Day 118: Inspection & Cross Over

Had an on site appointment with the SS who didn't turn up until I called him & the office numerous times. He thought the inspection is tomorrow. He turned up more than an hour late.

Most things have been done except the feature walls, garage door, home theatre cabling and floating floor board. The supplier ran out of stock of the floor board that we chose, so they gave us an alternative & we took it rather than delaying the completion of the house.

View of the house from the street


David from Whitehorse City Council came to check the cross over. We requested a slightly wider than standard cross over & he was fine with it. Now all we need to do is find a concreter to do our driveway & cross over.

Day 117: Portaloo has been removed

Portaloo has been removed today. Not long to go, they just need to install the garage door & do the floating floor board.



We wanted tasmanian oak for our floating floor board, the CSC called on Friday & told us they don't have any in stock & asking whether we will accept spotted gum instead. I wonder what will they do if we insist that we want tasmanian oak. Will speak to her tomorrow.

Will have a site meeting with the SS tomorrow afternoon just to go through everything & make sure nothing is forgotten. They still haven't done the feature walls & home theatre cabling, will be interesting to see what he has to say about those, been telling him those in the last month.

Found a frog where the portaloo used to be. Not sure where she comes from & what she is doing there.


Think this is the termite protection thing, not sure how it works or what are they going to do with it.


Been trying to get quotations for fencing, most of them are too busy to even return calls, I guess everyone trying to fix their fences before Christmas. We want to do at least the side fence before we move in, because our house is a corner house, it will be very exposed without the side fence.

Day 114: Downpipes Installed, Front Door Painted & Temporary Fences Removed

It seems we are very close to completion. Temporary Fences have been removed.

Looking good, I like the brick & roof colours.


Door has been painted, not really what I want but it does bring out the colour of the brick.


Makes me wonder where will this downpipe drain to???


Or this one, why bother installing the pipe if it's not going to connect to the gutter.


Caulking has also been done.


Nice of you PD, don't dirty the carpet boys :)


Splashback has been installed, didn't remember what colour we chose but doesn't look like what we expected.


Will have an onsite meeting with the SS, he said to make sure whatever need to be done have been done & to make the hand over easier.

Day 112: Where Are You SS??? Carpet & Fly Screens installed

Had an appointment with The Blind Factory for them to measure the windows. Informed the SS yesterday & he said there would be no problem, he would leave the door opened. Guess what... all the doors were locked!!! Called him & he didn't answer my calls. Texted him & he finally texted me back & told me the front door was not locked. It was locked. Wasted my time again!!!

Went around the house & looked through the windows, the carpets been installed. The fly screens have also been installed.

Day 111: Evaporative Cooling Installed

Evaporative Cooling has been installed. The only thing is I'm not sure why they installed it on the street side of the roof. A good promotion for Bonaire is the only reason I can think of.


They surely need to paint the white coloured pipe to the roof colour, it just doesn't look right with a white coloured pipe running accross the roof like that.

Day 110: Shower Screens Installed

Shower screens been installed. Both the Ensuite & Bathroom look very much the way they are supposed to be.



Rangehood has also been installed.


No idea why the plank of wood is up there. Will have to make sure it isn't there when they hand over the house.


The view from the laundry to the garage. There's a conduit on the wall in the left hand side of the picture. We added a power point outside the garage & they forgot to do that so they had to do it using a conduit.

Day 106: Bricks have been washed & a big stuff up

They washed the bricks today & it comes out better than we expected. Glad we chose this instead of Mocha.





A big stuff up with the power points in the bathroom, didn't check this during electrical appointment, expecting them to put them as per normal, i.e. next to the bench, but somehow it was wrongly put inside the cabinet 600mm above the floor. Only realised this last week after I didn't see any power points during the walk through with the SS. Checked the electrical plan again & it is indeed put where it is shown in the plan.

Day 100: Meeting with the SS

100 days have gone since start of the construction, 40 days to go.

Had a site meeting with the SS this afternoon, he said they'll most likely finish the construction work by end of the month & we can expect hand over early December.

Went through the house with him, few things to be done:
- Leaking front pipe still not fixed yet.
- Home Theatre cabling are not done, he'll have to get the final drawing to fix this.
- Door handles for laundry doors are omitted from drawing.
- A couple of outdoor wiring not done.
- Electrical for ceiling fan for Alfresco is not done.

Tiling has also been completed, so it seems we are on track to have Christmas in the new house.

Will have to organise quotation for Fencing & Blinds/Curtains so that they can be done just after the hand over.

Day 98: The Race that stops a Nation

Melbourne Cup day is dubbed as the race that stops a nation. However it didn't stop the tiler to continue working. Not much else happening, still waiting for the plumber to fix the front water tap leak & still waiting for the SS to get the tradie to install the still flashing for our front door.

Day 97: Tiling work continues

The tiler is in to do more tiling work. Most of the floor tiles have been laid, with the exception of the kitchen. All tiling work will be completed by end of the week.