PCI

Yesterday we attended our Practical Completion Inspection. Doug and I met with Dad and the Site Supervisor in the afternoon at the house - now without the fence and portoloo - to go through our inspection. Our SS is great, he is knowledgeable and goes through each section thoroughly.
We started with the Final Consolidation report where we systematically went through each section ticking everything off, whilst Doug got distracted eagerly wanting to move onto the "hands on stuff." Finally we were able to get through all of these sections with everyone confident that everything had been included. We then systematically went through the house room by room, testing all light switches, taps and toilets, looking at the paint quality, windows, frames and all other bits and pieces.
The tilers turned up part way through the day to fix the wrong tiles in the laundry. They turned up without tiles, not knowing where the spare tiles were located in the house and proceeded to use a hammer and chisel against the bricks to remove the wrong tiles. SS threatened them with the bill if they damaged any part of the house - and then recommended to us that we didn't go into the laundry whilst they did their work! It was all quite amusing - but glad I chose not to buy my tiles through Clarendon for the $2000 extra cost if these were the guys that were going to do the work.

There wasn't a lot to fix, mainly little bits of paint that needs to be gone over. This is our list:

• Plumbing to gutter to be relocated
• Brickwork joinery at entrance and in alfresco to be repointed
• Bricks around house to be repointed
• Scratches in glass of sliding door and one window to be fixed/replaced
• Broken window to be replaced
• Under oven drawer in kitchen did not close
• Missing screw from cabinetry above dishwasher
• Missing divider under sink for tea towel holder
• Holes in slab to be filled
• All globes to be installed
• Paint touch ups
• Final clean
• Skirting board in garage to be made straight (yay WIN!)

From some of the lists I've seen others go through ours seems pretty minor and the overall build quality looks fantastic. SS was walking around with bits of tape himself and was happy for us to mark anything we liked. We do feel that the skirting board conversation - helped very much by Dad simply saying "come on it looks stupid" was a big win and Doug is happy to have been able to get him to agree to get the brickies our to look making a couple of the corners in the brickwork neater. So overall a very successful day.

It is now over to Clarendon's estimators to reassess some of the site cost charges they are not refunding back, due to changes to location of services prior to land registration but after contract signing and then we can happily head off to the bank to receive our final check. SS says he is expecting handover to be in two weeks! Fingers crossed these weeks fly by.