well things have slowed - all started about 2 weeks back when I went to check the tiler. he was finishing the ensuite off. I had a look and the tiling is fine - but noticed that the ensuite door (which swings into the ensuite) won't clear the basin.
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this design is off the plan - no displays so some of the options we've gone with haven't been validated for fit. No big deal since the solution is actually a better idea than the original option. one cavity slider door to be installed and I won't be losing my teeth when the missus busts the ensuite door down. but the solution had to be proposed and then a contract variation drawn up and signed off before the solution could be implimented.
now the csd was on back order, but turned up Friday afternoon. the chippy has to install and then the plasters have to come back and sheet it up, as well as redo a downstairs ceiling sheet that developed a sag. a bit of a hold up but the SS picked this up and his attention to detail is appreciated. best guess is painters in next week; this week will be chippy and plasterer.
the most frustrating part of the build so far is the grief the next door's tradies have given me. first there was a bit of a mound of red clay on the boundary so they pushed it all against the pillar in the alfresco. any rain and that would have left a decent stain in the bag brickwork, the next door neighbour sorted that out for me. But the tradies also took out a storm water poly pipe while they were being considerate enough to move the dirt onto the brickwork. then they boxed up the footpath for next door 25cm inside my boundary - fortunately the day they boxed it the owner turned up the same time I was there and he went beserk at them for not following the final plans. but when the tools finally poured the concrete they took out the water meter and another storm water poly pipe, and collapsed part of the services ditch - which they nicely filled with surplus exposed ag. I'll have to get rid of that now.
been able to change some electrics and get a few extras sorted with the sparkies and the chippy will be doing an extra 2/3 depth shelf in the pantry. Off the plan you don't necessarily get depth perception so when we did a walk around all these wonderful ideas came to us. Another brilliant idea is to have a hole cut in the laundry bench for the electrical cord for the front loader to reach up through the bench to the GPO at 1500mm. again obviously needs to be there but realising heights of GPOs and bench heights and two dimensional viewing can easily overlook these things.
I don't think we'll be finished before end of October now - not unless something drastically happens. but with two other houses nearing the same stage in the same development I can see why things might be rescheduled so that the three houses all end up completed around the same time. would that be too cynical?