The end is nigh...

Certain people have reminded me that I haven't updated the blog for a while. A few things have happened since the last update, and not all of them good. The meter box is finally going to be sorted out -- at least I've arranged to pay for it to be fixed, which means it will happen. They have rendered the front of the house now. This picture shows it partly rendered.

They have also finished the tiling, but with one teensy problem... the kitchen walls were meant to be 100 mm white tiles, laid diagonally. Instead they were laid square. Oops. That means they've had to cut out part of the blueboard which will need to be patched before they can retile. The picture below shows half of it removed. It was still like this last time I saw it, so I'm not sure when they're going to fix it. Presumably before the benchtops go in?

If you open this picture up you can also see the comedy that has been wrought by the electrician on the kitchen ceiling. There are meant to be three downlights under the overhead cupboards. He has seen these drawn on the plan and decided to cutout holes for them in the ceiling! Genius. He also cut out the holes for four of the lights in the family room in the wrong place, even though I have dimensioned them. And since they're going to have to patch all of them I've decided to reposition the two lights that should be in the kitchen ceiling, since they were decidedly off-centre. So in all there are nine holes out of eleven cut in this room that need to be patched.

They have also put up the picture rail. I made a mistake there -- I should have specified their height by measuring ours in our current house. Instead we just marked it on the wall and it isn't quite high enough. The problem is when it passes over a window or doorway -- it just looks too close. This is especially noticeable above the sliding doors in the family room (not pictured). I finally realised why on the weekend -- it is actually 30mm lower back there. It looks particularly bad because it isn't parallel to the architrave over the long expanse of door and window. Anyway, they are going to move the picture rail up 30mm in this room on Thursday.

In the meantime they have been painting. They will probably be finished painting before Thursday, but they will need to come back after the picture rail has been shifted and a few other things (like patching all the holes in the ceiling).