Tiling begins (and other stuff)

Maybe I'm just being negative but I can't see how the new house will be ready before Christmas. There aren't many working days left this year, yet there are entire days with no tradies are on site. This isn't an ideal situation but we can't do anything about it except wait and see. The issue for mrskidsbuggingme and I relates to the need to sell our existing home at some point (soon) - getting the timing and settlement date right is not easy if we can't rely on the new house being delivered. I also don't want to accept the house unless everything is done to our satisfaction. Our plan is to list our current house on the market in a week, and if we're lucky and sell quickly, we negotiate a delayed settlement. Fingers crossed!

Anyway, onto the build....

The following work appears to be in progress or complete:

• Bricks cleaned
• Gyprock on stairs and kitchen bulkheads installed
• Window frames, skirting and architraves done (and/or temporarily placed)
• Wet areas screeded
• Bathroom floor tiling underway
• Air conditioning holes cut out (although they missed the master bedroom)

With the tiling, I may have another post in a day or two. We have struck an interesting situation whereby the bathroom tiles are all meant to be 600mm x 300mm, and that's what's explicitly written on the quote from the tile supplier, only it turns out they're not the same size and now the person who quoted us is trying to say that it was explained at the time..... ummmm..... no, it wasn't. We have the paperwork to back this as well. It's a bit hard to explain, but basically, someone stuffed up and now the grout lines won't match up between the main walls and feature walls. If we knew the two different tiles weren't all the same size then we would've picked different tiles. The manager was on site today to investigate - we'll see what they come back with tomorrow.

Clean bricks:

Bathroom tiles:

Stairs closed in: