There really hasn't been that much to do, but weeks pass without anyone setting foot on site. It's been really disappointing and we're just about over it. Anyway here's the update: the water meter was finally fixed on the 18th of May but the paving didn't get done until the 11th of June.
Dodgy plumbing by the entry has been hidden by careful paving as I had hoped. We're also happy with the color match of the cheap concrete pavers to the grey render. We'd really like to have the driveway done with washed aggregate concrete but the quotes were too high and we barely got any credit for deleting these pavers so we'll stick with them for now.
The painters did some work on the outside on the 30th of May, though I'm not terribly happy about the color match or lack thereof. The paint was specified as Deep Ocean, but since the render came out darker the downpipes & meter box don't match.
The painter tried to tell me something about too many tints and too dark already (once again, broken English) but I'm pretty sure he's just trying to bullshit me. I can't see a reason why they couldn't take a sample of the render and get a proper computerised color match. It's not so bad in low light or shadow, but in the sun it's quite obvious.
This is just stupid, why bother painting a pipe that's obviously broken (has been for a few weeks) and waiting to be repaired?
They cut the tiles, fixed up the cabinet and finally got the rangehood in. Managed to shoot this one through the glass, hence the funny reflections. Granite bench tops look great in real life, they have glass/mirror shards that sparkle in the sunlight, photo's don't do it justice.
Hopefully we'll be having an inspection next week, but I can already see a bunch of little stuff that needs to be fixed up, so who knows how long before we're in.
