All Gone

Demolisher's finally finished on Tuesday! 3 weeks it took....Not happy Jan! 

We were told a week, admittedly they started on the Monday looks like they did some stuff on the Tuesday and then it rained for the rest of the week, Monday was a public holiday and Tuesday and Wednesday it rained the following week...come Thursday and Friday no sign of any work it was cold and a little overcast but it was not raining! Its Monday again and still no one on site (I have to go past our block twice a day to drop off and pick up my son from school, also my husband goes past on his way home from work around lunch time, we got constant surveillance on that place lol). Tuesday Nothing as well, we made a phone call after that (we are incredibly patient people, but enough is enough!) Wednesday, Thursday and Friday they were there but alias they didn't get to finish the job. I am sure they started at 8 and finished at 3! Monday AGAIN!!! No one to be seen another phone call, the job got finished the next day....Looks like they did a good job however there still seems to be a few roots in the ground at the front and side of the block, I hope that won't matter? Would I recommend these guys ABSOLUTELY NOT, and the reason being not entirely based on it taking so long, but for not having the decency to keep us informed about what they were up to!

On a Happy Note our site supervisor has our file and is organising site cut....YIPPPEEEEE!

Learning to be patient

Not a lot has happened in the last month, we are in limbo and patiently waiting to make our next move. Friday I spent the entire day sorting through one of the kids rooms and throwing out rubbish and broken toys, I managed to pack and throw out the majority of it, I am now left with a pile of toys, lego, duplo, barbies etc etc to sort through, some to keep and some off to charity.

We had to resubmit our landscape plan which we are currently getting done by designerscapes and I highly recommend them. We spoke to the lady assessing our council application and she said she will continue to assess it so there won't be any delay. I almost ended up in a meltdown over the whole thing...crazy I know but it has been one of those weeks! 

Started to look for a rental on Saturday, hmm I am glad it will only be temporary! There is nothing nice about these places. I do realise that our current accommodation is only worthy of demolition, but it has been our home for the past 10+ years, and I raised my children in this house. However I am not sure if  it is the accommodation we are looking for is not desirable because it is not or because of my attachment to my house that I could not wait to huff and puff and blow down! This attachment to the house has completely caught me off guard I am feeling so sad about leaving here yet I am so excited and can't wait to live in our new home its all this in-between stuff I don't like.

Hopefully I will have something more exciting to write about in the next couple of weeks, in the meantime I am having a lesson in patience.

Waiting for our Contracts…….exciting!

Not a lot to report, we have signed off on our colours after making a few tweaks and filled out the paperwork for the council, we have decided on who will do our demolition and cut down our trees (more council paperwork to be filled out) we are also in the process of sorting our landscape plan and now we are waiting on our contract hopefully ready by the end of next week!

I am aware that our local council is a little slow when signing off on paperwork but I really do hope that it doesn't take too long I am now ready (well almost …Still have a house of stuff to sort, throw out and pack, and to find a place to live!)

We still need to get an official quote for the floorboards which is difficult when no one will tell us how many square metres of floor we will have left after taking off the wet areas (So far this is the only thing that has annoyed me, I am not sure what the big deal is and why MDJ won't tell us …rant over!) of course we can take the plans to our floor guy and he should be able to estimate it, but it would be much easier if we already knew!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and New year, Being in the industry that I am in I worked over the holiday break and am now officially on holidays for a couple of weeks (Yay) so will have plenty of time to get myself organised and up to date with paper work, and spend some quality time yelling at the kids (just kidding I am sure we will do some fun stuff too)

here is hoping that our paperwork will be into council before the end of the month!

Still undecided about the brick!

I have looked at lots of houses in the bricks that I like, and I am still no closer to making a decision! this is really hard, really really hard! I may have narrowed it down but I am not confident in my decision. I am usually so good with this kind of thing I know what I don't like so that has helped, but I am not sure that I like what is left over.

We have our colour appointment on Thursday so I hope I can come up with something!

Any tips or advice on choosing would be greatly appreciated

Plans are in the mail

Woo Hoo got a message today to say our plans are in the mail….I am excited just a little! I have been warned that Liverpool council will take 3 months but I was prepared for that anyway!
Feel like something is happening now…. So all going well construction should start around March/April.