Only 3 more weeks to wait

I got a call from our SS yesterday, 3 weeks till handover!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He spent 3 1/2 hrs on Thursday marking up the house for touchups then his boss comes to do a inspection as well on Monday then they book in the plasterers and painter to come back. Only thing they still waiting for is the screens I think then the hot water and appliances go in later. We are really happy with this SS he is really on the ball.

Our fence came down as well and now you can really see how big the block is, love it!! 

Our house!!!

Look at the room on this side 11m from fence to house

Love our huge stacker doors 

We are still waiting on quotes from the concreter, fencer and a kitchen place for our built in desks and shelving. I hate waiting for quotes, if they take longer than a week they don't get the job I move on to someone else, patience isn't my strongest point ha ha. 

So with us not moving for a few more weeks gives the blinds company enough time to make our blinds and they should be installed right on handover. We will try to have the tiles delivered on handover day too so the tiler can start the next day, hubby is moving in then too, I suppose I will have to send him down a bed and some food he he!!!!!

With all this excitement comes packing. OMG it just doesn't stop, who knew we had so much stuff..  Having the day off tomorrow because guess what?  It's Father's Day!  And my husband has only reminded me a million times today, so tomorrow is all about him (something unusual) :). Not!

House cleaned, I could just move in now

Today the house was cleaned.  All the plastic was peeled off the windows, doors and kitchen.  I would of liked doing that it would be like opening up my new present.  

My kitchen

The splashback changes colour in every pic!!!!

Back door look so good clean

Main bathroom + giant mirror 

Front door, I love how you can see outside and it lets light in the hallway, otherwise it would be quite dark.

Today I met the carpet man to do the final measure up, another thing off the list!!

I met another concreter for a quote and he was really thorough and he is Maltese like my husband, he should have the quote in a couple of days. He also said he would do a little excavating no charge so we will see how much $$$$$ it will be!!!

I also contacted our neighbours regarding the fences, which was a little daunting but they were very friendly so that was a relief, I can't wait to meet them. The fencing guy will do the quote tomorrow.

We are still trying to work out which solar people to go with, this is one thing we are having trouble with.

Oh and our sewerage isn't connected by the developers so our sink and toilet in the ensuite is full

So I will be contacting them tomorrow so they fix it soon, MJH can build a house in 4 months but the developer haven't connect1 pipe!!!!

I LOOOOOVVVVEEEEE MY HOUSE!!!!!!!! Thanks to MJH :)

Txt Message

Today I received a txt message 

How exciting but I really need a date now, we need to give 3 weeks notice on this house, book in the tiler and carpet layers.  I'm going to call our trusty SS tomorrow and beg for a date ha ha..

Yesterday we met a concreter on site at, wait for it, 7.30AM!!!!!!!!  Sunday morning 7.30am!!!!!!!  Luckily it was a beautiful morning, not cold and it was so peaceful in Bingara we can't wait to wake up there.  Anyway I'm off in dream land ha ha, we decided on a huge driveway going across the double garage and workshop plus extending out another 3 metres up the side of the house and then another pad at the back of the workshop, it works out at 123sqm!!!!!!! Wow that's a lot of concrete.  The 3 x 6m at the side is for my camper trailer, my pride and joy, it lives in the garage now but I wanted the option of putting it outside if needed and also putting up a carport over it later on..  We found out why the concreter wanted to meet so early, he was going for a ride on his Harley ha ha pity he didn't ride it to our house....

I accepted the quote on a removalist Mt Annan Furniture Removals it seem to be a reasonable amount and a very nice helpful man who is local.  He gave us our online quote within a couple of days, he turned up when he said he would and the sent through the quote that night, I can't complain about the service.  

Hopefully I have more news tomorrow 

Splashback!!!

We met our tiler on site today for a quote so we got to go inside to look at the splashback, what a relief the colour is great..  Yesterday it looked grey, the picture taken through the window was grey, the exact reason I said in yesterday's blog I wouldn't comment because I was having a fit ha ha.  But it's brown yehhhhh thank god!!!!  

Yesterday's picture - greyyyyyyy

Actual colour 

Can't wait till that black plastic is off to get the full effect.

I'm very happy now :)

We went to Ikea this afternoon on a mission to finally pick a lounge and we did at long last, it's the one I picked a year ago of course.  We now have a list to buy online then we will go and pick it up once we move in. 2 x 1 seater, 1 x 3 seater, footstool with storage and a 2 seater with chaise + slimline entertainment unit for the kids lounge room.

We are so close......

Handover is looking like 13th September..  We weren't given a definite date yet but apparently the plan is finishing touches next week including fly screens to be installed, then the head supervisor does his inspection then they do the cleaning in and out and removal of the fence and loo.  I think we do PCI and a week later we get the keys!!!!!!  We won't move in for another week as we want to get the tiles and carpet done first.  We need to give 3 weeks notice to move out of here so I hope it all lines up and I don't stuff it up :)

Today the splashback was installed and we had to look thru the media room windows because for the first time we were completely locked out, arrhhhhhh, finally all the doors and windows were locked and we couldn't sneak in ha ha.  I'm not saying anything about the splashback yet until I see it properly.......

The removalist came through to finalise his quote this afternoon he said it would take about 3 hrs to pack the truck!!! I never imagined that, we have always done it ourselves (last time 14 yrs ago) but not this time I don't care how much it costs :). 

The tiler is going tomorrow to give us a quote, he said about $35sqm + glue, sounds ok but not really sure what the going rate is.

We are meeting a concreter on Sunday morning at 8.30am!!!!!  Yes 8.30AM,!!!!!  OMG.  They did a driveway down the street and it looks really good so we are hoping his quote will be reasonable.

I paid our deposit for the blinds today so they will start making them, it will be a 4 week delivery on the blinds and 6 weeks on the shutters.

The carpet measure up is booked for next Thursday, so that should be it for now, I think that's enough for this week anyway.  I'm so shocked with the progress over the last couple of weeks our new SS is the best!!!! We haven't even met him in person yet but the way he's going we don't need to.  So guess what we are doing this weekend PACKING!!!!!!!! Yayyyyy finally 😀

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Thanks for reading my blog!!!!  I really enjoy doing it, not sure what I will do when we finish the house, I might have to start up another one about chooks or vegie gardens haha.

Steaming ahead!!!!

Today we had all the handles, shower screens, mirrors (except the main bathroom) and the air conditioning finished. I'm so excited but the panic is setting in........  

These handles look great on the Lin1 Doors (powder room)

Pantry with the big handles

Air conditioning return - excitement hey!!!!

Shower screen in main - they look good but they have the big magnet down the door so they make a bang when they close. I hate doors like this and I specifically asked that question at colours and was told no they aren't like that :(. I will be removing the magnet or doing something to stop the noise..

Mirrors

Air conditioning 

Anyway, I met the Blinds Man from TLC Blinds at the house this afternoon to do the final measure and quote, he was wonderful, we did a walk thru and discussed what should go where and he gave his opinion which I really appreciated.

3 Stacker doors - 3 roller blinds each with translucent white

Media room - 2 shutter in black

Kids bedrooms, activity room and workshop (9 blinds)  - double roller blinds with dark grey sunscreen with white block out blind

Main bedroom - 3 double roller blinds grey sunscreen and white  block out and a white shutter for the fixed window 

Ensuite and main bathroom - translucent white blind

And 2 fly screen doors for the laundry and workshop doors 

We are very happy with the quote so that's another thing done off the list.  Next job is to find a tiler........

Tomorrow we get our date!!!!!!!!!