Sunday 19 June 2011

More clearing

Only a little bit of action this week.

Optus have removed their cables as they said, the power forms have gone in but still waiting on a response.  All of the demolition quotes have been recieved just going through the corrections and changes to these as required.  Hopefully we can decide on one this week and get the permitting sorted out and get this show on the road.

Debbie and I have had to put in a few hard yards and managed to get all of the pavers from around the house up on to the retaining wall, these were reasonably straight forward using a crow bar and shovel.  The driveway pavers are next weeks task, they have been cemented in so looks like another date with the crow bar.  We'll reuse these pavers around the new house to create the hard run off perimeter.

We gave away the old shed and the colourbond fence to our neighbour who has been busy in the last few days.

Ashford have come through with the first draft of the drawings and we will meet with them next week to discuss some changes.  The main items for us to finalise are arranging our appliances so we can provide the models and sizes to Ashford. 

So looks like a couple more weekends of hard yakka to go.  Have to finish off the pavers and try to get a few of the floor boards up to use as landscaping materials when the new house is done.


Pavers stockpiled to the retaining wall.


The old shed slab

A now extremely uneven grassy surface.  Looks a bit too uneven for the mower now, what a shame!

The block looks huge now without fences and trees

Saturday 11 June 2011

Site clearing progress

Its been a productive but also slightly frustrating couple of weeks.  On the good side we've managed to get all the trees removed, the stumps ground, some of the services removed and started on lifting the pavers.  On the frustrating side trying to get quotes for demolition is like pulling teeth.

We had Joey's trees in on Friday they cleared the block in 3 hours.  At the same time as the trees were going down the gas company arrived and removed the metre.  Optus are coming next week to remove the cable, Telstra after speaking to 7 different people I finally got on to someone who could help, spoke to them at 6pm on Friday and the line was disconnected by lunchtime on Saturday.  Still have to fill out the forms to have the power connections moved to a pit and get the overhead lines removed.

Two demolition quotes have been submitted and still waiting for one more.  Hopefully we can get this part settled this week and get on with organising the permits.

Still waiting on the working drawings from Ashford, we should see these this week I hope.

Some pictures of the tree removal.....