Visited the house again 2 days ago and again today. Piers are complete, got the report from the building inspector after their inspection of the piers. Said that there were 62 piers, all of which were up to 3m deep. Some were shallower than that, but they hit rock, so can’t go any deeper. Guess …
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Site cut
My site supervisor gave me a call a couple of days ago to introduce himself. He sounds like a nice guy, he told me about the plans for the site and that we should hopefully have a slab down by the end of the month. I have indicated to him that I have engaged a …
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Temporary fencing is up
I previously bought fencing for about $550 to put up after demolition. The cost was a mixture of 6 new panels and 6 second hand panels and 7 concrete bases. PD had requested that I remove the temporary fencing because they want to put up their own fencing. So I removed them 2 days ago. …
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Entering Construction stage
We were penalised $2000 for delays to the start date. Apparently we were supposed to start in March, but because it’s May, they have penalised us $1000 per month past the start date. I argued that the delay was caused by KC not replying promptly… according to my calculations, we were waiting over 4 months …
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Hygienist Clearance Certificate for Asbestos
Finally got everything out of the way. Our KC consultant quit and we got a new consultant who replies within a few hours of our emails! I think if we had this consultant right from the beginning, we would have started construction months ago! We’re finally entering the final stages now. We have signed off …
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Promotional Credits
So it’s been months now and I’m still waiting for KC to get back to me. Well, they did get back to me last week, but I replied with some additional changes. Nothing back yet. Probably won’t hear anything for another month or so. Seems like everytime I email them, it takes a month to …
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Contract Appointment
We finally had our contract appointment yesterday. Received a phone call the day before to advise that the contract documents will be emailed to me and then another email will be sent 10 minutes prior to the appointment with the Zoom link to join the meeting. Didn’t receive anything… called our BC and she called …
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Happy New Year! Time to organise demolition.
2021 came and went so quickly! It’s been over 6 months now since we paid the deposit to Porter Davis. Things are going a lot slower than I expected. Our contract date is coming up in just under 2 weeks and we have almost finalised everything. Kitchen Culture has only gotten back to me once …
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World Of Style
Well, what a whirlwind week it’s been the last 10 days! On November 23rd, we had our first full day WoS appointment. Electrical Four hours… We had to decide all electrical components in the entire house within 4 hours! For electrical, I already had a plan on what we wanted so it wasn’t too bad. …
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Tender Drawings Finalised
We have paid the second half of our deposit and have finalised the tender drawings. Looking good… Been told that there was no lunch provided and the cafe will probably not be open either. So at the WoS appointment, we’d have to walk to South Melbourne Market for lunch. Don’t know if this is good …
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