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painting and installation of cabinets

Had a site inspection today and quite pleased with the progress of the building so far....In retrospect i think PD have done a good job . The painting is almost finished .The quality of the painting is very good but prob wont pick up imperfections until the liteing is installed. Noticed today the cabinet maker had stacked the doors against a wall.. you can guess damage to the paint.The painters will come back later to put another coat of paint on the feature walls . they do this because the feature walls can become dirty from the other tradies who come thru the house.. This morning the cabinets had been delivered . i went back this arvo to take more pics and they were already being installed. The mouldings have been installed on the front of the house. My s s is still dirty on me getting Kev through. Well wot can you do if a frame is passed with a few defects. Wots worse had to keep on justifing my self. Beware of excuses.

So my next job is to go and look for carpet and flooring as this will have to be installed after handover.. Really not long to go looking at mid April for handover.

painting

painting has started surprise ....surprise i thought it was going to be the feb 27th.. well thats what PD said. But they havent painted the feature walls. Painters have used the same paint as what is being used on the rest of the house. We have a site meeting tomorrow morning so will question the site super about it.

internal garage walls painted 1st coat.

updates

Nothing much to report. Went to the house on sat and everything is locked up .. so had to look through the windows, saw they had delivered the doors. I had been left a nice slab of bricks and had plans for them... well some nice thief came along and took nearly all of them.. left me with a row isnt that nice of them.

Had a call from my site superviser he wasnt happy with us coz we got a independent inspector through the house and he said he should have been at the house the day the inspector came through.. well he was on hols and i needed to get the house inspected before the plaster went up... plus he questioned why we needed to have one in the 1st place as they have their own quality inspectors.. and pay for one.. doh its for our protection and peace of mind. Any way hes going to meet me on site to discuss the issues that the inspector picked up.

Had a email from our csr our fixing is due to be completed 21st feb and painting starts 27th yippee now will be good to see the house come to life.

Went to the house tonight and couldnt get in everything was locked up... surprise!!!!! had a good look around .when you go down often enough to have a look you tend to notice things you never picked up before. like damp plaster along alfresco roof line gaps in the bricks between bricks and roof line , a garage door that looks like its starting to rust.. needs that paint. In some places the brick wall isnt sitting flush with the slab lucky i guess its not over hanging. im posting pics that will show what im talking about.,

ugg do you ever look at your house and think i wish i had done that

Well i wish i had.. i look at the courtyard area wish No1 change the window to a sliding door and have an extended roof line.

Wish n02 I have always admired the wide open look of the inside outside rooms Well i wish i had a larger door opening out onto the alfresco instead of a small sliding door say open up the family room and rumpus out onto the alfresco.. but of cause that all costs money. You would think the builders would put more thought into their designing. But i still love my house

Independent building inspection update

I have been trying to contact K about the report on the building defects, as i hadnt received it. Finally we spoke to day ..well he said he emailed the report a few weeks ago but i didnt receive it. So today he re emailed and finally have received it.Now the defects were supposed to be fixed preplaster and of cause my builder knew nothing about them ... well mayb later the builder spotted the defects and fixed them who knows..but i didnt get a chance to check it out as the plaster went up. So the plaster has been put up, k said some of the problems like roof can be fixed later but things inside the wall well will have to be smoothed over with the builder and my thinking is some plaster will have to come off. So will hear from K again.. im sure he will sort it.

Again it pays to get a independent inspector dont rely on the builders inspections.. they sure missed some issues with my house..