All Clear to Start the Retaining Wall

The very annoying retaining wall has now been given the all clear to start. While we are still waiting on the start date (bank sent authority to commence construction on Tuesday), we have met with a Coral member on our block and found out that we can start contructing our retaining wall. The wall needs to be constructed in two goes. Half before the site cut and half after. We are hoping to plot out the retaining wall on the weekend and start building it next week. I can't wait to have something on the block at last. Getting closer. :)

Council Approved

Yay we finally have council approval. Council rang Coral on Wednesday to say the house had been approved and the information was being sent to Coral's certifiers. Coral has said it will still be another 2-3 weeks until the plans are certified. Then we received a call from council yesterday to say the retaining wall had approval and the certification which Coral wanted would be in the mail this week.

We have also received our final finishings variations now. It was about $1k more than we were expecting. Apparently the Coral colours lady isn't quite up on the costs of things. The biggy was the carpet. We were told about $800. The price came back at $1900. Fairly big difference there but it is also a non negotiable for us. So we are sucking it up and paying it. Hubby's comment was "I'm not paying all this money to have a really nice house with crappy carpet." That seemed like a fair point to me. Plus the carpet was my choice so no complaints here. Hoping for a start date in March.