Month: August 2014

August 20th

Well a week of rain and we have a muddy swimming pool due to a storm water pipe bring broken by the pool builder. Ah well, we can’t wait for it to be completed. The pumps are going to try and dry the hole so they can start the formwork this week. Our shutters are due to be installed this weekend so we will have proper window coverings. The telco keeps coming out and each and everytime they say ‘oh, we have to dig the road up to put some conduit so we can feed the Internet and Foxtel cables through!’ We still haven’t got a phone line. The left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing and it is very frustrating when you have a child trying to do Yr 10 exams and assignments. We are also busy getting quotes for the fencing, the driveway and completion of the retaining walls as part of council conditions. We have had a couple arrive, some don’t want the work and others are very expensive. I think we focus on the priorities first. 

August 10th

Well, three trucks & one week later, we are nearly settled. We took the time off to settle in and loved all the drop in’s who came for coffee. No Foxtel, Telstra or Internet at present as we didn’t realise that with knockdowns/rebuilds they sever the wires. Unlucky for us, the street access is through an asbestos pit which means after escalating our job via a complaint, they are not going to charge us for digging the road up and they have taken responsibility for connecting up from across the street to our boundary. Builders or electrical appointments don’t tell you things like this, so watch out. Such as life. It would have been good to know that issues such as this are common with knockdown/rebuilds.

See some pictures at night but will take more over the weekend. By then we hope to have a ‘big’ hole in the garden ready for the pool formwork!