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It's been ages

Was thinking the other day... we signed the building contract in January, here we are in May, and we don't have a start date. On the weekend, I drafted up an email, with my perspective on things. I never remember things taking this long last time we built. Halfway through May and we've witnessed a friends house go up. We've also found a construction happening locally, which began demolition only 2 days before ours. Look at their progress. Our friend is building with Plantation Homes, and the local build is building with Clarendon. Both builders that we had approached when negotiating on builders. This is starting to get out of hand. Weeks of thinking and being confident that our building is on top of things. To find out we didn't even have building approval yet. What the???

Because nothing has happened since the site cut, I thought I would show you how things are going on other sites

 A friends build in Rochedale (early to mid May)



A local build (from early to mid May)



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