In the woods....with undercoat

Undercoating commenced yesterday and the tiling is due to commence this week too! I hope the white (Taubmans South Pole) we have selected isnt as green as the undercoat

Here are some pics

Kitchen

Rumpus

Rumpus, lounge, hallway to front door

Lounge, dining and rumpus with neighbours reflection off glass in top half of photo

Study

Into the woods...with a few more hiccups!

I noticed the week before Christmas that the laundry door was not trans laminated glass as per our tender, but the balcony door on the upstairs front verandah was. My SS investigated and came back to say that the Carpenter switched the doors in error. The No Name Building company said they could do a direct swap of the glass or trans laminate the laundry door at no cost. From memory we didn't trans laminate the balcony door as we will be getting white plantation shutters on the door to break up the very dark brick. I need to let him know when they re-open for business in the new year. I could save myself some serious dollars and ask them to keep the trans laminate on the balcony and just buy a large white/ dune plantar box?

On Christmas Day I noticed that all external doors are incorrect. They should be painted dune, however stained doors have been installed. They will need to change this as we wanted Dune doors to match the garage doors. I will let them know of this issue when they re-open

There is another No-Name Building house under construction approx. 4 kms from where we live. They commenced 3 months after our construction and are at the same stage as us! We seem to have issue after issue!

Went up to the house for a peek through the windows and it appears all architraves have been completed. The gyprocker is returning tomorrow to do under the stairs.

Despite the issues that we have encountered, things have progressed well over this break. We have been lucky that the company has given us the resources

Upstairs door - should not be trans laminate or stained

Laundry door - should be trans-laminated and not stained.

In the woods....with stairs!

Last week the stairs were finally installed however they protrude into the corridor  . We spoke to our SS who agreed that something should be done about it in the New Year. I think the problem arose when we reduced the width of the house...Problem is the architect didn't reduce the bottom two stairs to accommodate this. Our SS says it shouldn't really hold things up too much, maybe a day or two.

I really like the look of them however I think the bottom stair will need to be resized to the second last stair

YOU can see how much corridor it takes up in this front entry pic

Upstairs

They are not the best style of stair for a two and three year old

In the woods.....with NO Stairs

Stairs were not installed yesterday. I have a funny feeling this wont happen until the new year

In the woods...with cornice photos

Hey, Forgot to add some pics of the uprgraded cornices.

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In the woods.....with a pre-Xmas Update

Did the drive by about an hour ago and noticed the garage door had been installed. Its Dune in colour but sometimes looks, grey sometimes white, and sometimes cream depending on the light. Our bricks have the same illusion, sometimes black black, sometimes brown.......

Spoke to my SS who said the plan was to:
- Install stairs will happen next Monday
- The carpenters will return next Wednesday and work through the Xmas break
- Timpelle Kitchens booked tentatively for 17 January
- The Admin people at the No-Name Building company cant find my paperwork for Di-Lorenzo so this cant be booked in for January yet. Fingers crossed they find it today.

No Name Building company and our SS officially close for Xmas next Friday and re-open on the 9th January. We are so pleased that they have organised tradespeople to work through.

In the woods.....with front doors

Today our front doors were installed and the internal gyrpocking/ cornices completed. I believe the architraves were started but havent been in to take a look.

Maybe the stair case or garage door will be installed tomorrow.....I'll keep you posted...