Door fixtures

Hoo rayyy we had someone turn up on Friday. They installed the doors that we removed for the tiling. We have never seen the doors in the laundry or toilets so it is good to see them. Looks finished now. Especially as he also put the door handles on the doors - front door included. He also did the weather seals for the front and garage doors.

We need to check that the deadlock is a single cylinder as he has made some mistakes. The garage door should be a different handle (he has installed an interior door handle). However we are OK with this so will ask the builder not to change it.

The other mistake is that towel rings have been installed in the ensuite and powder rooms when they should have installed hand towel rails. Will do a thorough check tomorrow.

No work this week.....yet!

Well 3 days of the new working year and not a single tradesman to be seen. So no work to report. Just a couple of bikes rode around the house today though. Thankfully no damage so it might have been the neighbours who are keen bike riders.

So to keep things ticking over, we have put contracts out for the side fence. We have gone with Jim's Fencing - bet you didn't know the franchise has reached this far! We have also signed the contract for the floorboards. We are going with Karri boards (85x12) and Jarrah skirting. The patio is coming along great. They have now started the fabrication - we know this because they have asked for the second payment!

Fingers crossed for some tradesman tomorrow.

Happy New Year

What lovely weather we are having for the holidays. No work this week by the builder. Little work by Tien. We were suppose to put the cubby house back up and arrange for the fence to be replaced. However everybody seems to be on holidays. Did manage to put the 90mm stormwater pipe (conduit) down the side of the house. That was a great dig. Note to self: when digging trenches, dig backwards (not forwards) - it is MUCH easier!

And we have a number!!

Final kitchen cupboard

More work today. The final kitchen cupboard was installed. This was the one that had to wait for the kitchen bench as it sits on top of the bench. It was not complete though as the fill bits to cover between the top and bulkkhead is not yet installed. So it looks odd but it is in.

The plasterer has also come back to patch the glass splashback area and touched up some spots in bed 1 and also the passageway. This is over the top of our nice first coat and sealer. Hope the painter reseals those patches!

Woohoo work during the "break"

Well we get some work done over the break! There was someone at the house yesterday as there is now a new sign up in the study window. Today they cleaned the fence!

Paint colours

OK before we forget the paint colours are

Bed 1/Study/Library/Home theatre is Solver Clipper Race
Main house is Solver Seagull
Boys room is Solver Rhapsody
Girls room is Fantasy Fair
Front render is Solver Smooth Cream
Eaves is Solver Talc
Door frames and doors is Solver Simply White
Front door is Solver Talc

Someone was at the house today. Bec said that there is a new sign in the study window but no other sign of work. So we'll see what happens tomorrow.

Final Day of Work for 2009

Well today was the last day of work officially for the builder. The painters were back to give the doors a final coat. It looks like they have also given some rooms another coat but hard to tell. They have given the front render another coat and it looks fabulous! Now we can really see how the front of the house will look as they have removed the protective film from the front door glass. Now we are just waiting for the plumber to do his thing....I wonder if he will work over the break? I wonder if there will be ANY work over the next two weeks!