It's been a while since our last post as things have been rather busy on the work front and we are also still settling into the new house.
We had our first housewarming / birthday party for Viv almost two weeks ago and had a great time filling the house with helium balloons!
The latest development on the house is that our driveway got ripped up, and is now getting re-done with hopefully a more appropriate concrete mix. The picture on the left shows the initial concrete driveway that was poured - if you remember the initial studio M selections post, our exposed aggregate driveway was supposed to be a colour called Labassa (a bit of a grey mix of pebbles). What we ended up with however, was completely different and in Viv's opinion, the job was rather patchy and poor in workmanship.
Below left shows a closer picture of the driveway we had, and the studio M sample is on the right - top or bottom right sample is the colour we chose.
We had our first housewarming / birthday party for Viv almost two weeks ago and had a great time filling the house with helium balloons!
The latest development on the house is that our driveway got ripped up, and is now getting re-done with hopefully a more appropriate concrete mix. The picture on the left shows the initial concrete driveway that was poured - if you remember the initial studio M selections post, our exposed aggregate driveway was supposed to be a colour called Labassa (a bit of a grey mix of pebbles). What we ended up with however, was completely different and in Viv's opinion, the job was rather patchy and poor in workmanship.
Below left shows a closer picture of the driveway we had, and the studio M sample is on the right - top or bottom right sample is the colour we chose.
I am not sure how the concrete mix was so different to what we expected, but in the end, our builder agreed that the driveway we received was not what was stipulated in our contract. With that, the existing driveway was torn up last week and left us with a muddy external for a few days. The new driveway was poured yesterday and getting acid washed to expose the pebbles this very minute.
The new driveway is looking good so far, and Nigel (our new concreter) has been very professional in explaining the process and what needs to be done. We will put up more photos of the finished driveway when it is completed.
In other news, we had the misfortune of dealing with another plumbing issue - this time a crack in a pipe that must have been made before we moved into the house (as it was discovered to be under the concrete driveway). Over time, the pressure build up caused the crack to get larger and one afternoon, Viv discovered a gushing stream of water coming out of the front yard. Luckily the plumbers were back to fix this pretty quickly, so hopefully we don't get any more plumbing issues. I have to say that our site supervisor was pretty quick to respond to this one and has been very good with fixing all our little 'issues'. Hopefully, this will be the end of it. More driveway pics to come.
In other news, we had the misfortune of dealing with another plumbing issue - this time a crack in a pipe that must have been made before we moved into the house (as it was discovered to be under the concrete driveway). Over time, the pressure build up caused the crack to get larger and one afternoon, Viv discovered a gushing stream of water coming out of the front yard. Luckily the plumbers were back to fix this pretty quickly, so hopefully we don't get any more plumbing issues. I have to say that our site supervisor was pretty quick to respond to this one and has been very good with fixing all our little 'issues'. Hopefully, this will be the end of it. More driveway pics to come.