Week 24 - Fit off (Electrical / Plumbing)

The painters are all done and I'm pretty happy overall with the paint job... There's a few touches that need to be done up but I'm sure once all the other trades have come through theyll get back to it.

All the timber work has been stained and looking fabulous. I think the pantry doors a still a bit unfinished

The plumbers have installed all the tapware, toilets and hot water systems.

Electrical fit off is nearly complete - Most lights have been installed, air conditioning done

Carpenter still needs drill all the fittings/fixtures and door handles.

I'll hopefully be able to spend some time checking all the paint work and identifying issues that need fixing before handover

We have light! Amazing Value LED lighting

Niche for Water and power

waiting on our island pendants, they sent the wrong ones

Garage door installed, facade complete

55cm Peeta Pendant, needs to be adjusted slightly lower

Hills Security Installed

Master bedroom

Paintwork complete

Black Glass Gas Cooktop

Daikin Multizone Unit

Ducted airconditioning - massive unit

Ensuite

Bathtub

Week 23 - Painting

Finally the painters have started putting their first coats on, they have started staining all the timber doors.

After that the electrician, plumber and fixtures can be installed to finish off the house...

We ran into a few late issues...

1. I happened to come across some "Builder Plans" in our house. The design of the portico was completely different from what the final result is as below... Initially the plaster was suppose to be recessed in behind the facade wall. In the end the porch is full brick work over the doorway

Our ugly portico

Basically, the metal frame work that was holding the bricks of portico up was exposed and they "stuck on" some plaster, which I assume they will paint. The final result looks far from nice or luxurious as they quote to be, they will need to finish it off better... Ill need to talk to my SS about it.

2. Our flooring - Trendtime blackbutt 1 - is completely out of stock, was initially suppose to be laid down on the 23rd of July, but at this stage, stock will only arrive on the 12th Aug!

They offered a change or an upgrade to anything else in the range, but we really like it and want to stick with it. 

I used the opportunity to upgrade our laminate underlay, which was initially quoted $2000+ but because of this they will do it at cost for $865! Which is pretty amazing.

The product is a 3mm rubber acoutic underlay from the UK called instalay. http://www.instafloor.co.uk/products/instalay.aspx

Otherwise the first coats of paint were done and the initial timber stain. Hopefully will be completed this week so the rest of the fit off can occur next week.

Week 22 - Absolutely nothing!

We have had a fun couple of weeks of absolutely nothing.... Our painters were delayed again and are only planning to start this coming Wednesday 9/06.

This left basically no action on the home for 2.5 weeks!

Our contracted handover time is 20/08/15. So that gives just over 40 days to finish the home...

In the mean time, lighting illusions had there EOFY sale, I have manage to purchase all our LED lighting, cieling fans for bedrooms, 3 in 1 heater lamps for bathrooms and external lighting.

I still need decide on our pendant lighting before the electrician arrives in 2 weeks.

Week 19 - Fixing Completed

The tiler has completed his work, most of the stone has arrived, they measured our ensuite stone incorrectly...

Painters have been booked in next week as the plasterer was finishing off today.

Unfortunately we are looking at delaying our handover to early August. Apparently there is a large trade shortage in SE Qld, plus plantation are building over 250 more homes than the previous year... Ah well...

Abey Undermount sink - I chose for the stone to over hang - this prevents water from being trapped and mould

Lunar white bench top 40mm

Laundry with subway tiling!

Powder Room

Lunar White bench top close up

Finger Mosaic - gaps will be filled with silicon

Main Bathroom sink - Polar - more stones visible compared to downstairs

Ensuite Niche

Still unstoned!

Week 18 Tiling - sneak peak

We met our tiler on site on Tuesday. We negotiated a price on doing tiles floor to ceiling at approx $100/wall, which was awesome!

Here is a sneak peak at whats been happening. He will hopefully be finished by weeks end.

The mosiac tiles look better than I imagined!

Main Floor tiles re-selected.

National Tiles was having a 25% off sale over the longweek, despite "Frank Walker's" voice being so annoying over the radio we snapped up a good deal!

We managed to buy "Belgium Stone Ice" at $33/m2

 http://www.nationaltiles.com.au/qld_sp/belgium-stone-ice-17191?___SID=U

For a long time as you probably seen on our previous post, I was pretty set on glossy large format tiles. But after much research and thought and my wife! We decided against this due to maintenance and cleaning. 

This has a beautiful textured feel on the surface as described like fine grain cement. 

The other option was a Lappato version which was slightly more glossy on the surface but we didnt like it.

Cabinetry

This is probably where most people get excited.....

All the cabinetry arrived last week and was installed. We are so happy with our colour selections and choices. Cant wait for the stone to arrive!

The silver balausters were removed and how good do the black ones look!

Main Bathroom 

Powder room - Sublime teak, caroma liano basin 

Laundry Room - Sublime Teak and Parchment silk

Kitchen - Sublime Teak - Riven Finish

Butlers Pantry

Our tiles were also delivered on Friday. All our plasterwork is complete.