Well, after being very close to reaching lock-up last weekend, I can now confirm that we have finally reached the lock-up milestone. How do I know? Well it wasn't because we got a call from the site supervisor, or a call from our coordinator at the Porter Davis office. No, we simply got the bill. Note to Porter Davis - having some class is the cost of a phone call.
Never mind. As I have said before, I am not unhappy with the work being done by Porter Davis on the construction itself. But boy could their head office folks use some basic customer service training.
However, I stuck my head into the house today and discovered that plastering has already been completed! I took a whole heap of photos, because the place is finally getting the feel of being a house. Here are a few of them.
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| From the Front - the white lining boards underneath the eaves have been fitted |
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| From the Front |
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| From the Rear |
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| From the Rear |
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| Main Bathroom Upstairs - The shower base is installed and the inset shower shelf is now plastered in |
In addition to my regular still photos, I also tried taking a number of panorama shots, to better show the layout. Each of the photos below spans an arc of about 90 degrees, so there is a little warping visible. This is warping of the perspective, not the walls :-)
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| From rear of house in the 'Dining Area', looking back into the Living Room (to the left) and the Kitchen (to the right). |
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| From rear of house in the 'Living Room', looking into the Rumpus Room (to the left) and the Kitchen and Dining Room (to the right). |
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| From the corner of the Kitchen, looking back to the Dining Room (to the left) and the Living Room (to the right). |
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| From the corner of the Rumpus Room, looking out into the hallway through one opening (to the left) and also through our second opening into the Living Room and rear of the house (to the right). |
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| Upstairs Master Bedroom |
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| Upstairs Living Area |
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| One of the two rear bedrooms |
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| The second of the two rear bedrooms |
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| The third upstairs bedroom, with the opening to the walk-in wardrobe (to the right) |
Wow!!! It's looking so good! There were no display homes when we were looking at the wembley so it's great to see inside.! I agree a phone call at each stage would be great, we are having independent inspections done so hopefully we can view and know progress before we pay the bill!
ReplyDeleteYeah, there were no display homes when we made our decision to go with the Wembley 35 - we bought off the plan too. A bit of a leap of faith but we had seen so many display homes by then, we felt confident that we knew what we were doing.
ReplyDeleteBy rights, you are supposed to get a progress call from either the site supervisor or the head office coordinator each week, but this does not happen. It is usually me calling them. Also, you will find that any repairs that are identified by your independent inspector are fixed after you have paid the bill. We read and review the report before we pay, but the fixes come later. As I have mentioned in a previous post, the key fixes identified by our independent inspector at framing stage were fixed (as far as I can tell).