Not long to go now

There is 5 days until our apparent handover date.

Our PCI walk through was pushed back from last Wednesday afternoon to tomorrow afternoon.

The list I posted last week still has a lot outstanding which concerns me.

The things that got completed from the list were insulation was spread in the roof, the tiler completed the tiling upstairs, but still needs to return to finish the splashback and the inside was cleaned up a bit.

Which leaves 5 days for the following things to be done.... as well as a few defects we've picked up along the way.

- shower screens, wardrobe railings, shelving in pantry, mirrors
- fly screens and screen doors
- acid burnt bricks need replacing & a few bricks need fixing.
- inspection point needs to be bricked up
- timber screen to the front facade needs to be installed (enter worlds slowest carpenter again!)
- paint touch ups
- carpet
- tiling - kitchen splashback
- stair case needs to be stained
- site clean up
- internal clean (final clean)

Carpet is meant to be tomorrow, staircase was meant to be painted on Saturday, which didn't happen.
Our SS queried our stain colour, which has made me nervous. We had chosen Ebony as per the display home, but our SS said it's very dark, so a few frantic phone calls to the lovely interior ladies and I am hoping it turns out okay.

We NEED to handover on Friday as we have to hand back our rental keys on the Tuesday afternoon.

In other news, one of our lounges has been delivered, it is still in boxes, can't wait to open it!!
Our rental resembles a warehouse with boxes everywhere. The clutter is making me twitchy.

The DA for the retaining wall was approved last week. So will be ready to start that as soon as we're in.

Good news, the bank valuation has come through and I can pick up the final cheque on Friday morning, I am so glad that is all sorted, I was petrified that the bank would delay things.

Fingers crossed everything falls into place this week, I can't wait to move into my beautiful new home, and unpack all our belongings that have been boxed up for over a year now.

Better keep packing, there is still a bit to box up & a whole lot of cleaning to do!

Countdown is on!

2 weeks until handover...

Assuming all goes to plan.

I am quietly confident that everything will come together nicely, but I don't want to get my hopes up too high.

We have handed in our notice to our real estate agent, paid for our insurance and we received our final progress payment yesterday and that has been sent off to the bank.
Let's hope the bank gets its act together and processes it quickly and doesn't delay anything.

We had a sticky beak in the window yesterday, the tiler has been there tiling the main living area floor downstairs. It looks fantastic.

We have a walk through booked in for next Wednesday, so hopefully all the little things that need doing will be done or close to being done.

A few things left to do still;
- shower screens, wardrobe railings, shelving in pantry, mirrors
- fly screens and screen doors
- insulation in the roof requires spreading
- acid burnt bricks need replacing & a few bricks need fixing.
- timber screen to the front facade needs to be installed
- paint touch ups
- carpet
- tiling - a couple of tiles need to be done
- stair case needs to be stained
- site clean up
- internal clean

And then the obvious ones, all the installation of appliances etc on handover.

We are taking delivery of one of our lounges next Wednesday, not sure where we'll store that, but King couldn't deliver it once we were in because their warehouse is under renovation.

The DA for retaining walls should be through soon, we had to submit additional paperwork, so now we just wait!
That's our Christmas job, installed 900mm high retaining walls to the rear of our block and to the sides.