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…
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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…
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…