt be bothered checking it themselves?

This was the meant to be our Second inspection.... perhaps our handover on wednesday will be a third inspection? who knows...

Where does this end?

Perhaps checking someonelse building progress is more exciting than our own one.. nothing but frustration.

Only time will tell.

PCI Result - NOT MET!

As much as i wanted to update my blog, would love to post all the finish product but due to poor Supervision, improper workmanship, and non complaince with relevant standards, It has been marked as "House is incomplete"! or should i say failed.

Got an independent inspection and wouldnt even thought the the report will be about 25 pages. Didnt even want to open it in the first place.. anyways, to make the story short... Got about 60 defects/incomplete works including major isues like a water leak to the living room coming from the balcony, window glass cracked and more.. =(

Escalated this matter to the Manager.. and the next day.. three vans are working on site.. PCI has been moved next week. Not even sure if they will finish everything. finger's crossed. i wouldnt want to pick up any more to delay the handover. Hope everyone else building experience wouldnt be as bad as we had. Please stay tune...

Its been a Roller Coaster ride but we're nearly there!

Whoa... It has been pretty busy one for the past few months since my last update in October. I would never have imagined that building a new home was the worst and best experience you'll ever have. Mixed Emotions to everything. Well.. after waiting and waiting..... We are closer to grab the keys and enjoy our first new home!

A couple of frustrations along the way.. First, Di-lorenzo... i wouldnt forget you as you stuffed up all our floor areas! you meant to install the tiles we've chosen and they've decided to put a different tiles! (Someone accidentally swapped our paperwork with somebody else). Everything was stopped because of the tiles.. Painting, plumbing, electrical.. the lot. Ive read some blogs as well about Di-lorenzo mixing paperworks. Hmmm.. why why this is happening.

- No Apology from the Company. The solution from Di-Lorenzo was...( We can easily remove everything in two days. My wife has decided to keep the tiles though and we just need to change the wall tiles completely to compliment with the floor tiles. I will then discuss this matter with Metricon.

So much things happening but i wouldnt want to get stressed out.. it supposed to be an exiciting journey.... well.. its time to put some photos up...

Front of the House...love the Garage.. dont worry about the rubbish.. this will be picked up soon.

Unstained Front Door.. Cant wait the finished product!

Home Theater Room...

Family Room with lots of Doors... Sliding door and Bi-Part Door

Stairs.. i didnt request to put Harry Potter's room but i bet soon this will be changed to a hideout of something... All about Wine!

Where is the tub? i will post the complete transformation soon..

Powder Room.. No cabinet, just a bench top and a shelf underneath.

A very nice Scenery - Pond

A little bit of nature when you get up in the morning on the balcony? ahhh.. You gotta love that!

Here's our landscape design at the front. Its totally free!

Oct 15: Bricking has started and Scaffolding is up to finish off the bricks

A bit of a held up coz of the continues rain but got the ground floor bricks finally finished.Scaffolding has been setup too for the First floor bricking...







Side of the house. You can now see the window of my Favourite Room... Home Theater Room!



Family Room with a sleek window design at the right top side! On the left side.... Its a Bi-Part doors which can be opened during Summer. It makes the room looks really big. How about lap pool on the side... hmmmm... at this stage.. its free to imagine anything you want for your dream home. Might take a while to be completed but in the end, we know its worth it.

Sept 23- 25: First Floor frame's done with all Windows installed!

All Windows were installed, Full frame's done. Can see the whole skeletal system of the House! : )

Bricks have arrived two days after frame was all up!

Sept 12 - Frame has been done on the ground floor

Frame on the ground floor has been done. We can now see our home being built slowly and cant wait till its done.









Kitchen Connection!?!

This is where my wife spent a fortune. Ceasar island kitchen benchtop with the cooktop and rangehood. The window frame looks bigger too. I wouldnt mind to become a master chef one day!

Study/Extra lounge?

Not quite sure what to do with it yet. Thinking of putting an informal lounge with electric fireplace and some bean bags.. or my 9 months baby girl can concentrate with her study in the future...

Home Theater Room

Ahh.. this is where my hiding place be. PS3 with a 120" projector screen. I will make this room the best entertaiment we can get!!!. : )

Double Garage

Frame on the first floor will be up soon.....

Family Room

Another Entertaiment section? Most probably for our relatives who quite dont want a big screen and a have a bit of a fresh air.. thats right..

August 19-21 - Construction has started

Cleaning up in progress... Our builder has started to cleaning the rubbish and scrapping the land. in two days.. Slab was poured! how quick was that... very happy to see it.

More Photos below:

July 10 - Council approved our plans!!!

Its been a long time since the update of our blog. Well, After all the dramas... our dreams come to reality from this time forward... Let the construction begins..

Awaiting for Blacktown Council Approval?

Council Application was submitted on the 5th May hoping that this shouldnt take that long. Council requested to pay the Bond on 18th of May. I then called my wife to pay it immediately to avoid any delays. Guess What? Its been Almost 7 weeks and still no confirmation from our Builder. I called the builder on 05/06 and was advised that theres no issues at all and just waiting for the Construction certificate. I then followed it up with the officer after a week and found out that there are some issues. Officer advised that the tree at the front should be moved. Another Delays!!!!. We cannnot do anything unless council advised the builder what to do. I guess i might have to wait for another a month. Still waiting....

The Ponds Board has approved our Plan

Had some variations done on the building structure as The Ponds Board rejected our propose plan. It took them three weeks to approved it.

Finally... After two years of waiting!!!

Finally. We have decided to build with Metricon after two years of waiting.

3D Model - General Living

Floor Plans

3D Model - Laguna 36

Thought i would share this photo. I cant wait till Our Dream Home is done.

Searching for the Land???

Our journey begins back in 2008. We owned a Duplex at Rooty Hill after moving from Koragah back in 2005. Just right before the Global recession starts, we wanted to upgrade our Home from Duplex to a decent 2 Storey Home.

At first, we never thought of building our Dream Home until we drove past this big piece of land called The Ponds. We were then so interested. There was only about 5 to 10 Houses built that time. Then we thought this must be a good place to live in. Now, Houses that are being build are like mushrooms.

This photo was taken back in early 2008. We then decided to buy a land in July 2008.