Apologies for the delay in posting. I was holding out until
we received the final kitchen layouts, and possibly Council Approval, however
neither has turned up. Yep, Council have had our plans since early January and
are still yet to give us a green light. What’s more, our neighbours called
hassling about when we will start building so we can have a fence installed and
when we explained that we are still waiting for Council approval, they then let
us know that they had asked Council to reject our plans. Lovely. Rather
than coming to us with their issue, they’ve potentially held us up and cost us
time and money. They feel that one of our bedroom windows will look into their
ensuite bathroom, which has frosted glass anyway, however we triple-checked the
drawings before submission so that we don’t look into anyone’s house. We don’t
want to be looking into their bathroom any more than they want us looking in! We’re
just disappointed that they went about things in an under-handed way. If they
had come to us first we could have showed them the plans relative to their house, and had they been nice but still unhappy about the window, we
would have changed it to a highlight window (an option we considered anyway).
It would have been less drama and more amicable. We’re still paying for a
temporary fence though as it is the fair thing to do.
Edit: Council finally
got back to our builder this week, and have requested that more engineering
drawings be drafted and a new site survey be ordered as they have changed the
slab classifications since our plans were drafted. So, we’re looking at another
$500 and two weeks for plans to be drawn, then more waiting while Council
deliberate. This is how I feel about that:
&^*^*&&%^$Q*#!!@#$%^&*+(@)*&!@!@(@&!%$!+!&!%^@%#$!$#@!$%#&!*@#@)#@!!!
On the bright side, no
mention of the bedroom window or neighbour complaint was made, so it looks like
that isn’t an issue.
Anyway, our kitchen plans are coming along nicely, and I
would have been able to show you but our kitchen contact decided to make more
changes than requested, which we don’t like, and so we have asked him to change
it to the exact specifications we gave. I’ll post them as soon as I get them.
Bathroom selections are also nearly finalised. Our poor
builder has been asking for them for weeks now, but it’s tough when you can’t
see the space or have weekdays off to visit showrooms, assuming they even have
the items you want to look at on display! I will post more on these soon.
In the meantime, we ordered those pendant lights for the
kitchen and they turned up today. We quickly took one out of the box and it
looks great! I will take pics when we take the other two out to check them
later.
Sorry for the sparse post but I have just started a new job
and Mick is swamped at his, so we have been spending our time working with the
spare moments taken up by house planning, weddings and other such things. This
weekend we’re heading up to Newcastle to visit family (with a possible quick
stop at Reece to look at toilets) and on the way back we’re seeing a very dear
friend who is losing a family member. It is sad moments like these that make
you realise that work and house plans, whilst important, aren’t what really
matter in the grand scheme of things...
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