Lot’s done in the last couple of weeks. Tiling is finished finally after a 3 week marathon…maybe more, kinda lost count but they look great.
Electrics are all done. Sinks, bath and taps in – taps not on straight though so they’ll have to return to fix them.
Next week they finish the front facade and plumb in the downpipes plus various plaster fixes and painting touch ups.
Currently scheduled to move in 22nd September – yahoo!!!
Tiling has hit day 5 now. The tilers have been taking their time to make sure our wood look tiles look good. They’ve done a great job I reckon. Hoping they will wrap up on the bathrooms, laundry and kitchen by end of the week.
And in other news, our fence extensions arrived. Looks like a job for the weekend.
We finally have our missing awning window and brickwork is finished so are at the lockup stage…. finally. Also painted too – cool. Reasonably happy with the paintwork. They didn’t do much sanding though.
The concrete slab has finally been fixed inside after sacking Cornell’s Concreting. Porter Davis got a new guy in to grind back the rectification work that Cornells ‘tried’ to do and then fix it properly. We now have a mostly level slab inside – good enough to lay the tiles on anyway. What a saga – the slab was laid in February and fixed in August. 5 long months!
We are still waiting for the exterior of the slab to be fixed – sigh!!
Caught up with our Site Supervisor on Friday who said that the slab is still not good enough. The subcontractors Cornell Constructions (http://www.cornellconstructions.com.au/) have finally been given the sack.
The next delay will be Porter Davis finding someone to level out the slab once and for all. It’s held up the build for months now.
Brickwork is sitting at around 90% done. The brickies have done a really nice job and have gone off to another job while engineering rework the design for the alfresco. The original solution didn’t fit in properly. They are due back at the end of this week to finish up.
Chippies are back to pull down the timber cladding on the front of the house and re do it as there is no sarking behind the boards. Looks good for a second time, but this time the left hand set of boards are done too. They also have the flashing under the board done right so we can’t see the roof trusses and its watertight now – that will help 🙂
And after months of delays the concreting sub contractors have returned to fix their terrible job on the slab and have applied a self levelling screed to most of the house in order to level it out. Each room slab level varied by over 10mm in height – worst was the rumpus room which was more than 20mm.
New items to be fixed is the laundry cabinets as the brickies decided to use it to rest their bricks on and have scratched it. Not sure why they thought that was a good idea.
Will add more pics on the weekend. Next week we should see sanding and patching of the plasterwork and then painting should start too.
Work continues on the house, but in a good way now. Only a couple of minor issues remain which will get resolved in due course.
The brickies have been onsite this week and are doing a great job. Chippies also have finished putting the architraves, doors and skirting boards in.
Next up is to level the slab with a self levelling screed and get the tiles down. Plaster work should be sanded and patched by end of next week.
Our tiles turned up too it seems – noice!
Cabinetry turned up today – really happy with the kitchen! Wooh! Looks awesome.
Laundry looks great too.
Ensuite cabinet. Hard to see really…
As it goes on our build, the ensuite cabinet wasnt installed in the right spot. Needs to move 120mm or so to the left – they worked of the old plans…for the 4th time <sigh>
We have concrete now back in the ensuite. Still not convinced that its fixed properly so will be asking for engineering signoff. The engineering drawings call for the waste pipe to be vertical though the slab, looks diagonal to me <shrug>.
We have plaster – yay!
Slab repairs are still in progress as they didn’t get done last week as promised. Work is being done though…very very slowly. I don’t think the concreting company wants to fix the work.
Still no changes to the external slab, but here is the work being done to fix the misplaced shower waste in the ensuite. Because the plumber didn’t get the original fixes certified they have gone with the less subtle fix:
Nearly 3 weeks have passed and most of the outstanding issues have been resolved. The last couple of fixes will be sorted in the coming days.
Thankfully the frame and insulation is now at the stage where the plaster work can be re-started. Should be fully plastered by the end of next week. Cabinetry is booked in for the 30th May. Starting to get excited again but we remain cautious. Really need a have a couple of positive things to happen. Having the plasterwork finish without issues would be amazing!!!
Slab repairs should happen by end of this week and then the bricklayer can start too.
Will write another update next week.
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