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"Dood!!Schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!I have just read your blog from the start. Either you are really kind (ahahahahah) or you are having a good build.Keep it up...and good luck!Matt"
Matt we have been lucky in some ways, unlucky in some others....
I know some people have had some shockers of building experiences and I am very happy to say that we are not one of them...... We have had some issues with regards to, kitchen, main bathtub, front windows, ensuite bulkhead/window movement in the enuite, front windows, the garage frame and the brick wall incident..... Not to mention the South East Water problems that caused us a 6 week delay....
But overall not one of the issues have been of a build quality problem and nothing has been too hard to fix..... We have had conversations about each and every issue.... Most I have bought up but some the SS has bought up with me before I even picked it up......
It also, I think, makes a difference that I am able to stick my beak in almost every day on the house.... Probably much to the disgust of the SS and the builders.... But I don't care.... heheheh
I would like to think we have a pretty good relationship and the SS has been great, very easy to contact, meet with and talk too... Openly about issues when they have arisen......
I am not happy about the fact that we not finished yet... We were initially told that it would take 5 - 5 1/2 months build time from the time of site scrape which was back 16 or 18/04.... Even though the contract date does say 14/11/08.... It still sucks that we are not in yet... But that was mainly because of the Sth East Water issue..... Also partly because we haven't been able to get a run on tradies.... my thought anyway.....
As we are not in November yet... I suppose I can't bitch too much.....
A couple of things we are still waiting on at present.... Are the solid doors for the rumpus room and the front windows need to be changed over as they were wrong in the drawings.... But no one picked it up including us... We believe a drafting error, And there were a number of drafts.... but we missed it every time...The original drawings had the right ones in it.... We looked back through all the plans last week........
But they too will be fixed, no arguing, no bitching, just fixed......
Compared to so many people building, that I have read about at homeone.com.au and or met, I thing we have been very lucky to have chosen the builder we did....
They would have been absolutely fantastic, if we had of finished by the 30/9.....
They will have been magic if we finish early....
They will have been great if we finish on time.....
I will kill them if we don't finish on time.......... only after they have paid me money for late build though...... hahahahhahahaha........
By the way.... The roof tiler is up there at present.... doig the bridge work.....
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Hi Arky! I agree, I think our builder is ace!!!! I thought your house would have been painted before ours??!!! You were ahead of us! Painter should be finished by Monday/Tuesday. What's after that, we don't know! We'll just wait and see who turns up! Still no change to our contract date though - it's hard to get excited when it looks so close to being finished, yet the date is so far away....I couldn't imagine how bad it would be if everything just stopped now...and we ended up not being in until Feb. Surely we couldn't be that unlucky. We are hopeful that because ours is up to a similar stage to yours, we will be in luck and get in closer to your date! Fingers crossed! Anyway, yours is looking fabulous!!!!
xMel
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