Thought I should FINALLY get off my butt and start our own house thread here... Am a bit behind the 8 ball as our house is partially built, but better late than never eh? =)
We've had a bunch of issues with our builder to date, most of these can be read about in the building in SA thread, although I'm happy to copy and paste our entries from there into here if anyone is interested in seeing them collated for easier reading (ie, anyone interested in using this builder and wanting an accurate description of what our experiences have been, but not wanting to go through 1300 other posts to find them all). The fast version is that the SS doesn't like having ANYTHING queried, and has been extraordinarily difficult to get any form of commitment from to have any issues fixed (regardless of how big or small they may be).
We also have a blog at http://house.yeoh.info that goes through progress to date.
Will update this thread shortly with our plans and selections =) But for now, will put up the latest update pics that I posted to building in SA thread yesterday =)
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gutter colour against house colour:
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The main house colour is called Dulux White Duck (quarter), with the full colour White Duck as the accent on the front bedroom. The gutter, fascias and roof are (or will be) all surfmist - no, we're not keeping the blue fascias We're also planning to have the concrete under the damp course painted to match the house so that we don't have such a stark contrast between the concrete and the render, so that will GREATLY improve the look once the paving goes in at 75mm below the damp course =)
Last night when we went back to check on what they had done we discovered a cigarette butt that had been left on one of our beautiful western red cedar windows, still lit (when it was left there, not when we found it! Very cold and already done the damage by the time we got there), and has burnt into the wood. We're both quite furious, and the SS reaction was "well, it wasn't necessarily one of the workers, it could have been anyone". So we're not sure what kind of fight we're going to have to put up to get it fixed - hoping that he accepts that it doesn't matter who did it and that he is responsible for the work site until handover... Having said that, the roofing guys on site yesterday were smoking while up on the roof doing the box gutters, the window in question is directly under the box gutter, there was no burn yesterday morning and there was a burn there when they left. Doesn't REALLY leave a whole lot of wondering who it was, really... I will update later with a pic.
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