Here are some construction pics of 16 St Andrew's Place, Lake Gardens, Ballarat!

It's MY HOUSE!!!! :cheers:

Here's the vacant block and the sorrounding cliched new estate neighborhood:

http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/house1.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/house2.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/house3.jpg

And this was taken yesterday with pipes sticking out of the ground and trenching done, starting to look nice and muddy!

http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/house4.jpg


:runaway:

shit melbourne really is booming:):)

brick veener?? 240x110x76 :bash:

show us some marketing shots! expensive?

How cool is this! Great idea Kushantaiidan!

We can watch your house get built. Please keep us updated.

lol Good one!! :okay:

Lol ..

"Construction has commenced on a landmark new groundscraper at St.Andrews Place, Lake Gardens.

Architects have designed the towering edifice at 7.8m/26ft/1st - completion is expected in late 2004.

A revolving observation deck is planned on the clothes line in the backyard..

"

Lol ..

"Construction has commenced on a landmark new groundscraper at St.Andrews Place, Lake Gardens.

Architects have designed the towering edifice at 7.8m/26ft/1st - completion is expected in late 2004.

A revolving observation deck is planned on the clothes line in the backyard..

"

Haha.. I just couldn't contain my excitement. I'm getting financial assistance from my parents in return for them living with me for maybe another 2 years. I get along pretty well with them, though they can be over bearing, but they have pretty much lent me $40,000, on top of the state and federal first home owners grants, plus a $3000 cash back, chuck in my savings, and a healthy salary and approved loan, and ding! I have a house. Nothing fancy, but not a bad acheivement considering my social, financial and employment status merely 2 years ago, unemployed, kicked out of uni, dumped by girlfriend, kicked out of her house with a $9000 debt. And i'm only 22. Woot woot! ANd it's bike riding distance from work.

The foundations for the slab are now in place, but it was too rainy and dark for pics 7:30 in the morning!!

got any renderings of what its going to look like?

Its a shame its not taller really, this site had so much potential :D

:rofl:

Yes, renderings!

Is it in the modern or post-modern style? ;)

Hey Kush, let me know when the tower crane is going up, I might be able to get the erection costs down a bit.

slab or post? let us know when theres a pour! with the 30mpa

I'll take a photo of the rendering in the newspaper! THey haven't pored the slab yet, but they've got the gravel foundations done.. I think the workers are just waiting for some dry weather... More pics soon. ^_^

Haha.. I just couldn't contain my excitement. I'm getting financial assistance from my parents in return for them living with me for maybe another 2 years. I get along pretty well with them, though they can be over bearing, but they have pretty much lent me $40,000, on top of the state and federal first home owners grants, plus a $3000 cash back, chuck in my savings, and a healthy salary and approved loan, and ding! I have a house. Nothing fancy, but not a bad acheivement considering my social, financial and employment status merely 2 years ago, unemployed, kicked out of uni, dumped by girlfriend, kicked out of her house with a $9000 debt. And i'm only 22. Woot woot! ANd it's bike riding distance from work.

The foundations for the slab are now in place, but it was too rainy and dark for pics 7:30 in the morning!!
Great stuff You should be one of our leading property developers by the time you are 30 going on your spectacular progress so far.

Still no slab! It's like waiting for a core-rise! :bash:

There's a Putzmeister on my block! It's bloody massive! Pics coming soon. =)

Yes, pics please. I'm sure your itchin' to take some of its progression.

(I still think this thread is super-cool. Every time I see the title I smile).

Cheers
John :)

Lol, yeah this thread is awesome.

I'm still annoyed at the slow progress!
Bloody unions :D hahaha
/me brings the union bitching into this thread too.

Lol, yeah this thread is awesome.

I'm still annoyed at the slow progress!
Bloody unions :D hahaha
/me brings the union bitching into this thread too.

Pictures coming tonight! Sorry for the lack of them, I've taken a few, but I've been too lazy to hostthem! But I will tongiht. We also found out the reason for the slow progress. They began digging the foundations before the permit was approved! The submitted the permit, and began work expecting the permit would be approved as per schedule, but it was delayed for some reason, swo they had to stop. But a little birdy told me today that they started work again!

I was so impressed driving into the suburb, i could see the putzmeister towering above the houses. It's liket he tallest structure in the suburb! Go me!

And I still intend to post a rendering!! (I must not forget)

It's not really going to be all that impressive a house.. But it's all a young single hopeless bachelor like me can afford!

but i've bought some pencil pines and lights for the driveway.. Which should look regal!

Don't be "lazy" in posting the pics.

..and you were serious about the Putzmeister. I thought you were continuing the joking around in regard to comparing it to a scraper's construction..

LOL @ "Go me!"

Guess what?
My camera has CRAPPED IT'S PANTS.. I think the putzmeister picture is corrupt..

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to resize, resizing now.. =)


http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/IM000979.JPG
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/Picture.jpg

while we're on suburban houses, here's another U/C

http://www.thehoddlegrid.net/dump/themontreal.JPG

guess what the 'model' is called at the Display Village?

"The Montréal" - WTF?

the day I heard that was the day I vowed NEVER to live in a suburb - apart from an established inner-city one.

!

carry on. :)

write your name in the slab!

no, it's the house on the right, open garage, wog-mansion-like pillars out the front (:lol: ) etc.

i'm not that much of a fan of suburbia either, and i am kinda trapping myself in my job and in this town by doing this, But it's an oppurtunity to have a great house close to work, and as an investment, in case i feel like moving to inner city one day.. BUt the main advantage of suburbian living is I get to torture the neighbors with Black Metal!! When the parents bugger off, I'll be egg cartoning the garage into a nice little home studio! As well as a LAN room!

That's a real shame that this thread has been moved. I never would have made it if someone had done a similar thing before, and it is a contruction thread. But oh well, nevermind.

We've had further delays with construction, and the concrete slab is still sitting there baking on the sun. Apparently thwe builders are building another house nearby and will construct both wooden frames at the same time. They still assure me they will finish it by christmas, but I am becoming skeptical. But penalties do apply in the contract, if they take to long, but if they do take too long, it will be a terrible inconvenience.

Also, I still haven't posted a pic of the slab yet! Pics on the way!! My camera is still playing up. I think it has been dropped too many times. But still, why'd ya move the thread? ;_;

Why has it been moved. It was doing no harm :(

I just spent 10 mins looking for it.

Oh well..

I drove past today, and the frame is there!! But it hasn't been put up yet.. THESE GUYS ARE SO SLOW! And my camera is sooo broken!!!

Oh well..

I drove past today, and the frame is there!! But it hasn't been put up yet.. THESE GUYS ARE SO SLOW! And my camera is sooo broken!!!Regardless, looking forward to further updates in the future Kushantaiidan :okay:

Hey! You guys moved it back! Thank you! :')

I really appreciate it!

And here are some more pics!! they've really torn ahead now!

Also.. the person below is NOT me! One of me silly mates!

http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/haus1.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/haus2.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/haus3.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/haus4.jpg
http://users.ncable.net.au/~ekmccody/haus5.jpg

Looks like a good lanning garage to me. :D

A good thin about the design is, I can come home from work, drive into garage, close grage door, get out of car, go through do, into house, and straight opposite the garage door to the house will be the door to my computerroom and bedroom.. so it's a quick dash accross the 1 meter hallway, and you'll never see me again until the next quick dash in the morning!

I'd bump this thread if I had any new pics.. =/


oh....

:runaway:

So they haven't done much since, or you just haven't got any pics?

Good thread though. Construction of my house should (should....) be starting soon, and I was thinking of doing a similar thing. :)

Please do stu :)

Kushantaiidan...any gossip on the house? What is the latest? Any nosey & snoopy neighbours? Kath "n Kim types perhaps? Give us the low-down.

LOL @ The St Andrew's Place John Travolta.

Yo!

I've been away for 8 days, went to Brissie and the GC! Got a 256MB card full of images!! WIll have to post some after work. But since arriving 11:30pm last night, and getting up 6am, and straight back to work, I haven't had a chance to look at the house. They are going extremely slow though! It's so annoying! It's due to a contractor shortage in the area. But in the next couple of days, I'll see if they have done anything and post some updates!

But it's even more frustrating than waiting for Eureka!!

PS: Q1, as you might know, is going up very very very fast. I couldn't beleive how much it already dominates the GC skyline. Incredible.. Will go and pay eureka a visit this weekend though. I feel like I've been cheating on it.. hehe

I drove past the house after work.. No work has been done whatsoever in the last week!! Anger!!

The roof is on! And insulation is in, wiring, central heating is installed, windows and external doors are done! I doubt it will be finished byt he original date of december 21, but there may still be a chance! Pictures coming soon!

The roof is on! And insulation is in, wiring, central heating is installed, windows and external doors are done! I doubt it will be finished byt he original date of december 21, but there may still be a chance! Pictures coming soon!

Ah, good to hear it is finally progressing well.

I put my deposit down in Feb, and the building permit has just come through this week. (4 months council planning permit didn't help)
So they can finally get on site.....wait a minute, christmas....no point going there until after christmas now (they say)..... :|

What a suprise.

(4 months council planning permit didn't help)

thats nothing...

thats nothing...

How long did you have to wait? :uh:

Yo yo!

Well, they have pushed back the date to late february. This is bad. We're stuck in a full house at the moment. The brickies just started today, and on wednesday, the builders go on their holidays, we had some leakage and stoprm damage, and we're having major issues with orginising trenching for Ncable, and even though I work for Broadband Activations in telstra, I can't find out if I can get ADSL there. Lake Gardens is all PGS, and the street is on optical rimm, but apparently there IS a minimux installed, yet NPAMS doesn't show it, but someone one my street has wholesale ADSL.. So who knows. Even if the house next to me had it, there's no telling if I can get it until I get my phone number! The reason i'm looking to ADSL instead of CABLE is because i get major ping issues at peak times, dropping from 30 ping to 400!!! So I'm sick of cable, so I want ADSL. Cable are transferring for free, so that's ok. But if I can get ADSL, bye bye ncable! The plastering is done, doors are in, wiring is done, central heating done, windows done, kitchen coming soon.. So it is moving along now, but just Way way too late. And I can't beleive how much rain we are getting! Storms constantly, it's like a tropical summer. Is the drought over? I think not, because with tropical summer comes warm DRY winter.. The earth is in trouble folks.

And also, I'll post a new thread for this, but me and 30 of my mates are having a LAN. If any of you guys LAN often, come down to ballarat!

www.bklan.net

I was at shafted to. I was called Tree.

No photos of house, because I dropped my camera into the ocean.. And also got second degree burns accross my entire back.

Hello all!!!

Long time no see! My house is nearly finished!! They expect to finish either friday or monday. We'll move in the next weekend. I'm very excited now. We have bought a new lounge sweet, dining setting, bar stools. But it has been a bumpy ride to geth this far. Various contractors demolished the Neighborhood Cable conduit, which had to be repaired three times. But cable internet is finally installed. Unfortunatel, still no pictures, because well, the camera, after falling into the ocean, has never worked again! But I'll try and get a picture of the finished product! It's been very busy lately, preparing to move, orginising loan payments, and all sorts of things. I'm way to immature for all this kind of thing. But i'm learning. I can't wait to get into the new house.
I'll find a camera somewhere and put up some pictures soon... =)

Good on ya, Good luck!! =)

How long did you have to wait? :uh:

some of our applications take up to a year...

what ever happened to this?????????

It was a good thread.

Did the Kush drop us once his house was finished????

PS, post number 5, page 1..... Attention Blabby, I see A Brain using the term "Ground-scraper"

Is this use pre or post Blabby usage??? If post, was it authorised???? Blabby better check patent paperwork for dates.