Driveway is poured!

As the week continued the concreters managed to beat the weather and poured the crossover and our driveway plus other colored areas all by the Thursday! All I can say is it came up better than what we expected. I have attached photos. Eleveneen Pty Ltd worked with our builder and the council representative to give us a driveway that looks good and is functional. The council wanted us to drop the elevation of our driveway to the guidelines apparently so that our car would not be scrapped, but this meant we had to excavate at our cost. Our concreter managed to convince the council inspector that he could give us a driveway that wouldn’t scrape our car with a higher elevation that would slope us up to our garage and still have water drain into our trench on one side of our driveway and boy was he right.

 

Back on the inside, work was continuing with the stairs being sanded and polished; whilst the cleaners were busy re-cleaning the internals ready for caulking.

The Sparkys are now back for another 3 days installing power points, data, tv connections etc. With this build we have been very fortunate that the builder has allowed us to come onsite and deal with the tradies directly for any questions they may have. This has allowed us to check firsthand what products they are installing and using throughout the build. There was a mix up with the 3 in 1 heat lights for our bathrooms, our contract stated that we would be receiving IXL branded 3 in 1’s however the sparky turned up with the Arlec branded versions which are one third of the price. After a couple of phone calls, discussions and emails we ended up with 2 IXL’s and the third one for downstairs unfortunately was left as an Arlec as the ducting (which would prove too difficult to change) had already been done at the rough in stage to suit this other brand.

So lesson learned – keep an eye on what is in your signed contract/agreed inclusions are and what actually goes in.