PCI

PCI is on 6.2.14 and handover is on 13.2.14
not long now!!!!

Carpet and site clean

woohoo!
carpet went down today, and the site was cleaned.

it looks so much better/bigger with the pile of dirt gone!

Our cabinet maker also came to do the oven work. Also an under oven drawer, how handy :)

carpet in master bedroom

all smoothed out.

under bench drawer

carpet being laid

Resolved Brick Issues

Some people have been asking how things have gone with our bricks since our posts with the horrible error in the mortar. PD got a company called Nawkaw in to stain the mortar, its not a perfect job, but its MUCH better.

before Nawkaw

after Nawkaw

Bolero Flooring- Rustic Nougat

Well the flooring started... and finished today!!!! and there was a clean up of the house. cant be long now!

Different lighting meant very different colours in the photos

PLUMBING

So at 745 am i got a call from our supervisor, he is very on the ball!!!

He asked if i could meet with the plumbers today to let them know where i/we wanted the taps to go as we now have oval basins, not round.

At ten i went to meet with the plumbers but not before i found my lost car keys (in a shopping bag from last night in the pantry of all places!).

When i got the house the plumbers had already done so much work!!! check it out..

our pretty kitchen :) loving the under cupboard lights!

woohoo! my husband's choice! he wanted one at our last place. Much cheaper to do during the bulid though!

1700mm bath! i thought the cutout was too small, but apparently it fits.

Swing away taps, kinda cool. Didnt realise we would get them! but i do think the taps would have been better on the other end so we didnt have to reach beyond the cabinet

even the kitchen sink!

well Christmas has certainly come and gone, as obviously has the New Year.

We had thought there would be no one working at our house until late Jan, due to their holidays, but the tiler has almost finished- just needing some more grout.

Our brick issue has been attempted to be resolved, i think they used something called Norcorp? not sure. But its a stain that they put over the mortar to match it. Unfortunately I dont think they did the whole wall, as the top half is still different to the bottom half. It is better, I will say that, but not good enough still. The mortar is also still quite blotchy, so hopefully the stain is just drying.

But here's some pics of the tiles!!! SO excited. We've been told it should be ready in about three weeks. Well we assume that's 3 weeks til PCI. So not sure exactly how long it will be.

pantry

 

 

 

Laundry

Kitchen

We also bought a shed! 7m by 4m, so it should be big enough for us, as we are on a 1016m block there is plenty of room for it :) We also started buying our curtains. Spotlight has 30% off so we got one for the theatre room, yup thats right, the room that will need the least amount of privacy gets a curtain before any of the others......

long time no post....

Well we are about up to I think the week 9/10 mark, but it has been a very long time since i've written on here. Life got in the way :P

We have had a few ups and downs. I think the best way to describe things is by adding photos and writing a caption for each. That way it should all be order.

The brick pillar in the alfresco has started!

Not enough pallets of bricks were originally ordered, so they started in the inside stuff whilst the bricking was still happening. Plastering and cornicing done before the bricks were finished!

We have a significant issue with our bricks. As they were ordered in two lots, we thought that two batches had come, and that our fear of difference coloured bricks came to reality. PD advised that it was a mortar issue, not a brick issue. Its all around the house, but the front is pretty bad even from this distance, see the right hand side of the pic, the bricks look different at the top and bottom

the lovely cornice

Here is a much more obvious picture of the dodgy mortar. Hoping the staining option fixes it, otherwise unsure of what we will do...

ok so this was an attempt to fix an issue.... the posts were put in but they mucked them up and bolts weren't straight and there was an extra bolt sticking up they couldnt use, or remove. We also thought they were skewed. So the answer is the put these on them so you cant see the stirups. Once the driveway goes down it will look better. But is not great.

yay doors have arrived :)

ensuite cupboards were installed. Basin aren't in yet, as ours were discontinues so we had to chose them all over again, which meant a trip to Hopetoun as we couldnt decide just based on the picutre. Funnily enough though, we had to sign a variation for the basins and apparently the cupboards couldnt be ordered until we had signed and sent back to PD. But that same afternoon the cupboards were installed!

OUR LOVELY KITCHEN!!! in LOVE! the overheads are slightly different shades which is annoying, but the site supervisor advised he could see it as well and would look into fixing it. Stone bench tops to come late down the track

linen press in the laundry. We got a second one installed (one closest to window) as an extra. its 1/2 broom 1/2 linen

laundry bench

these were the new choices we made for the basins. This one will be in the ensuite, with this tap as well

this one will be in the main bathroom, with the tap from the above picture.

All in all things are progressing ok. We have had some very frustrating moments with PD with regarding to fixing their mistakes, but overall its ok I guess.

The painting commenced today, and it looks great! tiling should hopefuly start next week.

Our issue is that we still haven't paid the lock up stage as we are still awaiting a resolution to the brick issues, so PD have threatened to stop the inside work. We advised that was ok from our end. They weren't very impressed but the inside work has continued.

Hoping its still a Feb settlement, but will wait and see :)