Internal painting completed....well, almost!

It has been slow going lately as our trades people continue to be pulled off our house to complete the display homes at Yarrabilba.

On a positive front though, the majority of our internal painting has been completed - the only bits "outstanding" is the staining of the Pantry & Front doors. We are very pleased with how the internal wall colour has turned out - Dulux Sandy Day Half. It is not too light (able to see the colour variation between ceiling and walls) and will add some brightness to the house as a whole given our "dark brown" colour scheme throughout. The exterior is a different story - they have only undercoated outside and the remainder is due to be completed by the end of this week.

The tiling in our ensuite was also finished today, after our feature tile was on backorder for over 6 weeks. So it was a surprise to walk in this afternoon and see it finally completed, to immediately realising that they have installed the wrong tile! Yes! You read that correctly - they have installed the WRONG TILE!! A quick check back over our Colour Selection document and a photo I took of the tile during our Colour Appointment confirms this. I have now fired off a rather terse email to our Construction Administrator, her Manager as well as our Colour Consultant so that they can figure out how to fix this for us. Needless to say that we will not be happy with anything less than the correct tile (or a suitable alternative that we choose) as the colours of the tiles they have installed are all wrong compared to the rest of the bathroom and house as a whole! Will keep everyone posted once I get some reaction from Plantation.

We also found out on Saturday when we met with our painter that the cedar cladding around our front facade has to come down as they have installed the wrong type of flashing around it - not that I noticed until he actually showed me but he tells me I would have know after the first heavy downpour too!!

And finally, our vanity basins in the main bathroom and powder room were discontinued last week so we have had to select new ones of those too - at least this hasn't really held anything up as they arrived on site today, as did the toilets, in preparation for the plumbing final fit-off this week.

Luke also advised that he has booked in the following to be completed prior to the Christmas shutdown:

• Plumbing fit off (taps, baths, vanity units, toilets, gas water system etc)
• Electrical fit off (power points, light switches, light fittings, A/C etc)
• Installation of shelves to wardrobes, sliding wardrobe doors, shower screens, mirrors, glass splash back to kitchen

And we have been given a handover date of Friday 24 January - though I am not sure how firm that is going to be after tomorrow given they now need to fix the tiles.

Some updated photos below.

Main Bathroom

Kids TV Area (a.k.a Bird Sanctuary)

Master Bedroom

Living Room

Theatre

Looking through from the front door

Kitchen

Laundry - still with the powerpoint in the wrong spot!

Finished (but incorrect!) ensuite tiling