Welcome!

Hi,
This is my first blog entry so please be patient. After seeing several other blogs on people's experience with home building i was inspired to write my own. Hopefully I can keep it up!

Anyway at this stage we have exchanged contracts for a narrow piece of land so we are committed to building. No turning back now?!

We have also requested site inspections from Masterton and Allcastle. Masterton claimed to give free site inspections but upon further conversation, this 'free' inspection does not include a contour survey which will cost $650 later on! Allcastle site inspection cost $500 but does include a contour survey.

My advice:
If you think you will want to get a few site inspections from several builders, purchase a contour survey of your own that is of a standard that can be supplied with a DA to council and give copies of this to the home builder otherwise you could be paying a number of builders to obtain their own contour survey which they may not hand over to you. I rang around two places and the prices i got was $900 and $1300 so do shop around.

au revoir!