I can't believe how fast our brickies worked considering the amount of days lost due to heavy rain. We now have all brickwork done and they've started the two houses over the road.
We have steel roof trusses on one and a second delivery has arrived for the St Louis house so that steel goes up this week. I would truly hate that job its so noisy! Phil is keeping his fingers crossed that he doesn't have to go up in the roof space for any reason. Not as easy to crawl through as wooden joists and beams.
WE finally got individual titles on each block this week. Unbelievably slow process and I'm not sure I'd bother subdividing again. I think we could have done just as well buying single blocks and building two completely separate residences. I won't really know until the actual build finish date.
Thing is we settled on the block in May 2006, then the application for green titles went in about early July 2006. Months later, we then reverted to a strata application when the green was provisionally approved and the shire put out their hand for an extra $25K which we weren't expecting!! So then right back to the beginning of the process and applied for strata titles and here we are August 2007. Was it worth it?? Not sure yet, because there's been a fair whack for holding costs to factor in because of the delay in starting the building. You can't start a build while a green title application is in process but you can start with a strata application, so we didn't start for months.
Well Here are the latest photos.
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=520
It's all fairly speedy right now but I understand there will be some delays with the finishing trades.
We have steel roof trusses on one and a second delivery has arrived for the St Louis house so that steel goes up this week. I would truly hate that job its so noisy! Phil is keeping his fingers crossed that he doesn't have to go up in the roof space for any reason. Not as easy to crawl through as wooden joists and beams.
WE finally got individual titles on each block this week. Unbelievably slow process and I'm not sure I'd bother subdividing again. I think we could have done just as well buying single blocks and building two completely separate residences. I won't really know until the actual build finish date.
Thing is we settled on the block in May 2006, then the application for green titles went in about early July 2006. Months later, we then reverted to a strata application when the green was provisionally approved and the shire put out their hand for an extra $25K which we weren't expecting!! So then right back to the beginning of the process and applied for strata titles and here we are August 2007. Was it worth it?? Not sure yet, because there's been a fair whack for holding costs to factor in because of the delay in starting the building. You can't start a build while a green title application is in process but you can start with a strata application, so we didn't start for months.
Well Here are the latest photos.
http://www.somersoft.com/forums/gallery/showgallery.php?cat=520
It's all fairly speedy right now but I understand there will be some delays with the finishing trades.