Weekly Photo - Week 20

Weekly Progress Photo 24/07/2011

Changes: Internal living area tiles, carpet, driveway, tiling complete, some cleaning, home theater cabling done, PCI arranged.

Weekly Photo - Week 19

Weekly Progress Photo 17/07/2011

Changes: Tiling almost complete, home theater Cabling started, electrical completed, more fittings installed, door furniture installed, kitchen splashback done, down pipes installed

One Big update!!

Due to a few things happening at the moment, here is one big update to cover quite a few things that have happened over the last week or so.

Water Tank and down pipes installed

 

Door Furniture installed.

Wet Area fittings installed

 Electrical and Kitchen Splash Back done.

Weekly Photo - Week 18

Week 18 Progress Photo 10/07/2011
Changes: Painting Complete, More Tiling, More electrical, water tank installed

Tiling underway

Whilst the Painters finish the other areas of the house, the tiler has been in and laid some tiles! I am very happy with the tiles we have chosen. Our Laundry tub was also installed. We were unable to get photos of the en suite as the tiler was still hard at it.

Weekly Photo - Week 17

Week 17 Progress Photo 03/07/2011
Changes: Painting Continues, Tiling started, More minor electrical work, Laundry tub installed.

Weekly Photo - Week 16

Week 16 Progress Photo 26/6/2011
Changes: Waterproofing, Painting Commenced, Minor Electrical work, carpentry finished, Tiles Changed, Kitchen sink and benchtop installed.

A beautiful foggy winter morning. :)

Tile Problems!

We were thinking that this would happen and it did!

We got a call fro Di Lorenzo on Monday to advise us that the tile we had chosen for our wet area floors was discontinued. There was nothing else that we liked in the range that was available to us and we didn't want to pay anymore than we already had.
We headed of to Di Lorenzo on Thursday and spent about 2 hours re-selecting our tile. The hardest part was, since our vanities were already installed we had to find one that would match!

Thankfully they had a new tile in the range which they didn't have on display yet. The salesperson showed us the tile and huzzah! A tile for us!! So we signed the paperwork and headed out. It was not over. We hopped in the car and as we were driving out I noticed that they had changed our wall time without our knowledge.
We went back and asked them how they could change the wall tile without out consent yet when we had to change our floor tile they had to ask us???!!!

The salesperson was rude and abrupt and simply said "Well if you don't want it we can delay your house until you can get the one you originally wanted!"
The original wall tile we chose was as close to a flat edge tile you could get without paying extra. Now different suppliers and and even the same tile in a different batch can be different, but the salesperson didn't care and to prevent the delay of the house we accepted the change in wall tile and headed home.

So those building beware and always check paperwork twice as companies like Di Lorenzo may try to screw you over and give you the only option of delaying your build.

Little annoying things

Now I'm sure a few more of these little annoying things will pop up throughout the build, but I wasn't expecting them to start so early on in the piece.

I visited our site today to find someone has started to use our site as a dumping ground for builders waste. This tiling waste has shown up in the last 24 hours dumped in our driveway.





I also noticed that when the external plumbing was done they have damaged our slab in the alfresco area. They attempted to repair it but done a pretty crappy job.




We weren't planning on tiling this for a little while so I hope they fix it properly. I have passed it on to Wisdom, let's hope they can fix it, as it really stands out makes the area look bad.


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Tiles and Carpet Selection

Saturday seen us head over to Di Lorenzo to make our carpet and tile selection. This is what we chose:

Carpet: Victoria Carpet
Colour: Savino forte 50% wool/50% Nylon Blend

Main Living Tiles: Cocoa Smooth

Front Porch/Step Tiles - Cocoa

Wet Area Floor Tiles: 2Brech/Smooth Grey

Wet Area Wall Tiles: Polatino White Gloss

Feature Tile strip - Mosaic #109

Colour Selection

We have signed the building contract with Wisdom which meant we can start on all the little details of the house like colour, kitchen, electrical plan etc.

We met with Bianca to discuss and choose colours for the exterior of the house, kitchen, bathroom. Here are some of the colours we have chosen so far. We will add the rest as we go.

(Some of these colours may not truly represent the exact colour. They are only samples taken from online and some photos. It is as close as we can get for now,)

External

 Bricks        

                                                               

Austral - Everyday Life Leisure 

 Fascia

Colorbond - Surfmist

Roof Tiles  
                                                   

Bristile Roofing - Gunmetal

Driveway

Designer Concrete Coatings - Bluestone                

Windows   

                                      

Trend Windows - Anodic Off White

 Gutters/Downpipes/Water Tank/Meter Box

Colourbond - Monument

Internal

Some of the internal colours will probably change once we have our final Kitchen and tile appointment. But for now here they are. Once we have our tile appointment they will be posted up aswell

Kitchen Benchtop

Caesarstone - Osprey

Internal Walls/Skirting (in gloss)

Taubmans - Dove Wing

                Kitchen Cupboards                                                            Vanity Tops

   

Laminex - White

Laminex - Platinum Micro

            

Vanity Cupboards

    

Laminex - White

Kitchen Splashback

DecoGlaze - Antique White