Today was a busy day at the house. The soil investigation was done. Nothing of great note was found other than the house it built on rubble. Don't really know if that's a good or a bad thing, doesn't sound brilliant does it?
The structural engineer also came through and had a good look at all of our cracks and our rollercoaster floor. On the whole though he thought the place was pretty solid which we were very happy to hear.
Finally, we have had a couple of builders providing order of magnitude costs for us based on a high level spec supplied to them by the architect. We just want to make sure the project is feasible and to provide us with some guidance for the next round of design. One of the builders wanted to have a look around the house so we headed over for another visit. Glad we live close by!
Friday, April 30, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Sign is up
Yesterday, I went to the Council and picked up our advertising board. After quite a bit of mucking around I managed to wire it quite securely to our front fence. 11 properties are also going to get a letter in the mail to let them know what we are doing.
The sign stays up for 14 days. Fingers crossed that there are no objectors. Really we aren't doing anything that would cause any of our neighbours any concern so we are quietly hopeful that we can zip through this stage. Only time will tell.
We're really starting to get anxious to move on with the internal design of the house. Based on our very broad calculations we need to have all of the house spec'd and design by the start of July to stay on track for a move in next April. (I know...it takes a long time this house renovating stuff!).
This Friday we have someone coming to do the soil investigation and the first onsite meeting with the structural engineer.
The sign stays up for 14 days. Fingers crossed that there are no objectors. Really we aren't doing anything that would cause any of our neighbours any concern so we are quietly hopeful that we can zip through this stage. Only time will tell.
We're really starting to get anxious to move on with the internal design of the house. Based on our very broad calculations we need to have all of the house spec'd and design by the start of July to stay on track for a move in next April. (I know...it takes a long time this house renovating stuff!).
This Friday we have someone coming to do the soil investigation and the first onsite meeting with the structural engineer.
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Town Planning is submitted
The Town Planning submission has been sent to Council. This will provide all of the details to get approval for the Heritage-related changes that we're making to the house. We're not doing really much that requires approval. Widening of the front gate so we can a car off street more easily and gates on either side of the house. We're hoping that it will be a straight forward process, but you never can tell with these kind of things.
Next step is to get some preliminary costings from a couple of builders. The architect has put together a list of the all of the things that will affect cost as well as supplying a range of prices for items such as the pool etc. It will be very interesting to see what comes back.
The architect says they'd prefer to wait for the Town Planning permission to come back before moving on to the internal design. Not sure why we can't get started with some things now but in the meantime we're visiting lots of showrooms and compiling pictures of all sorts of things.
Next step is to get some preliminary costings from a couple of builders. The architect has put together a list of the all of the things that will affect cost as well as supplying a range of prices for items such as the pool etc. It will be very interesting to see what comes back.
The architect says they'd prefer to wait for the Town Planning permission to come back before moving on to the internal design. Not sure why we can't get started with some things now but in the meantime we're visiting lots of showrooms and compiling pictures of all sorts of things.
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