Sunday, 16 August 2015

Week 27 - Flooring and Handover date.

Finally we have progress!

Our flooring was completed and they look fabulous! absolutely impressed with them.

As with all laminates there is a bit of repetition in the flooring pattern, but because the detailing is quite subtle, its less noticeable.

It is very comfy underfoot too, the upgraded underlay to a tyre composite works a treat... feels like real timber!

We also have the exciting news of our handover date which is the 25th of August.

They have their work cut out this week to get things finalised but fingers crossed.

Parador Trendtime 1 Black Butt





Tuesday, 4 August 2015

Week 26 - Pictures


I was fortunate to be able to walk into the house as it was unlocked... Nothing is happening until next week... I was able to spend time looking at things that need to be fixed prior to handover.


All the shower screens, fixtures are installed, our electrical items are complete (except for the pendants in the kitchen and CCTV cameras)

Got the electrician to lower the pendant slightly.


Powder Room

Ensuite




Powder Room Shower


Main Bathroom Shower
Splash Back installed.

Media Box for modem, data cabling, phone point and Cable TV to roof

3 in 1 Martec - these are great!

Powder Room Shower



Our latest dramas! where to put the security screens!



Week 26 - Waiting... Delays

Drama after drama after drama.

First Drama
I knew our timber stacker door was wrong, I should have spoken up earlier, its only come to my SS now.

When you order your Timber Stackers, you have to ask prior to manufacture if you wanted extra tracks to be fitted onto the timber framing for flyscreens and security screens..(this is asked in your contract).. We opted for this so we could have it seamless rather than have it retrofitted on later on... this obviously costs money...

Now the issue is, plantation never notified stegbar about getting these additional tracks added before the stackers arrived.

The option is to retrofit them on the outside which is probably the easiest option, but it does look ugly cos its not actually built into the frame.

Or Remove the whole door, retrofit the tracks in and build in back into the frame with achitraves, screens will be internal of the house...

Obviously the second option will be more troublesome but its going to achieve the best look but it will cause delays...

Second Drama

As I spoke before, there was a delay in our flooring... Our floors were suppose to be done in Week 25, but are not due to come in the 12th of Aug.

So all the final touches with painters and plasterers will be delayed until after that... So now plantation is asking for an extension of time for the delays as our contract date is 20th of August. I think they will be asking for 12 more days to complete works...

In essence our build process has suffered weeks of delays.

There was probably nearly 1.5 months of nothing mostly in waiting for bricklayers and painters. A few of those days were very bad wet weather in april...