Nawkaw, tiles, floor waste!

It seems our bricks have been Nawkawed!  The results are not perfect though.  Before and after pics are blow.  Lesley described it as "bricks with heavy make-up".  The dyed bricks are still different from the others, but the shade is similar now instead of being much darker.  The bricks are still sub-standard when compared to bricks that had been laid properly in the first place.  If you look closely at both pics you can see they have actually added marks to the bricks in the middle which were too light, as well as lightening the bricks at the top.

We also have floor waste drains in the ensuite and bathroom, and some of the re-tiling has been done now.  And the kitchen window sill has finally been put back in!

Kitchen window sill.

Bathroom floor waste

Bathroom tiles.  They ran out of speckled tiles.

Tiles re-laid along the left side of the feature strip.  They didn't follow our instructions on how to lay these!  The cut white tiles were supposed to be on the inside corner.

Tiles being relaid in ensuite.  They put place-holder tiles for some of the feature strip.

More ensuite tiles.  This time they did the other wall.

Ensuite floor waste

Bricks before Nawkaw

Bricks after Nawkaw

After Nawkaw again

Fences, Tiles

We finally have a side fence!  Our backyard looks more like a backyard now.  Though it's still covered in clay mud, and is missing the fence on the other side.

The site supervisor says he still thinks we can be finished by christmas!  Let's hope he can do it.  Tiles are being re-done on wednesday, floor drains in the bathroom and ensuite are being organized, wardrobes have been fitted out.  He said that carpets and plumbing fitoffs only take 1 day each.

Our fence posts

Our fence!  Capping is still on the way.

Front section of the fence.  This part has capping.

Our backyard, looking slightly more backyard-ish.

Tiles are off the bathroom mirror too, in preparation for retiling.

And here are our tiles.

Master WIR has got draws!  Other WIR don't have draws yet.

Bits of wood under the bottom step.  Maybe that is space for carpet.

View from out the rear bedroom window.  There's advantages to being double storey.

Timber floors

We went to Daylesford last weekend, so only half the pictures here are of the house.  The timber floors have gone in and are covered in cardboard to protect them.  We managed to pick up a few of the scrap pieces before they got cleaned away.  The tiles have also been removed from the ensuite and other places in preparation for retiling according to our tile selection plan.

Timber floors being laid!

Our front door with the intercom installed.  Door is still not painted.

Close up of the intercom.

Downpipes went in sometime recently.

The bottom part of this door will need replacing.

One of these is the mixer for our bath.

The family at Lavandula lavender farm near Daylesford

My parents and their grandson

Lesley camoflaged in the trees

Gisele with her "Tufty wufties" on her head

Rectification

Electrical fitoffs have started, and the kitchen benchtops have been installed!  We sent a whole long list of defects to Metricon, as well as the tile problems mentioned in the last post, and they have said that they will fix it all!  So that is good news.

Rear fence being built.

Rear door damage.  It can't close now, which means anyone (including us) can get into the house at any time.  Metricon said they will fix it.

We are supposed to have a hob mount tap, but instead we have this off-center water point in the wall.  Metricon said they will fix it.

The metal attachments behind the wall were not even here, resulting in the power points not being even.  Metricon will fix.

Apparently a power cable hanging out of the wall.  Outside the house.  The writing says "Spa - Please pull through"

Caesarstone benchtops!

And more caesarstone benchtops!  This one runs into the window reveal.  To the right of the window there was supposed to be a power point, but there is actually several pieces of solid wood to the immediate right of the window, supporting the second storey of the house.  So we are looking into whether the power point can go on the wall to the right instead.

Power point on the kitchen island, so we can run our electrical equipment there.

This is the kitchen component of the front door intercom.

Our alarm system panel, part of the promotional package.

And the alarm box itself, hidden away.

Network termination .. on the floor!  This is in the broom cupboard.  It really should be up on the shelf.

Tiles! And garage roof.

Our tiles have been laid!  They look very nice, but there were a few mistakes made unfortunately.  I spoke to the site supervisor and he said both he and the tiler had looked carefully at the order form, but it seems Beaumont tiles didn't pass on our selections properly :(  So some of them will need to be re-done.  SS is going to go back and see why they didn't get the right instructions from Beaumont.

The garage roof is also nearly complete!  SS says he expects completion in early December, but I will believe it when I see it :)

He also mentioned the bricks at the front again - apparently the construction manager is still thinking about it, so he can't tell me what their plans are yet.  So all we can do there is wait..

Leftover tiles

This is how they block the front door

Laundry

Powder room.  The tiles around the mirror are the wrong type, they should be the "pepper" tiles seen in the bathroom and ensuite.

Bathroom

Bathroom shower.  The strip in the middle is supposed to be 1/3 that width!  But because of the mistake in the work order, it ended up being this wide.. also the tiles around the mirror are the white wall tiles - they are supposed to be these same tiles on the feature strip.

Ensuite.  This feature strip is also 3 times the right width.  Also the wall on the right of this picture is supposed to be tiled but wasn't.

Overwide strip, again in the ensuite.  This is the ensuite shower.

Garage roof under construction

Garage roof nearly complete.  The ladder is for plumbers to do guttering up behind the garage.