The great thing about this week is that now Porter Davis are ready to go, site manager is locked in and ready to start, the bank are ready to go, and we're ready to go. Just one little problem.... the land is not ready to go!
As explained 2 posts ago, we have had a whole lot of building rubbish dumped on our block from other builders, (shame on them)..... and everyone is ready to start, but we as the land owners have to have the block cleared before they can start.
'Shouldn't be a problem', I hear you say! Well, do you think we can pay anyone to come and take the rubbish away? No! Everyone is either too busy, too far away, or doesn't want to deal with that kind of rubbish. I've emailed, my husband has called all these different businesses that deal with rubbish, but they won't return our calls or emails.
We had one guy respond and he went out yesterday to have a look at our rubbish. His only offer was to pick it up with his truck and charge us $500, he said we would be better to do it ourselves.
You would think someone would be happy to get paid to take rubbish away, but nooooo that apparently is too hard.
So we are resigned to getting out there this afternoon with a sledge hammer and attempting to break up dumped concrete ourselves, and try and load it all into our cars and take it to the tip!
Maybe we'll pay ourselves and take us out for a nice coffee!!
Word to the wise: - make sure if you're block is standing alone for any length of time, that you either get your builder to put fencing up, or make your block hostile to possible dumping. Maybe buy a doberman and chain him to your land, or install floodlights and sirens for anyone who trespasses.
The banks and builders take ever so long to sort through their own redtape, the last thing you want is for things within your control to halt building. (not that you can control the actions of rogue builders).
stay tuned......
2 comment:
When I worked at Forest Lake (a big development in Brisbane) we used to get builders dumping on other land all the time. You never wanted to own the last vacant block in the street, because EVERYONE else's stuff would be left there, pushed from block to block as each house was constructed.
The really annoying thing is that the owners of all the houses had PAID for their builder to dump their rubbish, but it wasn't done. Grrrr!
Thats terrible, its so disappointing when you have bought your own land and people just trash it.
Anyway, better days ahead!! :)
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