First Home Owners Grant (FHOG) Approved!

Finally after a lot of  paperwork going backwards and forwards, having to provide certified divorce certificates from previous marriages, current marriage certificate and a Declaration in front of a JP stating that I have been known by other names ...... we finally got our FHOG!

Still all that mucking around was worth it to get the $15,000 we can put towards the build and we are very thankful for it.

House wrapped, Insultation in and Bricks delivered to site - Photos

Bricks delivered to site

House Wrapped - Looking into Alfresco with living room to the left

Pink Batts in - living room with TV alcove

Front Entrance awaiting Pivot Door

West Side of house - Guest bedroom and Rumpus

Main Bathroom

Rumpus with Caitlyn's bedroom to the left

Ducted aircon into the Media Room

Master Bedroom

Laundry (Door won't stay blue!)

Kitchen/ Dining looking through to alfresco

East side of house

South side of house - kids bedrooms, bathroom and master bedroom to right

Kids Bedrooms

Garage

Bricks ready to be installed - these will be rendered after handover

House wrapped, Insultation in and Bricks delivered to site

It's been a couple of days since I have been able to call past the house, but hubby called passed this evening and reported that the house had been wrapped, pink batts were in the walls and there was a lovely slab of bricks on site ready to go!

Photos to follow tomorrow ...... Can't wait to see it myself!

Windows all in and Ducted Air Conditioning being installed

Taylor and I called past the house today on the way back from Nambour.   As the Chippy and Electrician were there working we stayed back and just took a couple of photos.  The windows have now all been put in and the Electrician was there installing the ducted air conditioning.

The Chippy thought that the building wrap would be going on pretty soon.  Good to see the continued progress - the chippy mentioned that they were all flatout getting as much done as they can before the Christmas shutdown!

Living Room Window (North Facing)

Can just see the silver ducting being put into the roof .... we didn't want to get too close as they were busy working

Timber Stacker Doors Installed

Timber Stacker Doors to Alfresco

Timber Stacker Doors to Alfresco

Timber Stacker Doors to Alfresco (taken from inside)

Windows Delivered

It was a nice surprise to see that the windows and timber stacking doors had been delivered sometime this morning ..... all ready for installation!

The builders weren't onsite today, so it was good to have a proper walk around with the roof on.  Taylor took one look at the roof and said "Wow it's sooooo beautiful!" ..... too cute!

Windows (Silver aluminium)  sitting in the garage awaiting installation

Timber Stacking Doors to Alfresco sitting in the kitchen ready for installation

Timber Stacking Doors to Alfresco sitting in the kitchen ready for installation

Roof is On!

After all the storms of this weekend, we were very pleased to see the roof on already!  

Roof colour and gutters is Colorbond Evening Haze and Fascia is Jasper.

Roof Battens on .... ready for our roof now!

I called into the site today just before a huge storm hit and still the builders were working away on our house putting the roof battens on.

The weather forecast for the next few days isn't too bad, so we are hoping the roof won't be too far away.

Nissen Family Tradition ..... Dinner on the slab!

In keeping with the tradition we formed when we built our last house in Christchurch, tonight we picked up Pizza and Chips from Pizza Capers and had our dinner on our concrete slab ..... our first meal in our new house!

Since our visit on Thursday, the builder had put some some safety railing up on the roof ready for the roofer to begin work next week.  Fingers crossed the predicted storms will blown themselves out before then!

Roof Trusses, Gutter & Fascia

We had our first on-site meeting with Phil, our Site Supervisor today.  He seems very nice and even more important ..... very organised!  It was good to be able to walk about the house and ask questions on things were weren't sure on.

The roof trusses all appear to be up now and there was a guy on site installing the gutters (Colorbond Evening Haze) and fascia (Colorbond Jasper).  The internal feature window from the study to the kids play room plus the bath frame has also been installed.  They are hoping to get the roof on next week ..... weather permitting.

We have been lucky with the weather until today when we had our first real storm around lunch time (up until now the storms have been at night so haven't affected site works).  The chap installing the gutter and fascia said he was held up for a short time while the storm passed and then was back into it.

Craig discussing progress with our Site Supervisor, Phil

 

Living Room with TV Alcove

Internal Window through to Study from Kids Play Area.
Study will also have a vented skylight

Bath frame to main bathroom

Corner of Ensuite

Roof Trusses going up

We visited the block again today and the roof trusses are now underway.  

We also meet a man from a pool company onsite to discuss options.  He is going to provide us with a quote and we just need to decide now exactly where we want to sited.  

We also bought our first piece of art for the house which will be for the kitchen/ dining area.

Alfresco  with living room to the left

Alfresco and garage to the right

West side of house and main entrance

Frames are up!

So the frames are up and we can finally begin to really see the shape of our house take place.  It was fantastic to finally be able to walk through the rooms and get a sense of space.

The girls were very excited to see where their rooms would be and Taylor took great delight in pretending to knock on the front door to come for a visit and of course check out the toilets!!!

From North boundary.  Living on the left, alfresco in the middle and garage to the right.

Media/ Theatre

Looking from the kitchen/ dining area out to alfresco (Media room to the right)

Kitchen with Butlers Pantry to the rear

Porch/ Entrance (garage to the right, main bathroom to the left)

West side of house (bathroom, guest, rumpus & Caitlyn's bedroom).  Lower concrete pad for watertank

Hallway looking towards kids bedrooms & study

Guest Bedroom

Rumpus/ TV Room

From Rumpus looking down hall towards kitchen (Guest to left, Study to the right)

Taylor found the toilet!!

Caitlyn found the toilet!!

Living Room