My Porter Davis Build Blog

Porter Davis is officially closed from Tuesday 23rd December to Monday 5th January. I'm told that Tuesday arvo was PD's Christmas party so suffice to say, very little happened in regards to my build that day. The only change I noticed was that they made sure the whole house was fully locked up, including the garage doors, which they never bother with. In preparation for handover next year (hopefully early Feb!), I've hit the button on this Sony 60" Full HD TV . Has an RRP of $1599 but as part of the Boxing Day clearance at JB Hifi, they were discounted to $998! I'm sure prices will come down further in a few months but it just so happens that my 10 year old LG 42" Plasma broke down last month so this is good timing. A 60" TV from a name brand for under the magic $1000 mark is a pretty sweet deal so I'm rapt.

The garage doors were installed 26th Nov. They are the standard Panelmasta Contemporary doors in Shale Grey. We were umming and arring about whether to go for the upgraded stained look to match the stained front door but in the end we decided to save the money and stick with the standard painted colours. We chose Shale Grey to match the facade render colour (Rampart). Here's the look from the outside. The facade hasn't had it's final render coat on yet so no idea how well the Rampart and Shale Grey will go together. That yellow spot is my sensor light! :)

Originally we had chosen Bolero Rustic Coffee floorboards but after seeing it in one of the display homes, we thought it looked too plain and there was not enough variation in the colour or patterns. We promptly raised a variation to change to Dusty Rock which is a much lighter brown / grey colour where the grains in the engineered boards shows through more. So.., I was lucky enough to get home after work today to find the installers still laying the boards. Here's them getting installed! Here's the look around the hallway

Shelves were installed on Friday 5th December  (week 25 of my build). Nothing magical here. All standard inclusions and no upgrades. It's much much cheaper to do it post handover. Originally I had asked for additional floating desks in the bedrooms but they were around $1000 each... $1000 each?!! Here's the walk in waldrobes for the kids bedrooms

Tiling started on Friday 7th Nov and finished around 26th Nov - week 24 of build. Initially the tiler said he'd only take a week but they ran out of tiles so had to wait for National Tiles to deliver more.  Here's the powder room shower. The darker tiles are the "Belgium Stone Lavagna Lapparto". Each ensuite has one wall with this darker tile. The lighter ones are "Belgium Stone Ice Lapparto". This is used for both walls and floor. 

The Fixing Stage invoice was officially sent to me on 27th Oct which put it at week 19 of my build. That's just over four months which, especially considering my delay due to the power lines, is damn quick. Anyway, back to the fixing invoice, it was sent a tad premature because there were just a 'few' outstanding issues that needed to be attended to... 1. Bedroom 2 door not straight Here the door is not aligned to the cornice or the wall.