Tiles delivered

Our Roof tiles have been delivered! 
But the Melbourne weather hasn't been very nice to us. 
It has been POURING all of today and probably over the weekend as well. Hopefully it doesn't affect the Grand Finals too! 
Praying for better weather all of next week so that we can have a hat, and maybe getting wrapped too!

Cat 1:Elabana - Barramundi

Cat 1:Elabana - Barramundi

Soaking wet windows despite under covered 

Slight Rant: 
Every since the start of our discussion with PD (sales consultant, Tender, Contract, BC, SS) we were not been told that eaves did NOT come as standard with the home. As a result, we believed all along that we were going to get the EXACT same result as the showrooms at Greenvale and Wantirna (eaves all along the entire house). However, as they were constructing the gutters and roof, I've noticed that there was a very complicated area around a joint corner of the house. 

Given that we have no background in reading construction drawings, this error was one that I never had been able to pick up. I made a discovery that my whole family had overlooked as well. This is another mistake we shouldn't have made..
I'm quite disheartened that we did not pick this up earlier on, during our tender appointment or when the presenter did her tender contract viewing. Nothing about eaves were bought up. I generally assumed that it would be provided as standard. 

Having said all that, I guess we can live without eaves, we would hardly take shelter from the rain under it anyway! Plus, given our Hebel panels, hopefully we do not lose too much in terms of maintaining heating/cooling. Perhaps it could even add to the modern look we're after! 

Area of concern: Corner joint between the Activity room and Bed 2 

Area where gutter currently sits - No eaves. 

Water will flow down the large gully and onto the roof
which has eaves (provided by our
front facade) and onto its own gutter. 

Top view of the area described above.

Im not going to blame PD for not informing us and 'want out money back' but rather let this serve a warning to those who are thinking of building the Sandringham 45 with PD. Make sure you ask about EVERYTHING! - even if down to the nails they use if require..Haha! Don't make the same mistake we did. 

p.s: eaves around the house would be an additional $4000+ as an Upgrade. (I did some research and thats what other PD customers have been charged)

Frames - almost completed

Its almost 2 weeks since my last blog post and ALOT has happened on our site. 
Our frames have gone up its moving so quickly! 


17 Sept 12 
most of the ground level frames have completed, including the front facade.
Engineered beams above the kitchen area have also been set up

Front of house

Front Facade 

Engineering beams Kitchen area

Large puddle in the Study room

Allocated refrigerator area

20 Sept 12
Upper level is almost completed now. Door frames, Main entry pivot door have been delivered. Smart meter installed. Windows from Southern Star delivered.

Door frames

Southern Star Windows

21 Sept 12
Most of the ground floor windows and doors have been put in.

Laundry exit

Master Ensuite 

Study Area

Laundry exit and WIP window

Feature windows in family area

Stacker doors at the rear of kitchen

24 Sept 12
construction has begun in the Garage/storage area.
We've also realised that the sliding window/door in our Study had not been what we expected. At the show rooms, the sliding door slides from the right to left. Our sliding window/door has been fitted to slide from the left to the right. This is not a big deal, but it is disruptive to the walk flow in the study, and we may not have a large table in there anymore :( 
We also noticed that the colour selections were wrong:( We wanted our garage colour to be the exactly the same as the showroom at Greenvale. However, it appears that our colour coordinator has made our garage door the same colour as our downpipes - I can't believe we didn't pick these up!! 

We want the White on our garage door.

Instead we have, Colourbond DUNE for our
garage door colour.

This is the render colour around our garage door area.
Its very close to the Colourbond Dune. Just a different shade.

Maybe PD will allow us to make these changes...I'll ask our BC tomorrow, but I know it'd be a long shot. 

Pictures from the day:

View from the top of the Void area

Best view from the house. Facing North.
Bedroom 4.
We had to upgrade the window in this room.

25th Sept 12
No action in the morning. 
Safety rails have been installed for the roofies in the arvo! WHOOHOO! 

Contacted our BC. Have been advised that there is NO way the sliding window/door in our study can be changed at this stage. Its too late by now. 
Shes also advised that we can't make the changes to our colour selections once we're on site. Apparently the estimator makes ALL orders at the start of our construction.

Looks like we'll have to either get the Study door changed after handover (or live with it)
and maybe get a Timber coat on our garage door from BnD.

26th Sept 12
Roof trusses have been set up and installed. 
Maybe our tiles will be delivered tomorrow and they'll have it all completed by Friday 28th Sept as scheduled.

Roof trusses

Frames

I was reading up on other blogs and the trend was about 5 days lag time between the pour and pines delivered before framing. 
BUT our frames have started to go up today! How QUICK!!! Pour was only done on Wednesday! 
Managed to go out on site to have a chat with the chippies and ask them if the slab was good for them to work with - YES!
They've also estimated that they'll be out there till sometime next week. 
Its also their first job for PD! :O Worrying, but it could also mean that they'll want to impress PD and do a fantastic job! Lets hope all goes well. 
Anyway...PICTURES!

Our busy site