Soil tests are booked

I got an email from my admin on Friday night to say that our soil tests have been booked in so hopefully will see them happen sometime this week. We were down at the block yesterday having a look around and there was someone doing soil tests on about 7 different blocks. I wonder if they are all being built by the same builder... I really hope ours get done this week so that we can have a normal tender, not a provisional.

Our admin also said that the earliest she can get us an appointment for contract signing is May 11th so I have asked if we can just sign them and post them so that all paperwork can be completed by the end of April when we will hopefully get the titles and then we can get started ASAP!!!

Other good news is that we found the perfect curtains for our theatre room at Spotlight so now we will wait for them to have a sale! We also got a Wiltshire cutlery set from Target that was $50 off and has 10 of everything as well as salad servers and other bits and peices. A great find! I threw our old $20 cutlery set out when we moved out so have been keeping an eye out for a sale.

Other good news - I am on holidays!!

Home Theatre and Survey Pegs

Last night on our way home from a lovely night away in Melbourne on the Friday we stopped at the block in the pitch black and saw that the road was all open and that the poles marking the blocks were back in. We shone the headlights on and had a look and our proper pegs are in so I am hoping this means that soil tests can be done very soon. I am going to give them a call on Monday to find out and then I will be straight onto Henley! I will head back in the daylight at some stage this week and take some more pics.

Today we were running a few errands and looking around, we stopped in at Harvey Norman and ended up with all our home theatre equipment on a 6 month lay-by! The sales guy was great too, we were there for about an hour and a half. It all happened out of nowhere. We got a fantastic price, half of what we were quoted at another place and all we will have to pay for is someone to install it. It's very exiciting and a great feeling to know that something else is out of the way and we can just make payments as we go. A very successful day :)

Just waiting...

Not much to report but I want to post something!! The block seems to be coming along well, the footpaths are in on one side and it looked like the ones on our side are ready to be poured, this was on Monday night. I called our engineer on Friday to ask how it was coming along as Henley will do our soil tests as soon as the construction is finished and they are now saying the end of March. They previously told me end of February so that's a bit of a bugger. The guy still thought that we would have titles by the end of April though so that's ok. Will just have to wait and see.

We have another colour appointment booked for the 14th of March and I am actually quite nervous after our last one. I have my list so I will just go through that and hopefully will be a little smoother than last time. Once we have done that, we can do a provisional tender 10 days later to find out the prices of everything other than site costs. This means that once we have the site costs, we will be able to send everything off as soon as the land settles, so should speed things up a bit. Fingers crossed anyways!

I'm thinking we will go and check out a few more Henley displays this weekend before we go back to Cosham. See how we go :)

All moved

Last weekend we spend two HUGE days moving everything out. Friday night was packing, packing, packing and then on Saturday we moved the majority of our things into storage. Three trips with their trailer and some rearranging (the treadmill and BBQ were the hardest!) we were done. I'm glad we went for the larger sized unit.
Saturday night was spent organising what we would be taking out to the farm and cleaning the house from top to bottom for the new owners. I'm so glad I did that on the Saturday because I have been so tired ever since that the thought of having to go back and clean would have been really bad!!
Sunday morning we got up nice and early, packed our cars, waited for mum and dad to arrive and then moved ourselves and two dogs (the cat has already made her move out there) out to the farm. We are all settled in now with just a few little things to organise. I am still feeling it though! Was better than the gym!
The inspection on the house is today and then settlement is on Friday. I must admit I was very sad to leave, welled up a bit when we left. I loved living there and have nothing but fond memories. Now onto the next chapter of our lives.
My last visit to the block was Friday and I am waiting until this Friday to go again. The engineer told me that construction should be finished by the end of Feb so I have my fingers crossed. Once that is done we can get our soil tests and do our tender appointment so we will know what we are up for!
I am waiting to hear from our admin to see if we can have another (shorter) colours appointment to go over everything we missed and to find out a few prices on things that we were told we would find out before tender such as the theatre extension price as we are not having a stacker door so hopefully should be a little cheaper.
Fingers crossed for the block visit on Friday!!