We attended the final inspection yesterday and there's only one word for it....
DISSAPOINTING!!!
Of the 8 pages worth of items (some 94 items) requiring fixing, we spotted only 2 that had been done and even those were half-a$$ed fixes. They included changing the door handle on the pantry door to the correct one (but leaving the holes from the previous ones only half-filled) and a filling strip behind the bathroom door but they forgot the one next to the window in the same bathroom....
I won't go on about it... suffice to say that when the settlements officer called the SS and put back the appliance installation forward to Thursday (instead of Monday because the bank wouldn't have had the cheque available that early), the SS figured he had more time and didn't bother checking whether everything had been done... We were then coerced into signing the completion report - the one that says we're happy with the place and that all identified items had been fixed satisfactorily - with barely any items fixed.
We did have a minor win though... We asked what the verdict was for the scratched window that he was to follow up on and were told that he (the SS) had checked with his supervisor who'd told him to "make a decision on it". Quite obviously he didn't think that it should be replaced but after a brief discussion where I pleaded our case with something along the lines of... "surely you could give us this, given that we've let a few other things slide such as the power points in the lounge that aren't as per the contract and the raised tiles in the bathroom that he'd agreed is higher than standard..." He then went outside, made a call, put some tape on the door to mark the scratch and informed us that it might take a week for it to be installed. - YAY!!!
We have now booked another inspection (lets call it a final FINAL inspection) with the SS prior to our settlement appointment - at our request - and have made it clear that unless everything on the report with the exception of the replacement window and the appliance installation, that we would be cancelling our settelement appointment and will not be paying until ALL items are finished (reasonable enough considering that these items should all have been finished by Monday (yesterday)).
Anyway... enough of that... here's some photos of the inside at last.
Looking from the lounge through to the living area at the back of the house (the entry, main bedroom and study are behind me)
Main bedroom - looking from the WIR
Looking from Main bedroom into the ensuite (WIR on the left)
WIR
The study
Opposite wall of the entry
Lounge - the kitchen is on the other side of the wall on the right
Looking from the kitchen doorway back towards the front door
The open plan kitchen, meals and living
Living/meals again
Pantry
Kitchen - looking out towards the garage
Kitchen again
Bathroom
Shower
I am also please to say that I now LIKE the kitchen. Since the painting has been finished and much of the dust and rubbish removed, the kitchen looks much better than it did earlier. The colours blend a lot better and the tiles don't look too dark anymore.
And I really do love the feature tiles in the bathrooms - may not love the ensuite one once I have to clean it but I do at the moment :)
Oh and one more thing... in these photos the carpets look exactly the colour that Bryan and I both wanted, however in real life they do have a greenish tinge but it's grown on me (but not so with B).
