Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Waiting, Waiting, Waiting .........

Well we are still waiting, there are lots of issues still to be resolved, everything promised nothing delivered. This is Day 217 of 252, the completion date (according to the contract) is 9th July, I would have thought we would have been well in by then, but we will be lucky to be in 2 weeks after. No handover date has been given. We have only 5 weeks to go until liquidated damages of $250.00 P/W kick in.

Since my last post only a few things have been done. The Door furniture fitted, Garage Door fitted and Site cleaned and some dirt brought in to cover up the exposed slab.







This is after the Garage Door was installed and looks great as is seems to lighten everything up.





The Gas Meter was installed also.







Can you spot the difference.

This is our Door,


This is off a Display home,
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Yes the door handle and the lock is too low, it should be another window pane higher, you would need to be a very short person to use the handle. Looks like a new door is on the cards, plus the frame still needs to be replaced.

Anyway the Construction Manager was at the house yesterday looking at the issues that we had sent to him in an email.

We will see what happens over the next week.



Saturday, May 17, 2008

Getting close now.

We are getting close now. The Caesarstone bench tops are in, the plumbing fit off finished.



Shower screens and mirrors were installed even though a few tiling issues need to be still resolved.




And the toilets installed.


The site and house clean is booked for next Friday but i think it will be more like the Friday after.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Brick Clean, Painting, Tiles and Electrical Fit Off

It's getting close now probably 4-6 weeks, we are getting so excited we bought our first feature plant. An Xanthorrhoea Johnsonii (Black Boy or Grass Tree) although we are not sure of where to put it yet.




The Brick Clean was done a couple of weeks ago but needs to be done again, some of the mortar is still on the edges and the Super said with these bricks sometimes they need a couple of goes. The bricks are a little darker than we would have liked but once we render the pillars and maybe the lower 1/3 of the front, hopefully it will lighten it up a bit.








The tiling has been all done except for behind the mirror in the ensuite, maybe this will be done when he comes back to fix a few issues.

Here is the Ensuite.

The Master Bedroom, looks bigger in real life but not as big as our current Bedroom (which is way to big).




The hallway going to the garage.



The Main Toilet.



The Hallway from the front door to the main living area and the kitchen. On the right there should be small niches in the wall but for some reason they have put them in as voids going all the way to the floor, this will be fixed next week along with a few other things.

The Laundry.


The Main Bathroom. The tiler was back yesterday to replace the grout in all the floor tiles as they put the wrong colour, they put in Mocha instead if Off White. All fixed now and looks OK.








The Front Door is all painted and ready to be hung just waiting on the replacement Door Frame that has warped. The super is leaving it until most of the tradies have left so it does not get damaged again.

The kitchen is all done just waiting for the Caesarstone Bench tops to come then the Plumber can do his thing, then after that the Glass Splash back can be measured and ordered.




Looking to the Dining Room.


Looking to the Family Room and over the wetlands, out this window we may put the black boy so we can always see it. This will be dependant on shaddows from the house.






Tuesday, March 18, 2008

We are finished........well the bricking that is.

Well after 6 long weeks the Bricky's have finished.







The plastering has been finished, including the cornices.


And the Cabinetry arrived also ready for installation next week after Easter.

This is part of the Kitchen Cupboards, (note: no bench tops yet the ceasarstone will come later).


Here is a link of our colours from an earlier post.
http://adamandtramickasaspenadventure.blogspot.com/2007/10/our-colors.html



The double basins for the En-suite and also the single for the Main Bathroom.




And last but not least the Laundry.








Also the Architraves were delivered for the chippy to install on Tuesday.

With the doors also ready to be painted and then hung later.





So next on the agenda is the kitchen and architraves installed next week then the painter can get started, the tiler will also start just after the painter starts.

Should be an interesting few weeks.

Monday, March 10, 2008

We got Plastered today!!!

The Bricky's are nearly finished, just some window sills, the pillars and garage lentil. Seems to be taking forever, anyhow while the Bricky is not finished we don't have to pay the Lock - Up invoice and the Fixing/Plastering is going full steam ahead.


On Thursday the plaster was delivered.

Also the cornice.

All the Ceilings were plastered on Friday, including the Outdoor Room (we can not call it an Alfresco anymore due to legalities)


The En-suite has been plastered in Blue Waterproof Plasterboard, and the shower base was installed ready for tilling.





Looking to the garage ready for the plasters to trowel the finishing coat.





Looking to the kitchen and our big walk through pantry.

The Family Room


And the Family Room from another angle.


Looking to the Dining Room Room the Kitchen.