This is because we are taking a pretty massive risk. Our site works contractor needed to complete our job by March, so we begged and pleaded with council to let us do site works and NOTHING else before we got full development approval. The risk being that there is still a very SLIM chance that there will be a request for a bench level to be altered. If this happens, we will have to foot the bill to correct it and that will not be cheap. On the other hand, we have saved a bucket load of money by doing site works and soil removal externally. It was a risk we are willing to take.
Selections went well, completed in 3 hours. We had a good idea what we wanted to do, but there was one other group of 4 people (what the???) doing their selections at the same time. Their servers were also down so we had to do a manual selection process instead of computer. Basically we were upgrading with not much idea of cost, so it will be interesting to see the outcome. Only drama we had, which isn't too big was the roof material. We changed our mind from last plans to go Colorbond instead of Tiles, however today we found out that it would take about an extra month as the plans and estimation needed to be modified AND it would have to go back through council. This was not an option as that increased our risk of a bench level change, so we conceded defeat and went tiles.
So the excitement is finally here and it is great to finally see some action on our block! Below are the pictures of the progress made on Day 1.
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