Coral Homes Daydream 28 Far North Coast NSW

End of week 10 (13 weeks since build commenced).

First week back from the Christmas break and there has been no mucking around.

Chippy fit out (door jams and architraves, internal doors, shelving etc.) complete.
Render started and almost finished
Cabinetry (kitchen, bathrooms and laundry) installed.

Seeing cabinetry go in has been exciting.

Painting starts 21st Jan...........the rate of progress has been quite incredible.

There has been a couple of disappointments this past week, however. We have realised that there are a few things that we missed during planning. 1) ensuite and WIL CSDs are only 720 mm; 2) display home store has double doors and 600 wide shelves, we have a single door and 450 shelves - its amazing how different these spaces are; 3) we forgot to raise the height of the doors for the hallway linen from 2,100 to 2,400 to maximise access to top shelf storage space; 4) in the laundry we went for a broom closet but its so small that we now realise that we should have just made it part of the cabinetry; 5) kitchen island bench has a 1,150mm passageway through the kitchen but because we upgraded to a 300 mm overhand on the island bench we have only have a 820 mm passage into the hallway which puts it out of scale with the ktichen and hall dimensions. This is the only one that we can not live with and have asked our SS whether we can pay the cabinet maker directly to move the island bench 100 mm.

Kitchen starting to take form:

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What is this construction certificate look like and we weren't told anything abt it and we were told we wilk start construction on feb13th.can u plz explain.

End of week 11
Not much happened this week, just plasterer sanding ready for painting.

Realised that the 820 mm passageway between the kitchen island bench and the linen wall has been caused by a drafting error. The bedroom wall to end of the linen wall should be 2.830 leaving a passageway of 1,050 mm. The drafting for our plan made it 3,010 leaving us with a passageway of 820 mm. It is too late to fix the linen as part of the linen wall is load bearing. We are trying to negotiate moving the island bench 110 mm to provide a passageway of 920 mm (still not ideal but better than 820mm which is way too tight and out of scale with the 1,150 passageway between kitchen benches and 960 mm hall passage). This will reduce the kitchen passageway to 1,040 mm (same as the Perigian Springs DD28 display).

Coral are obviously not happy with us raising the issue. They have told us that the job will be on hold until the issue is resolved with an expected delay of no less than 10 working days.

Hi Tash. I have not seen or spoken with my SS since the start date (14 weeks ago). I have sent him a text about once per week when there is an issue. He is pretty quick to respond and the issue gets dealt with promptly. I also get a brief progress email most weeks. I've been quite happy with that arrangement but he recently got a dressing down from his manager - who has assumed that I have been entering the site without the SS by my side. I subsequently got a reminder that I can not enter the site without the SS. Anyway, I'm meeting my SS onsite tomorrow to sort out how we are going to mitigate the narrow passageway issue. To sum up, my SS is doing a great job; if I have any issues it is with not having 100% confidence in Coral Homes' process.

Good to hear. You are fortunate to get a specific date for PCI. So far ours is somewhere between end of March or April with a "murphy's law" disclaimer.

Hi Tash, ...... its been rendered and painted............. final coat and touch ups either today or next week.

Tiles delivered today so I suppose that is a clear indication that wet area tiling will soon commence.

Meeting with my SS went very well yesterday. He is of solid character and is pretty switched on.

I know the final phase moves more slowly than the first 8 to 10 weeks. You want the finishes to move more slowly as they will then be completed with more care........ but two weeks of nothing would be frustrating. Painters and tilers are some of the more difficult trades to get hold of locally and this may be why not much has happened.