Tiles

I was advised to get Telstra in to pull the phone line before the render was done as they might need to chase the utilities wall. I had this done on Feb 25th but the guy was only able to do half the job since we had no access inside and they needed to get into the roof.

I had him back today to finish things off inside and went for a snoop around while I had the chance. I didn't take the proper camera so here are a few snaps from the iPhone. Looks like the tilers have been busy, the brick build up around the bath is done and half the tiles are in. We had a meeting with them a few weeks ago, they didn't speak much English so there was a lot of gesturing and hand waving but I think we got it sorted.

Chrome floor wastes! These were actually $62 each(!!!) to upgrade from the builder so we chose not to tick that box. I figured I'd go down to Bunnings and grab them for $7ea with some grout and sort it out myself. I guess the tilers don't bother with the cheap plastic ones so we scored a free upgrade.

Unfortunately they also decided to add porcelain soap dishes to both showers. We had specifically deleted these from the spec as they didn't match the tiles we had chosen, so I'll have to get onto the site super about that.

We make render!

The colored texture render was done today, a bit darker than the swatches we chose from, but I think we like it. You can really judge from these photos as the late afternoon sun skews things a bit. The main color is called Deep Ocean from the ColorBond range, but I think it came out a bit more Navy. The grey feature wall looks quite warm but it's actually a very neutral shade called Shale Grey.

We realised that we didn't specify the color of the wall to the right of the entry door and I think I had imagined it to be blue, with only the feature wall rendered grey. But upon reflection I think they've got it spot-on, the entry would be a too dark if it were blue and there is no way for them to change the render color 200mm in from the edge.

The white window frames really contrast the dark render, it's very crisp and clean, we love it! The splodge on the brick pier is just a flare from the sun, the render is fine.

 

Looks like the tiles also got delivered this week, good to see more movement.