Bring on thou Fixing Carpenter - Sun 12/10/08.

Sun 12/10/08. Another week slips by, and while progress has been "steady", Christmas (and our once hoped for completion), is just 11 weeks away...!! The question now is how many weeks will we miss by, and what bribery will be required to extend the rental on our current house beyond the agreed 15th Jan..?

A few people have commented that our recently installed stair handrail has been placed in its "normal" location, which unfortunately (for Cremorne owners) means it is often positioned directly over the "normal" position of the the stairwell light switch...!! (Given the frequency of this issue, is it perhaps time for PD to resolve this once and for all on their default Cremorne plan, or am I having a common sense overload?)

Having seen this problem reported on numerous blogs (thanks all), I did report this to SS the day after the electricals had been run, and requested that the particular light switch batten be wedged out and re-positioned 300mm higher. SS claimed he was going to do this himself (ex sparky), although I never did hear if he completed it, or for that matter advised the electrician that he had moved it..! Perhaps a call is in order.

Internal doors, frames, skirtings & shelves were all delivered Friday and stacked in the living room. Sometime on Sat morning, they were all distributed to their specific part of the house. Unless mistaken, I think this is the very first bit of weekend work done on our house to date. Looks promising for a start on these tomorrow.
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House exterior now pressure cleaned, exception being the planned rendered areas, which will be Woodland Grey. (Not totally sure why they leave this...!!). We have come to be very happy with our selection of brick.

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Internal fixtures positioned to their specific locations.
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Repair job on the upstairs shower plumbing (refer blog entry 5/10), via a freshly cut hole in the downstairs family room ceiling. gggrrrr.
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Garage roof delivered.

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