Kitchen bench, New SS and Tiling begins.

QQ Bench top - Colour is 'Royal Base'

Close up of bench, hard to judge from photo

Bamboo display at Home Innovation Centre

A view of all bench tops

Tiles delivered and ready to be layed

Hi everybody, not much has been happening so there's not a great deal to report.

The kitchen bench was installed some time last week. The colour [royal base] has come up well and is a good match to the cupboards.

Met our new SS on Monday, he seems to have caught up on the whole build and is continuing to oversee the slow but steady progress.

The tiler starts on Thursday and it shouldn't be too long after that PD can give us some definite timelines for PCI and handover.

We've recently started to look into flooring options and I have organised some concretors to come out and do quotes this week.

Should we be worried?

Our CSC called yesterday to check where our building variation for the ensuite basins was and to give us a few updates. Unfortunately, I did not get either the call to home or to my mobile. Upon listening to the message I thought, should we be worried?

She said, "our SS had moved on from the company and that we now have a new SS. He was currently getting up to speed with all the jobs and will contact us when he has done so".

I said "Oh sh*@ we are nearing the final stage of our build, what impact is this going to have on us"?

From reading other blogs it seems not uncommon to have at least one change of SS. The positive thing is, that it can often be a change for the better. We hadn't met our SS but he kept in fairly regular contact and seemed to be very much on top of things. Our CSC assures us that our new SS is experienced and very good but, isn't that what they say about all of them?

I guess we are about to find out. We had requested an inspection with the last SS, so now it will have to be with the new guy. I feel for him in a way because he comes in not really knowing or understanding the history of the build.
Oh well, time will tell, fingers crossed it will all turn out for the good.

PAINTING and The Garage Roof

Master ensuite painted

Stairs being painted/stained

Laundry.

Paint colour is Turkish Bread 1/2 strength

Powder room.

Sorry left side is a bit dark

Wall colours - Turkish bread 1/2 strength.

Ceiling is Wattyl supercover white, doors,

architraves, skirts colour is oriental white

Kitchen in a better light

Dining/Meals doors - Dark Oak

Master bedroom in poor light

Study

Garage roof trusses on

Stain colour is Dark Oak

Exterior paint colour is Colorbond 'Dune'

Garage roof from the front

Another view of the garage roof

As you can see the painting has almost been completed, no wonder when the painters work all day Sunday on a long weekend.

C [husband] doesn't really like the exterior colour 'dune', which is a worry because the garage and render colour is that colour too. Good thing that he does like the interior colour especially because he chose it.

I like the dune, only wish the windows were more a stone colour than beige. The colour of the windows is 'stone beige'. As for the interior, I like the colour but I would have rathered a cooler brown more so than the warm brown of 'turkish bread half strength'.

Overall, I think it's all coming together pretty well. The next big thing to see will be the splashback, hope it goes with all our other colour choices.

Basin Update

Front facade no scaffold
Front facade with finial and arch bar.

Front facade with scaffold.

Yet another angle of front facade.

Scaffolding packed up and ready to go.

Living area getting its first lick of paint.

Got a call from our CSC to let us know of the cost for replacing the ensuite basins. She said we had been given the ok by management to change the basins and the cost to do this would be $299. Not sure how they come up with that figure, as the difference between the basins we have at the moment and the ones we chose is about $114.

We had thought we were going to have to pay the full cost of replacing the basins which was about $800. So, I suppose the $299 figure isn't too bad. It's just a shame that the contract didn't have the detailed description and that we missed on picking that up in the contract.

On a better note, the painting has begun, the garage roof is being done and brick cleaning has been completed. Pictures of these things will come.

For now the above pictures are a few of the facade with no scaffold, the finial and arch bar- sorry about the sun glare.