PCI

We had the official PCI on Friday. Still quite a few things to be completed but they are definitely working hard (for once).
Here are some tips for a PCI:

1. Take a few people along: I took my parents along, partly for an extra set of eyes (we all look for different things) and partly to help distract the Site Supervisor so that my partner and I could really look at things or privately discuss things whennecessary. You could see our Site Supervisor trying to keep an eye on us all and struggling. He tried to palm off quite a few things but its hard to tell multiple people they are wrong!

2. Take your plans along: I am sure good Site Supervisors take copies but take yours in case they don't and to make sure you can easily check anything you want.

3. Check everything! Even if the supervisor says it is not necessary do it anyway. Question all the things you find, even tiny marks etc.

4. Take your own notes: Write everything you find down and compare it to the list the Site Supervisor writes down. You don't want them to miss something (accidental or otherwise).

Hopefully we get to move in this weekend. The bank, however, may hold us up. They say it takes 2-7 days for the inspector to come out and then for the payment to be arranged. We lodged the claim with 6 days to go. If we had done it any earlier the house probably would have failed the inspection.

Carpets were also successfully installed and the Site Supervisor also came through on fixing the Power Point trip hazard in the floor. It is now a pop up one that sits flush with the floor. YAH!

Cross your fingers for us!!

Entertainment room with sunken day bed. You can just make out the power point towards the bottom left of the screen. The carpet looks funny because it needs a vacuum.

My bath spout is in.Not the best ever but at least it's in the middle of the bath. 

Balcony tiling is done. Not a huge fan of the tiles but because it was for outside and had to be non slip there wasn't much of a selection. 

Kids bathroom lookds very posh, this picture does not do it justice. 

Busy Busy Busy

So...we are still not in the house :-(

We have been so busy over the last month and a half. Our little girl takes up a lot of time and then we have also got the carpets and tiles sorted to go in. These were booked for what was meant to be after handover but the builder is letting us still get them put on the dates. We have also had more and more trouble with our builder including my bathroom bath tapes (yes still!), shower heads, tiles, communication issues etc.Not worth going into all the details.

We had a pre PCI yesterday....basically what you would do for a PCI without us signing off on it, so they can address any problems and (hopefully) have them fixed by the 6th of July. This is the date the general manager of the business says it will be finished. If not they will be paying for any bills I can come up with for rent, hotel fees (as this is when we have told our landlord we will be out of our current house), storage fees etc.I still cannot believe how incompetent our builders are at scheduling and communication. It is ridiculous!

The pre PCI went okay, I took my parents along and they provided frequent distraction so that my husband and I didn't have the site manager on top of us the whole time. We found numerous things that need fixing but nothing too extreme. Many times the site manager tried to deter me from checking up on things but I am so glad I took out the plans and contract (Nope, he didn't bring a copy) and did check. For example I was 90% sure we had planned holes through our laundry cupboards to allow for the connection of washing machine dryer and powerpoint to the tapes and powerpoints hidden in the cupboard. He tried to tell me that they didn't do that etc and boy did I love proving him wrong when I showed that it was in the plans.

On a good front here is my beautiful staircase that has the balustrade fully installed and looks amazing!