7am - Tiler arrives on site and starts laying balcony tiles which I ordered and paid for in advance (Builder will reimburse me some day soon).
8am - I check to see how Tiler is going. He is not laying tiles with the 20mm edge as requested to Builder (so the water drips off the edge). Ask Tiler to move them with the appropriate edge.
9:15am - Tiler realises he is 3 tiles short to complete the job. While cursing the Builder for not calculating this correctly, I call the tile distributor to source more tiles before the Tiler leaves (not sure when he'll be able to come back and finish the job).
9:30am - Find tiles available at factory 45 mins away. Jump in my car and race to the factory to pick them up.
11am - Return to site and Tiler is still there (phew!). Hand over the tiles and go home to pick up baby (lucky for Grandma!) and go shopping for down lights.
12:30pm Arrive home with 50 LED down lights plus 4 wall lights for a bargain $1000. Builder's allowance is $16 a light (which covers fluros only). I'm able to chip in an extra $2 per light and get LEDs - so much cheaper than the Builder's quote for $25 per LED downlight. Feeling pretty good. Baby to sleep.
2:30pm Back out shopping for fans and external lights at Bunnings.
4pm Return to site with goods for electrician and to clean up tradies' mess (electrical wiring / McDonalds rubbish / plaster on floors / scrap material scattered every where).
6:30pm Dinner, domestic duties and bed. Phew! This house-building stuff is tiring!
You're probably asking where the Builder is, and why he isn't onsite to organise trades? We ask ourselves this too...often. We're so close to completion that we do whatever it takes to see this through...writing lists of items to be completed, emailing the Builder to hurry up the build, briefing trades on jobs to be done on site, and asking them to return when jobs are incomplete / poorly finished.
What have we got ourselves into? A big mess. But it's nearly finished...
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