Celebration Homes gave us a contruction time of 26 weeks. We are pretty excited at the prospect of being in our new home within 6 months of siteworks starting. Even more exciting is that we have a start date......13th April! YAY! The countdown begins......
Week 1
The clearing of our block has begun and there is a lot to clean up. You may remember how it looked pre-construction, lots of shrubs, some big, some small and it had been used as a bit of a dumping ground for some time.
Here is how it looks now......
That's one big pile of rubish and an even bigger mountain of dirt!! There was even a gate buried on the block!! Can you see it sticking out of the ground in the pic?
We were very excited to see some action happening on our block, but our excitement soon turned to disappointment and confusion. We received an email Friday afternoon from a Construction Manager informing us that the big mountain of dirt was in fact "contaminated" soil and had to be removed along with that big pile of rubish. They also needed to bring in 300m3 of cleanfill. This was all going to cost us a little over double our original earthwork cost. What a way to start our building journey! It's no surprise we sent an email back immmediately with many questions. After an agonising wait over the weekend we got an email back Monday afternoon. It seems the Director of the Earthworks company chose this week to go away and the fill-in had different ideas. The Construction Manager apologised for causing any anguish and after some negotiating with the Earthworks company, he had sorted it all out and there will be no additional cost to us. We were so relieved and ever so thankful of his efforts to acheive this outcome.
Back to being excited and back to business with a delivery of those metal thingies for the slab =)
