first sign of action - photographic frenzy!

Hey, maybe I'm the out-of-date fashion accesory - the old bag, hehehe.

Aircon looks like its going to blow you out of the house!
Well done!

10 points for your builder

We went for the biggest single phase power one which I think will be fine for the size of our house, with 5 zones, independently operated.
Aircon supplier said it would probably not be able to heat whole house at once, but where we live it is hot and dry, highly unlikely we would ever want to do this anyway. Cooling is more important for us and he said it could cool the whole house on low temp, say overnight, or 3 - 4 zones during day.

TDL, what do you mean, you fell off your chair??
Please explain.

well, so far so good - and credit where it's due.

TDL, we live in Whyalla, 350 km west of Adelaide and on average 3 deg warmer each day and much dryer, third of Adelaide's rainfall.

Around 7 inches in old language - and. yes, tough SA water restrictions have hit hard.

Now you know why I want to downsize my yard area

Getting there Helyn!!

Ahuang, yes, there are brackets at the back, you can see in the first picture where the gyprock is not yet done around the bay window and the bracket for the roller shutter power switch is on the wall.

DH says there is one like this behind the gyprock for each of the power points.

is that what you mean?

This week the waterproofing for the wet areas has been done and drain holes put in floor. Now ready to do the tiling.

Got a call from tile supplier - sorry, some of the tiles (the main bathroom frieze and the front porch tiles) are no longer available, can you drop in within the next week to select something else?
Ummm,well, no, its an 8 hour round trip to Adelaide, we both work, sports committments etc

He offerred to select something for us which would match - ummmm,no, relying on other people's tastes: risky, or to send pictures via email, again risky, cant tell true colour from computer.

Anyway while they don't have an outlet here, there is one in Pt Augusta, the large hardware and tile place there does stock many of their tiles. that's a 1.5 hour round trip so guess where we're going on Saturday?

For the bathroom he offerred to also change the main wall tiles and/or the floor if we select a frieze that goes with something else better so I hope we can find something suitable.
I guess we would be within our rights to ask for the benchtop of the vanity to be changed to match as well, but that would require going back to kitchen supplier - see first comment re 8 hour trip!

Luckily its not the kitchen tiles as they really tie in with the benchtop and would be much harder to substitute.

Is this sort of problem common?
We picked the tiles at selections back in Dec last year.

that happened to us as well, the tile you picked ages ago supposed to be put aside as you already paid your deposit. WHen you actually need it, it still run out of stock....