We had our first walk through with the SS today. I guess he thought it was finally time to meet face to face (we've been contacting over email/sms/phone all this time). Painting is pretty much done, though there were a lot of places that needs touch ups. The feature colour was only to the niches and the stairway as that was what was included. Rawson was going to charge $100 per wall beyond the two (both niches count as one wall) so we kept it the walls that were hardest to paint.
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Entrance |
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Stairway |
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Void |
All the fittings to the wet areas were also done, along with the bath tubs and toilets.
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Powder Room - Vanity & Shower |
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Powder Room - Toilet |
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Water Closet |
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Main Bathroom - Vanity |
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Main Bathroom - Bath |
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Main Bathroom - Shower |
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Ensuite |
The ensuite ended up with two separated mixer taps for the overhead rain shower and the hand held shower head. We noticed this on every version of the plans (DA, Compliance Cerifiicate, Construction) and did request it to be a single mixer with a lever but I guess the messages were ignored. SS also said he may be able to add the extra row of tiles since the shower screen will be up to the cornice. If so, that's another bonus and would avoid us having to call the tile in after handover.
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Bedroom 3 |
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Home Theatre |
The strange looking cut out in the corner will be a grate that acts as an access point to plumbing pipes directly above (main bathroom). There was also one in the kitchen area for the ensuite. Was curious what these were so I asked the SS.
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Lounge |
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Leisure |
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Bedroom 2 |
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Bedroom 5 |
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Study |
I did notice the ethernet point here had 4 sockets. I thought it was meant to terminate at the garage, or did I just get 3 extra ports here for free? Most likely 3 of them are blank, only one port was marked with "M".
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Bedroom 4 |
The electricians were busy putting up light switches, batten holders, power points, smoke alarm and sensors.
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Hallway |
We also took the opportunity to call the floorboard people out to measure the windows for the plantation shutters. However, he did pointed out that there will be a problem with the skirting boards. We had previously asked the skirting boards to be soft tacked so that they can easily be removed to install the bamboo flooring and reinstalled. What we never considered was the thickness of the skirting boards. Apparently, bamboo flooring require an expansion gap of 10mm. With the skirting boards being 10mm thick, there was no way it was going to be sufficient to cover the gap. Beading or scotia will have to be used. The only other option is to replace all the skirting boards to a thicker one after handover (which may also affect the architraves since it's the same thickness)