Hi everyone,
Finish line appears to be in sight with our build... bathrooms were almost all complete as at last weekend, with bathtub delivered ready for install, powder room vanity delivered and only one of the bathrooms still needing a shower rail. Apart from that, kitchen splashback to be done and carpet to be laid - pretty much everything else all sweet in terms of build.
Externally - two brick pillars to be rendered and bit of paint needs finishing on the cladding... air con needs to be installed and side fences, front fence (hedge I think and retaining wall) plus turf to back (estate comes with landscaping)
SS has told us there will be an inspection in mid-Nov which he is calling the 'first inspection' where we 'put sticky tape on any defects on the paintwork etc that needs rectifying'.
I'm tipping this is of course PCI? And that given he is calling it the 'first inspection' (previously we had a pre-gyprock walkthrough) the 'only' inspection after that will be the final/handover inspection in which we check that any defects have been addressed?
I keep asking him is this what he means but he is notoriously slow, if ever, to reply to messages.
If it is indeed PCI, a read of other blogs seems to show a timeframe of about 2 weeks from PCI to handover... in which case we're looking at an early Dec handover I guess? Does this seem right?
Hubby is surprised the inspection is 2.5 weeks away as to his eye (he is a carpenter) there is barely 1 or 2 weeks work left *unless* you count the landscaping... so we're wondering is the landscaping likely to be getting done while we wait for PCI? I looked on here for some answers but seems many estates give you a grant to organise your landscaping yourself as opposed to doing it all-inclusive - so I wasn't sure how long to factor in for fence/turf/retaining wall... I just really wanna be in by Christmas... do you think that's a possibility?
Thanks in advance hopefully
Cheers,
J & J