Delayed AGAIN!

So you might think I have been slack with not updating this blog, but nope, it's because the builders have delayed us again.

I have already mentioned I thought only getting the framing done in a week was pathetic and that in the following week only getting the eaves done was pathetic, but in the last two weeks NOTHING has happened. We contacted our "client liaison officer" as we are not allowed to contact our construction manager directly. Two days later the building manager contacted us to tell us they were having issues getting the roof people in and it wouldn't happen till next week! SO ANGRY! He said he was hoping they would be able to catch up on the delay and not change our timeline. Well that's great but how many delays are we trying to catch up on now?

Oh and what's happening with the air con issue? Well Thursday last week the client liaison office sent an email saying the process order was being done today and would be forwarded to us tomorrow. Nothing arrived on Friday or Monday and just when I was thinking I should contact them I arrive home on Tuesday to a message on the phone asking if we had changed our email because they had tried to send it and it had been sent back with an error message. Obviously it must be something wrong on our end.
I wrote an email saying there was nothing wrong on our end and " Considering you said you would send us the variation on Friday of last week and Ventura has always sent variations to us through the mail it sounds like a poor attempt at an excuse to the delay in receiving it.
 To which she sent a reply saying our email was rude and offensive. Seriously? I am a really nice person and that is probably the meanest email I have ever sent but given all the screw ups Ventura makes she must have received worst emails from people who don't care about ever holding their tongue or speaking their mind.
Definitely not going to reach lock up by Christmas!

Eaves and Bloody Builders!

Went to the block hoping to find a completed roof but was very worried there would have been no progress. Found eaves! Not a bad compromise but doesn't look like a weeks worth of activity to me.

I love how the back of the house is shaping up.

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I can also now fill you in with recent issues we have had to take up with the builder. 

We noticed our laundry shoot on the bottom floor was solid brick with no opening so we decided to wait and see how they did the top laundry shoot to see if the cut out was something added later. The top part was built including an opening so we asked our builders about it. It was not on the plan but they have agreed to fix it as they knew it was meant to be a laundry shoot and therefore would need an opening on the bottom floor.

We also noticed not all the slab penetrations for the aircon on the top floor had been done. There are meant to be two in my closet- I explicitly remember these as I tried to fight not to have them. Not only does it decrease my closet space but I never understood (and no one was ever able to explain) why we needed two so close together. The builder at first told us the aircon was nothing to do with them. We tried to tell them they were organising the aircon but all they did was give us the number for the aircon company they usually go through. We tried a third time and their response was "sorry, I didn't realise that company didn't do two story houses (so they had refereed us to the wrong company) and they would look into it. Took four emails from us before they finally admitted it was their screw up. It was on the aircon plans but not on their plans. So it seems to be another fall out from their incompetence of not being able to get  the correct aircon quote for over 4 months. I am worried because we still only have the original copy of the suggested aircon layout but we changed it and were told we couldn't get an updated copy and have to trust that what we want is what will happen.....I wish I hadn't let that one drop but with all the battles we had fort at the time some things had to.

Lastly, on our staircase there is an awfully dangerous jut out on both sides.Jake could easily hit his head on it and do damage. We asked if it was going to be removed because it was not on any of the plans we had been given. Their response was to send us the engineering plans for it we had never seen. We replied with how we would have loved to have been shown that back when we constantly asked for more info on the stairs and were constantly told there wasn't anything else. We are requesting they fix it as it is not on anything we signed. They are "looking into it".

These may sound like little things but they are big stresses when the builder won't listen to you. On top of that, our "fortnightly" updates have not been occurring and their response was "there was nothing to update you on...but this has happened..... and this is going to happen.." I replied with " well clearly there was things you could have updated us on!

Announcement!

Roof framing has started. I kind of think we could have had a higher roof pitch. 

This is the roof to the front balcony. It is also where the solar panel for the water heating will go....our original representative at Ventura said we would not be able to see it from the ground. I'm glad I never believed him because he is dead wrong. Also, if the solar panel was placed there I can only imagine where future solar panels will go when we get them installed. Will not be pretty.

Oh and on another front we would like to announce there's a.....

(Yep, around the same time the house will ready. EEK!)

Master Bedroom and Front Balcony

Top story brick work is complete. Yah! Things go so much quicker when the weather is nice. Here's hoping the roof is done this week!

Above is a picture of the front balcony window. This window is in front of the staircase. My favourite part of the upstairs.

This is the master bedroom looking towards the front balcony from before.

This is looking from the master bedroom into our walk in wardrobe.

This is one side of the walk in wardrobe. Should have lots of storage room and space.

Finally, here is how the front of the house is looking.