23-9-08 Bows and Dots

Hi All, sorry for the long breaks between posts and the lack of replies to the comments (which are very much appreciated), but not much has happened to the place in the last week. Work is currently underway to rectify the defects found during our PCI inspection on the 12th. 'F' has been busy scheduling tradies to fix up the defects and has the chippy and plasterer scheduled for this week and the Plumber and Sparky visited last week to do some minor fix-ups.
We are not exactly sure when the place will be ready for the next inspection and are just playing it by ear at the moment.
In response to some of the comments received, I have have included some photos to show what some of the walls looked like after we had checked them for defects. Each red dot represents either a scratch, dent or dag (technical term for raised crap on the wall/surface which was not sanded off before painting). Some defects, actually a lot of them were nails that had not been filled and sanded appropriately.
It amazes me that the tradies take no pride in their work and the even sadder part is that all of this disappointment and frustration falls back onto PD as they are the Face of the tradies. No doubt the tradies get hauled back in again to rectify their work, but you would think that if they get it right the first time they wouldn't need to come back, we would be satisfied with the result, they would be paid sooner and we would get our keys sooner - see, everyone's happy then!!

Here is a shot of the Rumpus room... 'K' picked up that the right hand corner of the bulkead needs to be lifted as it's sagging.


...and the master bedroom...


...the staircase - this area needed a LOT of work.


Once again, common sense played no part in the original location of the light switch for the stairwell. Similar to B&Ps place they had located the light switch behind the hand rail. As shown below, this has now been moved up the wall to a more practical location.


As part of the inspection you are required to sign that you agree that there are no scratches in the cabinets, bench tops windows etc. In the powder room we found several scratches in the bench top. We have been told by 'F' that there is a special team who come out and rectify these scratches and once finished will not be visible. Can't wait to examine the finished surface.


As mentioned in the previous post there are a couple of bowed walls which were picked up not only by 'K', but some of them also by us. This is in one of the cherub's bedrooms.


These next 2 photos show the non-squared walls in the kitchen - it doesn't quite follow the grout line does it?