Talked to him about our PCI appointment for this Friday 15th March 13. He tells me that it will not be happening - Not surprised!
SS says that theres no point to have a PCI this week when the house is not ready yet. He claims to know that there outstanding things that need to be fixed and that our private inspector will just be repeating things in his report of things that he already knows need to be fixed. Some calls and emails will go out to contractors today and that hopefully most of the house will be prepared for PCI soon. Hopefully we won't have too much to do after our PCI and a handover can be in near sight.
When I arrived, he was there running the taps in the upper floor, checking if they are leaking and or flowing well.
#1 - SS claims that Tiles have been installed in our powder room correctly. SS says that tilers will install the tiles to the vanity unit height and then only install the splash back He also believes that he may not be able to bring it up to the building manager to have it rectified as our request. I still don't understand why PD has contractors who don't know how to build like the display homes. You can't expect a customer to buy something and not get what its claimed to be. I'm not going to let this rest. Why can the tilers at the display home do it, and the tiler at my house can't. Quality of the work here is questionable. I really did not expect the tiles to have turned out like how it has. I have always had the idea that there will be large tiles all around the entire powder room.
This is something PD must look into - promoting a design which doesn't not sustain when delivering.
#2 - roller bolt on the pivot door. SS says that the mortice type roller bolt is a gainsborough deadlock packaged together with the pivot door. The paradigm 005 square deadbolt is a lockwood deadlock. Two different brands. Gainsborough mortice lock has been used as there had been reliability issues with the lockwood ones. I stressed that the thumb-lock (paradigm 005 square deadbolt) had been installed on the wrong door - our internal garage door, instead of the front entry door. He says that he'll have to look into possibly modifying the mortice lock to install the thumblock on the door. I don't mind this outcome if it's going to work. But I definitely do not want another deadlock under out mortice lock. The issue here is that, we have to leave a set of keys on the pivot door permanently in order for us to use the mortice deadlock. (what is the keys get misplaced? What is someone takes the keys away? We won't be able to lock our doors at night!) SS says that a gainsborough locksmith might be able to install a permanent keylock on the mortice deadlock. We just won't get the deadlock feature.
Bought this from Bunnings warehouse today. This will go onto our wall just above our Freestanding bath.
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