We missed the chance to get down to the house on the weekend (I was working Saturday and Sunday we spent with friends. We had a meeting arranged with our site supervisor Lenny.

The garage now has a roof, and the door into the house has been painted, no back door has been installed as yet, and obviously the garage roller door is not on-site yet. Its a rainy day and the roof appears to be nicely sealed with no rain coming in through the sides.

We appear to be getting a porch over the front entrance, which will be covered in colour bond steel. everything is looking great so far (we should have known better). Lenny was still talking with the painter at this time.

Walls, skirting boards and door surrounds are now all painted. The ceiling appears to have been painted and many of the walls (although not yet finished off) as the painting is only i the middle of the walls (not yet to the ceiling or floor).

Rainy Pakenham day, the garage roof needs a bit more rain to clean all the crap off it (before it all get washed into the storm drain and that gets blocked with soil/silt.

The master bedroom has almost all been painted. We convinced the builders not to put the skirting on properly. This will make it easier for the guy laying the floor to remove the skirting

lay the floor and put the skirting back on with minimal fuss.

The bath in the master bedroom , again I hope they clean the bath and don't just wash the soil down into the pipes, thats going to cause us grief in the long run. Still no window in the bathroom, even if they are painting the walls! Kind of weird that they get all the plastering and painting done before the building is really sealed from the outside world.

Our main problem is .............

They have decided (on there own) to paint the wooden staircase the same colour as the walls. looking through all the documentation we can not find any notification that the solid wood staircase would be painted.

This may cause some delay as they will have to put a new staircase in (if they mess up, they have to fix it). If this causes them grief and they wont do it, then we will dig our feet in over the overhanging bricks (the only fix for this is pour extra slab that has to be tied into the existing slab).

Mails sent to the correct people, lets wait until tomorrow and see the replies......

Watch this space