Monday 14 September 2015

Maintenance List so Far

I get a lot of questions on how happy we are with our build. Overall we are happy, but it hasn't been a flawless exercise.

Working in the house has really hi-lited how crap some of the paint finishing is, with spots that are obvious where only one coat of paint was applied. Sanding marks remain, and some doors have obviously not been painted properly with the worst one being the front door. Very poorly done.

We are getting a professional in to give it coat of paint and fix up some of the stuff. Hopefully this will be done in the next week or two. We were going to get someone in to paint the cornices and skirting boards, so we figured we may as well get the part of the house done again.

Other than paint. The list includes.

1. Roof is leaking on top of the portico with water pouring out of the facia during heavy rain.
2. Trim around the sink overflow is still missing. I think I mentioned this one about a million times.
3. Front, and Laundry door bottom dirt/air barrier is missing screws holding it down rendering it useless.
4. Front door trim around the side managed to rip off taking some of the stain off the door with it.
5. Whoever stained the door, managed to spill it on the tiles. It doesn't seem to come off. Thought this just needed a wipe during our walk through.
6. Silicone was applied by someone who I feel was blind. Cleaned up most of this ourselves.
7. Toilet seats are all scratched, with dull lids... Not sure if we will mention this one.
8. Several power points don't work.

The one that we are most concerned about is obviously the roof leak. Will raise this again and see how we get on during the first maintenance period. Hopefully we don't find anything else.






Bits & Pieces Fence is up, Garbage clean up....

Lots has been going on during the past few weeks. We should be moving in quite soon thankfully and then the task of landscaping can begin.

Our fence has gone up finally. After seeing how some of the other fencing guys did fences we chose to go with someone a neighbour recommended. Our fence isn't going anywhere anytime soon. The posts are in large diameter concrete filled holes. Extremely solidly built.




I also did a big clean-up of loose bricks leftover from the articulation joints being fixed up. As well as lots of tiler waste and a lot of crap that gets left behind by other trades.



The skirting boards were also replaced with some 92mm half splay skirting. I like the look of this skirting a lot better than the standard stuff. It currently sits on the tiles, so it adds quite a bit of height to the room. I hired a carpenter for the day who helped install it.

Also managed to find a water leak, which thankfully is Sydney waters problem. Someone didn't tighten this bolt properly. It had been soaking my future brick fence footing for a while. 




Flooring Complete

Finally our carpet was back in stock and installed last Monday.

We are very happy with our choice, and it matches the tile color quite nicely.

Despite our sales consultant constantly pointing out the carpet "was on the block..." (Like we care that the block used the same carpet as us.) we used Provincial Lane - Premier Soft carpet in the sugar cookie color. We chose a nice dense 11mm underlay to go with it. Feels very nice underfoot.

It's quite a dense/thick nylon carpet and our Dyson struggles with it, it really was a mission giving it that first vacumn. Dyson is sending us out a new vacumn cleaner head to try. How good is Dysons customer service.