Just realised I have not posted my home network plans, so here it is. I've purchased the 8 port pack because the 24 pack was overly pricey ($3897 for 24 pack vs $1402 for 8 pack!) and there was no sane number in between (you can not just add 1 or 2 more ports to the 8 port pack). Ground Floor:
Tuesday September 16 - Finally our roof is on! In the time the frames and chipboards were laid bare, they had been exposed to all sorts of wild weather, from sunny days to flash floods, hail and thunderstorm. Finally, I can feel at ease that the internals are now protected. Here's the Marriot 48 finally taking shape!
After a couple months of waiting, the day finally came for scaffolding to be erected. That day was Tuesday Sept 9. Week 13 of my build Here, you can see the panel of boards they had to put for protection against accidental electrocution. The power company has also put some sort of wrapper insulation around the closest power line. As the power had to be shut off for this work, the tradies had to get all this done by 3pm which was all pretty good timing because around 3:30pm, a mini flash flood and hail swept through Melbourne.
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 grou...