Katrina's 2nd home build - Gympie

Nothing much to report. But I do love my kitchen pendants.  Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share

Not looking too good at the moment. I requested the final invoice today because the bank told me that submitting it today was d-day for getting everything finalized for a prechristmas handover. Haven't received it yet. The tiler is still f-ing useless and is holding everything else up. I reckon he must've only put an hour or 2 in today aswell. Has all the floors done now, but still no skirting tiles, and no grout in sight yet. They can't hand the vanities until he finishes the floors. Tanks are still not in, but are on site and supposed to start tomorrow. Flooring is booked for Wednesday and Thursday. I am also having problems with the place we are renting our storage shed from. The last invoice i got said we were paid up until 23rd of December, then got an email saying i was overdue. I called them and she said she had double receipted a weekly payment and that i was actually only paid up until 30th of November. I don't understand how i suddenly lost 3 1/2 weeks when she reversed only 1 week's worth of payment. Anyway, that saga continues.

Another drama today. The stonemasons were on site to install the benchtops, and pulled our owner supplied black stone sink out of the box (which has been at the cabinet makers for the last 3 months) and the between dropping it off to the cabinet makers and now it has been cracked. I made a cabinet maker pull it out of the box when i dropped it off to them to inspect for damage, it was fine then. They are saying they don't understand how they could have caused the damage, but I certainly f*cking didn't, they had possession of it not me, so why should we fork out another $400 for a new one.

Quick update. The builder has agreed to pay for our sink. I feel really bad for him, cause i honestly believe the cabinet maker is responsible, it's no more his fault than it is ours. But still happy with the outcome.

The builder is still aiming for it. But our shower screens won't be ready until the new year as they're semi frameless. He said he will put in some shower curtains until they arrive and is still really keen to get us in for christmas. Not ideal, and hubby said no outright, but i talked him around with the lure of a flushing toilet, air con, a real kitchen and being able to send the kids to their rooms, lol. Flooring is now delayed until monday, and the bank needs to get the valuer in monday arvo or tuesday to allow enough time for the payment of end of week. It's the tiler that giving me the sh!ts. He has been going now for 2 weeks. And it's only 2 bathrooms, laundry and kitchen splash backs. So far he has completely tiled all the floors, shower walls and skirting tiles in the ensuite, part of the shower recess in the bathroom, no skirting tiles yet in bathroom or laundry and no spalshback in kitchen or laundry. No grout whatsoever anywhere yet.

Agghhh frustrating about the tiler seriously if he put in a whole days work he would be up to grout

viewtopic.php?t=88323&f=31&p=1771329#p1771329[/quote]He's blaming it on how much brick bond tiling we have. I told him, yeah we've also been charged a pretty penny to have it tiled in that pattern.

Scrap that. First and last bathroom pics are the ensuite and the middle bathroom pic is the kids main batgroom vanity. Here is their shower, upload failed for some reason.  Like  ⋅  Add a comment  ⋅  Pin to Ideaboard  ⋅  Share