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!
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