Kitchen Plans

We received our kitchen plans on Tuesday & after a stressful few days of thinking the plans could not be changed. We finally have plans that we are happy with.

This was the plan they sent to us after we signed the contracts. I was not happy that we had overhead cupboards of only 483mm high & a shelf above the fridge space of 133mm high ( I'm not sure what I could of used that space for). We have upgraded our ceilings to 2.7m high & we would of ended up having a 600mm bulkhead above the kitchen.

After being told on the phone that it had been sent to construction & I could not make any changes. I emailed our customer service officer & told her I was not happy with these heights & would not sign for the kitchen as is. I received an email this morning that they had changed the height of the overhead cupboards to 720mm high & that the fridge space would be 370mm high and we can have 2 doors on it. We will now only have a 300mm bulkhead.

I can't wait to see it!!

Commencement Letter

Just a quick update. CBA issued our commencement letter on Friday. We received our copy yesterday & I emailed Allworth to see if they received their copy. They replied they had so now to wait the 20 working days before construction starts. I hope this rain will go away we really don't need any more delays.

Contracts Signed

We were going to sign contracts on Tuesday 30/9/14.  I got the kids up early so we could be at Wickham office by 9:30am. Just as we were almost there I got a call from head office saying the courier had lost the contracts. I went into the Wickham office & waited there to see if they could find them (they were very apologetic) but they were not at the depot in Wickham either. So I had wasted over 3 hours driving there, waiting to see if they could find them & driving back home. I really think they forgot to send them with the courier.

I got a call at 9am the next morning saying the contracts had arrived so off I drove again to the Wickham office & arrived there just after 10am it took over 2 hours to go through the contracts & make sure all my variations were correct. I also managed to add a few changes before I signed the contracts. Change the freestyle laminate benchtops back to 20mm ceaserstone, added an external gas point & eco showerheads to the bathroom, ensuite & powder room.

Once I had the contracts I drove all the way to our business at West Gosford where my husband Rob was got him to go through them & sign them in front of a JP, then drove all the way back to Wickham to exchange the contracts. But thats not all once I was finished there I drove to Toukley to hand the contracts to our Loan broker so we could get them to the bank ASAP. I'm hoping the bank wont take too long with the commencement letter.  

All up I drove over 700km yesterday. Luckily the kids were really good.