Blog slap!

I have been blog slapped a few times for being so far behind!!
I will do my best to do some catching up on where things are at so stay tuned.

In short we had handover, we organised our own trades, we moved in, worked like animals for the past 3 months and just had maintenance.

A detailed update and photos are coming.

Our fence has been put on hold.

The fence people arranged by the developer rang and said they have placed our job on hold because the site fences from the properties either side of us are in the way. The dirt from the left block site scrap is also in the way.
I rang SS and he will get rid of the fences from the next door PD site. I offered to chase up the other site for him since I already know the site supervisor from the Henley Home. I rang the Henley homes SS and he said he will get it remove A.S.A.P. and I also organised for the extra dirt on his site to be dumped in the lower part of our block to level it for us. It's a win win really, we get a level block and they get rid of the dirt.

I also rang E&S trading regarding our spa, they said it won't be ready by the 10th and I went ballistic. I spoke to the manager and tore his head off saying that I gave the require 3 weeks plus an extra week and that I will not accept it not being there on the 10th of July. He said he will pull some strings and get it there. He will ring me tomorrow to confirm.

Finance organised.

I arranged the final payment today and all is under control.

I also spoke to SS about the sid egate and he gave me some usful advice regarding the limited space. I think I will look for someonce else to do the gate. I also mentioned that the front garage lights are not evenly spaced in front of the roller door and he will get that fixed.

Gate quote.

I arranged to get a quote for the front and side gate. I seemed to get nowhere fast, there were issues with finding space for the side gate and I couldn't see anything in the photos of the work done that was what I was looking for. So I guess we have to look for other gate fitters.

Final touch ups

I met with an interior designer today regarding our choice of fabric for the drapes, I was not convinced with our original colour choice it seemed to clash with the shade of paint. I drove out to the site with the new fabrics and I am much happier with the new selection.

The painters are back patching and repainting walls. The front door has been varnish and the colour of the stain is perfect.

What a weekend.

Today we went back to continue the work we began yesterday. Martin leveled the land on the blind side of the house and we then leveled the front together. We cleared the front building rubble spilling over from next door and put the site fence back up. We laid gravel between our house and next doors garage but we did not continue down the length of the house. We will wait until the fence up and then finish the job.

Martin then began moving the whole pallet of bricks out the front in our driveway to the back of the house. I helped as much as I could but I was limited in how much I could do with the boys now completely over it. I don't blame them poor kids have been bored out of their minds all weekend, sometimes I feel it's not fair on them but what can we do. We had been at the site all day and it was now 6pm. We were all tired, starving and grumpy so we did a "maccas" run on the way home before collapsing into our beds.

What a weekend!

What a big job.

The truck driver from Midway arrived with our mountain of gravel. He was very careful not to drive over the pegs marked for the slab on next doors block. He was kind enough to dump the crushed rock in two places to make it easy for us to distribute.

Martin leveled the dirt and luckily it wasn't muddy or the job would have been a nightmare. Oscar was a pest and kept getting in Daddy's way while Daniel was a great help with is bucket and little spade. I had the wonderful job of raking the gravel out and leveling it.

We worked until dark and by the end of the day we were exhausted. We managed to to level and lay the gravel out from the back of the garage all the way to the end of the house.