Tiles Done

Well the pain was definately worth it. We love our tiles. Can't wait to see them without white grout all over them.

Ensuite

Loving our vanities with the tiles.

Laundry

Bathroom

Can't wait to see it with paint.

All The Little Things

Last week was pretty quiet at the house. We had skirting and architraves installed. As well as the insides of cupboards. Pretty boring pics but important all the same.

Funny how these two little pieces of wood makes a wall look complete.

Tiles all ready to go on.

Laundry cupboard.

Amber has come to the party

Wow. What a difference a phone call makes. Amber has decided that due to the amount of issues we have already had they will meet the $49 that we were initially told. That will make a decent difference to the price.

Tiles continue to make me cranky

Just as we thought our issues were over with the tiles we receive the invoice from Amber. We were told we would be called on Monday if there was excess on the tiles. No phone call. Thursday afternoon we get sent an invoice after the tiles are already on site. The invoice is for just shy of $900. We had compared the costs of tiles between the ones selected at Amber and the ones selected at Beaumont. We knew the ones at Beaumont were $38 per metre and were told the ones selected at Amber were $45 and $49. We were charged about $30 over our allowance at Beaumont so figured we would be up for a few hundred. Although Amber assured us they would do it as cheap as possible for us. The invoice we received has the bathroom tiles that we were quoted at $49 at $76. Ummm big difference there. It wouldn't have even been considered at that price. We have also been told that the $45 tiles are $15 per metre over the allowance. Not sure how that works when it wasn't even close to that with Beaumont. So it appears the choices in tiles are either a company that can't provide or a company that lies about price. And neglects to call when they say they will. Well that is two companies I will never use again. Lucky for any future endeavours there are plenty of other tile companies in the area.

Cruising Along Now

Another week saw a whole lot more done on the house. All of our eaves and above our windows have been put in. We are officially all locked up. Our beautiful big front door was installed. We have cornices and internal doors now. As well as an installed set of kitchen cupboards. The tile saga is hopefully sorted and the tiles should still be arriving on site this week. Hopefully. So fingers crossed that hasn't put us behind too much. Beaumont Tiles couldn't get us anything close to what we wanted but thankfully Coral has allowed us to source the tiles from Amber. Amber were fantastic and have found us some great replacement tiles. The service was fantastic. We had two people helping us at all times.Picture time. :)

 

Just have painting and the bits between the windows and the house will look finished from the outside.

Waterproofing all done. Ready for the tiler.

We are in love with our cupboards. Couldn't be happier.

Internal doors all done.

Not Happy

Jas just recevied a phone call from Beaumont Tiles to say the wall tile we had selected for the bathroom is discontinued. The whole bathroom was styled around this tile. The worst part is that the tiles are supposed to be on site on Tuesday. We selected the tiles in January and they are only realising 3 working days before the tiles are due on site that they can't get them. Shame on Beaumont Tiles. Also looks like I will be out $110 thanks to them. I have tickets for Saturday that I won't be able to make it to because I have to go reselect tiles. Could not be more furious at the moment.

We have walls!

Last week was a very exciting week for us. The bricks were finished and the walls went up. We can really see what the rooms are going to look like now. Very happy with what we are seeing. The build is really powering along. Last week was 7 weeks since site cut. So we are really impressed with how much has been done in that time.

  From front door.

  Rumpus & family

 Kitchen

Fairly Quiet

Last week was a fairly quiet week at the house. Our poor little brickie is still chipping along. We had a chat to him when we were out on Saturday and he is so lovely. Very nice fellow and told us he thought he should be finished on Tuesday. So we are hopeful for today. Although when we went for a look yesterday he still has a lot of fiddly bits to go so we won't be too disappointed if he needs another day. It was nice to hear he is full of praise for our site supervisor. Apparently he has known him for 20 years and thinks he is wonderful. He is also a big advocate for Coral. It is nice to know our tradies think highly of our builder as I'm sure they have seen it all. He has done a fantastic job. We have a lot of difficult edges and he has taken the challenge and is making them look perfect.

Last week we also had our friend come in and run all the TV cables for us. Our bath in the ensuite has been put in and the solar panels have gone up. So I guess things are still happening just not the noticeable stuff. We were really excited yesterday to see that the insulation is 75% in and the gyprock and cornices have arrived. Hopefully we will have walls by the end of the week. We are both really excited to see our tiles go in. So for us walls is just one step closer to that. Neither of us are really sure what steps come next so we are getting lots of surprises at the moment. I am looking up all the Coral blogs and threads to try to get some ideas. From what I can figure out after gyprock is plasterers and then waterfproofing. Then cupboards. Then maybe tiles.

Lucky Coral have such a great construction team because our customer service contact is driving us insane. We are being emailed the invoices for progress payments. That night we sign an authority for the bank and send it on to them. Our bank is then removing the funds from our account within about 4 days and sending a cheque to Coral. By the time the cheque arrives in the Gold Coast we are normally about 1 day over the 7 day payment requirement. Which Coral really should understand considering we haven't even received the invoice in the mail from them by then. However, we still get sent a letter asking for payment. Our bank sends us a copy of the letter they send with the cheque. About a week ago we received a phone call from our customer service lady asking for our address as they have had a letter sent back to them. We have told them the address is wrong about 5 times now. They are sending it to our current street address but the suburb and postcode of our block. So my husband rang her and surprise, surprise she didn't answer her phone. I don't think she has ever answered her phone when we have rang. He left a message with our correct address stating we live at Unit 4 ..... Yesterday we receive another letter about an unpaid invoice. The letter is addressed to Minute 4. Really has anyone ever lived at a minute? Common sense people. Then the letter is dated at 19.04.2013. The copy of the letter from our bank that was sent to them with the cheque was dated 16.04.2013. I understand they probably would have received it the following day in the mail so that is why it was sent the first time. However, wouldn't you check you haven't received the payment before you resent the letter. My husband has then emailed our customer service lady with a copy of the letter that had been sent to Coral and our correct address again, and yet again she is on leave. According to the email responses we have had from her she has had at least 3 or 4 weeks off already this year. We are starting to think we want her job because she is never actually working. She is just impossible to contact and it is quite frustrating.

Anyway back to the good stuff. Here are some piccies from the weekend.