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Metricon will soon finish up our final drawings and then submit them to the developer for approval. Once our landscape plan, external colours, and home design are approved, then it’s off to council...
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Yes! Oh sorry, I meant no…
Hi all, it’s Megan. Here is the latest update. Today was our original deadline with Metricon, and the day we hoped to get council to approve the bi-fold doors. As you can see from previous posts, after...
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Council Approved!
158 painstakingly long days later, we finally have Council Approval. After a frustrating whirlwind adventure, complete with stories that you wouldn’t believe, we’ve got the approved stamped plans,...
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Cleaning up the mess
An early morning visit to the house today proved to be fruitful. Not only did we arrive early enough to have come and gone before the first thunderstorm of the season hit, but we had cleaners on site...
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Council Inspection
After talking to our inspector at Blacktown Council, we discovered that he was out at the house on Wednesday to do our final inspection, and sign off on the house. It appears that virtually everything...
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HOME Magazine Interview
In an earlier post, I mentioned the possibility of HOME Magazine (the insert in the Sunday Edition of The Telegraph) doing a piece on our experience of building with Metricon Homes, Blacktown Council,...
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Our certifier has gone missing!
As if the idea of a looming PCI wasn’t enough to stress us out about how little time we have left, Megan made a call to Council on Monday to see how our certifier was progressing with information on...
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Council Issues? Resolved!
As the bushfire issue with Council dragged on with no end in sight, Megan and I have been preparing ourselves to do battle – expecting that Council would continue to drag their feet and act like a...
View ArticlePermanent Occupancy Certificate
We decided that, after almost 18 months living in our ‘new’ home, we were ready to approach Blacktown Council around getting our Permanent Occupancy Certificate. They were quick to respond, and a day...
View ArticlePermanent Occupancy Certificate (Part III)
After a long wait, with little information from both Metricon and Council, we received the phone call we’d been waiting to get for quite awhile. Council has signed off on the remaining items, and our...
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