Friday, July 16, 2010

Day 134: PCI !!!! AND SMART WIRING!!!

Yay!! We made it this far... :D

Woke up really early as the PCI is scheduled at 8:30AM (or was it  9AM?). When we got there, our good old NHI inspectro R.D. is already there doing his thing. He said that he was actually on leave that day as he is going to Africa for a three week holiday.

R.M. was our PCI supervisor and he was alright. He already marked most of the paint jobs that needs to be redone.  Most of the things that we saw are paint touch ups. We're glad that we schedule the PCI to be in the morning as the sunlight lighting up each room really made a difference spotting wrong paint works and there are plenty of them. Some of them you can't see when staring at the wall directly but once you move to the side, it stands out.  R.M. thinks that an apprentice did the paint touch up and he used the ceiling paint which is flat instead of the wall paint which is glossy.

R.M. also mentioned that he checked the garage paintwork and he is recommending that the whole garage be repainted..

An example of the marks for the paint touch up is below.







But pretty happy how the kitchen turned out, especially the plumbing.. NEAT!!!





One funny thing though is that while we were there doing the PCI, the L&O guys were also there installing the smart wiring. Then when we got to the garage, I saw they were putting the data hub in there and I then told R.M. that it's not to be installed there but somewhere else. Showed him the plans and he just shook his head.


Oh, and the Boss was really mad at me as I forgot to tell her to bring slippers and the floor tiles were really cold.


Well, other than them installing the data hub on the wrong spot, house looks good and the Boss is happy. R.M. gave us a list of what needs to be fixed and we will go back in two weeks for the final inspection.

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Day 129: Fiber Optic conduit installed..

Visited the site today and saw that they already put the fibre optic conduit.  But peering into the windows, it seems that the data cabling is still not done...


 There is also another thing, they put the gas entry point on the brick pergola post and on the side of the footpath making the footpath narrower...

Friday, July 9, 2010

Day 127: Updates on issues..

Got an email from E.R. today regarding the variations on issues:

-- all quad power points will be replaced by 2 X double power points
-- pergola colour will be deep walnut
-- the corner floodlight will be a power point instead..


also booked in for PCI next week, Friday... :D

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Day 126: We "forgot" the paint colour for the pergola

Got a call from E.R. today asking for the paint colour that we want for the pergola since we forgot to choose it during colour selection. I told her that we didn't forget, it was just that the pergola was presented to us during tender and we pretty much have to agree to it since we were told that it would delay our build if we want it removed since the plans have to go to the estate approval process again..

Can't decide on the colours, but I might go deep walnut to match that beam on top of the porch...

Also got the news that there are no slimline version of the quad power points. Told them to put two double power points instead. Still waiting for the answer.

And still no news if the data cabling is alredy there!!!!

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Day 121: Facade Colours

Wohooo...we didn't mess up the facade colours...



Saturday, June 26, 2010

Day 114: Pergola and Garage Door

It's been too long since I last updated the blog, been very busy.. But I am happy to say that the expensive pergola is finally up and it doesn't look bad all..




And we have the garage doors already so there is no way we have access to the house now..


Front Door


Bedroom carpets

Saturday, June 12, 2010

Day 100: We bought a new TV for the new house

Hahahaha, not really an update on the house build but today, we have decided to buy a new TV for the new house. I was so decided on the Samsung 46" LCD but then I saw the Sony 50" one and the guy at JB HiFi pretty much gave me a decent deal for it. And with free PS3 :D. The downside is that they don't have stock for 3-4 weeks but that's all good since it is for the new house anyway and the house will not be finished before they get the stock.

And on the way home, we realised that when we moved to our current place, TV was also the first major appliance that we bought... :D