Feature walls

How exciting, some of our feature walls were finished on Friday. This one is in the rumpus room. The colour is Cafe Noir.
This is Hayley's room. It is called Pink Love and has come out great. We did not get a sample pot for this one so we did not really know if it would be nice but we are very happy with it. We wanted it to be reasonably bright because the other walls in the room are white. Hayley seems to like to too and she said the word "pink" which we have never heard her say before.

5 days work in a row!

Well things are looking up, the painters have worked five days in a row! Things are finally moving along again. All the woodwork on the front facade has now been stained, we are really happy with how well it matches the garage door.
Front door has just been stained. The mark on the glass is a sticker. As much as clear glass looks best we decided on translucent glass for the door and sidelights so people can't see in at us.
This picture shows the skirting colour contrasting the wall colour. Ensuite
The tiler was supposed to start this week but the painters said no way to that so now he is supposed to start on Monday. Our SS says we are three days behind the estimate he gave us of "mid October" but he says he should be able to make it up but it is still at least two weeks over the contract period.

Now we are going backwards!

Yes we have been waiting for ages for the painters to turn up but as you can see from the pictures the wrong sort of "painters" did. We have this lovely black spray paint over lots of walls now. It seems we had a visit last Friday night from those who got in through the rumpus room window. This window was probably left open by the useless unreliable painters who never show up (but that's just our assumption). At least before we had one layer of paint on the walls now we are back to square one!

We are so fed up now with Porter Davis and their promises. What a load of crap their guaranteed 20 week build is! We have had one days rain delay and no delays on materials so our build going over contract time is due totally to incompetent project management on their behalf. Again we were promised that the painters would definitely be there on Tuesday, so far I have driven past every day this week and of course NOTHING and no word from anyone as to why this is. We were promised this week would be heaps of activity but so far only the carpenter and plaster have turned up to finish the fix which as far as I was aware was finished (and paid for) 25 July. I think they also fixed some cornices etc that were pulled out while fixing the leak in the roof (not that we have actually been told it has been fixed or what the problem was). So it is now SEPTEMBER and painting started 31st JULY grrrrrrrrr.

On the brighter side, some time during the last few weeks of inactivity our Quantum Quartz kitchen benches have been installed and they look good. It has a covering on the top so it is hard to see it properly.

Anyway we are so angry at the moment it looks like it never going to be finished. Maybe we wont even be in by Christmas? The tiler is supposed to come on Monday to start the tiling even though the painting is not done so it will be interesting to see if he turns up.

Also the step down from the hall way into the garage is so big that it would not get a certificate of occupancy so now they have to build us a step. They are suggesting they use left over bricks with concrete on top to build this. Would this look ok? Or should it just be concrete with no bricks?

Render is painted

The render has been painted over the weekend which is good. Other than that nothing has happened. It is so frustrating the painters started on 31st July and have only been 3 days all up so nothing has been done since last pics. The tiles were delivered ages ago but I think they have to wait for the painting to finish before they start. Our 3rd SS started last week so will take a while to get up to speed. In the mean time every time I drive past there is no-one there, grrrrrrr.



When inside recently we have also noticed new watermarks all over the slab in three adjoining rooms with a very big section in the rumpus room. There does not seem to be any water marks on the walls so I guess it must be running down the wall cavity from the roof. Great!!

Painting Continues and Garage Door On

All but one time this week when I have driven past the house there has been nobody working. Painting is under way but could be faster. The whole house has been sprayed but there is obviously a lot more to go. It is amazing the 10 huge tins of paint were left in the garage from Friday til Tuesday in full view of the street with the temp fencing wide open and still nobody stole it. As far as I know we have not had one thing taken from our site!

The issue with the unwanted wardrobe brackets has been resolved and they are being removed. We upgraded our wardrobe to be exactly as in the display home with a cupboard on each side and some extra laminex so we expected it to look the same. No to mention the fact that the brackets were right where the cupboards were supposed to go so they couldn't stay anyway. I will be interested to hear about what happens with the others building with PD who have these brackets and don't like them.

The tiles have been delivered (I could see them through the windows), hopefully they are the right ones. Not sure when tiling will start.

Our timber look garage door has been installed, I pulled it down a little bit to take this photo. The colour looks good and will look even better once the render is painted and the timber windows and features are stained.

This pic shows the contrast between our wall colour and the ceiling white.

Painting Started Today

Yes as the title of this post says, painting started today! There was nothing really to photograph but maybe in a few days there will be. They are starting with the garage ceiling because apparently the garage door is due to arrive very soon. It should be interesting because we have chosen a timber look door but have not really seen what it looks like so it could be a disaster. Our SS says we are about 4-6 weeks from handover but more like 6, this is about what I expected.

One optional extra we chose was to have a double bin in one of our kitchen cupboards for rubbish and recycling. It is meant to fill the whole cupboard but the one they have installed is so small and only takes up the bottom section of the cupboard and is pathetic looking. This extra was $625 so not cheap, SS is supposed to sort this out.

Our basins have been installed and look very nice. This is a pic of the main bathroom vanity. In the ensuite the taps don't line up with the basin so the plumber has to come back to fix them as well as the position of the spa taps.

Also here is a pic of the hanging space in our walk in robe. What are the two brackets below the shelf? SS say they are meant to be there. Is he kidding? They are not in the display homes. Not to mention the rob has two parallel sides and one side has the two brackets like this and the other side has just one in the middle!

Kitchen is in!

Yes our kitchen is now in. It was not totally finished when I took these pictures yesterday but it is only some handles missing.


This picture is in our pantry. The benchtop is a laminex version of the Quantum Qartz bench we are getting for the main benches. Very are very happy with the colour combination of the cupboards and the benchtops.

The laundry with all the cupboards installed
And our ensuite vanity again. No handles or basins yet.