A year ago

About a year ago the idea was to demolish the current house and rebuild in the same area. This proved difficult due to council rules with minimum setbacks etc. The block is in a court and is approx 1100sqm. To maximise the block, we wanted to build as close to the front as possible. We soon realised that this was not possible as we wanted to build a double story which requires further distance from the back fence. After months of discussion we agreed on a suitable position, which is in a reasonably flat area of the block.


When we first started looking at new homes to build we knew it would take awhile before building would start. We first needed to demolish the existing 2 bedroom house. This involved moving all our belongings into storage and moving in with the in-laws. What was going through my mind?!!! --- Just joking!!!

This was the old house.



We chose the Cremorne because the Kitchen\Living and Alfresco will look out to where the garden area will be. We are dreaming of a pool in the future but lets not get ahead of ourselves. The main drawback is that the garage would have been better on the other side so there would not be as much land wasted on driveway. Other reasons we liked this house are that the upstairs games room is big and there is not a lot of wasted space. Oh, and the pantry...


On to the house later. First thing was to demolish the existing house. Well, I wanted to set it on fire but apparently you are not allowed to do that so we had to pay for someone to demolish it instead. The house had a fair bit of asbestos so that was an extra cost. The demolition was finally completed late October, earlier than expected.

House with asbestos removed...

Shed without asbestos...
House tiles being removed... 26\10\2007



Tiles all gone...

Most of roof gone...

Here is the shed...


And now it's gone...

House pretty much destroyed...

Almost gone. The floorboards are recycled also.


Now the house is almost gone apart from some rubbish and the septic tank. The demolition company argued that the septic tank was not part of the quote. Why would anyone want to leave it in the middle of the block??!! We rang them and they agreed to smash the tank in and cover it up.