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13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Here are some pictures of the living area. I love the tiles. Apart from my comments below, I love the house and all the space we have. It's more spacious…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

We are in the house and it's fab. Will post some pics this week!

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard

Looks good. Our entrance is almost the same.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Main area tiling has started now. I'm very happy with how tiles look in the house.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Fai&mont tiler is still going fixing the bathroom floors and painting still happening - both items from PCI. ('items from practical completion inspection will be completed 5.30pm day of handover'…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

So much for PCI items being finished by 5.30pm Monday. We've just been told new tiles that need to be laid bathrooms are still going and tiler needs to work…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

We collected the keys this morning. The practical completion items are to be completed by 5.30pm today. Fingers crossed they have it all done. The gift was a bottle of…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Handover tomorrow morning! So excited, but -
I've just been around at the house and saw through the windows that most of the PCI stuff has not been done yet…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard

The bricks look great. Three weeks isn't bad either.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

My camera conked out so I couldn't get a pic but the alfresco concrete looks ----- FINE.
I don't understand what the conversation with the SS about needing a step…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

I can't get hold of SS but am waiting for client liaison to call me back.
Thanks Theresa, I will metion the bit about their display homes. I think it's…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Ss told us at pci today that the alfresco slab would not be level with house but poured 100mm above strip footings. This was a first to me. Ive gone…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

PCI went really well. Mostly minor things and the SS was onboard with everything I noted. Here are the pics -
Kitchen

Computer niche next to kitchen
HT doors
TV niche in living…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

PCI is booked for 11am Monday! Possible handover on Friday!
I noticed the steel lintels above the doors and windows were not painted. I've done a quick search for other posts…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

I drove past last evening for a quick check and found -
the panel glide door was on (was up so I couldn't really see it but the motor looked nice,…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Being first time builders we didn't even think about where downpipes would be and it was never raised with us during the design process. It's a modified version of a…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

I got in to take some paint pics yesterday. The hall and bedrooms are completed and they were painting the doors when I arrived. Living area still only first coat.…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Building the McLaren by Dechellis

Tiles look fab!

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

These downpipes have ruined the front of our house. They are so ugly. I hope there is something we can do to remove them or minimise their awfulness.

laura2009 - my build - new pics
13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard

Exciting to see bricks going up. (Our bricking took a full month!) That downpipe is hillarious.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Our Pakenham Ivanhoe, some new stuff

I have the second print in a antique gold coloured frame. It looks great with the print but I don't have gold in my house so it's difficult to find…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

I don't know why it wasn't poured at the same time? They sought of did concrete footings for it but I do remember it saying in the paperwork to be…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

The ss didnt even realise fairmont were concreting the alfresco. Good thing we raised it with him! The tiler laid a strip of tiles on what was the slab that…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Yep, SS has alway been difficult to contact.
The latest is that the painters will be finished at the end of next week. So that's a whole month it will…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

So today is our anticipated practical completion day and we have not heard from Fairmont until client liaison responded to my emails just now (only to say they don't know…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Cairns Build - Better Homes Queensland - 1st builders clean!

Beautiful house, love all the glossy surfaces.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Building the McLaren by Dechellis

Love it all, especially the large mirrors. We have similar choices for the cabinets and tiles in bathrooms.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
Monaco after handover ~ Fairmont Homes ~ Front yard

Love the roof, looks great.

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

Spoke to painter this morning. Only wet areas and garage have been painted. First spray to all walls is happening today. Here's the bad news -
NO way will they…

13 years13 yearslaura2009laura2009 posted:
laura2009 - my build - new pics

We had the two days of painting last week and then the painters were MIA until yesterday. At my visit last night I saw that they had started internal spray…

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