Just went by the house (after taking my cooktop to the stone mason) to check the windows were closed since it's been raining quite heavily the last two days and found no one on site, apparently should be some activity with sanding the place before the painter starts plus doing the gyprock on the ones they had cut a hole through; there's been no work the last two days at the house....

Bathroom Tiles

Di Lorenzo Tiles have done a really great job on the tiling but I've not fully checked (and I'm no expert) so will wait until it's all done and cleaned.

Stegbar went to the house on Mon to measure the screens and shelves to which my SS invited me to. Stegbar did tell me that you can have a 'frameless' shower screen to which the doors will be hinged to the glass panel, which is what I've ordered He also said that as we are having a dual shower there will be a lot of water so a hob may be a good idea...funny that's not what they have on there web site...it seems a bit weird that they are now getting Stegbar involved and not when I was making the variation.

I think the tiles would have looked stunning if I only went to the ceiling, oh well will have to wait now until we move in. It just looks a bit unfinished but will wait and see once it's painted.

I did want to get this sorted out now but apparently if I get the tiler in now to tile to the top the cornices will have to be taken out as it will hit the cornices and will stick out. I didn't think it would be a big deal the tilers are coming back anyway, it's just the cornices and gyprock will have to be redone. The carpenter is coming on Thurs, he could take the cornices out then? So what's the big deal??

main bathroom: "the hobless one", check out the floor below




looks a bit ugly with the tiles cut but that's the standard height...I think it was more work cutting the tiles than just going to the ceiling. It seems a bit inflexible this whole thing.

Here is the ensuite bathroom: 'with hob' doesn't have the same clean lines as the one above, the shower screen will sit on the top in the inside of this, which will make it more noticeable.
EB have not apologized about this mistake or acknowledged the fact that they made a mistake.

dual shower in the ensuite; notice the side of the shower - will definitely tile this higher at least to the shower height, looks a bit weird how it drops down....guess had not fully visualised this oopssy

I looked at this photo again below of the bathroom in the entertainer 37 and the tiles weren't done to the ceiling, so mine may look ok once painted, I hope.

Counting down to Walk Through

I've been following my fellow blogger Graham building with Wisdom Homes it has taken WH's 6 weeks from lock up stage to a walk through next friday - 6 weeks....so how long will it take EB?

Graham's build has taken 4mths to our 6mths and still to complete. Graham started later than us by 2/3 weeks.

I noticed this afternoon when I went past the house that the balcony tiles had been done, this must have been done on Friday, it matched the colour of the moroka finish quite well so pleased with that. Hopefully the balcony railing will come this week, I just want that scaffolding down.

The house is looking quite messy, there's heaps of crap out the front.It seems like EB only clean up the site when a CM sees the site or when there is an inspection. Where's that OH&S guy from EB when you need him??? There's stuff there that's not even from my house???

Hob It

Went to the house yesterday to look at my beautiful tiles to find this thing sticking out of the floor, my initial thought was WTF is that???? I asked my SS what's that black thing sticking out of the bathroom floor, his reply it's a hob. A what???

We've asked for a fully frameless shower screen in the ensuite and a fully frameless panel for the other bathroom.

I guess when I asked for this variation I assumed that when you ask for a 'FULLY FRAMELESS' shower screen you don't need a hob, what the &%^^%*k do you need a hob for???? I assumed the hob is there for when you want a frame to put it on.

So now we have one bathroom without a hob for the frameless panel and we have another bathroom with a hob for the frameless screen with a pivot door.
So how can you get one right and one wrong?????

Not sure if EB has noticed this but I'm having the same tiles for both bathrooms, I'm having the same benchtop and the same colours and the same basin at least this is what I've ordered (lets hope this is what they've ordered too)....so can you understand my dilemma I'm all for consistency and symmetry.

It's only a hob but I think they are hard to clean, scum builds up around it, the grouting looks crap after a while. If the tiles don't get done properly they look ugly.

Hence my variation for a fully frameless shower screen.

Now I have no idea WTF I'm getting. I don't think this should be allowed. I'm not allowed to make changes as they charge me an arm and a leg to do so yet they seem to be able to change what the *&^&*k they like????? Not happy Jan

My SS told me that it would be better to have a hob as he has one in his house and that water will run everywhere with a frameless shower screen; he can have that opinion but it's not for him to decide what I have and don't have in my house that is for me to decide...and I really don't like these changes that I've not signed for.

First the horrible stickers on the glazing of the bifold doors - apparently this is required by law, ok will have to live with that; they should say that when you get the upgrade hey by the way they've got these ugly stickers on them do you still want to spend $3k on that???

Edit: They also had the electrical box on garage side on the plan but actually installed it on the other side. So not as per the plan...

Now the hob, what next.

Another thing I'm not happy about, we've asked for the tiles to be 1.2m silly me assumed that if you asked for this that the waterproofing would be done at this level too, apparently not they still do the standard. I thought the whole point of going high was to make sure you reduce the incidence of water damage. I guess it wouldn't matter how high they go if they stuff up the floor and don't do this properly - how come no-one checks this???? to make sure this was done properly???

Kitchen In

As mentioned in my last post, went on site today and saw the tiles and I also checked out my kitchen, the kitchen is in baby woohooo; looking good and the soft close drawers are a winner.

I was comparing 'my new kitchen' to my previous kitchen renovation which was awesome and I went 'all out' on that one;blum fittings, german made drawers, built-in dishwasher, oliveri sink..the list goes on it was done through Domayne...so this kitchen can't really compete with that but I'm sure I will grow to love it...

I did take pics of the kitchen but may hold off on publishing them at least until the benchtop is done.

Ready Set Tiling

The tilers started this morning and they will be working all week to do the bathroom, ensuite, wc's, laundry and powder room downstairs plus the splashback for the kitchen. I was very excited to see the tiles today...they look hot hot hot can't wait to see them laid. I think this is the most exciting part of the build, seeing it all come together. I really really wanted the tiles laid to the ceiling but it was just over our budget since we already upgraded on the tiles used; could this be something we could do after?? or would it look disjointed?? maybe just to the shower area?? anyway cannot wait to see them.

When we were choosing our tiles I'd thought about doing the tiles after the build as we found this great/ amazing Japanese tiler which did out bathroom renovation in Bondi. He was such a perfectionists, I couldn't fault one tile laid it was just perfect; so the pressure is on as I want the tiles and kitchen perfect - I may even get Takami to check them.