Decisions, decisions...

Today was the first day hubby and I could venture into the house to look at the newly lacquered timber floors. We had a good look around today whilst trying to decide whether to leave the floors as they are or whether to contact the builder to ask them to redo them as per the project specifications ie. semi-gloss.

I also inspected around the bottom of the kitchen cabinetry for any further damage from the floor sander. So far so good, I didn't notice any further damage to the kitchen.

Hubby and I have made our minds up in relation to the finish on the floors. He phoned the builder earlier to speak to him about it but it went through to voicemail. Hubby left a message so hopefully the builder calls back ASAP. 

HANDOVER - in other exciting news we have been told that handover should occur in 3 weeks, that's the 31st July. This date will put us 20 weeks past contract. To be honest I doubt it will be at handover stage by 31st July but I'm very happy for them to prove me wrong. There is still a lot of work to do both inside and outside but if we have trades on site everyday (instead of every now and then) I can't see why that date isn't achievable. 

I noticed we had some fly screens delivered. I assume this is only part of the order as I couldn't see any tall & narrow screens for the theatre room and study windows. 

Polished timber and driveway aggregate selection

Today we were able to go inside the house again since the timber floors were sanded and lacquered. The timber looks so much better as there is more contrast and definition in the timber now that it's lacquered. There is still one more sand and lacquer to be done but this will be done at the very end. The final lacquer will finish it off perfectly.

Now for some pictures... 

We visited a factory in Hallam and purchased a whole heap of these magnetic door stops. We seem to have great cross breezes through the house which causes the doors to slam so we thought magnetic door stops would be the way to go. These ones will match our Gainsborough Lianna door handles quite nicely.

We also took the opportunity today to visit Mentone Premix, on advice from our concreter, to pick the aggregate mix for our driveway. We ending up choosing a mix called Third 5%. It's a lighter colour with earthy tones and specks of black throughout.

A site clean was happening today so the front and back looks much better. Now that the front has been cleared the plumber can install the drainage and agi pipes to the front of the house. Fingers crossed this is finished soon as our driveway is booked in for Monday 26th May and we don't want to have to reschedule him again.