Heh, yea they have a very long kittenhood and she's also a bit of a hoarder. Also *loves* water so you can't leave glasses of water around.
I think most breeders…

Well I've just realised that I don't have any recent photos of the house on my computer - I think they're all on somewoman's phone …

Frustrating but not all bad news - giving the slab a few weeks to cure a bit longer before having any load on it won't hurt. I'm pretty sure builders…

Both been rather sick with the flu and a bit slack with the updates. Promise to do a proper one soon. Having our first sleep over tonight on the dining…

Wow, thats an amazing place to have a house! Looks beautiful!

I'm super excited, though a bit muted because of the flu
Hopefully it'll be dinner at the new house tomorrow night!!

Yes, at least the inspector didn't find anything major wrong and most of the holes in the gyprock had been patched. Still need to be sanded/repainted though.
Major issue left…

Shiny! The floors look excellent!

If you have a dark coloured roof - tiles or colorbond then you definitely want to get sarking to compensate. Probably a good idea to get it anyway.
One downside to…

We have PCI booked in for August 26th

We finally have a PCI date!!!!!!!

I guess it could depend on your builder I don't think you're expected to pay the final invoice until PCI/Handover (unlike the other progress payments). Personally, I would not…

If you had our builder I'd suggest you shouldn't make any suggestions about this. If in any doubt then get it clarified in writing - even if it seems a…

The deposit was put on our credit card, so I've rung the bank (they were very helpful) to dispute the charge since they've been unable to sell us the wok…

We ended up with a bunch of soil left over after they did the sewer lines. Most of it got taken away soon after. The rest recently they just dumped…

November 2008
Though we have unpacked some stuff and we have some of our furniture.

Excellent news about the tiles hoffdog! And very sad news about your cat

Our water meter was broken by one of the builders workers when they were doing the foundations. We never got a bill for it so assume that the builder…

In my last house I had a combination of wooden venetian blinds and vertical blinds. One downside to the wooden venetian blinds is if they're in the bedroom or ensuite…

That sounds pretty normal, but what did get picked up by our inspector is that they need to make sure they do not cut out too much of the frame,…

You could go with a motion sensor and using low wattage CFL bulbs. If its a par38 fitting the are CFL equivalents. They take a little while to get to…

The house I grew up in (built circa 1910) had key locks on all the doors. It used those really big keys and you could see through keyhole into other…

Have you had much formal communication with them yet? Eg if you haven't already done so start with a letter sent by registered mail clearly listing all the things you…

Well I guess it depends on how big your house is But ours will end up taking about that long or a bit longer in…

She's fine - a friend dropped into town from interstate and they've gone off for a few days on a mini holiday.

Well I guess on the upside we'll see how fast the SS learns. They can either remove the rubble from the front now, or they'll end up removing it a…

Kind of wonder how many windows we'll go through. They're all double glazed so can't be cheap. Anyway I rang the SS today to let him know and suggested again…

Another weekend, another window broken. I wonder how long it will take the builder to remove the pile of rocks out the front? Sigh.

Gas of course! Two giant ring burners. It's a commercial wok burner like used in restaurants.

Some councils do have strict overlooking rules so I wouldn't be surprised if it was true - which is generally a good thing - I wouldn't want someone looking into…