Some pre handover photos

Handover on Wednesday at 9:30. Floorers in at 10:00. Hopefully all the fixes have been finished. Of particular note was the absence of the 3 phase cable to the air conditioner condenser. Some plumbing needed to be fixed and cleaned up as well.  The light inside the garage due to the windows in the doors is terrific.

Going to start concreting the paths next Monday on the dead side of the house. Then do the slab behind the garage and paths on the golf club side. Fencers are putting the posts and rails in only to aid in the delivery of the concrete to minimize barrowing. Putting a colour oxide in the concrete similar to the brown colour of the darker render for something different. 

splashback

kitchen bench and Rian

Cint checking one of the 20+ drawers

full extension runners and soft closers

kitchen sink

kitchen sink

vegie sprayer tap. different but versatile

walk in pantry

site to hang TV in living room

Laundry looking into walk in linen

laundry from other angle

powder room

entry to house

theatre room. skirts and architraves painted to match walls in matt finish

theatre from other angle

theatre

garage doors with windows

ensuite

spa in ensuite

shower in ensuite

toilet and double basins

upstairs loungeroom

air intake for heater and cooler

air intake and upstairs toilet

upstairs main bathroom

upstairs bathroom

upstairs bathroom from Rian's walk in robe

Rian's room

Jessica's Ensuite

Shower in Jessica's ensuite

Jessica's Shower

Living Room looking toward Rian's room, void and stairs

kitchen and dining room from living room

same as above

Alfresco from living room window

from living room window toward back of garage and golf course. down pipe installed.

same as above

Handover confirmed

We get the keys on Wednesday 9/4 at 9:30 am. 

Got the certificate of occupancy today. 

With floors to be done we be in there properly on Sunday 13/4. 

Finally

Practical completion inspection done

Completed the practical completion inspection this morning.  Lots of paint digs and scrapes to clean up and few other small issues like render to be leaned out of window tracks etc. everything else is done and we will have handover next Wednesday 9/4/14 at the latest.  The carpet layers are in the next day and will take three days to complete. Appliances, blinds, internal vacuum, foxtel and anything also will be done on Tuesday the next week after floors are finished. Fence posts and rails go in this week. No palings until we have finished the concrete so we can shoot it through from the adjoining blocks that haven't been built on yet. The roller doors have been changed, in fact they were being done today when we were up there. See photos.

Site clean and render finished

The site clean was done on Friday. He also prepared the areas for concrete paths and driveway. The renderers also completed the front of the house. The roller doors are yet to be changed, should happen this week. The splash backs and all shower screen should also go in.  The kitchen sink isn't in yet but the laundry one is. Hopefully the PCI happens later this week. See photos. 

Slow Progress

Haven't posted for a fair while.  There unfortunately hasn't been a lot of movement at the house.  The tiling was finished a few weeks back and the basins, toilets and some taps have gone in, but we are still waiting for shower screens that have been close to three weeks and a splash back that is still being constructed, despite the fact that the kitchen has been in since December!

I met the new site supervisor on Monday at the house.  Nice bloke but completely snowed under with his own projects plus others like mine that he has been given after our previous site supervisor's departure. At this point it looks like we will be getting handover on about the 9-10 April in the first week of the school holidays.  Originally he told me after Easter which simply was not going to be accepted because we were initially promised end of March at the latest.

The floors go in on the day of handover and will take four days to complete as it is such a massive job, but it looks like they will work over the weekend for us which is good.  So it leaves a week for us to get settled in.  Better than nothing I suppose. It has been a frustrating few weeks.

The roller doors are being changed back to what we originally ordered this week. They actually just turf the other doors. The shower screen and splash back in next week.  as soon as this is done we do the PCI (practical completion inspection) where we go through each room and note any blemishes or problems. they the rectify those over the next week or so and then handover takes place.

The bobcat operator that does the site clean is also doing our concrete preparations this Friday so will be able to start laying paths and driveway ASAP from handover.  We intend to take everything up on the 11-12th and just put in the garage and sort out from there while the floors are being done.

The fences are also being organised.  I am getting them to just put in the posts initially so i can get the truck into the backyard.  We don't have any neighbours as yet so going to take full advantage of the side access.  Temporary fence goes down this week. Cant concrete anything until after handover but will put in the two pads for the HWC and air conditioner compressor so they are raised higher than the path.

still having issues with the cross-over.  Integra the developer and Porter Davis won't move the telstra pit and we can't put a steel cover over it so looks like we have to shell out the $815 to get it moved.  Not happy but unfortunately we have no alternative.  should wait until i see some telstra guys working in the new subdivision and offer them a couple of hundred cash to move it for me?

anyway we are getting there - slowly! Will take some more photos on the weekend if I can. It is all locked up solid at the moment so getting in relies on someone working there.

Tiles, electrical and roller doors

Tiling the in the wet areas being completed today. Lucky the tiler was there so we could get in to take a look. All the electrical fit off is finished and power is on. The roller doors are not other ones we chose but are probably better. They are the contemporary design, not the caprice that we chose. Unsure as to whether they can put the Perspex windows in them though. If not we will go back to the originals. Plumbers should be back in this week to fit off taps, toilets, baths, sinks, shower heads etc. shower screens will take a while as they need to measure and manufacture to suit. 

Practical completion inspection should be late next week I reckon (hope!) from there anything to be fixed will be done and handover. Floors will take two days.