Fittings

There have been quite a fair bit of people in and out the house these two days... and lots of shoe prints on the floor. The tiler had written notes at the front entrance and garage access entrance requesting people not to wear muddy shoes in, but there's still people who just don't seem to care.

The heating and cooling guys were here yesterday for the fittings. Looking through the vent, they didn't place the duct properly... some ducts where actually become "half a duct".



We had upgraded heating control for downstairs and upstairs both to be variable (ie. zoning), and network controller for heating and cooling system. This remote control downstairs is all we get. Should there be one upstairs?



The electricians came this morning for fittings. They had completed most of downstairs, should finish upstairs by tomorrow.



The switch seems quite near the stairs handrail.



[Ensuite] The drainage for shower had quite a fair bit of debris and cement, tiler said it will be cleared... shall wait and see.



[Bath] The drainage not very clean either.



[Bed4] The hole cut up for the niche had been roughly plastered. Forgotten to take a pic of how the niche look like.



Apparently it is illegal to duct rangehood to the roof or inbetween floors for double storey houses. So thanks for the note of a homeone forumer, we've emailed our CS 2 days ago and today the electricians put a duct (similar to the one in powder room) for the rangehood to external wall.

Also, we've got a PCI date and it will be on May 15, slightly more than two weeks. Things still need to be done... probably shower screens, mirrors, door stoppers, door handles, alarm system, carpets, cleaning...

Had started compiling a list for the PCI, quite sure the list will be pretty long...

We Have Taps

Plumbing fittings started today. Most tapware were in except for the bathtub.


[Bath] Plumber broke a tile and left an apology note for the tiler.



[Bath] Carpenter came today and cut a hole for the niche. There are wires in the niche area... so more plasters need to be ripped off?



[WC]



[Ensuite] No splashback here, will be a full height mirror against the wall.



[Ensuite]



[Laundry] We've decided to keep the tiles as it is.



[Powder] The tiles will stay for this too. There be a full height mirror above the tiles. (pic quite blurry due to flash from camera phone :P )



[Kitchen] Vegie spray! *yay*



The tiler had not put in the expansion joints between the floor tiles. It will be just silicon (hopefully it is white silicon) instead of grout, so the whole floor tiles will look uniform, nothing "outstanding" :)

Also, don't think he had sealed the tiles yet, coz the floor near the entrance is still quite dirty with all the footprints and the tiles in the bathroom are not done yet.

Tiles Almost Done

The tilers were scheduled to finish their work tomorrow, but due to a mistake made by SS, they'll have to come back again to finish up the tilings.

The floor tiles looked really good with the white grout. To maintain the white, the tiler suggested to seal the grout. He quoted us the price for the floor of whole house or wet areas only (ensuite, bath, wc and powder). Picturing the image of using a toothbrush scrubbing the grout, we decided to bite the bullet and do it for the whole house, plus the shower walls in ensuite and bathroom.

[Kitchen]



[Bath] Shower wall not tiled because SS forgotten to arrange for a niche



[Bath] Bath tub not installed yet


[Ensuite] Shower wall tiles done, but no grout yet. Can't have a niche here coz the side is on an external wall.



[Laundry] Splashback tiles supposed to be laid vertically... however, might keep it this way.



[Powder] Again the splashback tiles supposed to be vertical.


Might keep the existing tile layout too... or should we change?

Floor Tiles

Managed to sneak in today as the tiler forgotten to lock the sliding door to the Alfresco.

Majority of the floor tiles were done, except the whole of Rumpus and tiles against the walls because those need to be cut. Really happy with the tiles so far, not as dark as we thought it might turn out. We're using Kimberly Smoke 450mm x 450mm.

According to the drawings, there will be quite a fair bit of expansion joints throughout the tiles, so still not sure how the tiles will eventually look like with the expansion joints in... will the expansion joints be very obvious?

[Family]


[Living]



Work had also been done on the shower area for both ensuite and bathroom.


Bathtub had been delivered, should be installed next week.



The front entrance doors had been painted. It looked nice on its own, but quite disappointed with colour coordination with the overall facade. It kind of look dark at the entrance/portico. Contemplating should we paint it again to Paperbark so that it matches the garage doors...


[Entrance doors in Woodland Grey]

35 More Sleeps

Had a quick chat with SS yesterday, he said should be done in 5 more weeks.

The two painters had been working EVERYDAY during the Easter break, and will be finished by this week, the tilers will then start and should finish by next week.

All the fittings will start once the tilings are done! Can't wait to see that happened! :)

Garage Doors Are In

Drove past this morning and saw the garage doors were already installed. Probably they were done in the afternoon yesterday.

Both the doors were opened, so can't really see the colour effect of the door with the facade.

[Front panel doors - Caprice in Paperbark]



[Back roller door - in Paperbark too]

Painting Continues

The first coat of painting had been done throughout the house, and the painters were getting ready for second coat this morning.

The main colour we chose is Wattyl Deauville, it's a bit yellowish, kind of a slightly darker tone of Paperbark.




The glass splashback had also been installed, and the colour we had chosen was Dulux Mocha Magic.



Our floor tiles Kimberly Smoke 450mm x 450mm had been delivered. So should see some action pretty soon! :P