April 11, 2011 - expected Practical Completion

Got in contact with the builder.. Expected completion date is April 11, 2011.

In the mean time the cleaners are coming in and driveway to be completed soon.

An updated look of the house

This was taken today.. an update pic of the front of the house. The next shot will be without all the junk and temporary fence and a driveway will also be in the photo

Main Floor Tile Completed

Main Floor Tiles were completed on Friday grout and all. Going the 600x600 porcelain tiles was well worth it.

Front Door Entry 

From the Front Door 

Home Office

from the steps

Kitchen and Dining

Kitchen - they are still yet to finish the plumbing for the sink drains

Floor Covering Started - Main Living Tiling.

Passed by the house in the morning and finally the tilers are on site starting on Main Living Floor Covering. In the afternoon they had completed most of the kitchen area.. As discussed it will take 3 days to complete.

Taken from outside the liesure window that was open.

And from the Bedroom hallway which they had not done yet.. only one guess what they left open

Another reason why you should keep checking your house.. keep locking it up for the tradies.

Down the hallway to the front..

Judging from what we can see they only have the bedroom hallway, kitchen, front entry hallway and Home Office. Surface area is alot less than what they covered. thoughi think there is a lot more tile cutting involve tomorrow... I bet that the grouting will be for the 3rd day.

From what i can see so far so good.

CeasarStone benchtops are installed

Ensuite

Main Bath

Bathtub is in also

Kitchen Benchtop and sink is in. We changed our sink from the blanco standard to an AFA cubeline.

These were taken a little late in the afternoon with bad lighting. I'll be taking a thorough photo using my SLR instead of the sony compact camera.

Home Stretch. Main Floor Tiles expected this Friday 18th

I have had a chance to get photos of the current status. They have completed Electricals and also the painting. Looks like the plumber has been in to completed the downpipes with the painters painting it.

In the mean time here is an update on my last pics taken. Big post of photos here.

Ensuite Vanity Still waiting on the Ceasarstone benchtop

Ensuite Shower Niche - have a gripe about the edges on this

Ensuite Shower

Slimline Toilet with soft close - woohoo!

Main Bath Vanity same story with CeasarStone Benchtop

Main bath tub

Main Bath Shower Niche

For all our guests the toilet big room

Kitchen where sink dish washer will go

Microwave provision - going to need some fascia quite a big space

Where the freestanding cooktop and oven will go

Overhead cupbaord with bulkheads...not sure how the bulkheads will be down.

Away last week on holidays... Painting looks to be done and plumbing

We went away up north for a week and quite a few things happened. These shots are from outside since we arrived late on a friday afternoon and no one is on-site.

Front Porch Tiles are done. Tiles are darker than the main living tiles we are having put in.

Kitchen Cupboards in place.. Polyurethane and sharkfin edge (no handles)

Bed 2

Main Bath.. still waiting on the bath tub and ceasar benchtop.

Ensuite toilet. Compact size and whole lot better than what we expected to get.

Waiting to see what happens during the week

Bathroom Tiling Started Yesterday

Tiler has started on the main bathroom, I had spoken to Tiler and he's the same tiler who did the springfarm Wisdom Display homes.. So far so good noticed his tile cutouts for the plumbing are precise..

We elected for the larger wall tiles to minimise the amount of grout.. Our consultant in from delorenzo was in the same wavelength as us. having less grout means less area for mould to develop.. Plus its easier to clean!!!

where the shower and vanity will be going. I am wondering where and how the cabinet installers for the vanity will find the studs now that the wall tiles are in place. Our Vanity are Floating wall mounted.

Main Bath floors look really dark.. at least we won't notice the hair thats fallen off the heads.. I don't know if that is a good thing or bad thing..

All our tile selection as can be seen is from the standard selection range. The only exception will be the Mosaic tiles going in the Niche and around the bath tub.

Architraves and Water proofing for bathroom completed

They completed last week the Architraves and waterproofing of the bathrooms.

Minor error on the builder with the doors for our Linen being the wrong ones. They pretty quick to confirm that they will have them replaced with the correct ones.

Main Shower

Main Bath

Laundry

ensuite shower