Home blues

Final inspection was the 18th and we moved in the 21st. Then on the 9th of Feb, we had a big storm. 

I noticed a black spot in the corner that I didn't see before. Then as I stared couple of drops came down from the ceiling. Then the damp grew along the edge.

Next thing we noticed water on Ollie's floor. Soon the wall started sagging and rippling, dripping more water.

 After going downstairs, water was falling there too. We started to panic. Walking into Louis's room, there was water on the floor from the window, and water started dripping from the ceiling. We rang Lee to say the whole place is leaking in. As per always, it just went to voice mail.

You can see the wet seeping into the towel on the floor. I got up there in the rain and started cleaning out whichever gutters I could, including next door.

The roof guy banged on our door first thing Monday morning. He called Lee to say that his boys didn't do any of the finishing on the windows. One of their guys came some later day and did the caulking on the windows.

Lee came to inspect and starting talking about splitting the bill for Lou's ceiling as it wasn't part of the job. But Marie pointed out that we'd explicitly asked them to inspect the roof to be it was all tight.

It's only because they screwed up the windows that we noticed the rest of the problems. The gutter here is sitting out so it doesn't catch most of the water. I tried screwing it back in but the wood back is totally rotten.

Oh, and the new gutter we paid $5,000 for falls away from the down pipe. So the water is directed towards the dead end. This is why it spilled over into the bathroom.

Some sensational Casa Fabrica work here. Duct tape was used as a fixing for the gutter. As a result it fell down, spilling water into our roof drain. The roof guy tells me nearly the entire time of the build it's been laying down like this, spilling the water in.

Using duct tape as a building material is really aweful but not actually the worst thing they've done.

Lack of care: 40-50 tile spacers were disposed of in the sink. The toilet gurgles indicating a serious blockage. It's June right now and still has not been fixed.

This is how this looks at handover.

Backyard's looking good.

The windows at this point in time are hard to close and nearly impossible to lock. The force needed ended up popping this. Replacing the windows was a bad move. We've been complaining about it for ages.

I'm slowly starting to like the place.