Bricks cleaned.

The bricks that have been cleaned and the mortar is a very good match which was a concerns with them having to be relaid. We still think that some rows are not straight at the left garage pillar and they have not touched the right pillar at all. The portico pillar is now fine. We will have to talk to SS.

Straightening walls

The plasterer is back at the site. He is fixing the wall that is bowed in the kitchen that backs on to the linen cupboard and also the rumpus and family room wall that is not plumb. I noticed that the games room wall that is still not plumb has not been fixed I will have to talk to SS. He has also finished the cornice in the kitchen which is a wasted effort as we are still waiting for the top cabinets to be replaced and a bulkhead to go in. Oh well at least it is better sealed for us.

There is a hold up on the kitchen cabinets as someone forgot to put the order through. Once the kitchen cabinets do arrive, we have decided that we are changing where the existing cabinets will go. We are still having one unit transferred to the laundry but we are now putting the other one in the pantry above the sink.

We are meeting SS out on site Tuesday to go through the list of outstanding items.

Carpenter is back.

The carpenter is back on site and has replace the two vertical arcs at the rear wall of the garage with one whole mdf board and it has improved the way it looks but is still suspect at the top, something is just not quite right here. He has also put small quads at the alfresco and frankly they look crap! The finish where the alfresco beams meet the bricks is just a plain eyesore and is just not acceptable. It does not look crap at the display home and we will not accept this at all. We will have to talk to SS.

We have a back fence!

Our neighbour behind us has moved in and they already have fences around their block! We were very surprised as we thought it would take ages for the developer to authorize the fences since they are paying for them........yep our fences are included in the price of the block!

It was great to get an idea of the size of the back yard now that the back fence is up. The blocks on our side are bigger and also wider so the fences do not match up so we are still missing part of our back fence. I thought it was going to look smaller but it is ample space for our boys to play in without being too much work for us. We rather spend time with them rather than maintaining a backyard for them. We have two parks at the end of our street so we will enjoy those while someone else does the watering and cutting of the grass!

Bricks have been relaid.

Bricks have been relaid at the left wall of the garage and the left front pillar to the portico where the were originally laid on a slant. The front step and back window sill have been relaid without a split brick and look a heck of a lot better. The front door and door frame have also been sanded ready to be stained. They have also relaid the bricks at the toilet window to center it in the middle of the wall.

A little progress

The shower screens have been installed in both the bathroom and ensuite. We can't get in to take photos and we could on just see them through the obscured windows.

We have now been in so here are the photos. Update 2/6.

Waiting........waiting.......waiting.....................

I rang SS for an update on our construction today. He informed me that he is waiting for trades people to finish on other sites so that they can come back to ours. I mentioned our bricks are walking off site and he said he has already ordered more bricks to replace the bricks that will have to be removed and relaid. I requested that the left over pallet from the first batch be used for the front as I do not want any colour variances. He said that he expects the bricklayer back on site Thursday.

Not much happening around here!!!

I rang SS yesterday to arrange to view the house and he said a chippy would be next door to open up. When I arrived on site only the site cleaners were there and they don't have master keys so no-one was around to open up, Grrrrrrr.

The alfresco door has been stained but from what I could tell nothing else had been done all week. I will call SS Monday and find out what is going on and why the progress has stalled.

The site cleaners were good they asked if I wanted the side of our block leveled and if I wanted next doors roof tiles removed from our property. I gave them the thumbs up and all was done in a jiffy. Good on'ya cleaning Bob's.

More bricks have walked..........

Attending to the issues.

The stone bench has been has been cut again to fit the sink in as the hole cut at the factory was too small. They obviously cut to what is standard or missed that we upgraded our sink to have two large bowls rather than one and a half. Needless to say we are not too thrilled about the fine dust that is now all over the walls and everywhere else.

Spoke to SS who is now back from leave, he said that the master window has been fixed and he will have photos of the work forwarded to us.

Our bricks are beginning to walk off site, as soon as the bricklaying has been completed we are going to remove the remaining bricks ourselves before they all disappear.

More tiling and grout.

The tiling to the niche and splashback in the ensuite as well as the shower base of the main bathroom have all been completed and grouted. The only tiling that remains is at the rangehood when the cupboards finally get replaced.

I noticed damage to the wall backing on to the ensuite was damaged in bedroom 2. The plaster will have to be fixed and repainted.

Spare tiles left over.

I spoke to the Tiler today, he has been very economical and has not needed to use the extra box of feature tiles I supplied. He said I can come out on site Wednesday to pick up any of the extra tiles left over so they don't walk of site and he will get his apprentice to load them up in my car. What a cool guy!

More tiling and we have rollerdoors

I spoke to the tiler today he said that he has finished the ensuite shower walls, the tiling to the bathroom vanity and the grouting was done in the main bathroom as well as the laundry for the 100x300 cream tiles. He only has the niche and splashback to tile in the ensuite, the shower base of the main bathroom as well as the tiling at the rangehood when the cupboards finally get replaced.

The rollerdoors were put up today, the front rollerdoor is huge!

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