Sunday, September 28, 2008

Contract Finished, House Not

Well today is the contract finish date but of course we are not finished. From tomorrow PD have to start paying us penalties. This certainly does not make things hurry up. We are supposed to be given a handover date next week but as we are having Kevin do another inspection I am sure it will not be achieved.

The temp fencing and portaloo have been removed so the house looks a lot nicer from the front. The stain on the windows and portico have gone quite dark which is nice but it has made our garage door look even more orange so we might have to change them one day.
The tiling has now been grouted so it looks nicer now. It is hard to get a pic of the feature strip because it always looks wonky from the angle.
Some of our taps have been put in. It will be nice when the spa gets cleaned up.
Our shower heads have been put in. This is the one in the ensuite, it has holes in the tiles on the side. Does this mean it has to be re-done?

The water tank is now in. It is annoying that the concrete slab is so much bigger than the tank as it is taking up more of our precious back area than it needs to!
Since I took these photos on Friday the internal door handles have been installed so that must have been done on Saturday.

2 comments:

Petal said...

Tiling looks great - did you find out about the shower head and those holes?

Wow, I'd be so excited if they worked on our place on a Saturday...or at all really....we have virtually no hope of finishing on time, either. It's pathetic, really, isn't it? Makes it very hard to plan post handover things.

David and Lisa said...

No I am hoping David will tell SS about them. There are holes in the tiles around the bath taps too. I think the plumbers have done a crappy job of which the tiler is going to be stuck fixing.

The closer it gets to Christmas the harder it will be to get people out after handover too. They can't book us in for flooring driveway etc because we have no idea when it will be.