Saturday, May 14, 2011

Slow progress

Water Corp. still haven't fixed the meter, apparently there is some discussion about who's fault it was to be in the wrong spot in the first place. Certainly not ours, SORT IT! There was also an issue with the plumbing, resulting in this mess.


Supposedly there was a blockage in the pipes, I guess because they were layed a long time before the garage slab went down, so some truck or something might have rolled up and crushed it. Not sure really, but they had to snake a camera down to find the blockage, then chop up the garage floor, fix it and now we've got this inspection plate. Whatever, it's just a garage floor.

I'm pretty sure someone forgot to book in the skylight installation as it only got done after I mentioned it. But moreso for the fact that the manhole had to be re-cut to almost the width of the hallway in order to get various bits up into the roof cavity.


The place looks like a mess, but the skylight certainly does the job in brightening up the windowless room. The mirror should make a big difference to our narrow space.


All the taps have been plumbed in and the shower screen has been fitted as you can see from this wonky shot.


These are all the tiles that need to come out so that the cabinet can be fit back into the space. Not too happy about this, if they did it correctly and started from the corner we would have had two fullsize tiles, now we'll end up with small sections on each side. Hopefully it will all be obscured by the cabinet and filled with junk and we'll never notice it.


Flyscreen doors have been added to the alfresco stackers. Just need Luke to come sort out our timber decking now. Now wishing we mounted the outdoor power point somewhere more out of the way, maybe I'll paint it and see if it blends in a bit more.

Sunday, May 8, 2011

Got a bit of gas...

Looks like the gas plumber has been in to do his part, meter is plumbed in.


We opted to upgrade to an on-demand hot water system, so we'll never run out of hot water in the shower. Lots of stars on the sticker so I guess it's energy efficient as well.



Best shot I could get of the stove through the window. The blue is just protective plastic but it actually looks kinda cool, maybe they should manufacture blue anodised appliances, no? We consider this quite a bargain, it didn't cost much more than the cheapo brand 900mm wide cooktop and oven but looks seriously impressive.