On the road to our Dream Home

Saturday 14 April 2007

We've Got Bats in The Belfry!!!

Ok, so they are actually batts, as in insulation, and it's not exactly a belfry, but it sounded good!
What we have is insulation in the walls and I was so pleased because I thought that plastic stuff they had wrapped around the house was actually our insulation. That's probably why I am just the customer and we have professionals to do all the thinking. Speaking of thinking...I'm not sure which way round the guys read the plans but they have put our ducted cooling unit thingy on the opposite side of the roof to where it is on the plans. Maybe they were looking in the mirror while they looked and it was in reverse?! Now, that might sound like a problem but we are both quite happy with it because it means as you drive up to the house you don't see that thing sticking out of the roof.
The roof is a maze of huge worm-like things (I am pretty sure there is a more technical name for them) criss-crossing all around the space. Blue is heating and Red is cooling, although I thought that seemed backward as well..but there goes my thinking again!
All the brickwork appears to be done and we are still very happy with our choice of colour. Notice how I say 'our' haha, cos if I didn't like it then it would have been Petes' choice!
We have downpipes now and some of the woodwork above the windows has been done. This will be painted in a rusty colour to match in with the bricks.
We have a bath which has been boxed in, or whatever they call it. It looks like a nice deep one so very happy there. Our spa isn't in yet, but after the caffufle (is that a word?) we had this week with that..phone calls telling us they could not get the spa we wanted as it had been discontinued, then we came home and picked another that we might have liked better anyway, then another phone call telling us that indeed miracles do happen and voila! the first mentioned spa we wanted was found in a warehouse somewhere. Drats we said, because we got used to the new one, especially Pete, as he has this thing about not wanting a tap where his head is, go figure, cos his head's that big it will be near a tap wherever they put them!! haha
There just seemed so much to look at today, we were really happy with what they had done in a week.
Then our 'alarm specialist' came and Pete went through everything we wanted, so we left him there to do all the prep work for cabling, alarm and that video intercom thingamajig out the front that I am very excited about!!
So, all in all a good week I think. There I go thinking again, but I feel that this time it's justified!

















2 Comments:

  • well the house looks like a house now!So if you like the second spa better just ask for it, can you do that?What do you expect them to get done this week?Are you going down on the weekend? lisa

    By Anonymous Anonymous, At 19 April 2007 at 8:54 pm  

  • Hi Lisa, I think we have to stick with the first one as the cost of it has all been worked out etc, and afterall we did really want that one. We will be going up on the weekend, Pete has to take more pics afterall! We got our invoice yesterday so it's at lock-up now :)

    By Blogger carolann, At 20 April 2007 at 10:56 am  

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