P.C.I update

Well as mentioned in our previous post we had our PCI appointment on the 8th January.
Overall we are happy with the build, and the house did not look like it had chicken pox.  Mainly just a few painting issues and marks left behind by 'cowboy' tradies not taking too much care with their tools etc.
One thing that has got us concerned is the gap between the garage door and brick work - this is caused by 'something' not been completely square and apparently can not be fixed - wrong answer - everything can be fixed!!!  Our SS recommended that we monitor the gap and if we find it 'too' much, and it lets water etc into the garage to make note of it in our 90 day maintenance report  (I am pretty sure he knows it will on that report).
At the end he informed us that our Handover date will be Tuesday 22nd January.
Very excited to have a date.

Happy New Year

We have not dropped off the face of the earth, just nothing has really happened at the house since early December - until we finally received our PCI date 8th January 2013.
Visiting the house regularly over the Christmas/New Years period we were able to compile a list of things we wanted to 'discuss' with our SS and thanks to the cleaners who left the door unlocked for us we were able to have a thorough look through the house.  All items on our list are minor and hopefully easily fixed.  I will comment on this in another post.

On another note we have completed one part of our side fence.

Hiring a '2 man' post hole digger made it slightly easier but when that fails the good old shovel and crowbar  came in handy.

 After a few bruises and little bit of sunburn the poles where in place.

Returning the next day we continued with the rails.  This required a lot of patience as Daniel is very particular about things being straight. 

Nice and straight.

115 palings later and we have a new fence.

Dulux Red Box

Hooray, it has finally arrived.....the glass splashback has been installed. 

Now all we are missing is the Kitchen appliances and carpet. 

Apparently the 'big' boss (from Metricon) is walking through the house next Tuesday, then we will get our chance to walk through with the SS and mark everything (already on our list) with little 'dots'.

Bring it on!!!!

Almost there...

Yes we are almost there.  The Painter finished in the house (for the moment), as the Plumbers and Electricians arrive onsite for their fitout.  Spoke to our SS last week and asked for an approx. handover date, which he has not yet given.  He did say he will get back to us by the end of the week - still waiting.

We now have a bath.

And showers - they have started putting in the Semi-frameless shower screens as well



And of course toilets.




Sink in Butlers pantry,

As I had mentioned in my last post, the Electricians were more than happy to put in 'our' downlights and fans for a small fee.  All up they put in 24 down lights, 6 fans, 2 fluro lights in garage and a feature light out the front - they were also happy to adjust our lighting plan slightly allowing us to put in an exra fan and 2 extra down lights - all for $800.  We were happy with this price - who knows how long it would take us to get an Electrician in after handover!!!



Interceptor fan.




Feature lights above island bench in kitchen - notice the Mia Cucina rangehood has also been put in.




Family and Dining area.




Mia Cucina...




Close up of the down light - no it is not  LED.

 Our SS has advised us that the cleaners will be in early next week, with the carpet and floors to be laid on Wednesday.  So far everything has been going as planned so fingers crossed. 

Painting...

The painter has been very busy this week.  He did apologise as it may take him longer to paint the house as he had to let some workers go due to losing work through a large housing company going broke (BBC Homes).

Set up in the living area.

Undercoat in main bedroom.  It is still slightly wet.

The doors have also been painted thankfully not monument as they had originally thought.

  The two doors in the middle are bedroom doors, while the door on the left is the butlers pantry slider and the one on the right is the linen cupboard door. 

Our bench top has also been installed but has been covered by all of the painters material. 

We promise we only had a quick look took a couple of photos and returned everything to the way it was :) It is a bit dusty but you can get an idea of the colours.

 

The gas connection.

Daniel spoke to our SS last week and asked about getting our own down lights and fans put in during the electrical fitout.  He was unsure but said he would look into it....true to his word we recieved a phonecall from the electrical company assuring us that 'yes' they are able to do that for us - for a small fee.  HOORAY, one less thing to worry about after handover.