PCI Done

Well PCI was completed today! Yayyyyyy The construction manager was very nice and showed us throught the entire house with little tips and bits. There were only about 12-15 items on the list and most of them are 5 minute jobs. The majors ones are

1. Draw in bathroom catches bottom of benchtop
2. Hot water system not completed
3. Telstra conduit to be placed next to wall
4. Small dent in library window
5. Small scratch on laundry benchtop
6. Incorrect fan installed in laundry

We also faxed 3 minor corrections to the final statement from the builder. Let's hope they reply positively as these 3 items are worth about $1,500.00

The patio guy also delivered a lot of the components and called Bec this afternoon to say that they will start tomorrow. One of the guys got blown off a patio last week due to high winds so they are down a man. It will take them about 6 days to complete. Can't wait to see it up.

Finishing Extras

The finishing extras was done today. He spoke to Bec and said that he was our SS's supervisor!! Now he is just contracting. He replaced the chipped bricks on the bathroom window sill. They also levelled the sand around the house. He has also put silicon (or similar) along the top of the bench in the laundry. I couldn't see but he must also have done the ensuite and kitchen also. The locks on the meter boxes were also installed however he left the gas box open in the locked position. The other thing that he did was to replace the paver with the hole in it. This is great however the paving will need to be ripped up so that the conduit for Telstra can be installed. I can't see any other way for the conduit and draw wire to be installed.

The bank today also deposited the surplus into our account. That is very fast considering I only sent the payment paperwork on Monday (yesterday!). I also got a call from the bank's valuer! What the?? He was just checking that all the variations have been completed. So hopefully the builder's payment will be through by the time we have PCI on Thursday.

Other news is that my little princess had her first day at Playfun3 today. Growing up already!! :(

Final Payment

We have now submitted the final progress payment to the bank. We did receive the final invoice from the builder, which I asked for early so that we could sort out the payment for the builder so that we can get our keys as quick as possible.
We have organised for the patio to be installed. John said that he would be coming later this week or early next week to install it. That will be great and if we can get the liquid limestone in before we move, that would be awesome.
The timber has also been approved to be delivered. I let them know that Friday would be the best as we would have had the PCI meeting and also the garage doors will be installed so they can put them in the garage for security.
Now just waiting for the gas boost HWS to be installed, flyscreens and site clean. We are really close to the end now.

House Clean Done, PCI Confirmed

House clean was done this morning. The cheeky cleaners moved the pavers blocking the garage and parked in my garage!!! What cheek. The site supervisor was there this morning to let them in I guess. Maybe it was the SS that also delivered the gas boost HWS. This now sits in the home theatre waiting to be installed. Maybe the plumber will be back tomorrow to install it. They cleaned very well including the light fixtures outside but nowhere near Bec's standard. The windows are now all clean and the remaining protective tape removed.

So now just waiting for the garage doors to be installed on Wednesday before PCI on Thursday.

Paving done

OK so a long week although not much has happened at the house. Paving is now done. It took them a while. Monday the limestone and sand was delivered, Tuesday was Australia Day, Wednesday the limestone and sand was distributed and only then on Thursday was the paving laid.

The silly plumber did not turn up until Friday which means we have a nice hole in a paving where he had to dig the gas pipe in. The paving will need to be redone in this area. It will need major work as they need to dig the trench for the telstra conduit and draw wire which was not done! More annoying than anything.

The handyman has also come to install the hand towel rails and passage sets for the WIRs however he seems to have missed the garage entry door; it is still a passage set rather than the Governor entrance set.

Cleaners on Monday, then garage door on Wednesday and PCI on Thursday!!!!!!!