Not long now.

We met with our builder on the weekend to go over final items for the run home with the house.
We wanted to ask for a completion date so we can start the hideous task of getting organized ready for the move. We'll hire movers and packers.. as we just have to much crap... that and it's a little bit too far to make multiple runs. (Big cleanout this weekend... feel free to drop past as we ditch hundreds of old PC parts, memory, HDDs, power supplies, and you name it!)

The builder bet us to the punch... and announced. "I'm attempting to get you in here in 6 weeks". We both dropped our jaws.. they were still plastering the house when he said that. "Yup, don't hold me on that, but 6-8 weeks we should have you in. This stuff wont take us long now."

So we're quite excited... even if it looks like a skeleton at present... Today (Wednesday) all the plastering is meant to be complete with cornices going up as well. So I guess benches, cupboards will start to go in now... along with tiling and carpets.

For those that want to see the progress of our house being built (and why wouldn't you?!) You can watch it go from a block of land to the final stage over on our flickr account.

To be honest, the building process for us has been quite smooth sailing to date. (fingers crossed it's like that for the remainder!) We've had an extremely picky builder and some very good tradies working with him. It has made the process a lot less stressful as a result.

Here is a quick flick through some of the photos of the place for those too lazy to click on our flickr link.

So there is a bit to do still from our behalf. We're organising some fences (to keep dogs in!), as well as concreting. The concreting of the Alfresco is included in the house but we'll do down the side of the Western side to make a nice court yard that the Alfresco will spill out into. We also have driveways and paths to concrete around the house. There is also a 10,500L water tank to get installed and fitted.

We've run 48 points of Cat6-GigE throughout the house... and about 12 of those are PoE. We've also decided to put up the TV antenna now as it's much easier running it prior to the plastering.

We are also going to install a drought tolerant flowering modern native Australian garden... but all in due course. We've waited this long for our first house, so some of the finishing touches will take a little bit of time. We'll just be happy to move into a house we call our own*.


_{* Well the banks anyway!}