We had arranged with our SS to go through the house today at 1pm for a 'fix' walkthrough.
We arrived about 7minutes late due to roadworks everywhere.
Any hoose our SS told us to just go in and look where ever we wanted..whoo hoo....fancy telling us that, as he had/was going through the house writing up small things for the fix carpenter to finish off.
After we had gone through and taken the obligitory millions of photos we got together with our SS to discuss items we weren't sure about.....mind you most or nearly all of this list we had compiled at home.
The list wasn't long...things like the missing tiles above the garage...the crane driver had broken them getting the garage lintel into place........
Deadlocks, the french doors were supposed to have them installed on both doors, but for some reason only the one in the master bedroom had them, and then in the wrong colour (well it was wrong according to us)... the door handles on the french doors are both in a gold colour while the deadbolt that was installed was in a antique brass colour.....hmmm, doesn't really look that good together, as for the door in the lounge, according to the paper work it wasn't supposed to have one...I think not, someone has goofed.
As yet our 2 external taps at the rear of the garage haven't been installed...that apparently will be done when the plumber comes through.....also they will get the plumber to straighten up the two water meters out the front, the bobcat keep knocking them askew.
On one of the Alfresco pillars, it has both a downpipe and an external power point, when we went in to sign off on the final drawings we bought this to the attention of our CSC....she went off to check and said that is should be okay...we were prepared to move the power point.....at this stage we only have half a downpipe cos, yep, you guessed it, the power point is going to be in the way.
Spoke about how handover is conducted etc etc...
At this stage we are on target give or take a fortnight (this will depend on when the remaining tradies are available to start)....can't wait..... we realised the other day that our stuff has been in storage for so long that we are having trouble remembering what exactly we have in there...sad :(
We went to the pub for lunch...not impressed, over priced and not that nice, but, we got to sit beside the open fire....yummmo.....it was heavenly :))
While there we realised that the carpenter had the ladder up against the front of the garage.....'ooh....did he do the gables?....so we just had to go back and check....yep he had, awww...now she looks soooo cool....
Will take a pic of the half downpipe next time i'm out at the house...went to find a pic to show you and found that i hadn't taken one...sorry, very slack of me i know.
the new vision of loveliness...lol
Closer view of the filled gables
Alfresco french doors minus their deadlock
Bedroom french doors...notice the difference in colour between the deadlock and the door handle
Ooo the gables really finish it off don't they? Your house has such a nice and interesting roof line. My pet hate is those houses that just look like a box with a flat triangle on top. No chance of that here :-)
ReplyDeleteLove the gables....not sure what colour they will be painted, originally they were supposed to be in Surfmist, with the trim in Dune, but the trim has been done in colourbond surfmist, so not sure if the infil will be done in the Dune or not....i quite like the colour they are now.
ReplyDeleteOn another note......****CONGRATULATIONS**** on being a home owner....soooooo excited for you.