7-10-08 More delays....

Just to provide some detail as to where we are at the moment, we are now into the 28th week since we started building our new home and still more to go; a far cry from the 22 or so weeks it took to build M&Ms, Andy's and P&B's Cremorne 41. It is also 18 weeks since 'K' carried out his Pre-plaster inspection, and 3 weeks since we had our Practical Completion Inspection.

During our Pre-plaster inspection, 'K' made note that there needed to be weep holes and flashing in the brickwork to allow drainage. Refer to the quote from the report:

"There have not been any head flashing, or their accompanying weep holes, installed into the brickwork across the tops of all the first floor window and door frames around this house; nor across the top of the electrical meterbox...These flashing's and the weep holes must be correctly installed to properly water-proof all of these openings"


Fifteen weeks later, when 'K' carried out his pre-handover inspection, the same issue was noted in his 'second' report. Last Thursday, (three weeks after the report), I received a call from 'F' telling me that his building manager has agreed with 'K' and that they will now need to organise to have this issue rectified to be in accordance with the building code. He also advised me that this would add an additional one to two weeks on to our ever increasing schedule!!

To keep coming back with delay after delay based on poor workmanship is so just f'ing FRUSTRATING!
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I have included some pics below taken over the weekend to show what work has been carried out recently. They have re-aligned the wall near the garage entry door...

...and also re-aligned the wall in the kitchen.


You can see in the picture below how much the base has had to be brought in to make it square again with the tile lines.

The rumpus room ceiling has been adjusted...

..as has the ceiling in the family room.

The wall in one of the cherub's rooms has been straightened.

The games room ceiling has been rectified - previously sagging.

Quading has also been installed across the front door and the garage entry door to neaten up the joints.

One item which we noticed during our inspection was that when the mirror was installed in the Ensuite, and as the basins had already been fitted, they were not able to get the silicone to seal the full distance behind each of the vanity basins. Of all the places to not prevent water getting through, this would have to be one of the worst! This was also included on our inspection report.

And as a final note, we had a quick visit late yesterday afternoon to visually try out the look of some external lights and it looks like 'F' has since checked the work from the plasterers shown in some of the photos above. He has subsequently marked some of them up using the words 'wrong' & 're-do', which leaves you asking the question...How many plasterers does it take to repair a wall?