Progress

So you have to wonder why we were told that the house was ready for pre-plaster inspection, when it took another whole week to get it there.

It's looking much better now.  Could see lots of wiring and it looks like the insulation in the walls is all going in and the theater room's sound proofing looks to be in too.  The cooling unit was in too.  So much happier now.  The correct living room window is lying in the garage ready to be installed.  

Just worried about the number of broken roof tiles we've seen.  Been told they'll all be fixed before hand over... I don't quite want to have to climb in the roof to check them - but i'll be winter, so not too hot if I have to.

From here on out, the photos won't look much different as they've finished most of the major outside items.

Frontage

Side Profile

Alfresco

Entrance

Main Bedroom

South Profile

Rear Corner

Slow progress?

In the week that passed (prior to 16/02/2013) it seems things didn't go so fast.  In fact, I could really only see that the brickwork had gone up halfway.  From what we could see of the inside, it looked like nothing much had been done - no new pipes or anything.  Might have been caused by the electricity issue.

Here's the photos.


Frontage

Side Profile 

Alfresco

Front Entrance

Main Bedroom

South Profile

Rear Corner

Inspections...

For the second time, the UEH team have gotten it wrong.  Again, even after multiple emails asking for confirmation, they were still not complete to the agreed target for the inspection (last Friday 15/02/2013)

This is disappointing.  And costly because we have to pay for re-inspections on top of the partial inspection.

So another inspection has been arranged for today (22/02/2013) and hopefully things proceed better...

UEH Commits

UEH has made a goodwill gesture and said they will cover the cost of the generator till next Monday so that construction can continue until the Smart Meter is installed.

Though I'm not Australian, I can definitely say, Good on ya UEH.  We really appreciate them helping in this regard.

Perhaps it is an apology for the mess with the window, either way, it is very nice of them to take care of that aspect.  And we won't forget it.

The Developer

No, not UrbanEdge Homes.  The developer of Eynesbury.

We titled back in December, and if you recall, it was all a bit sudden.  Well, they were given a bank cheque for our OC fees.  And they didn't hand it over to the OC, or at least, haven't yet...  Of my own volition I started investigating this with the OC.  I was told that the OC would speak to the developer to see where the cheque was.

Two days ago I received a reminder notice and a final notice for the two OC fees that were to have been paid, IN ADVANCE, in December.  Not only that, but we've been charged interest.
Poor poor form.

And then there's this... which we are very disappointed in and never thought was allowed... were went to title without electricity being available to our lot.  It only got connected to the grid at the end of January... and now we have to wait for a Smart Meter (all of us in Stage 11...) to be ordered - at best 8 days away (at the time of this post)... or pay for a generator for X days so that UEH can continue to build.

We've chosen to wait and suspend building while we wait for the meter to be installed.

Quite poor form by the Eynesbury developers.

Heading towards plastering

Weekly visit.  Looking good.  Hoping all the items in the report have or are being dealt with.  We've been assured they are.

Roof tiles are on and look sparkly (wife approves).  Our dear Homestead Tan bricks surround the house...waiting to be added.  Insulation is on and everything looks to be going well.

Frontage.

Side profile.

Front porch/entrance

South side of the house.

Back corner.

Oops...

So on Saturday (02/02/2013) we went out to see the house.

Frontage as usual. 

We saw the windows were in and the gutters were going up in front of our eyes.  Awesome!

Except...

This isn't the window we asked for!  <panic>  We went over it and over it for the last few months with UEH and though we had been given the credit for not going with the awning window back in October 2011, the final plans sent to us and the bank and agreed on and signed for had the dual awning window... But wait... what's that?!  The colour of the window frame is wrong too!  Oh dear.  All our colours - gutters, drainpipes, rendering, WOODLAND GREY!

So we went through everything... the plans showed the window... why isn't it there... And then...there...we saw it... in the colour document did not have one...but actually TWO colours listed for the window frames... our colour first, and then Merino second... how could that be... we had never looked at, or knew what Merino was...so seeing it on the colour document meant nothing to us...

So after some frantic emails to Urban Edge, we were invited to a meeting with them to discuss these two issues.

After some delicate negotiations, we have agreed to a compromise.  We stay with the Merino window frames, and UEH replace the window at their cost, with us just paying the original price for the window as they are the same size.

On Friday, New Home Inspections  (Rob) went out to look at things and found that 99% of the frame was OK, but found 2 concerning things with the slab:

There was a hole where the re-bar is exposed...

And then there's the concave living area that exceeds the maximum allowed tolerance...

We're waiting for UEH to remedy these and expect a report tomorrow (07/02/2013) from them on these two points and the few other minor issues with the frame.

In the mean time, we're going over our colour document for any other strange looking things that might be interpreted incorrectly... a long-standing candidate identified by us 14 months ago was the kitchen tap... let's hope that isn't an issue...because that involves caesar stone...

Anyway, here are the latest set of photos showing the regular angles.

Side Profile.

Alfresco.

Rear corner (including traidi-legs. :) )

Oh dear...

Inspection was done on Friday... report received today.

We also visited the house today... and oh dear...

Will update the post once things are sorted out...