Nearly at lock up stage!!

We are very nearly approaching lock up stage!....at present the external brick work is being bag and painted. The electricians are inside wiring the house and the air-conditioning guys have put in the ducting throughout the roof space, oh and the drainage contractor is at present putting in the external drainage pipes.

Hopefully soon the front and garage doors will be installed. Then the next phase will be:

• lining the rooms;
• plastering;
• painting and trimming;
• inserting the bathroom cabinets;
• tiling; and
• carpet.

Then we will be getting the external kitchen company to install the kitchen and pantry.

Scaffolding gone & painting in progress!

On our visit this weekend we found that the scaffolding had disappeared, well 95 per cent of it anyhow and that the painting was underway. The balconies upstairs were nearly complete too, at least now you could walk out on to them! Our next door neighbours house is now also underway, this is really good timing for us and them as we hopefully might be moving in around the same time.



Our house, half painted, and in view, the neighbours concrete slab...

The project manager has advised us that the house will be at lock up stage in approximately two weeks time! Our estimate is a further 22 weeks left until the contract date + whatever rain delay days the builders have experienced, which we think should be less than two weeks. We are hopeful, based on progress, that they are ahead of schedule (not that they will commit), so you never know we might be in by Christmas:-)