Taps Solution

Like I said before the picture above which is displayed in the Home Option Gallery was what we thought we'd be getting but instead our taps were installed too low. I don't think they should display this photo in the Home Option if the end product does not look like this. Not happy about this at all as we had to buy new spouts so that we can use the basins. We opted for the Fluid Plus bath spout as these were shorter and went up slightly and they matched the existing taps. Hope this works. We didn't really need more unbudgetted expenditure.

At no time during the build were we asked to specify how high we wanted the taps. I thought I would have sounded too pedantic if I specified the height of the taps when we were choosing all our fixtures but in hindsight I guess this would not have resulted in what we have now. I did inquire about this at the start of the build when the plumbing went in and was told by my SS not to worry as they knew what they were doing, it will all be sorted out...gullible me believed him. I should have put this in writing then....

I should have gone with a mixer which was my first option but instead I went with the 'standard' taps. My bad, I should have gone with my instinct. I think the taps were the only thing I didn't change. lol.

Speaking of the Home Option Gallery - they have a frameless shower screen there too and there's no hob to be seen in site - my SS should visit this Gallery so he can see what a 'frameless' screen looks like.

How do I get over this? I'm just totally gutted about these mistakes. I guess I had high expectations and EB just hasn't delivered.

Fowler Seido Inset Basin

In reference to my previous entry below - I was going for this look, check out the height between the taps/spout and basin

our bathroom so far - not quite the same, amazing what a few inches can do...

Lots of painting happening this week and next week too I guess.

Caesarstone benchtops are in

This is the flush mount cooktop, I was so excited to see this I forgot to check the joins in the benhtop D'oh!

The waterfall edge - there was a huge sign on the bench that if you take this cover of Casa Marble will not take responsibility for any damage - seems fair. According to my SS the painter will put drop sheets on these babies anyway.


pencil edge in bathrooms - love the basins but a tad disappointed with where the taps/spout are going to be; I would have preferred them to be a bit higher, it doesn't leave much room between the spout and basin; this wasn't specified anywhere in the plan...must be a standard height??? hope this turns out ok. if anything there would be less splashing??

I just had this image in my head of what I thought they will look like have added in next post but I think they still look fine. I'm still happy with them, they look awesome with the caesarstone benchtop.

Not sure about those tiles on the side though, just noticed them now.

this is the main bathroom
powder room - can't wait to see this with the mosaic tiles

this is the wc, I prefer the gap here between the taps and basin, just noticed that the tiles will be below the taps if that's the line where the tiles will be, this seems a bit strange?? I just noticed this now, not sure why this is a different height. I did notice today that this cabinet is so low that my daughter can reach the sink, I don't think this is a bad idea.

Back to the hob saga, I forgot to mention last week that when I spoke to the CM he did say that if we wanted to take the hob out, they would do so; I just thought if we were going for the frameless shower, we need this done properly and have the floor a bit lower in the shower area and the tiler told me that it was already a bit higher in the shower end so the best that can be done would be to level it. So the lesson hear for anyone still going through the selection process and have decided on a fully frameless shower - you need to specify to your builder exactly what you want to happen to the floors; I guess EB probably don't have this request that much otherwise they would have asked me or spoken to me about this when deciding on the shower screens, maybe??

Bathroom Selection

Almost everything is finalised now just waiting on the electrical, I thought I'd post our bathroom selection so bored of waiting to finalise all the PVC's...

We've chosen the Fowler Seido inset basins with 20mm CaesarStone vanity bench tops in 'Ice Snow' and the vanity cupboards in Laminex 'White' with flint finish...thought about doing a dark colour like above but since we weren't upgrading to poly I didn't think it would look as great.

Have upgraded the shower screens to frameless ones
Have upgraded the tiles to 1.2m height to all bathrooms
Also picked large tiles for the bathroom 600*300 so these are getting laid vertically

Have not upgraded the taps & shower heads...will change these later

The powder room will have different tiles to the rest of the bathrooms as it's downstairs and the floor tiles are the same throughout the whole ground floor including the powder room...so the floor tiles will be 'Rex Concreate' in Mud, the wall tiles will just be plain white tiles and the splashback will be the same as the kitchen splashback 'Casa Mood Neutra Silver Lux' hopefully this will work out...my inspiration for the white tiles in the powder room (below)...