The End is in Sight

I asked our site supervisor today about the possible date for handover. He said, he will be putting in the paperwork to nominate our house for handover tomorrow. That means, we can expect practical completion and walk through next week, and the handover the week after that. Woohoo!!!

I tried to book our Independent Inspector. But, our site supervisor will need to confirm when he can book the walk through. Apparently, he has had 13 or 14 consecutive walk-throughs with nothing else to fix. He said he will have a painter there with us so he can do any touch ups on the spot. He's a clever man, indeed. We've recommended him to a friend who is starting a build nearby soon. Our site supervisor said they can request for him. So, I rang our friend straight away.

I am inundated with things we need to plan: deck, retaining walls, landscaping, fences/gates at the front, flooring, driveway, connecting the meter to the meter box, moving our number to the new house (which is practically a new connection - $299).

When I visited this morning, garage door was on! I'm very happy with our choice. The painter was there to stain the entry doorframes, seal the entry door and stain our staircase. By the time I saw him, he had finished staining our doorframes - complete match to our door (This is due to our site supervisor being particular.) Unfortunately, by the time I returned in the afternoon, after the door had been sealed, the entry door had become a lot darker. Von and I are finding it hard to get used to it as we were happy with the natural Merbau colour. It seemed more contemporary. With the sealer, the door is much darker than the garage door, too. It's acceptable, though.

Von managed to come home early and because the painter was rushing to finish the job, we managed to visit when he was still there and Von got a look inside. Our stair stain was going to be mahogany. I've been having my doubts and luckily, when I visited this morning, the painter hadn't started on the stain. Mahogany is almost black by the time the painter does enough coats to cover the wood. He said he had the dark stain colour he used for the frames. His boss let me change it to that one by signing on our paperwork kept by the painter.

All that's really left is to replace the broken windows, fix the stacker doors, install the wire shelves in the pantry, built-in robes, linen cabinets; install the towel rails and extra toilet roll holder; address our queries (we found that the powerpoint in the rainwater control unit to be a single when we asked for a double); install the plumbing for the dishwasher; install wall basin in the WC; install toilet in powder room; finish the stain and varnish or our staircase; install appliances and A/C and hot water system; and of course, general clean-up. Can't wait!