Plans Submitted to Building

Finally the plans were submitted to the council's building department on Friday.  The plans were certified  for CDC (Certificate of Design Compliance) which means they go through the certified path in council.  This means the council, by law,  has 10 working days to approve the plans.  They can't reject the plans as they are certified by a building surveyor as meeting all Australian building standards and codes.  Within 2 weeks we will be able to commence earthworks finally!!!!!!!

To celebrate we took a bottle of wine up to the block on Friday night and had a BBQ.  Given it was the last of the dry weather for at least a week we took the opportunity to light up the bonfire and toast a few marshmallows (standing 20 feet back).

Brett has been busy talking to the earth moving guy, working out which bits Brett can do and how to do the earthworks as cheaply as possible.  To this end we will be hiring a small excavator for a few days and doing some of the work ourselves.

Melinda has been busy getting quotes for concretors to lay the house pad.  We are pretty sure we have identified the concretor we want to use.

Things are starting to move.