At Last At Last A Sign At Last

The Metricon Board is up!
Two sleeps until build start!


The Board



Board and Block

First Contact (with SS)

Managed to catch up with the SS over the phone yesterday and he has confirmed the site scrape will be going ahead next week. We are very very very excited and will have cameras at the ready to document every step of the way. We are meeting on site beforehand just to go over things. He tells us he thinks that this is the first Nolan to be built in Queensland (not sure how true that is so if you know of anyone who has built a Nolan in the sunshine state we to love to hear about it). While we had him on the phone we asked about the Metricon board and he laughed saying he'd gone to put it up on Monday but it was raining so hard that after sitting in his car for an hour he decided it'd be better to come back later this week rather than risk a soaking. What, you can't bash a sign in with one hand and hold an umbrella in another? No only teasing - as long as rain doesn't delay our build.

The SS Only Rings Once

Hello are you there?

Our SS rang yesterday, sadly I was busy at work and could not take his call. When I phoned back it was after 5pm and I got his voice message so guess we will have to try again today. Kicking myself that I had not given Sandy's mobile as alternative contact. Obviously we are keen to get things moving as start date is now 9 days and counting.

Due Date Count Down

Like expectant parents we are counting down the days to our due date of 2nd June, the date of our build start. Apparently we will get a call from the site supervisor (SS) before then so we can have a site meeting and introduce ourselves. Only 10 days to go - oh and we still don't have a Metricon board yet.

Start Date For Real

Yippee yippee yay. Metricon have given us the real site start date - Thursday June 2nd. Fantastic. Looks like we are building a house then.

Show M The Money

Metricon have all the paperwork from the bank.Yippee they have all the figures and the ACC arrived. Its all going to plan. Ah but no they need more paperwork.....we are funding part of the build ourselves from the profits of our house sale so we have had to provide a copy of our bank statement showing that we actually have the cash. And just in case that's not enough we also had to get a statutory declaration signed saying we are in a position to pay.
No problem printed off, signed off, Justice of the Peaced (?) and faxed. OK Metricon the ball is back in your court......Now can we start our build please!

Finances Are GO!!!

Yippeeeee

Time to start celebrating as finally we have the all clear from the bank, our finances have been approved for the construction loan. The ACC (authorisation to commence construction) letter will be at Metricon tomorrow so now hopefully we'll see some action.
I have paid the remainder of the deposit and can't wait for my Metricon board to go up on the land. There are 4 others building with M on the 30 plus blocks that I know of as they have their boards up already. I have a serious case of board envy.