Showers Sealed

Here's a few recent pictures of the house. The painters were there yesterday preparing the walls and cleaning up. The tiler has also been and sealed the showers. The site has been cleaned up too.

This is a picture taken on the weekend when there was lots of light.
Looks like we have some weird curtains? All the doors have been taken off. There is still some plaster missing from some areas.

The window has been fixed.
Strange looking paint in the showers. Now the sign says not to stand on the shower. Can we make a bet that we will find foot prints in there. I think we will. I will let you all know.

Quantum Quartz Benchtops

Our benchtops were installed on Friday. Very happy to have this as part of the promotion at the time. We expected the QQ to be install at a much later time. The splashback needs to be measured up after the QQ is installed. Apparently the splashback has a long turnaround time from when being ordered.

The plasterers were working Friday night and were back today finishing and fixing all the items from the BSS inspection. I must admit that there has been quite a numbers of items found by BSS. This is an important inspection prior to the painting. The more issues found now the less issues later on.

There is MDF covering the QQ, We took some of it off just for these photos.


The Quantum Quartz is New Diamond White.
The pantry sink.

The extra shelf has been added.
The Alfresco eaves have been done.
The extra wood above the doors when painted will finish the area.
Picture taken from the far corner of the block.

M&M Family House Inspection

We have had a bit of progress this week and had a meeting with our SS this morning. This seems to be a busy time for him, ensuring a lot of tradies are scheduled for the right time to keep the job running smoothly.

Most of the architraves have been done now, only missing the staircase window. The skirting boards are almost complete, just missing the lounge and the study. Fix is due to be finished at the end of this week. Plasterers are supposed to be coming back soon to finish off the little bits they have missed.

There are several steps involved before the tiles can be laid in showers. The bases have been done and they will come back and do the first waterproofing next. SS has advised the painting is definitely starting next week and the tilers will come after that.

The deadlocks have now been fitted to the sliding doors (there goes our access to the house).

The timber decking has been done on the top of the balcony, looks quite good with only 3 joins in the whole area. New timber to be delivered for the underside. Mike is planning on changing this to be more waterproof down the track as we decided this was one upgrade we coud do ourselves later on.

Our SS was quite surprised to see the whole M&M family taking part in the inspection.
Marita and Mike checking out their ensuite sinks...

Checking the plans to make sure everything is in the right spot. So far only the door to the master bedroom is out of place but we will probably leave it where it is. It is only about 500mm too far down the wall. Teagan checking out her new shower. She said it looks good but a bit small.
Time for a swim for Teagan and Mini.
M&M family counting the shelves in the pantry. There appears to be one shelf missing from the top, our SS has said he will fix this up.

Teagan playing hide and seek in her WIR.

Which cupboard is Mini in?
Family portrait...
Mike offered to cook dinner but we couldn't find the stove...
The drawers seem pretty sturdy :-)

Kitchen Servery

Below I have put some pictures of the Kitchen Servery. This is one item which PD came back to us which we instantly said 'YES'. We asked for many different modifications to the house. Some changes were refused by PD and others too expensive. I must also add that some changes were very cheap. I guess we just picked the items that were important to us and worth spending the extra dollars. Below is one change which we will be very happy with. When seated at the dining table we will not be able to see the kitchen sink. The top of the servery will also be Quantum Quartz, the same as the benchtop. We asked to also have the Pantry bench in Quantum Quartz. This was too much money and made us realise that the promotion was a good deal. We also added a splashback to the servery instead of tiles for a couple hundred dollars extra to match the rest of the kitchen. We have chosen seductress as the colour for the splashback. This is a deep Red\Burgandy. This will be the colour theme for the house as we will also have the feature walls in the same colour.

A few pieces of wood.
Frame complete, and very strong. It didn't move much when pushed.
On goes some plaster so the guys can install the rest of the cabinets.
Plaster added and we decided that this was going to look great. Thanks Marita for this idea. We actually asked for this during the tender process. G from PD disappeared for awhile, came back with the cost and details. We were sold.
We think this will look good when the benchtops are on and the splash back is installed.

Anyway today most of the doors were installed and the shower bases have been done. We were not expecting this. Below is the ensuite 1500mm.

Bathroom shower. You can also see some writing on the floor. This area is where the flooring meets and moves. It doesn't have any supports. I will be interested to see how this is fixed. Will let you all know the outcome.
This is Bed 3 where we added in the extra cupboard due to the change in the toilet. Toni, I have no idea why PD wont change your house to be the same.
Bed 4 cupboard.
The whole house is really taking shape. We are still a fair way behind B&P who have probably had the painting finished by now. We have a site meeting this Thursday - so I better pop down to Dan Murphys and see what is on Special..... :-)

Fix Start

We've hit the 3 month mark now and the house looks like a house - funny about that. Over the past week we have had the garage roof finished (sorry no photo), cabinets installed and the Fix has started. We also have had a few items revisited like the Niches below which were missed by the plasterers. The yellow tongue floorboard has also been sanded back along all the joins. We also have a bath.

The chippy started on Friday from the rumpus and was working his way through the kitchen on Saturday.




Kitchen cabinets complete and the frame around the windows and pantry door.

The Pantry shelves don't match the plans so we will have a chat to our SS this week.
Opps, I think the nail gun missed the wood.
The high doors as per the promotion. These were put on the study. Unfortunately they could not go on the Rumpus.

This is what we ended up doing on the Rumpus room. These doors are more solid than the others. Looks like the chippy had to add in the top section.
If you are all wondering why our blog has gone a little quiet this week, its because we have been busy telling everyone that a Mini M&M is on the way. Mini is due in December before Christmas. I wonder what color Mini will be????

Garage and Balcony Frame

Just a quick update to show that the Garage and Balcony frame has been installed. There has been no work done inside today. The gutter has also been delivered for the garage. The house is really taking shape now.

Cabinets

Look out Perry and Bernadette, we're catching up. Today progress has been made with almost all of the cabinets being installed. All that is left to do is the island bench.

The fancy brick thingy has been put up today. On the weekend we will take a good photo of the outside in the daylight.
Here are the kitchen cabinets and you can just see into the pantry where the sink will be.
The powder room with the cupboards instead of the standard bench.
The laundry looks a little odd without the additional cupboard on the left to fill in the space. We looked into the cost of the extra cupboard and it was not worth it.
We choose not to have the shadowline style vanities. These cost us a bit extra to have the extra cupboard space.
Here is the ensuite with the additional drawers in the centre. A bathroom isn't complete without drawers.