50th Post !!

I started this blog on the 26th of April this year and after three and a half months have now reached the 50 post milestone. I must admit I thought we’d be further progressed in our building journey than has been the case. We paid a holding deposit on the land on December 3, 2014 with the hope that Solsbury Field would be the exception and the optimistic prediction of the agent of titles in March/April would be realised. Alas it is now the 9th of August and we are still waiting to find out when settlement will be on our little block.

We paid our preliminary deposit with Orbit Homes on the 31st of January. That has given us a great deal of time to undertake research and think through our requirements and priorities. We breezed through colour selection but came to a dead halt because we were unable to finalise the building contract. It is not prudent to sign a building contract until you have a fixed total cost. This is not possible until the site costs, including the foundation costs are known. These can’t be determined until the contour survey and the Soil Test results are in. Usually this is at the conclusion of the development civil works. Those works now appear to be complete and I hoping that over the next 50 posts there will be substantive progress.