Skip is full

Not a lot today, the skirtings were completed yesterday, and the skip filled up with builder's debris.

Mock up of kitchen with red splash back here

Tiles almost completed

Fair bit of work this week. Tiles almost completed, and looking very nice. The light coloured floor tiles in the wet areas have made the rooms seem larger. The vertical highlight tiles also help to make the rooms seem larger. The white tiles have a slight wave to them creating a nice finish. Tiling should be completed this week and painting can start next week. The large soap dishes look impressive.

Bath is not huge, but sufficent for our needs.  No bath in the ensuite.   

The Ensuite has a slightly different highlight to fit with it's smaller size.  Again the light floor tiles really work well here.

The powder room is nice and light even with just natural light.  There will be a large mirror over the powder area making it seem even larger.  Benchs are dark brown- here still in protective wrapping.

The laundry is looking very nice!  Who would have thought it would look this flash.

The pool needed professional cleaning and more than one visit.  Yesterday the was our second visit and the pool is almost looking like new.

Pool coping finally done

Finally the pool coping is completed. Looks very nice and fits perfectly. Now we can see about getting the surrounding paved, of course that means bringing in fill to bring up the level of the ground in preparation for the pavers. Currently thinking we will get pavers to match the coping.

The surround of the skimmer box is very neat.  Pool is now very dirty, but we are used to that now.

Doors and frames also progressed today.  The front door lever set and deadlocks to all external doors went on.

Most of the internal doors have been hung, and frames installed.  Shower areas have been sealed.

Doors installed on pantry and storage room.  

Door frames started

Today the door frames were started. Call from SS asking that we obtain a contract for our import/export meter- perfectly reasonable request. Apparently most power companies want you to sign a contract that you will install PV cells within a set time before they will install an import/export meter, again quite reasonable. Well for the first time in this blog a company will be named.  Origin Electrical clearly have zero interest in signing up customers. After over an hour on hold I could find no one at Origin who had any interest or even knowledge of how we could connect up a new house, let alone have an import/export meter. How hard can it be to sign up a new customer?  Too hard is the answer.  SS was very understanding when I called back to say we wouldn't be having an import/export meter after all.