Paving Fail

The paving was supposed to be done this morning so I drove past the block on my way to the train station hoping to catch the tradies and sort out the cross over. When I got there the 3 guys were frantically trying to find the water mains as they'd burst a pipe near the front door.

I told them it was on the left hand side of the block, half way up the driveway. They had rung the site supervisor and got told it was on the RHS. They dug madly while I tried to remember exactly were it was located, after 20 minutes I gave up and headed back to the house to find a photo. I raced back down the street and eventually we managed to locate the meter buried about 500mm under the driveway.

Going back into my photo archives now I think it got buried sometime last year when they started piling up the rubbish on that side of the block and never re-surfaced when they cleared it away.

In the end nothing got done, Water Corp. needs to come by and relocate the meter and a plumber needs to fix the break near the door. Here's the offending pipe. Way too close to the surface, hopefully the pavers will hide the hole in the render.

Concrete Hardstand

The grano guys have been back to lay the concrete hardstand, that's a garage floor to you and me.

Can't complain about the concrete job but they made a bloody mess of the render. Not frakkin' happy Jan! The downpipes have also been added, hopefully they blend in a bit more once they're painted.

Delays...

A bit more work done this week after 3 weeks of nothing. Apparently the tilers were waiting on an order to fix the showers up. In the process of putting the granite in, the cabinet makers have had to remove a section for the microwave recess and appliance cupboard. Even though it's sitting in the middle of the living room, the tilers haven't realised this and they've tiled all the way across the wall. No doubt more delays while they get that sorted out.

Our lease is up in 3 weeks (Good Friday) and it's not looking good, still a lot of work to do. Nothing that couldn't be sorted in a week or two if they actually managed to get some trades in.