Locked up, Site clean & a brand new Kitchen!

Our house is all locked up!  Here is a pic of our front door:

Front yard is also looking much more presentable after a site clean:

Here is a close up of the stairs in our garage:

Our Internal Stairs:

We have Power!

This was another big week for our build. All the Insulation is in and the Gyprock has also been completed. It only took them 2 days! The first time we have seen tradies there on a Saturday :-)

We also had our Power hooked up to the mains. The Electrician was great and gave us several options where the power could be attached to our house.

There are several lines already crossing our property from neighbouring houses as you can see from the photo so we opted out of the additional $1500 for an underground line.

Private Building Inspections

Time to organise a Private Building Inspection for peace of mind and to pick up things that we would miss as we know nothing about building houses LOL

We decided to get an inspection at lock-up and one at handover. 

Our three quotes:

Jims Building Inspections - $385 + $480 (Total $865)
Howard http://www.hnkryan.com $550 per inspection with homeone discount (Total $1100)
Houspect.com.au Total $950 for both Inspections 


We went with Houspect even though they weren't the cheapest as they were super quick to follow up on my inquiry and have a local office on the Northern Beaches.
The inspection report was emailed within 24 hours of doing the inspection complete with photos of our house :-) Only two minor things were picked up. A bit of plaster on the fence (lol) and some water damage to the timberwork to several of the upstairs windows. It did pour all weekend before the roof went on and should be easily fixed.
All up we are pretty impressed with the quality of the build so far! The house looks great and if the Internals are completed to the same standard we will be very happy customers :-)