Bad news first. Yesterday I was not the worlds happiest home (or almost-home) owner. Our first coat of paint was fresh from last week, our plaster lovely and smooth until the carpentry started. There were marks in the paint in almost every room and sizable chips in the plaster. I was a bit put off with the carelessness. This was also impacted by the fact that our SS is away and we weren't sure if someone was actually checking the workmanship in person and regularly. Tom drove past the house today and got lucky as he caught our acting SS (I suppose you would say he's the 'big boss') inspecting. Apparently he was very thorough and unfazed by the damage, saying that he checks after each of the trades and marks out repairs. This made us feel a good deal better.
Bad news version 2.0. The warehouse in Port Macquarie storing our kitchen cabinetry burnt down last night. That means no kitchen for goodness knows how long as they will need to re-make it in Newcastle or Sydney. That Easter handover we hoped for is not looking possible.
Moving away from the doom and gloom. Our garage door was installed today and it looks wonderful. The stain on the poles of the facade matches perfectly. Our front door has been delayed but they are expecting lock up by the end of the week. Water proofing is booked for the end of this week/early next week and tiling soon after. The installation of the internal doors, skirting boards and architraves is well underway and a couple of Lin one doors went up today, which all look great.
They say bad things come in threes so hopefully between the fire, the damage to the plaster and our SS being MIA we are due for some luck!
Our beautiful caoba garage door (still plastic wrapped).
such a huge bummer about the paint and the kitchen :( but on the bright side your caoba door looks incredible - it fits in PERFECTLY with the builders mix stain as well as your other façade colours. fingers and toes crossed for handover in April still
ReplyDeleteThanks Merryn! You just couldn't make these things up could you! The poor cabinetry supplier, rural business is hard enough without losing your warehouse. We are super pleased with the garage door, hopefully this will be a good indication of what your stain will look like too :) A may handover wouldn't be all bad - more time to save $$ for big ticket items after handover (concrete $6000!! Crazy!).
ReplyDeleteSo very sorry to hear about the paint in the kitchen. Stuff like this is just hard to deal with when renovating. My wife and I are also in the process of doing some refurbishments. I showed her your door and she was mighty impressed and so was I. It is a job well done! Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteGiovanni @ Coastal Contract Hardware