(Mon 22/08)
Dropped in on Fri afternoon last week for a look at tilers efforts. Very happy. He has completed all wall/floor tiles in the Bathrooms, Ensuite, and grouted them also. Looks great. Photos to come.
At the time I noticed that the ceiling was not 'true' white. I noticed this as the ceiling registers for the heating/cooling are white as I requested but were contrasted by the ceiling colour.
Basically, I discovered that the only room where the paint has been done as per Colour Schedule is the Garage!
We only get 2 colours with NBG, so we chose Builders White (Pure White) to the Internal Doors, Architraves, Skirting Boards, Ceiling and cornice. The Walls were to be in Luscious White (Wattyl A17W) Somehow the have managed to paint everything in Luscious White, including the ceiling!
I wrote an email to builder expressing my concern, he called me back immediately and sent me a scan of a note he had scribbled on the Colour Document, dated before my accident, stating that I had agreed to Luscious White to the ceiling and walls and Semi-Gloss to other areas. My dispute is that even if I had agreed to Semi-gloss to other areas, did that mean semi-gloss Luscious White. He had even made a note highlighting Wattyl Builders White. IMO, it should be crossed out all together if it wasn't to be used. Therefore we have a little problem on our hands. I pointed out to him that all the changes I had made, that I had made him a copy of and asked why I didn't have a copy of this change he had marked up.
Anyway, I have offered to cough up some of the money, as blame cannot be placed on either of us totally. He has been more than reasonable to date and I don't want to stuff things up with him this close to handover. Let's see where we go from here.
Any suggestions? Please comment with yours, as I am at a loss what to do!
Day 295 - Busiest day onsite ever!
(Thu 18/08)
Things are getting close now. Met up with a local Landscaper at 7am this morning to discuss driveway/path/portico paving options.
I (or should I say we!) want an exposed aggregate driveway with bluestone edging and a path running from Portico to footpath to match and the Portico paving to be in bluestone. We thought about having timber decking done on the Portico, but once again, everyone has done this look to death. (no offence to anyone that has got that) 2x Brick pillars will flank the path at the footpath end, one for letterbox and other for street number. Landscaper will also do a planting plan for us later which will incorporate some large granite rocks salvaged from our demolition.
As we were leaving, the tiler turned up and showed us through. We are very happy with his work. He uses a laser level to get things near perfect. Unfortunately, my wife does not like the choice of floor tile for the entire downstairs! Tiler has only tiled the guest bathroom in this tile so far but she seems to thinks it's too dark and has gone back to Beaumonts to look. I hate last minute changes, it will only hold us up further and cost us more money in variations. Tiling photos below :)
Roller blind and drape man met us at 11am in his mobile showroom (great idea)
We went through lots of choices. We will mainly have Roller Blinds everywhere and a couple of rooms with Roller Blinds (privacy screen) and Drapes. Was pretty easy to choose.
Garage roller doors were being installed whilst we were there for the blinds. They forgot that we had 2x front roller doors and only brought 1 motor. They also have installed the rear manual roller door and it is evident that NBG drafting/design have made another monumental stuff up! The clearance of the door is supposed to be 2100mm but they couldn't install it with that clearance because a structural beam was in the way, so clearance is only 1850-1900mm at the most! My 4WD won't be able to drive through to the backyard now! This is the last straw, I will be seeking compensation from NBG for the many stuff ups they've made now.Bloody NBG pricks again!
Also, yesterday we got a parcel from NBG. It contained a letter and 2x Quantam Quartz samples. Basically they reckon that we can no longer have Luna White for the benchtops in the bathrooms (x3) so they sent samples of the 2 nearest, being New Diamond White & Turino. I called the builder and he was unaware of the changes and said he had already ordered them in Luna White. I think we'll be OK.
Things are getting close now. Met up with a local Landscaper at 7am this morning to discuss driveway/path/portico paving options.
I (or should I say we!) want an exposed aggregate driveway with bluestone edging and a path running from Portico to footpath to match and the Portico paving to be in bluestone. We thought about having timber decking done on the Portico, but once again, everyone has done this look to death. (no offence to anyone that has got that) 2x Brick pillars will flank the path at the footpath end, one for letterbox and other for street number. Landscaper will also do a planting plan for us later which will incorporate some large granite rocks salvaged from our demolition.
As we were leaving, the tiler turned up and showed us through. We are very happy with his work. He uses a laser level to get things near perfect. Unfortunately, my wife does not like the choice of floor tile for the entire downstairs! Tiler has only tiled the guest bathroom in this tile so far but she seems to thinks it's too dark and has gone back to Beaumonts to look. I hate last minute changes, it will only hold us up further and cost us more money in variations. Tiling photos below :)
Roller blind and drape man met us at 11am in his mobile showroom (great idea)
We went through lots of choices. We will mainly have Roller Blinds everywhere and a couple of rooms with Roller Blinds (privacy screen) and Drapes. Was pretty easy to choose.
Garage roller doors were being installed whilst we were there for the blinds. They forgot that we had 2x front roller doors and only brought 1 motor. They also have installed the rear manual roller door and it is evident that NBG drafting/design have made another monumental stuff up! The clearance of the door is supposed to be 2100mm but they couldn't install it with that clearance because a structural beam was in the way, so clearance is only 1850-1900mm at the most! My 4WD won't be able to drive through to the backyard now! This is the last straw, I will be seeking compensation from NBG for the many stuff ups they've made now.Bloody NBG pricks again!
Also, yesterday we got a parcel from NBG. It contained a letter and 2x Quantam Quartz samples. Basically they reckon that we can no longer have Luna White for the benchtops in the bathrooms (x3) so they sent samples of the 2 nearest, being New Diamond White & Turino. I called the builder and he was unaware of the changes and said he had already ordered them in Luna White. I think we'll be OK.
Ensuite
Ensuite Shower (bad photo)
Guest Ensuite
Guest Ensuite
Day 291 - Contract date passes
(Sun 14/08)
Contract end, Day 285 came and went without even noticing. I reckon there is at least 4-6 weeks to go still. They say that patience is a virtue - that's for sure!
FINALLY PHOTOS are here. I checked out lots of stuff onsite this afternoon and found a few problems, listed below.
1. Wrong tiles have been delivered for the walls in Powder Room and Guest Ensuite downstairs. I have also queried floor tiles for the downstairs area as they don't look like they are the right colour and tile - BTW, tilers are due to start tomorrow!
2. Two of the holes sparky cut for my 'special' LED wall lights on the staircase are in to wrong location. I marked them out where they should be and the other holes will now have to be patched.
3. The painting of the Front door black seems to be completed but the inside of the door is White! What the....... If I asked for the front door to be painted black, I would expect that the entire door be black, not just the front of it!
4. The painters painted the steel lintels and beams black! they were supposed to be painted in Colorbond Monument. I am tipping they used the left over paint from the front door. There will be a lot of repainting outside to do anyway as I am unhappy with the painting of the weatherboards in general and there is some sort of staining on the white eaves. (from the brick cleaning I think)
Kitchen window, which was installed in the wrong location by 150mm can't be moved, so cabinetry now has to be remade to suit. Otherwise stove would have looked out of square.
Can't have a 600mm overhang on the stone kitchen benchtop now either, even though NBG told us we could, if we upgraded to a waterfall end, as that would hold overhang in place. Now bench width has to be dropped back to 1000mm, from 1200mm and overhang down to 400mm. Not impressed that it took this long to discover this one.
Waterproofing was done last Thurs/Friday
Contract end, Day 285 came and went without even noticing. I reckon there is at least 4-6 weeks to go still. They say that patience is a virtue - that's for sure!
FINALLY PHOTOS are here. I checked out lots of stuff onsite this afternoon and found a few problems, listed below.
1. Wrong tiles have been delivered for the walls in Powder Room and Guest Ensuite downstairs. I have also queried floor tiles for the downstairs area as they don't look like they are the right colour and tile - BTW, tilers are due to start tomorrow!
2. Two of the holes sparky cut for my 'special' LED wall lights on the staircase are in to wrong location. I marked them out where they should be and the other holes will now have to be patched.
3. The painting of the Front door black seems to be completed but the inside of the door is White! What the....... If I asked for the front door to be painted black, I would expect that the entire door be black, not just the front of it!
4. The painters painted the steel lintels and beams black! they were supposed to be painted in Colorbond Monument. I am tipping they used the left over paint from the front door. There will be a lot of repainting outside to do anyway as I am unhappy with the painting of the weatherboards in general and there is some sort of staining on the white eaves. (from the brick cleaning I think)
Kitchen window, which was installed in the wrong location by 150mm can't be moved, so cabinetry now has to be remade to suit. Otherwise stove would have looked out of square.
Can't have a 600mm overhang on the stone kitchen benchtop now either, even though NBG told us we could, if we upgraded to a waterfall end, as that would hold overhang in place. Now bench width has to be dropped back to 1000mm, from 1200mm and overhang down to 400mm. Not impressed that it took this long to discover this one.
Waterproofing was done last Thurs/Friday
Internals of Garage
Internals of Garage
Laundry
Kitchen
Powder Room
Tiles delivered
Tile colour disputed?
Pantry Bentchtop
Waterproofing in Kids Bathroom
Family Room Upstairs
Family Room Upstairs Bulkhead
Ensuite Waterproofing
Front Door interior
Backyard all leveled off now! Awesome.
Day 281 - Site meeting
(Thu 04/08
Wife and I met builder on site. Was my first time on site for over 4 weeks and things have progressed, although I would have liked it to be a little further on.
Kitchen is proving to be a problem with two major stuff ups discovered. The window to the RHS of the freestanding oven is 150mm out, which will make to oven appear off centre. The framer makes his mark again! Not happy. Builder has agreed to alter cabinetry to make oven centered in the new width between windows now. Was not happy about it though.
The other major stuff up is that we have only just been told that we can't have a 600mm overhang of the stone bench top due to the size of bench. We now have to drop bench width back from 1200mm to 1000mm and the overhang down to 400mm. I still can't understand why this was not picked up until now. So frustrating!
Other than than, dingo has been in cleaning up backyard of all piles of rubble and has spread soil about evenly. Very neat.
Heating and cooling ceiling registers have been fitted off and sparkys have done most of their light/switch cut outs and holes.
Still a lot to do considering contract end date is 4 days away!
Could not take photos as builder was still about when we left.
Wife and I met builder on site. Was my first time on site for over 4 weeks and things have progressed, although I would have liked it to be a little further on.
Kitchen is proving to be a problem with two major stuff ups discovered. The window to the RHS of the freestanding oven is 150mm out, which will make to oven appear off centre. The framer makes his mark again! Not happy. Builder has agreed to alter cabinetry to make oven centered in the new width between windows now. Was not happy about it though.
The other major stuff up is that we have only just been told that we can't have a 600mm overhang of the stone bench top due to the size of bench. We now have to drop bench width back from 1200mm to 1000mm and the overhang down to 400mm. I still can't understand why this was not picked up until now. So frustrating!
Other than than, dingo has been in cleaning up backyard of all piles of rubble and has spread soil about evenly. Very neat.
Heating and cooling ceiling registers have been fitted off and sparkys have done most of their light/switch cut outs and holes.
Still a lot to do considering contract end date is 4 days away!
Could not take photos as builder was still about when we left.
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