January 3rd, 2008 AndrewD
One of the things we had to do for the house prior to delivery was organise someone to level the land. So I had a friend who knew someone that could do the job so we met him on the land one weekend and we pegged out the area. We discussed the options and it was decided hat a hard cut was what is required.
The building company had also specified that where we do the cut that we create a slope so the trucks can roll out.
As it turned out the cut dug in approx 1 metre
- more than I expected. Also the width was a bit narrow and we had to get permission from the council to place the house 7.6 metres from the boundary rather than the specified 8 metres
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January 3rd, 2008 AndrewD
Well late 2006 we started looking at houses – I had always wanted a straw bale house but for a few reasons that did not occur. Looking thru some different magazines we decided upon a to look at some homes that are built in a factory, transported to the land and tied down.
For some reason there is about 4 of these places in Wagga Wagga so off we went. In the end we chose a home by Better Look Homes (http://www.betterlookhomes.com.au/), they had the design we liked and came in at the right price as well.
Also one of the advantages of a home like this was they did all the council work (in regards to the house) and they know the councils. Also as Yass council is notoriously slow it would mean that we would have a house on site within weeks once the council approval came thru, rather than wait upto a year for someone to build something for us.
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