Landscape

Landscape should finish by the end of this week. Photos here show the progress:

Before concrete for Al Fresco poured

When it's completed

Al Fresco completed

Site excavated and levelled

Soil spread, before planting

When it's completed

Plants that will go in

Day 11 & 12 - Moving

Saturday & Sunday were busying moving, cleaning old place and unpacking and organising new place. More photos to come .. too busying unpacking etc .. hopefully will have a few photos by the end of the week.

Main Bathroom

Main Bathroom - Two

Ensuite

Family - 1

Family - 4

Living - TV not fitted yet

Fencing also started on Saturday! More photos later.

Day 9 & 10 after handover - driveway, cleaning, furniture, antenna & ADSL

Day 9:

• Concrete poured for driveway and Al Fresco area.
• More cleaning done, this time it's the general cleaning for the whole house, including the dusts from cutting timber inside the house when they were being installed, 
• and also a few more furniture assembled.

Day 10:

• TV antenna installed
• outstanding wardrobe shelves installed
• ADSL connected, in 2 days!!! Very very impressive (applied on 16th and connected on 18th!)

Photos to follow later!

Day 7 & 8 after handover - Floors and blinds done

Floors were done yesterday. Spent whole day today doing the cleaning - they were cutting the timber inside the house and that really made a big mass!

Also today all blinds are fitted. Photos taken by the phone camera so the quality may not be as good.

Day 4 - 6 after handover

Day 4: Not much going on in terms of construction. But I've started moving some minor stuff.
Day 5: Finally tiles cleaned. Also got some furniture assembled - some by myself and some by professionals.
Day 6: Timer floor should start and should complete to a great extend, more excavation done for landscaping.

Excavation done - Backyard

Side of the house, after Excavation

The other side of the house, after excavation

A corner of the bedroom

A corner of the living room

Day 3 after handover

I've bought a corner desk from IKEA and two storage shelves from Bunnings. Did some minor internal cleaning myself.

Although it's still a weekday no contractor was working today. As previous post said the reason was that they all need to be re-booked and the earliest is next week:

• Sunday: Tile cleaning. I said I would cancel the order if it couldn't be done before Monday. You can see why it has to be before Monday below.
• Monday: Timber floors, fences go up.
• Tuesday: Timber floors continues, Driveway concrete pouring
• Wednesday: Blinds, Carpenters (for balance of Walk-In-Robe shelves), overall cleaning
• Thursday: A/C and alarms
• Friday: Antenna, external lights, termite treatment
• Saturday & Sunday: moving

As you can see that's another full week schedule!

Day 2 after handover

Tiling was finally done by the end of today! Thank God!

However the site was excavated yesterday for landscape but the tilers today again had some wastes dumped on the soon-to-be lawn areas. Don't know if the landscape people are going to be happy or not when they find out.

Also since tiling was meant to be done last week we had to turn away followings today because they didn't have access. They all need to be re-scheduled and they will affect other things too, such as cleaning, which will need to be re scheduled too.

• Carpenters for the wardrobe shelves fit out
• Blinds installation, and
• most importantly, the timber floors!

Quite a bit of knock-on effects! It looks like sometimes you need to be on someone's back all the time to make sure they did what they were meant to do! Tilers actually did all right (in terms of progress). It's just that someone forgot to tell them to start until I actually found out myself a few days before handover!

Day 1 after hand over

A lot was done today:

• Tiles fitting finished, they will do grouting tomorrow
• John Cootes and Fantastics did some delivery
• Telstra connected phone line
• Excavation started for landscaping construction

The pictures show them hard working with the bob cat. Gee that machine was really noisy!

They've dug out 5 or 6 trucks of dirts for today's excavation.

The noisy Bob-cat