Yes it has been a while since my last post.
As you can imagine getting the keys to a new house is pretty daunting. So much to organise. Insurance, change of address, moving, and buying new furniture! Put in Christmas and New Year and here we are!
We are beginning to settle in to our new house. The kids are loving the space and having their own rooms. Finally we have an ensuite. It was worth the 10 year wait!
There have been a few hiccups since we moved in. Luckily we have our Site Supervisor who still looks after us one month in. He was great. Very accommodating and made sure all the tradies who came to the house after we moved in fitted into my schedule not theirs!
With Christmas and New Year so close to our move there have a been a couple of issues with tradies. Obviously everything closes up for the holidays so we are still waiting on some urgent things to be fixed. This I can tell you is very frustrating! I am hoping in the coming days we will get some responses back from Metricon and the tradesman in question.
In saying that any small issues/defects we find in the house we need to note them down and then in 3 months (since receiving the keys), Metricon will do a walk through to note down any issues. Let me tell you that the list is long!
That's not to say we are not happy with the end result. In fact the overall building process with Metricon has been good. Bar a few small hiccups here and there our Site Supervisor and Service Coordinator were fantastic. Always there to help.
Now that we are in the house we have started to focus our attention on landscaping. After much searching we settled on Ben from Daviscapes. You may have seen his work or heard of his name as there are a few blogs out there that are or have used him.
We found him to be very approachable, honest and helpful. In saying that he is also very busy so we are waiting patiently for the job to begin. My fingers are crossed that he starts our decking next week. We would love to have our daughter's birthday in Feb here at the house so I can only hope that it all comes together by then.
I promise to keep up with my posts. Especially the landscaping as I have noticed not many build blogs go passed the "Got the Keys" post! I think it is important to show the full story...so watch this space!
