Slow and hopefully steady..

Back of house, bricking is really too slow for my liking, builder rang to say bricks are 80% complete; doesnt look like that to me..

Pleased to see that tiles have commenced!

Ensuite - the mirror goes in the middle, quite happy with the patterns picked especially on a tight budget. A little pattern is better than none!

We picked gloss tiles for the bath area but not the floor.

Common Bathroom.

Common Bathrrom - Tub

Found this horrible looking crack going down in the laundry chute upstairs.

What can that mean??? yuck yuck.

WAIT! it gets better!  Holes in the ceiling in one of the bedrooms? Were they trying to find the lighting points? hmmm..

Paintwork has also commenced,  a light beige colour was picked through the house with feature walls in RETREAT colour.

Corridor leading to the other bedrooms.

If they spray painted the top, the ceiling has a little paint too!

Half mast bricks!! grr.... 2 months later, still the same

Front Entry in Rice paper glazing.

Thats it for now, hopefully more updates soon!

Inside Peak.

Things are starting to take shape inside. most of those considered good, with a few things to be amended.

A view to upstairs

Corridor

Rumpus Room area - upstairs

Another view from the rumpus room area

Potential parent room; with a balcony.

One thing needs to be done on those roof tile capping, its broken..

A view looking  down

Kitchen Cabinets in - WRONG COLOUR....

We requested for Asian Sand which is light and got Asian Night which is dark!!

Still, looking good except for colour...... really dont like the colour..

A view from the family room

At least these colours are right; thats the portoloo room - toilet with powder room

Laundry Room Cabinetry

Thats it for the moment. Hopefully more to come soon... like the bricks on the outside of the house that seem to take forever!

picture overload - plaster up!

Strange one - bricks half up and plaster already up...

Entrance room

Wall facing entry

Laundry Chute at the side - this is our linen cupboard. And this is the laundry room.

Famly Room / Meals

Kitchen

Media Room

Meals leading to Alfresco area

Ulgy looking crack in kitchen glass splashback - hoping it gets fixed!

Upstairs - landing area

Master / Ensuite.

Hoping that bricks get all done by Christmas and nothing gets soaked!

Bricks Half Up

Bricks are getting there finally!!

Glimmer of hope getting there.

Inside - wiring taking place - this is the wall of the media room

More wires...

A little glimmer....

I went past on Tues, 9th Nov and was a little more relived to see that bricks have been lined up - ready to commence! I was also advised that bricking has started yesterday so am going past and seeing how everything is progressing ...

Lots of backlog of items that we requested for is still not being given to us and we have also questioned Simonds on the addtional days they wanted to extend and have asked them for scope of works invovled, etc. Hope to hear from them soon.... if at all.

Another Disappointment.. how many more to come?

We were also informed on 8^th August on site that Simonds was still looking for a bricklayer that can commence work earlier as all bricklayers have been booked out for the next 8 weeks.  On 19^th Aug, the builder rang to inform us since there had been a shortage of bricklayers. It has been It has been 16 days later when Simonds rang again to advise about the possibility of getting bricklayers somewhere else and would let us know again. We received another email on day 26 and a call on day 27 advising us that Simonds was still waiting for a bricklayer and that we are on the priority list. Day 33 – we were informed that they are still waiting on a bricklayer. 47 days into the waiting, we sent an email to ask about other items as well as a bricklayer and was not given more info on bricklayers. Into the  55 day mark,  we were told via email that bricklayers once found, would be attending to our home, but was not given a start date as yet. 68 days later, on 27 October, another email has been sent to us stating that bricklayers are finally booked in to start in 2 weeks time.  We are more concerned about the time wasted in 68 days trying to book in a bricklayer.

Meanwhile, we were assured that because our house is wrapped, our frame is still good enough - look at this picture - sarking has fallen off and has been so for a while.  Simonds have not responded to our email regarding this at all.

This is sooo disappointing!

Pre Plaster Inspection Report

Note that these are some of the items that have been listed on the report.
Concrete Floor Slab is not done properly so grout is used to make amends??

Something that they used to hold up a double storey house that can rot???

Comprehension of simple instructions - none??

Not done up to Australian Standards? I dont even know what to say to the few that I've listed on here.
it is disappointing - not to mention that we've been told we are up to the pre-plaster stage but we werent, so we paid for an inspection that couldnt happen fully. 

And now, we are told that we are on the waiting list for a bricklayer for the past 8 or more weeks and not one to start on our project yet as there are shortage of bricklayers.  In the meantime, all 7 houses in our court that has not started building when we did already had bricks on them..... How lucky do we feel? hmmm....

In case anyone wants to know, these people that we use for indpendent inspections seem pretty well- versed in their work - so its http://www.newhomeinspections.com.au/ if you are interested.