Time for that lotto ticket

Well, we are back from our new home proposal. What a morning! We now know that we are going to start saving big time or win lotto to get everything on our list.


We received the siting plan and drawings via email last night so we had a quick chance to look through them before our meeting. It was great to see all our changes incorporated in the drawings and to see how the house will sit on the block size wise.

However, our biggest concern was that the siting of the house was in the middle of the block meaning that there was no room to put in the driveway to the shed and still be in the building envelope, basically meaning that unless we can move it as close to the left hand boundary as possible we won’t be able to go ahead with the Plantation design

We raised this with our consultant today and she is going to find out what the chances of moving the house over are.

Here is the siting as it is at the moment:

There were a few surprises in the proposal like a $10,000 allowance for any bushfire specifications that may be needed due to new laws; we can get a more accurate idea of what the costs will be if we pay $400 to get an assessment done. We think this is a good idea, but won’t get it done until we can get confirmation that the house can be moved.

We were also unaware that we will need to provide and maintain a watertank for use when the builders are onsite.

We made quite a few changes and requests for quotes on the proposal given to us, our consultant will be emailing through an updated document hopefully early next week and we can then review it with the aim of having final sign off by early next year.

And the house designs are:

Current build time for 2 storey houses is 24 weeks, it would be great to be in before Christmas next year.