At the end of last year the reno movement began to get serious with final plans drawn (see below) and builders being contacted. Not much happened thanks to Christmas and summer holidays however by the end of Jan we received the 3 builder quotes. After scrutinising the quotes which were pretty similar, the decision boiled down to availability and so we chose the builder who could start the earliest.
With the money in the bank waiting to be spent, we thought we simply had to inform the certifier (who had had our building plans since early December) of our decision on the appointment of a builder. Hoping that the certifier would sign off to allow building to begin. Easy right? No, The certifier suddenly wanted tree approval.
Without going into too much detail both the architect and the builder think this is completely unnecessary however the certifier won't give us a tick to proceed with the renos until such approval is granted. Discussions between the architect and certifier resolved nothing and so began the tree saga.
The appropriate form was submitted to TAMS immediately. Three different contacts, three weeks later and we may have an inspector coming out on Monday fingers crossed.
In the mean time we've been busy preparing the backyard, commonly known as undoing all of our hard work over the past 7 years. We said goodbye to the sand pit and recycled the lid to replace the chicken's roof - an old interior door that was showing how it shouldn't have been outside. Thanks to the girls the chicken have a newly painted turquoise roof! Various trees, bushes and plants have been removed, trimmed or replanted. The shade sail has come down and part of the back deck stairs removed. The flagstone path and numerous railway sleepers moved.
Before all the handwork and building renos begins we took some photos of the back of the house for sentimental reasons :)
No comments:
Post a Comment