The roof is finished now and it looks so good! We chose a flat tile, mostly because our covenant dictated a flat tile, in Horizon Barramundi colour. It's a lovely dark grey and goes really well with the Monument fascia boards and gutters. It took the tilers longer than expected to finish the roof because it's quite a large surface area and they were there on Saturday, finishing it off. It looks so good, but I can see 2 chipped and cracked tiles - I wonder if they will fix those.
Our doors and windows were also delivered on Friday and it was great to see our very large front door in real life. Sometimes it's hard to visualise the actual size of things. The door is the wrong colour, but Andre assures me that the timber is stained on site and the door will be stained in due course. Either he just knows this stuff or he makes an educated guess. Either way, as long as it's done in the correct colour, all will be good.
While we were at the house on Saturday, we noticed that the outside tap was in the wrong position. We also noticed that the floor mounted spout for the freestanding bath in our ensuite looked a little close to the wall and not in the position we stipulated - at the end of the bath, not in the corner. The plan was to ask our ss for a walk through this week since we aren't actually allowed on site and wouldn't have seen these issues from the road. But you know, it's a little hard not to go on to site :-)
On my daily visit to the house yesterday afternoon, we noticed that the aerial has been put up but not the rotary roof vent. I assume that will be done at a later stage. I also saw that all the data cables are in and there was obviously a visit from our ss because there was pink spray paint everywhere. Each room was marked in pink, the doorway sizes were marked, the way the doors open were marked, the bottom of the frames where the doorways are were marked and a bright pink message on the outside tap, "move tap", with an arrow showing where it should be. I also noticed a message on the floor in our ensuite, "check level of bath to window". That was a strange one and had nothing to do with the floor mounted spout that I thought was in the wrong position. It was good to see he had been there.
Today I drove past at around lunch time (luckily I only live 2km from where we are building!) and I didn't see anyone, so assumed nothing was happening today. But, as usual, I took the boys to see the house after school so we had a look around. I first noticed that the outside tap had been moved and then I noticed the supporting beams inside had been removed too. The frames in the doorways were cut away and then I noticed that all the light switch and plug point frames are in too. It was so cool visualising how to go from one room to the next, turning on lights.
In the ensuite, the spout has been moved to the correct position, so obviously the cryptic message written on the floor meant something to somebody. The roof scaffolding has also been removed too, so the house looks quite different.
On another note, not sure if I mentioned before, but every house being built has a place for rubbish to be thrown away - either a makeshift one out of wire or a skip, but it's quite big and can hold loads of rubbish. I assume M arranges for rubbish to be collected at some point. And removing rubbish costs time and money. I am starting to learn that the neighbours know this too because there has been some really strange rubbish in our bin. At first it was old baby equipment, some wood and even an old toothbrush. A few weeks ago there was a bath! A brand new, slightly scratched bath that must have come from somebody else's build. Why they didn't throw it in their own bin, I will never know. The ss told me that to repair a few scratches costs $150 when they can buy a new one for $130, so it's easier to throw it away. Hmmm, not sure I like that kind of waste. This week there was a whole washing machine in our bin! It looks like it has seen better days and has been stripped and pulled apart, but it's still in one piece and very obviously a washing machine. The mind boggles.
Oh, and the bath has since disappeared....even stranger!
C x
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