Smart Homes are really pushing forward to that next stage payment. They can taste it. It’s close, I wouldn’t be surprised if they send us an invoice next week. They’ve sealed the place up, put locks on and I can’t get in to take any more pictures. Basically, they are entitled to issue an invoice…
Category: Construction
Onwards Towards Waterproofing – a Roof!
We are officially at the roof cover stage. In fact, we have been at that stage since April, when we were asked to provide payment for a roof that was at least partially completed. When I was running IT projects, we had to claim various stages throughout the life of any project, so that we…
Six Months Later, Some Rafters
No roof yet, but a jigsaw of various-sized timbers and RSJs bolted together in an almost complete frame ready for a covering. Seems like the chippie is as quick as the brickie. Despite paying for plate height as far back as September ’23, it has taken Smart Homes six months to put a roof frame…
Progress, or Graffiti?
After sending a few more jolly emails asking what Smart Homes is doing/intends to do to rectify our defective brickwork, and after receiving the usual vague and non-committal replies, I ventured up to the block to see if there was any action. I was surprised to see that someone had organised something to occur, something…
Towards Rectification and Reconciliation
It seems to me that, to get any remedial work done these days, one must initiate legal action. Or at least threaten it. It’s a shame; I think we are increasingly following the example of our fellow colonial cousins in the USA and becoming an extreme litigious society. But, if that’s the case, bring it…
Sub-Standard Work
After a false start, we have finally been told that we have walls, and the ‘plate height’ stage is complete. This was to be the second time we had been informed the stage was complete. On the 30th of June we were told bricklaying had been completed. As I posted earlier we had appointed an…
Going Backwards
The Supervisor has determined that the entire back wall is cactus. We’ve known for a number of months now that something was wrong, because part of the previously completed wall had collapsed into our back patio area. We knew in early March. Looks like, two months later, the Supervisor noticed the collapsed wall and so…
Aerial Tour
In a silent flurry of publicity, and with absent paparazzi, I am releasing the latest videos of the house build. The brickies have been busy, and most of the outside and inside walls are complete. I took the drone (or UAV as we professionals call it) up to the block the other day for a…
Brickies are on site
Our fabulous bricklayers have been awake long enough to lay a few bricks. This exuberant activity has culminated in a series of underdeveloped walls, and so we are well on our way to forking out hard-earned cash for our next stage payment. Well, I say hard-earned – my baby soft and silky hands paint a…
Bricks Delivered, Soakwells Buried
We now have evidence that the builders plan to lay bricks. This month, we have received a shipment of bricks. Nothing shows more intent to do a job, than spending money and delivering the things you need to complete the job. The block has taken delivery of both internal and external bricks. We didn’t have…