those mistakes...

Those mistakes I mentioned earlier in my post - well one issue has sorta been rectified. The brick over the entrance door that got pushed in after the acid wash has been put back into place.

The fix job looks ok...But we'll talk to the SS some more. 

and the doors all went up, stunning!

And all the doors went up today. They all look terrific - gotta pat ourselves on the back for making good decisions. Although, when I stare a bit long enough, I start to think "maybe I over did it with all these french doors??". We'll see....I believe once that they are all stained, they will look fantastic. Stay tuned for more....

This is the entrance. Remember, it will be stained a dark merbau. 

Looking at the front door, standing infront of the bi-fold (back) doors. It's very illuminating :)

Here's the theatre room doors.

Here's the study room.

Too much french doors do you think??

And here's the laundry door. That's a lot of light coming through that door.

portes, mes portes

my doors, my doors, my awesome doors!! 

They are beautiful.

Apparently there was a back log on the french doors. 

I think they need to get stained (in a Merbau finish) before they are put on the walls.

These are the front doors. They'll also go into the study and theater.

And this is my laundry door. There's no window in there, so this door will provide all the sunshine required.

so fresh and so clean!

Our bricks got a wash on Wednesday. An acid wash (I believe).

They look so pristine.

Here's the before....

And After.... 

  

And then, crash.....

There's always the stuff ups. Here's to more delays...

You can see the little cracks of mortar that has been taken off during the wash. 

And ohhh ooooo... the bricks have gone in....

Shower's black

So the showers in both bathrooms are black. It looks like some tar (?)... 

Its basically made the whole area water proof.

 At the floor level, they've put a puddle of water to ensure its water proof - which it is thank goodness!

There's a yellow and purple balloon in the middle of the shower. 

It stops the layer of water going down the drain holes.

boooom

And it sorta goes on a down ward spiral from here.

See, now that the plaster is in the final stages, the genius Plumber had to come in and ruin it all. 

It was last week on Thursday that left me aghast! 

Boom - and theres a fat hole in the roof. I dont know how it got there, but whoever it was wasnt watching their step. Chris and I can only guess its the plumber cos no one else has been on site.

What we saw on Thursday was poor craftsmanship. Basically the pipes were tested and connected. But the way in which they were connected was a shocker. Like a kid ripped through walls recklessly, bricks busted to get to the pipes, and most alarmingly, a pipe that was tested for water and left leaking over night!

Here is what we saw on Saturday morning...

I knew there had to be a reason why there would be a damp floor and wall. The pipe from the roof was leaking water overnight that the plaster board soaked in most of the moisture and tinkled down the walls.

You can see the yellow stains here - its the water seeping through.

Now we're left with another gash to another wall and insulation left wet. * Shakes head, tsk tsk tsk**

So Chris met with the SS early today. Words from the SS, "yea, water and plaster dont exactly mix"... So the whole bathroom walls, hall way are going to get repaired. We insisted on them getting the affected areas out and new plaster walls repaired in. Oh, and the garage roof is also going to get fixed. After the hail storms on Christmas day, a puddle of water also seeped through that area.

Cabinets & Eaves are up

 And here's what the cabinets look like installed. Dont they look good...well, they'll look smashing once the whole room is complete I reckon! 

And the previous week, Chris and I didnt notice this, but they had actually installed majority of our Eavessssss... They obviously need a bit of paint work but its all in a day's work!

They also put in our lovely gutter's this week - boy we chose good colours!!