It's great to see the rooms take shape now. You get a real sense of the dimensions and natural light throughout the house. You also get to start imagining the fun to come decorating and furnishing the different rooms.
In the last few weeks, the main things to occur were
They've just sent us the latest progress payment which means we're now officially on to the interior linings stage. The time taken for that stage was by far the longest we've had so far... almost 11 weeks, vs 6-8 weeks guidance. We're now at 29 weeks since contracts were signed.
Fireplace / TV niche issues
We're having a fireplace installed in an interior wall which separates our rumpus area from our theatre room. It'll be a glass two-sided one so that both rooms benefit from the heating and aesthetics. Above the fireplace on both sides, we requested a niche for a television. The set up is identical to that in their Elyse 15 show home in Kellyville. It was quoted clearly in the tender, including dimensions.
It was clear from looking at the framing for the wall in question that they'd not structured things correctly. It transpired that the site supervisor didn't even know the show home had such a set up and had to call out the manufacturers of the fireplace to discuss placement, and safety related separation between the fireplace and TVs. It seems like we'll now need to either have the TVs quite high on the wall, or instead have the niches built out, such that we lose around 100mm from each room.
Bit strange that their display home can't actually be functionally replicated (the display home has fake TVs), and disappointing to learn of the issues so late on. Hopefully fixing it won't delay the build.
In the last few weeks, the main things to occur were
- finishing installation of all of the insulation (we upgraded this throughout for sound and heat and they installed all the right stuff)
- gyprocking throughout - almost all finished... just one issue mentioned below
- cornicing throughout
They've just sent us the latest progress payment which means we're now officially on to the interior linings stage. The time taken for that stage was by far the longest we've had so far... almost 11 weeks, vs 6-8 weeks guidance. We're now at 29 weeks since contracts were signed.
Fireplace / TV niche issues
We're having a fireplace installed in an interior wall which separates our rumpus area from our theatre room. It'll be a glass two-sided one so that both rooms benefit from the heating and aesthetics. Above the fireplace on both sides, we requested a niche for a television. The set up is identical to that in their Elyse 15 show home in Kellyville. It was quoted clearly in the tender, including dimensions.
It was clear from looking at the framing for the wall in question that they'd not structured things correctly. It transpired that the site supervisor didn't even know the show home had such a set up and had to call out the manufacturers of the fireplace to discuss placement, and safety related separation between the fireplace and TVs. It seems like we'll now need to either have the TVs quite high on the wall, or instead have the niches built out, such that we lose around 100mm from each room.
Bit strange that their display home can't actually be functionally replicated (the display home has fake TVs), and disappointing to learn of the issues so late on. Hopefully fixing it won't delay the build.
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