Bah humbug

After chasing up the lack of progress yesterday I recieved advice that the roof carpenter has been delayed on another job.

On the upside aparently once the tradesmen and supervisor return from the Christmas break progress moves very quickly. Wonderful, just wonderful. We look forward to late Jan 2010.

We're so sick of them telling us something is going to happen, then it doesn't happen, nor are we told it hasn't happened. Even more annoying than the delay after delay is having to chase it up time after time only to receive a rubbish excuse and to be told that it's still within schedule.

It really isn't good enough. Just give us our roof like we were promised.

Oh, we were wished a happy Christmas and new year though.

cranky

The roof contractors didn't show yesterday.

Nobody was onsite this morning.

Maybe they slept in (or of course, are somewhere else)

Here's hoping the roof has started before we go past this arvo, the long summer break is coming all too fast.

I've emailed the builder for an update - lets see what they have to say.

no surprises

I guess our builder didn't cotton on to my surprise theory :(

No roof started, no nothing today. Expected? Yes.

Was I holding on to that glimmer of hope that they would start the roof just to get us through that bit quicker before the christmas break? Yes.

Do I want something interesting for my Dad to see? Yes!!!!!!

The goodlife house that are building down the bottom end of my parents' estate were way behind us in their bricking, starting after us and looking far, far behind - well they had their timber roof frame finished yesterday. I'm guessing they didn't bring anything up at their bricking meeting with the supervisor.

Ahh well, I know it will be here soon enough but I can't help but want it sooner!

Oh, and for the record - it's not a race, there is no race!!!!

brickies are finished!!

We're pretty excited....our brickies are finished and have cleaned our site up. The front windows are going to look so good!!!!!!

It looks just as we imagined and is really effective from both inside and out. Love it!



Hey roof guys - we're ready for YOU now!!!!

tradition

What a day!!!! Phyl... I can't thank you enough for the chrissy wreath you surprised us (well, me) with today... I can't express how much it means!!!! Michael attached it to the fence and all of a sudden it transformed our house into our home. I was telling my mum about it this evening and how special it was to me.... she said that it really was amazing and that something like that needs to become a tradition. She is so right (as mums always are) and every year from now, the wreath you made us will sit in that spot at christmas time.

So our home seems to be in good shape according to our building inspector (Andrew) who helped us immensley with our meeting with our supervisor today, who seems like a pretty decent guy.

There are a few bits and pieces that need fixing up and looking into but really our brickies have been just fantastic. We are looking forward to the front being completed tomorrow so the roof can begin really soon! Early next week we've been told.. why is it that we (I) hold on to the element of surprise though!? Imagine driving by on Friday and it being started - oohhh the excitement.

I wonder if builders understand the psychology behind it all. Excitement is good, delays are frustrating and not knowing nearly kills us. Dramatic yes, but it all describes the rollercoaster when you're riding in the front seat... and loving it.

Here is our gorgeous wreath on our front fence - thank you Phyl!!!!

A bit closer...
River loves it too - believe it or not he did this all himself!!!! Our little family can all tell the moment a tradition is born xx

got wood

That's right folks!! The wood for our roof frame was delivered yesterday.


The roof was actually scheduled to start yesterday but clearly that didn't happen... we have a meeting with our site supervisor this afternoon to go through the brickwork etc. Not sure how you have a brickwork completion meeting when the bricking STILL hasn't been completed?? It's just the row next to the front door as well as the row above the dining room - but still - it's not finished.

I wish they'd just understand that if there's a problem or delay all they have to do is let us know.. it's really not that hard to fire off a 1 line email "just letting you know...."

Anyway, we'll post an update after our meeting today!

See what happens on a slow build week

It's been a slow build week to say the least.... Our brickies are 99.9% done, they just need to finish the bricking next to our front door, which is literally 1 row of bricks as well as the top row along the dining room. Hopefully they will do it today so our roof can start as scheduled on Monday - soooo looking forward to that!!

Michael came home on Monday which has been so good, and such a relief for me. With our poor River hurting his paw it put a lot of pressure on me - lifting a 35kg sedated and sooky dog is hard!!!! And tiring! I was constantly looking after him which included several trips to the vets, trying to keep him relaxed after he came out of his overly reactive sedation, constant cleaning and putting betadine on his wound (which was a challenge in itself!!) as well as the medication rounds and trying to do everything I could to stop him having to wear the cone of shame (as worn by dug the dog in UP)!


I'm happy to say that River is on the mend and with Michael home things are feeling like they are coming back to some sense of normality. Indy is loving having him home too :)

We both booked yesterday off to spend some time together. Originally it was planned as a hot date, but we decided to save our $$$ and do some house research instead.

Well one thing led to another and the research turned into shopping! We bought a dishwasher!! It's my very first dishwashwer, actually I'm the first in my family to own one - I feel like a pioneer haha

So, here it is...... isn't it pretty!!!


It matches our fridge nicely, gets great reviews and of course we got it for an absolute steal, saving just over $1000 on it and coming in under budget.