So the last 3 weeks have been extremely busy, packing, moving and un-packing and then settling into our new temporary home. I was totally amazed at how much stuff we had accumulated in the last 4 years, when everything is taken out of cupboards and packed into boxes and gathered into one area you can really see what you're dealing with and it's a lot of stuff!
Anyway half of our contents were moved on the 8th to our temporary home and the remaining were moved into a 3x3x3 storage room on the 20th. During these 3 weeks Optus came and removed the cable connected to the house, whilst Telstra opted to leave the cable for the demolition crew (to cut and wind back to the pole). We've also requested for our gas company "Ausgrid" to disconnect and remove the gas meter along with all the pipes to the street. This is scheduled for the week of the 28th. We gave the builder authority to disconnect the electricity on our behalf when signing the contracts, so that's it for utilities apart from water.
As promised below are some additional photos of the property we are working with, basically it's an average sized corner sloping block for North Willoughby. The original house was a 1950's orange full brick residence, 2 bedrooms (one large, one smallish), 1 bathroom and a WC off the laundry, with separate rooms for the kitchen, dining and lounge. There was also a sunroom that appears to have been a back verandah at some stage that was enclosed with cladding facing west, so it was a fridge in winter and a furnace in the summer! The double garage was separate to the house right at the rear of the property, but was quite unusable, with a narrow entryway and doors that had to be manually opened/closed. The house was originally fine for he two of us plus a large cat but when the newest family member arrived we soon realised that it wasn't going to cut it not even with a renovation.
Anyway half of our contents were moved on the 8th to our temporary home and the remaining were moved into a 3x3x3 storage room on the 20th. During these 3 weeks Optus came and removed the cable connected to the house, whilst Telstra opted to leave the cable for the demolition crew (to cut and wind back to the pole). We've also requested for our gas company "Ausgrid" to disconnect and remove the gas meter along with all the pipes to the street. This is scheduled for the week of the 28th. We gave the builder authority to disconnect the electricity on our behalf when signing the contracts, so that's it for utilities apart from water.
As promised below are some additional photos of the property we are working with, basically it's an average sized corner sloping block for North Willoughby. The original house was a 1950's orange full brick residence, 2 bedrooms (one large, one smallish), 1 bathroom and a WC off the laundry, with separate rooms for the kitchen, dining and lounge. There was also a sunroom that appears to have been a back verandah at some stage that was enclosed with cladding facing west, so it was a fridge in winter and a furnace in the summer! The double garage was separate to the house right at the rear of the property, but was quite unusable, with a narrow entryway and doors that had to be manually opened/closed. The house was originally fine for he two of us plus a large cat but when the newest family member arrived we soon realised that it wasn't going to cut it not even with a renovation.
Front entrance
Side view - which is planned to be the new entrance
Back view
Side view - which is planned to be the new entrance
Back view
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