Thursday, April 23, 2009

Finally....

At last we have some action!
Finally today the concreters came back and fixed up the slab!Hooray! The chipies should be back earlier next week to finish off the frame and the site manager has booked the brickies for late next week - hopefully everything will run to plan now!

Thursday, April 16, 2009

STILL waiting....

Nothing, nada, zip.....for over a week and a half now................................................................................................................................................................

Friday, April 10, 2009

No action all week...

We spoke to the Site manager on Tuesday and he assured us that the mess up will be fixed....though it might take some time! An engineering report needs to be done and then the work will be fixed up and then rechecked by the engineer....
Apparently they were going to do the trusses on Tuesday but the crane broke down on site! The brickie that was booked has had to be cancelled... Could this be the start of a nightmare build? It has all gone so well up to now!
We are already a week behind now as nothing has happened this week, add that to the week of rain we have had = 2 weeks behind at the least! And it is meant to rain next week....

Monday, April 6, 2009

Tile Quote

We received our tile quote today and it comes in at an extra $450. Mostly that is for boarder tiles to go vertically in the showers. It all adds up very quickly.....

We've been framed!

It was all go at the block today with the chippies (carpenters) busily putting up the frame. It is not all done yet but it looks great apart from...... a big mistake!
The fourth bedroom is missing about 3 foot of concrete! We didn't realise until now and neither must the builders because they have not been able to frame the bedroom as the concreting had been messed up!
Hopefully they will just concrete the piece of slab that is missing rather than try to persude us to have a much smaller room - we'll just have to wait and see!

I hope it get sorted quickly before the rain returns........

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Rain, rain, go away!

It has been nearly a week since the timber for the frame and the windows were dropped off....but it has rained non stop since then! It is ment to clear up after the weekend, so hopefully then the frame can start to go up!