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You will remember I received my post contract variation for a different dishwasher. At the time I didn't give it much thought. You know, it's not something I can control and it's something that comes 'free' with the standard inclusions. Then I looked at the specs and compared it with the old model and I am pleasantly surprised... New Model: BSID4610X vs Old Model: DWS5X  vs  Capacity : 15 place settings vs 14  Water Rating: 6 star vs 4 star (9.8L vs 13.9L) Energy Rating: 4 star vs 3.5 star Noise Level: 42dB vs 47dB Filtration : 5 stage vs 3 stage There's also a 3rd layer split cutlery tray, anti drip platforms, wine glass supports... newer technology.. yadi yadi yada.. all in all.. # winning ! :)

My framing started Friday July 4th. I thought this was way too soon since my slab was only poured on Tuesday! Turned out though that it only meant my frames were delivered on that day Then they spent a couple of days marking lines out on the slab. It wasn't until Tuesday 8th July that they actually started laying the frames on - a whole week after slab pour. That's about as much gap between pour and frame that I could have hoped for from a volume builder.  Within 3 days, my whole first floor was practically done! By Friday 18th July, the second storey was almost complete. The Roof trusses would be done on Monday and that would complete the frame stage... Monday came and went and no work was done. Tuesday came and went and no one was on site. What happened was that the OH&S guys put a stop to work on the second storey as they were working too close to power lines... Oops! Here's a pic of the issue: The scaffolding and platform to

Since contract signing, these are the extra post contract variations that I've had to sign off on...  Variation 15th May At the time of receiving this first variation I was pretty darn frustrated. Site start was meant to be in May and here we are middle of May and they've only just done the corrections to the contract. Remember, my original site start was in MARCH! The changes were: Corrected 200mm wide wireware 2 tier slide out drawer with blumsoft closer. I was originally quoted $635 but this revised it down to $383 ($231 for the drawer and $152 for the soft closer) Corrected drawings to show floorboards under shelving in store room Corrected plaster void from 100mm to 1000mm from floor level in master retreat Remove Hallway doors - saved $1500! Updated tiling price to base off revised floorplan - saved $1000 Upgrade to HX35i - Got charged $1210 for this one even though I had this in my original contract at $800ish. Not happy.  Update heating zone 1 to groun