laura2009 - my build - new pics
Here are some pictures of the living area. I love the tiles. Apart from my comments below, I love the house and all the space we have. It's more spacious…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
We are in the house and it's fab. Will post some pics this week!
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard
Looks good. Our entrance is almost the same.
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Main area tiling has started now. I'm very happy with how tiles look in the house.
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Fai&mont tiler is still going fixing the bathroom floors and painting still happening - both items from PCI. ('items from practical completion inspection will be completed 5.30pm day of handover'…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
So much for PCI items being finished by 5.30pm Monday. We've just been told new tiles that need to be laid bathrooms are still going and tiler needs to work…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
We collected the keys this morning. The practical completion items are to be completed by 5.30pm today. Fingers crossed they have it all done. The gift was a bottle of…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Handover tomorrow morning! So excited, but -
I've just been around at the house and saw through the windows that most of the PCI stuff has not been done yet…
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard
The bricks look great. Three weeks isn't bad either.
laura2009 - my build - new pics
My camera conked out so I couldn't get a pic but the alfresco concrete looks ----- FINE.
I don't understand what the conversation with the SS about needing a step…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
I can't get hold of SS but am waiting for client liaison to call me back.
Thanks Theresa, I will metion the bit about their display homes. I think it's…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Ss told us at pci today that the alfresco slab would not be level with house but poured 100mm above strip footings. This was a first to me. Ive gone…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
PCI went really well. Mostly minor things and the SS was onboard with everything I noted. Here are the pics -
Kitchen
Computer niche next to kitchen
HT doors
TV niche in living…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
PCI is booked for 11am Monday! Possible handover on Friday!
I noticed the steel lintels above the doors and windows were not painted. I've done a quick search for other posts…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
I drove past last evening for a quick check and found -
the panel glide door was on (was up so I couldn't really see it but the motor looked nice,…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Being first time builders we didn't even think about where downpipes would be and it was never raised with us during the design process. It's a modified version of a…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
I got in to take some paint pics yesterday. The hall and bedrooms are completed and they were painting the doors when I arrived. Living area still only first coat.…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
These downpipes have ruined the front of our house. They are so ugly. I hope there is something we can do to remove them or minimise their awfulness.
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard
Exciting to see bricks going up. (Our bricking took a full month!) That downpipe is hillarious.
Our Pakenham Ivanhoe, some new stuff
I have the second print in a antique gold coloured frame. It looks great with the print but I don't have gold in my house so it's difficult to find…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
I don't know why it wasn't poured at the same time? They sought of did concrete footings for it but I do remember it saying in the paperwork to be…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
The ss didnt even realise fairmont were concreting the alfresco. Good thing we raised it with him! The tiler laid a strip of tiles on what was the slab that…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Yep, SS has alway been difficult to contact.
The latest is that the painters will be finished at the end of next week. So that's a whole month it will…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
So today is our anticipated practical completion day and we have not heard from Fairmont until client liaison responded to my emails just now (only to say they don't know…
Cairns Build - Better Homes Queensland - 1st builders clean!
Beautiful house, love all the glossy surfaces.
Building the McLaren by Dechellis
Love it all, especially the large mirrors. We have similar choices for the cabinets and tiles in bathrooms.
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard
Love the roof, looks great.
laura2009 - my build - new pics
Spoke to painter this morning. Only wet areas and garage have been painted. First spray to all walls is happening today. Here's the bad news -
NO way will they…
laura2009 - my build - new pics
We had the two days of painting last week and then the painters were MIA until yesterday. At my visit last night I saw that they had started internal spray…