Steaming forward

NO SMOKING 

It has been another eventful week at our site! 

Exterior rendering completed.
Painting has been completed and tiles have been delivered and started on yesterday.
We even had the electrician come through and pulled out all the cables over the weekend!
Looks like we're steaming away to the finish line!

Exterior Rendering Completed 

Completed 8th Feb 13

7th Feb 13 Electricals for our Lounge room 

Powder Room

Island Bench

Kitchen/Dining area

Stairs

You may notice that most or if not ALL of our electrical fitting are just standard batons and even our stairs do not have wall lights installed. This is because the fittings charges PD has offered for electricals are too expensive. It wasn't justifiable. 

We have requested for PD to wire all the lighting for the ground level and only run single cables in the upper level. This is because we will be hiring a certified electrician after handover to run the remaining cables for the upper level at a much cheaper price compared to what PD was charging. 

Our downlights will be bulk bought at wholesale prices - saving us thousands!

I haven't been able to take many photos as we have been locked out of the house. The photos here are ones that I took when I was on site to meet with the tiler who wanted me to confirm that the tiles delivered were the exact ones we requested at our colour selection appointment. He even tells me that he was willing to come back to the house to tile our kitchen/dining area for a 'very good price'. Im not sure if PD knows that their contractors do offer their services to clients outside of their contract. Nevertheless I turned him down as we have Bolero Timber flooring for our ground level. 

8th Feb 13 - Tiles delivered 

Front Facade tiles - Brick Pattern
600x300
Stratos

MAXFL138 

All wet areas - Porcilen tiles
600x600
Majestic Ivory

MAXFL1540 

Balcony floor tiles
400x400
Portifino

MAXFL8011 

Thursday afternoon stopped by to Adriatic to purchase our dining set and our family area couch.

We have a very large family, thus we purchased a 2.4m x 1.2m Bravo dining table. The sales consultant was very helpful and assisted with the colour selections as well. Luckily I managed to get a sample of our Bolero flooring from UTF. It helped with colour matching the table and sofa set. 

Unfortunately I can't get a sample piece of our carpet. We will have to 'borrow' the sample to match our blinds/beds etc. 

Dining table + 8 Australian Made chairs

3 + 2.5 lounge suite Australian Made 

= $6150!

Includes delivery and installation and 5 years guarantee on all fabrics.

Dining table shape 

Dining table colour 

Dining table fabric 

I will be looking at Pendent lights for our void and our dining area.
SS has informed me that this whole week will just be tiling. I wonder whether PCI has been booked in yet. I spoke with our independent inspector and he's advised me that he usually does his inspections while PCI is conducted. He will do his own inspections and we will walk through the house with our SS. Not sure if thats enough time for our inspector to spot all the areas which need rectification. 

another disappointment

Going on from my last post regarding the island bench. My family and I went to the showroom and spoke to our sales consultant about the issue. He got the measuring tape out and measured the island bench in the showroom and assured us that we will get what we selected -1430mm. During the week I received a call from the office and our BC confirmed that they have sent someone out to the showroom and the the Estimator has contacted the supplier to work something out. By Thursday last week, BC came back to me and told us that the MAXIMUM they can do without a joint in the bench is 1410mm - I settled with that and got a $7 credit back.... 


Also SS has managed to get the Duc Vac man to come out to the site and fix up his mistake in the outlet location. Good job SS! 

Moved outlet from the left to the right.

Hot water solar panel was installed Monday 29th Oct 12. 

Solar Panel 29th Oct 12

Solar Hot Water Pipes

More Hebel work completed - Rear/ left side and front of the house.

29th Oct 12

29th Oct 12

29th Oct 12

Our SS has been on annual leave and another SS has volunteered to take over his position while he is on leave. It was good to see that the new SS was on site when I went by the house. Managed to speak to him and he's advised that hebel on the right side of the house has not started because of the scaffolding being potentially too close to overhead electrical lines! And the scaffolding company has forgotten to book in a spotter for the day of installation. Next friday is the only available time the spotter can be on site and watch the Hebel panels get put up! Next Friday! 9th November 12!
Scaffoldings have a minimum setback requirements away from power lines and if they are too close, a spotter will be required.

Power line threat

Power lines are above the nature strip -
but scaffoldings have to be a distance away from them

Sliding doors have been delivered 

Temp Main door installed.

Sliding door - Lounge room

Sliding door - WIP

Balcony doors

The carpenters were out on site late last week. Working through to the weekend. I met them on site during the weekend and they've advised that they're the Lock Up carpenters and they're trying to get all the walls straightened for plastering and fixing up any other defect in the frames. They were looking to get it done by Monday 5th Nov 12. 

Bathtub

Plumbed!

Okay huge disappointment coming up: 

You guys can tell me what you think. 

So I drove past the house yesterday morning and noticed that the rendering guys have started their work on the upper area of the house. They were doing they mixing etc. 

I come back at the end of the day and found out that they've finished their job! Whohoo! 

EXCEPT...its WRONG...WRONG WRONG WRONG!

These are my render colours:

Time Capsule - Whole house

Carriage - Garage area

The colours we have selected are as per the Greenvale showroom of the Sandringham 45. Our colour selection states that they were the same "as per Greenvale showroom". 

However when they have applied the render to our home, they've used another colour instead!! 

I suspect that they have used the same colour as the Harcrest showroom - a light gray colour. 

5th Nov 12

Wrong render colour to the house!

Unless my eyes have gone down the drain - Im seeing a light gray colour to the upper level of the house. Not the colour of Time Capsule - a very light brown colour we have selected. What do you guys think? Its the wrong colour right?! 

Harcrest Showroom 

Greenvale Showroom

Another house built with PD with Time Capsule Render

Wrong Render colour - Light gray colour

Wrong Render Colour - Nothing like Time Capsule

Wrong Render Colour

I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the colour. I rushed back home and looked at the photos from the site - comparing it with the colour selection that we made. At first I couldn't tell if it was just my eyes or whether the rendering guys have just applied like a prime coat on the Hebel wall first and will finish it off with the actual colour later. But the more I look at it the more I get angry and upset that how can PD mix up something so significant like that?! I understand that our SS may be away on annual leave but this break-up of communication is unprofessional! I was told that any changes to our selections will supersede all previous selections and it gets put ON TOP of all other selections in our file. I even had our BC show us how they do it internally. Well I was on my email immediately, brining attention to the Office of the error that has been made and since its cup day weekend, no one is in to help us. I don't know how PD is going to fix this. Whether they can just acid spray off the render coat before applying the new colour on it or they'll have to chip off the render by hand and reapply the correct colour. I'm not going to be very happy if they are just going to apply another coat on the current one as I know in the future, the new coat will just peel off and we'll be stuck with patches of gray on my wall. 
Looks like theres going to be more work needed to be done after cup day! Hopefully my next update will be a positive one. 
Im super jealous of all the other houses whom seem to have it smooth sailing for them!