Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Advice please - order of finishing trades 5Aug 13, 2015 3:00 pm Forg For long & involved reasons I won't go into, the builder did the tiling before painting in our place, and it's a complete PITA cleaning all the splattered paint off the tiles. The painters think they're too good to splatter paint everywhere, and yes they did a massively better job of not splattering paint everywhere than I'd have done ... but then I'D HAVE USED A DROP SHEET SO IT WOULDN'T HAVE MATTERED!! Sounds interesting!! Ashgrove - Not sure if you are installing your own skirtings after handover as well? I was just pondering on ours and thinking that it would be best to gloss them before fitting (again to save on mess) but I wonder if it's better to fit them before or after the flooring? I though after initially but then I thought that if you ever changed the flooring the gaps might be all different?! Re: Advice please - order of finishing trades 6Aug 13, 2015 5:04 pm Yeah we haven't decided on skirtings yet. My husband is a chippy so he will be able to do it at some point. His first job is a nice deck out in the alfresco and rear veranda. Hmm yeah you may have to change skirtings if you changed floors. I'm hoping we never change floors haha! I've got the electrical booked for the first item. Re: Advice please - order of finishing trades 7Aug 13, 2015 8:02 pm This is the order I would do them in Tiling (dirtiest Job) Wall Painting (Needs doing before fitoffs) Electrical fitoff (Done after paint) Ducted AC (as above) Wardrobe fitouts (after paint because easier to touch up if any damage then cut around) Carpets (do before final clean) Shutters (after final clean and window service) Curtains/ blinds (as above) Paint touchups. (always going to need some touchups) Always get multiple quotes, no matter how reasonable/cheap you think it is. I remember getting a few quotes for a pool fence, roughly around the same price, thinking the… 5 9874 "Losers" "humanity" "off time" "your" "top notch" "love symbol" Sounds like ponzo is done using other people's toilets 36 24899 I am new to this forum so please bear with me. An NCAT order was breach by our neighbour regarding a retaining wall dispute. He is the owner of a building company and he… 0 2263 |