Saturday, 21 April 2007

Waiting for title release and site start

The contract was signed in November, with a site start in Feb 07. The land developer said that the titles could be released in November, but if not would be in Jan 07. Jan seemed tight, as we had to wait for titles to be released before the builder could actually start.
From here to Jan nothing really happened, and we just got on with other things.
Jan came and went with no titles being released. I think it was about mid-Feb before they were released.

We got final drawings to look at and approve. Having a really good look over, spotted a small error in one drawing - some taps had disappeared, and a conduit drop in the kitchen for a powerpoint. We really did not want any conduit in the kitchen and asked if it could be changed, or removed altogether. Porter Davis changed the way the powerpoint was going to be installed.

I also realised that the internal access door to the garage opened inwards. Now I did talk about this at tender, but was told it was done this way as to not damage cars if it opened outwards - seemed fair enough to me. But now looking at the drawings for final approval it stuck me that as we had extended the garage, it could open outwards. I asked Porter Davis to change this also, as I could just imagine someone coming inside from the garage and opening the door onto one of the kids.

There is lots I have left our here, a couple of variations (mind changes), etc but I don't want to make War and Peace out of this.

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