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.