We had PCI on tuesday, a few minor things to fix up.
Handover could be sometime next week or after Easter depending on how quick the bank is to sign off…

A bit of a transformation in the past week or so
from this
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to this
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It cost me close to $1000 for 2 (1500 X 1200) concrete soakwells ( 1/2 the cost was the trafficable lids) then about another $2000 to get them installed and…

Hi Sarie,
Building is a stressful process, no doubt about it. We had our pavers laid today, not happy Jan. they used some chipped pavers where there were plenty of perfect…

Progess is being made.
Plumbing done
Painting nearly finished (just render to paint I think)
shower screens done
Sliding doors for linen press and wardrobes
Grano mostly done, just portico to do
Door furniture
still to do…

Looks Pretty good to me Sarie, Thanks for sending the painters over
Painting almost complete, just render to do.

Hey Sarie,
When the painters have finished send them my way.
All we have had done since Christmas ( about 7 weeks) is the Spa and tiling , plumber fitting taps and…

I took a few pics yesterday of the spa installed.
Still need to tiler to finish up and hopefully cleanup.
spa
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Looking good Sarie,
We have dark tiles in the ensuite too.
I will take my camera along on Friday to our second tile meeting, now that Spa is in and the…

We had a meeting today with the landscaper for the development , we should get our fencing and landscaping done within days of the handover. Trick is to organize it…

drum roll please.................. the Spa is in they removed the window divider and had about 1 mm clearance but they got it…

Delboy, I am building with Domain/Plunkett and we have a solar hot water system with the outlet feeding into an instantaneous gas hot water unit. so if the water from…

Danwah we are having 600 X 600 porcelain tile installed after handover, using the builders tiler who seems pretty good. As long as the slab is fairly level they would…

Well they tried to install the Spa today but it wouldn't fit though the window. They will have to remove the window…

With our build the council changed the detailed Area plan (DAP). We are in Landsdale Meadows which if you imagine Corimbia as a piece of A4 paper we are in…

6 weeks sounds pretty quick Sarie ! considering you were behind us. Hopefully that means our PCI will be there or there abouts.
Your place looks very nice indeed. Our tiling…

Well I guess it is not as bad as it could have been. Apparently the builder forgot to include the cost of the spa back in when we decided to…

Supervisor recons about 4 weeks before a replacement will arrive , We originally were going to supply the spa ourselves but decided to let…

WE have been waiting for our ensuite Spa to be delivered. Supposedly ordered in September, but the company didnt start making it until early December. Anyway, it was delivered last…

So frustrating not being able to get into the house after lockup. Things are happening , but slowly. Essa stone bench tops were installed this week along with skirting…

Well I thought that the cabinets would be delivered today - but when we went by to check things out, the cabinet maker was there installing them

here is our entrance door in place (to be painted same colour as window frames), excuse the mess

Lockup done
a couple of pics
unpainted entrance door - may ask builder to put sidelight at back of the frame instead of the front.…

It could still happen Sarie, our grey float happened 2 weeks ago and we got lock up today

Thanks for the comments.
It looks like lockup will occur today.
They delivered doors, window sills, shelving and skirting boards yesterday.
Things are moving along nicely.

Well things are moving right along. We have had the ceilings and most of the white plastering done. It should be in lockup next week. It is starting to…

Have got some glazing installed.

The front windows are west facing and are double glazed with one pane low e (smartglass sp10) and the other pane a grey tint float glass.…

went to check out the progress today (well every day actually )
all of the render is done apart from the portico pillars.
kitchen

The kitchen issue has been resolved, not pretty but it should be ok.
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We have a roof.
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Spoke to supervisor and he said he will get the plumbers back to cut the slab and extend the underfloor conduit back to the wall. We should be able to…