NBG - Buckingham 320E Eastern Suburbs Melbourne: Day 291

(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