Getting on my last nerve

I think at this point my patience has just completely run out. We were told the carpet would go down yesterday. Went out there. No sign of carpet. Husband spoke to SS this morning. Carpet guys can't make it until 02.07.2013. We were expecting to be all but in at that time. Now we are over a week behind. And now we are going to have yet another week of our house sitting there doing nothing. Last week we had a cupboard screwed onto the deck and some tiles laid. All of which took what 2 days. So there was another 3 days were nothing happened. And now we are looking at another 6 working days of nothing happening. When you are paying rent and a majority of the mortgage this is simply not good enough. Surely if your job is to organise a build you shouldn't have a house with nothing happening for that long. It is just pathetic. Also some sort of communication on this matter would have been great. At this stage we are trying to organise moving as the latest date we have been told all along was 08.07.13. We have lounges arriving on that date. It is the longest we could hold them off. Now we have no where to put them because the SS couldn't pick up the phone and tell us well actually I now have you at least another week behind. We have a landlord we need to inform of when we are moving. But no date makes that rather hard for us to give notice. Also for dates like PCI and handover we need to give our work notice that we will be taking leave. Again no communication on that. I have dead set had enough.

And now I understand why most people say they will never build again. This past month has been horrible. And the longer they take to stuff around the worse it is getting. Not to mention the fact that the house is full of issues. Honestly the paint job is the worst I have ever seen. Me and Dad painted their house and it is 10 times better than the crap job that has been done on our house. And we are an accountant and a draftsman. At this point we would have been better painting the house ourselves. There is bits they have missed on pretty much every wall. Between architraves they have just painted it white because they were too lazy to tape it up and paint it grey. They haven't painted the wall between the laundry tub and the door at all. A lot of the architraves haven't been sanded before they were painted. They are painted gloss white which means you can see every mistake. Our pantry door has chunks of roller in it. It doesn't look like they have taped up anything actually. The cutting in is terrible. There is grey paint on the roof, white paint on the walls and they have stained the woodwork from the door to the roof then painted the panel in between. So we have a cream panel with a stained border. That is just the painters.

Our servery benchtop still hasn't been fixed. This issue was brought up weeks ago. We are still trying to figure out if they are going to finish off under it as well. Because it is definately not staying with the jaggered edge of the mini walls. Two planks were left off the decking. Why? Who knows. When we went out there on Friday night our cement steps for the garage had been delivered. Thrown in a pile of mud at the front of the block. It literally looks like they were just tossed from the truck. My husband had to pick them up and move them closer to the house so no-one wondered off with them. Our garage door has a dint in it. Which the SS was told about when it first went up. Yet nothing has been done about it. One of our internal doors has been split. Our bathrooms are horrible, thanks to the tradies using our toilets instead of the porta-loo. Oh and our block has become a rubbish dumping ground because we are the only house in the street that doesn't have a lock on the site fencing. It now stinks because some idiot decided to put food scraps in our construction bin. Seriously I just want this to be over now. We have had enough. And our 15 weeks. Then 6 weeks tops is fast becoming a no where near it.

And that is just our construction woes. We have also had yet another issue with the idiots in head office. We received a letter with our last bill saying that we had to organise a gas connection so the applicances and hot water could be hooked up. So with much difficulty (run around by gas companies and trying to contact the SS) we organised a gas connection last night. Today when my husband spoke to the SS we were told the gas connection is already set up and we should never have received that letter. Apparently it only applies to QLD. Thanks Coral. We have now been charged a $40 administration fee by the gas company. I was willing to forgive the mistakes if things were getting rectified. But that isn't happening either.

On the positive, here are some pics of the tiles and cupboard. The only things that have been done in way too long.