Practical Completion Inspection

Apologies Everyone, Mike has been very busy with work, being a taxi driver to the airport for me and the weather has been awful so there hasn't been much to update recently. Mike has promised to take lots of photos tomorrow and update again.

The temporary fencing disappeared about Monday, the toilet and rubbish cage the next day and then the site was cleaned the following day.

Here is the front of our nice clean house :-) The front door has had another coat but it seems it still needs another coat, doesn't look quite right yet.

It is going to be a big job to get the driveway done. We are in the process of getting quotes at the moment. The driveway is approximately 22m, which works out to 110sqm. Not looking forward to paying for this but we think it is one job that will have to be done before we move in due to all the mud. We are thinking that Bluestone colour concrete will look nice to tie in with the roof, the front door and the specks of blue/grey in the bricks.

The ensuite is now finished. All mixer taps are in and the shower screens have been completed. The sealant around the tiles has also been done.

Feature walls!!!!! These were started on Thursday. The painter has to come back to complete them, they are still a bit pinky at the moment. The colour is seductress, the same as the splashback in the kitchen. This corner is where we are installing our Ultimate Wood Heater. We met a plumber at the house at 8am today for a quote, shouldn't cost much to install. We kept the wood heater from our old house, it is only 2 years old. It is obviously single story in the rumpus which makes it possible to install and the sliding door will make it easy to bring in firewood. Today we had the practical completion inspection. We met our SS on site at 9am. It was very cold and we all had very muddy feet. Our SS was very nice and let the carpet guy do a proper measure while we were doing the inspection. It all went very well. There was nothing much to complain about as SS had already done his mark up earlier and lots of paint marks had already been fixed. However we did have fun putting lots of little blue dots everywhere for the marks that were left. The painter is going to have fun trying to find them all next week!! There were a couple of minor things that need adjusting, such as door handles that weren't quite straight and a couple of windows weren't cleaned properly. SS is confident these can be fixed in the next week.

The biggest problem is that we don't have power yet. This is because the power company took so long to send us the paperwork for the underground pit. Mike and SS had been hassling them but they still took a long time. They have 20 working days from when they received our cheque (which was hopefully today) to install the pit. Obviously we are hoping that they come out much quicker.

So all in all, our SS has done a brilliant job to get the house completed in 149 days with just very minor things to be completed in the next week. We thought we were going to just beat B&P but it looks like the only way to do that is to move in without electricity...