After Christmas

Paige's birthday - too much chocolate cake.

Some racing around at the water park, then some more chocolate cake.

Nice to catch up with some old uni buddies; Scot, Andy and Pete.Everyone's pretty much the same old.

Bill and Chap were down from Brisbane to visit family, so we all had a few in the afternoon at the Oaks - Bill, Johnno, Chap, Sharnie, Jeanie, and us two. Really good to see them.

The builders had 6 months on the contract to finish, we gave them an extra 8 months, but they screwed it up so much that even that was not enough time: a bad case of the measles at our house due to paint problems, problems with the doors shutting.

 This duct is an unwelcome sight in the middle of the living room. Nice touch from the experts. They could have routed it in the stairs, or up the ceiling.

Laundry completely unfinished. This was a deal breaker - we shouldn't be expected to live without one for who knows how long. We decided not to move in, so spent a few extra weeks with bags on the floor at the in laws.

Several months was not enough to make any progress on kitchen extraction. Still not, at the time of writing in June 2020. What a joke.

The duct at the other end is held on by sticky tape, no joke. This is their idea of a suitable fixing material? The duct tape has failed, and we didn't understand at the time, but this whole piece is simply laying on the bottom, no longer connected.

All doors did not close properly. The powder room door did not have the striker piece installed and could not be closed at all. This door is free floating since it lacks the bottom guide. Numerous problems are due to things simple not being finished.

Needless to say, living in a spare room at the in laws, living out of suitcases, not knowing when anything might get fixed was a major stress. Late, overpriced, poor quality finish: we would never use these guys again and don't recommend them for anything.