Another trady came at 7am this morning to fix the creaky floor. There was a screw loose against a metal beam, nothing structurally wrong, just really annoying in a high-traffic area at the foot of the stairs.
Rang up and gave the go-ahead to the guy doing our vertical blinds. He's doing the install on the morning we're moving, next friday. At least we'll have privacy on our first night Chez Ragtag.
10am the floor sanders came to sand down the particleboard panel edges which are flat enough for carpet but not for tiles or timber. They only did the entry and left lots of sawdust which I'll clean up later today. Now there's nothing stopping the installation of my natural stone tiles. Muahahah! My concrete floor is also not perfectly flat according to my tiler, but he says he'll compensate with the glue/grout.
The waste tiles are left in front of my garage. It's starting to look like it did during construction again, but I'm beyond caring now.
Lunch time a guy came to finish off the insulation in the roof. I also showed him some panels which had fallen down along the split level interior wall. He asked me why the building company hadn't done it before handover. I shrugged my shoulders and told him maybe because I was in a hurry due to a pending eviction notice.
Still need to decide on raw or pre-finished timber for the lounge room.
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Floors, insulation and more tiling
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tiles floors and timber
Ack! It's crunch time.
There are 2 rooms in my house (lounge and study) which I wanted to do in timber (blue gum, glossy) but now I'm getting enough objections to rethink this. Is it worth the trouble?
My tiler says my floor isn't 100% flat and he has to compensate with glue, on the concrete part. On the particleboard I have to get it sanded flatter. And a carpenter is coming tomorrow to fix the squeaky panels. Lucky I have a crawl/stoop space.
People love a timber floor, and they don't love cold feet. Timber-r-r-r-rrrrrr!
Friday, August 20, 2010
Saturday, August 14, 2010
Walk through #1 images
Images from the walk through #1 last thursday. Still lots to do...
You can probably tell we went with a no-frills Monash, no rendering, absolute minimal tiles, plain concrete stairs.
Maybe later we'll tile the concrete - Mick and Kim's veranda images are so nice I'm very tempted! If only my stupid council didn't take such a harsh stance against garage-dominant facades we could've kept our veranda too instead of just a pokey old patio. : (
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Walk through #1
Had the final walkthrough #1 today.
When I turned on the kitchen gas cook top and it all lit up I almost cried from joy. Too long have we suffered cooking on a dumpy little gas cooker on the cold windy balcony. Too long have we had to lug the blasted gas tank up and down the stairs for a refill at the petrol station.
The site supervisor explained to me what would have to happen at the front in terms of agricultural lines, blue metal, fill and retaining walls.
There's still so much to do!!!
- Air con
- Connecting up the water tank
- Fixing up the flaws in painting - these painters didn't do a good job.
- Some window barrier screws
- Internal Cleaning
- Termite protective piping
- Fix-up of minor wall damage
There will be another walk through friday next week 20/08/10 and hopefully I'll get the key soon after that.
Took lots of pics but can't upload them until I get them back from my friend.
Monday, August 9, 2010
The Interminable End
The end just keeps on nighing.
End this week will be a walk through. Then maybe 1-2 weeks later I might get the keys after the bank has cleared the final payment. Then 1 more week for floor coverings. Which brings us VERY CLOSE to 18th September 2010 which is the date by which we have to move out of our flat!!!!
Please please let this ending just END already.
