Final Inspection......

Well we had our final inspection yesterday 20/11/08 and all went well, although I think our SS needed some more little sticky thingys...lol...... We ran out of the first pack he bought in.... But we were as picky as all hell though.... But it is our house and I don't want to do any extra stuff.... that should have already been done... I will have enough to do in the coming weeks ahead....

We still have turf, garden, concrete... 150 sq metres of the stuff... Oh My Gawd.....

Everything that was picked up was pretty minor, considering some of the horror stories I have heard about builders.... Mostly painting issues, some missing, scratches from carpet being laid, excess grout in some places and some tiles in the entrance... but otherwise all went pretty good I thought.....

We have been given our settlement date, but I will keep that to ourselves and let you all know once we are in.... I will get some more pics over the next few days as the fix ups are happening....

Getting Closer Now......

Well I thought I would actually take the camera up with me today after the cleaners had been in yesterday and noticed that while it was getting a clean inside we had a, "pretty general", site clean around the block too.... Pics enclosed....

Sorry to John And Andy though, I know how much you love our laundry... lol.. But I don't have one taken in there since the clean... I will make it my mission to get one for you guys....lol...

HTB - We are expecting hand over in the next week or so..... as we are scheduled to have an inspection in 3 days time.... yippeeee...

Mad Mel - Yes we are still scheduled to have our inspection on the 21st...... Not much left to do I wouldn't think....

Front cleaned and painted...

The kitchen and meals room cleaned...

The family room

Looking our of the family room to the Alfresco...

Back up the hall way...

Main bathroom shower...

Main bathroom bath and vanity.. All clean... yippeee.. Just waiting on mirror now...

Ensuite shower all clean and almost ready for use.. Waiting on shower screen...

Looking very nice and clean now... waiting for mirror...

Best colouring pic of the tile colours.... N i c e.... and clean....

A throne fit for a King..... or a good place to curl up with a newspaper.... lol....

The tilers efforts are good.....

Well, the tilers appear to have finished all there work so far... And here are some pics.... We love it... Great job boys.....

Our Floor Tile colour

Ensuite tiles all grouted....

Floor tiles are all grouted and a quick clean.....

Another view of the tiles... Don't know why but the true colour is not shown....

They must have a new scheduler on board......

This has been a great week and a half for ourselves and Rawdon Hill, there must be a new employee with some understanding of the word scheduling...... Finally.....

Well today is the 12th November....Since we last spoke the tilers have been in and have not stopped, except for Sunday... I will let them have that one...lol...... which was great news for us....

The sparkie made a return this morning to do some of his handy work. I call past about an hour ago to check up on his progress, as one does....

Bugger me, aparently we have some 60 (sixty) downlights... JESUS H Christ......

I didn't think there were that many thank the before mentioned we also have a few dimmers hooked up also...lol.... No photos of the sparkies hany work as yet But I have attached some pics of the tilers work..... Good stuff.... We hope to have a final inspection date this week.....

The entrance leading to the family room and kitchen....

The ensuite floor tiles and, the wall tiles are now grouted... yippee..

The ensuite shower is all grouted to now... just the floors to go...

The laundry.....

Family room and kitchen...

More of the kitchen...

The kids hallway....

Main bathroom

Again... mani bathroom....

An something I just relised too.....

We had work happening today....

and yep.....

It's Wednesday...

More movement....

Gav & Ness are happy campers, at the moment, the progress is moving forward well. For the time being. I don't think this pace can be kept up for the long haul, personally, but we shall see I guess.......

But here are some more updated pics........

The rendering has been painted now and the fiddly timer frett work has been painted also...

As you can also see we have roller doors in also......

We also have a rear roller door in too.... yippeeee..

The ensuite tiling is coming together well....

The main floor tiling has started today also....

We have had some Continuity of work.....

Finally, we have had some continuity with the workload at the new house. About bloody time we have some flow of trades..... This is starting to take shape and looking good for the 21st November final inspection and handover...... Yippppeeeee.......
The painters have been going now non stop, since the 30th October. It looks like the inside painting has been finished and started now on the outside. I went up this morning and we had the tilers start doing there thin as well.
Here are some pics below.....

ensuite vanity tiles

Close up of the ensuite vanity tiles with border...

And the kitchen tiles and border...

Painting, Painting and more Painting......

31/10/08 - Friday
Painter x 3 were in today, the doors have been rolled and some more painting has been accomplished. I asked if they were going to work over the weekend as we are expecting the tilers in on Monday, according to the SS, and they said yes we always end up doing work on a Saturday. Well I guess they worked somewhere else over the weekend, then.

I guess now all we have to do is see what this week will bring us......... We shall just have to wait and see...............