Over the weekend, I’ve been thinking that we really need to visit the World of Style (WoS) a few times before our 2 day WoS appointment. We are actually encouraged to visit the WoS as many times as possible before the WoS appointment to get a feel for what is available. In fact a friend …
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WoS Appointment Postponed
Got a phone call today. Our World of Style appointment has been moved forward! It’s now on 23/11 and 26/11. Good timing too as we plan on demolishing our house sometime in December. They’ve got us pencilled in for April 1 start, but hopefully if we demolish earlier, they’d be able to start sooner rather …
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World of Style Appointment
We signed the contract over the weekend and yesterday, we had to make our initial payment of just under $17k. For some reason, my credit card couldn’t pay the full amount even though it had enough funds in there. So they took $10k yesterday and once the final drawings are complete, then they’ll take the …
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Tender Round 2
We had a courtesy call last week from our building coordinator. That was nice. She just called to touch base to see how we were going with our tender. Completely did not expect that phone call considering what I’ve been reading in the PD forums on Facebook. Today we had our tender, round 2. Actually …
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Changed our mind
So as expected, we changed our mind yet again. This morning, I emailed our tender presenter (TP) and told her that we would like to increase the cut to 9.0 instead of 8.8. This would in effect raise the house position 20cm. I figured that it was probably better to increase the house position and …
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Tender
Prior to today, I’ve been trying to get in touch with my BC to see if they received the changes that I requested for tender including a few major changes. I’ve been trying to reach by SC also, but no one seemed to want to talk to me. I was so anxious that I called …
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First contact with our Building Coordinator
We just had our first call with our building coordinator yesterday. Spent about 40 minutes on the phone with her. She was very nice and didn’t rush or push things, patiently explaining the process and making sure that we understand what is required of us. Told her that we plan on making changes to the …
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Tender Appointment booked
Forgot to update the blog… we got a call on August 23 to book in our tender appointment… finally! Anyway, we did a bit of research to be an owner builder thinking that it will save us some money. After speaking to a custom builder who does this sort of work, we found out that …
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No news… silence…
So we haven’t heard anything from Porter Davis for a while now. The last contact we had was on July 18 when we received the soil test and surveying report – turns out our soil classification is “P”. If you don’t know what that means, here’s a table that explains it. So that’s right, we …
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First visit to World of Style
Today we went to the World of Style by Porter Davis in South Melbourne. It’s our first visit so we had no idea what to expect. I’m colour blind and apparently I have no taste when it comes to design and clashes of colour, so I left it to my wife to make all the …
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