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Friday 25 April 2014

What else would you expect?

Jake and I went out to the block yesterday hoping the tradies would be there so we could get in and see the tiling that should have been mostly completed.
The house was open, but no tradies around.....at least if anything gets stolen we don't have to pay for it.
I walked into the laundry and for 2 seconds I was really happy to see tiling in there but it was quickly ruined when I realised it was the wrong tile! Jake got straight on the phone to our builder and I checked the other bathrooms. Two others were wrong with all the tiles having been laid but no grout.
For once I was able to just laugh it off. There's no way the builders can charge us for it so its just another costly mistake for them. Apparently tiling wasn't meant to be started until after the tiling meeting where we check the tiles - which doesn't make sense because we were only going to be contacted for a meeting this week to book for next week and tiling was on the agenda to be done the last 2 weeks....
Just after we arrived back home (a 25 minute journey) we got a phone call from out site manager asking us to come out for the tiling meeting...... Jake said yes because he wanted everything sorted out quickly.
they blamed it on the tile supply company delivering the wrong ones but due to the other ones being laid the tiler said they probably wouldn't take them back for a swap. The tilers came back on site straight away to rip up the tiles while the glue was still wet. They are in all weekend for tiling but the right tiles for the wrongly completed areas can't be delivered till Monday so we are probably looking at a few days delay.
The site manager said its usually 8 weeks after tiling is completed that you have the PCI and then handover 2 weeks later but this is a month longer then what the general manager told us to expect so we figure he's trying to give himself wiggle room.
Other mistakes this week include the plumbing for the bathroom spout and mixer have been put in the wrong place....again, missing cabinetry in the laundry and a shelf that is now too small due to other changes that has to be bricked in. Completed on site this week was the varnish to the front doors, grano to the garage and all ceilings and cornices done. The best thing was that I got to try out my bath and its fantastic! I had to buy it blind as none of the retailers where we lived had it in their showrooms.




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