Monday - Day 1
Tuesday - Day 2
Thursday - Day 4
Saturday - Day 6
Friday, November 22, 2013
Slab & Frame
We have a lot of progress but not much to say...other than "wow". We have visited 4 times this week and the progress each time has been amazing.
Monday, November 4, 2013
The Waiting Game
When we first started thinking about building with Dennis Family Homes I had read about how ridiculously slow they were to get the contract and paperwork organised. We discussed it and thought that it was possible that the people writing the reviews just had bad experiences. WRONG.
In their defence, DFH were up front about how long it would take (12 weeks to prepare the contract and site start 6 weeks after that) so we were never under any pretence that it was going to happen quickly. We paid our initial deposit in June but it was another couple of weeks before we signed the estimate (due to us being indecisive about the double glazed windows). I contacted DFH in August to make sure we were still on track and was advised that the contract was not going to be ready until November!! This caused us quite a few issues so we had our case escalated and they were able to prepare our contract by the first week of September.
Selecting our colours and signing of the contract was all very exciting. The 6 weeks from contract signing to site start turned into 8 weeks because we ended up needing to get approval from our neighbours to set our house back 6 meters as theirs was set back 7 meters.
Last week we received the call from our Site Supervisor who advised us that we were officially onsite YAY! Our site cut was done on last Friday, it should all start happening pretty quickly from now on :) DFH estimate 4-5 months until handover.
Here is an outline of our timeline to date.
Deposit on Land 20/05/2013
Land Settlement 03/06/2013
Paid Deposit to DFH 03/06/2013
Signed Estimate to go to tender 23/06/2013
Received Contract 05/09/2013
Signed Contract 09/09/2013
Colour Appointment 09/09/2013
Received final Working Drawings and variations 01/10/2013
Site Cut 01/11/2013
In their defence, DFH were up front about how long it would take (12 weeks to prepare the contract and site start 6 weeks after that) so we were never under any pretence that it was going to happen quickly. We paid our initial deposit in June but it was another couple of weeks before we signed the estimate (due to us being indecisive about the double glazed windows). I contacted DFH in August to make sure we were still on track and was advised that the contract was not going to be ready until November!! This caused us quite a few issues so we had our case escalated and they were able to prepare our contract by the first week of September.
Selecting our colours and signing of the contract was all very exciting. The 6 weeks from contract signing to site start turned into 8 weeks because we ended up needing to get approval from our neighbours to set our house back 6 meters as theirs was set back 7 meters.
Last week we received the call from our Site Supervisor who advised us that we were officially onsite YAY! Our site cut was done on last Friday, it should all start happening pretty quickly from now on :) DFH estimate 4-5 months until handover.
Here is an outline of our timeline to date.
Deposit on Land 20/05/2013
Land Settlement 03/06/2013
Paid Deposit to DFH 03/06/2013
Signed Estimate to go to tender 23/06/2013
Received Contract 05/09/2013
Signed Contract 09/09/2013
Colour Appointment 09/09/2013
Received final Working Drawings and variations 01/10/2013
Site Cut 01/11/2013
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