23/9/2016 - One day after being placed on the construction list, MJH's surveyor pegged out my block and several others within the estate. What is frustrating, is despite everything seeming to refer to pegging as being the start of construction, MJH are now claiming that site start isn't until after my site was scraped.
1/10/2016 - After a week of no progress since pegging, I got a message from one of my new neighbours to say that my block had been scraped. I was very surprised to see that they had worked the Saturday of the October long weekend.
4/10/2016 - MJH's slab supervisor called me to introduce himself and also tell me that piering was happening the next day. Lucky I had a flexible manager and was able to get away at such short notice...
5/10/2016 - MJH's contractors piered the wrong MJH block (luckily for them they used the right plans for that block), so my piering was put off for another day.
6/10/2016 - Piering finally went ahead and I came in at 37.9 lineal metres and I was very happy that I went well under my 50 lineal metre allowance. It did however take two months before I actually got a credit for it from my CLO...
Slab
11/10/2016 - Internal drainage had been completed for my block.
14/10/2016 - The slab formwork and steelwork was completed and my building inspector had a look at the slab. Unfortunately the quality of work was not upto scratch and it took alot of arguing with the SS and MJH management before they actually cancelled the pour and agreed to fix the issues.
28/10/2016 - Slab was finally poured. Mostly pretty good however, they obviously hadn't put the star post supports in very far as the drop edge beam bowed.
3/11/2016 - Windows delivered to site.
8/11/2016 - External drainage was completed.
Frame
9/11/2016 - Kordon was installed on the slab and the frame was delivered to site.
16/11/2016 - Frame walls and trusses were put up.
17/10/2016 - Frame was completed and the windows were installed.
Overall the frame was pretty good and the issues that I brought up with my Site Supervisor Brett got sorted out without any issues.
Note: Photo is of the frame after the first of the two days they worked on it.
23/11/2016 - Wall was wrapped.
Progress has been quite fast so far with the exception of the delays on the slab. The downside to the fast progress has been some big drawdowns on the mortgage already!
Currently they have almost finished the bricking and roofing is about to start. Will update again in a few weeks with that progress!
