I had a question from Fi about the progress of our house and I realised that I hadn't updated the blog for quite some time...

In answer to your question Fi, Things are progressing slowly and hopefully we are only a week or two of PCI and then handover shortly after. Building with Simonds hasn't been as easy as we'd be lead to believe but in saying that I think that there are people who have experienced the same with all of the big volume builders.

Our issue is probably more with the incompetence of the staff working on our project and not necessarily with the company as a whole (although there are a few odd policies that we question the validity of).

Overall our house is looking good on the inside and the layout is just what we wanted, however there are several key brickwork issues that need to be corrected that should have been fixed a long time ago. When these last issues are fixed we'll be ready for our PCI and to be honest I can't wait for this all to be over. Please feel free to email me directly if you want to know more about our experiences. The Homeone forum is also another invaluable resource for people building.