We had a massive storm on the weekend. It ripped through here Sunday evening, leaving us without power or cellular service - consequently we had no phone, and also no water since we couldn't run the pump. The winds were blowing everything sideways, and there is quite a bit of damage to the trees. A few of the larger ones were snapped right off, while others are permanently bent over in the direction the wind was blowing. One of the patio fans was flung up, and took a few gouges out of the patio ceiling, before having it's blades bent and twisted. It's likely it will need replacing. There's quite a lot of water sitting around outside, and the ground is so wet it's struggling to contain it. We had a couple of small slips, one down by the water tanks, leaving a sizeable hole in the battering. Some of Rob's vegie garden has hail damage, and some plants have their tops snapped off. Some of the planting and mulching in the gully is just gone - either washed away or buried under mud. It's a bit disappointing, but given the severity of the storm we could have been a lot worse. There's plenty of people with their roof torn off their house.
Moving In
Finally the house is ready and we're moving in this weekend. There's still a couple of things to do, but they're only little things. The floor tilers are working frantically to hopefully be finished today. It's looking great, and they've done a really good job. The garage door finally turned up yesterday, and to their credit, it went in really fast. Just a shame it took so long to get to it. Anyway, Metricon's done a lovely job, we got all the bits'n'pieces yesterday and a nice set of towels.
Nearly there
We're approaching final handover now. We've just had an inspection, and they're going through fixing up various issues in the paint-work. There's still a few odds'n'ends to be finished. Mysteriously the garage door still hasn't appeared?! At least the tanks are in their correct site, and are connected up with the septic, pumps and doodahs. We've had a few storms over the last few days, and hopefully they'll fill up the tanks. Everything is pretty wet at the moment, which gives us some good indicators of where we'll need to put in extra drainage.
Fittings
Fittings are going in now. Most of the bathroom fit outs are done, toilets, basins, shower bits'n'pieces, bath tubs. Door handles are going on, light switches, power sockets are in. The security system is in. The kitchen appliances have arrived, but the stove is majorly damaged. Looks like someone dropped it or dropped something heavy on it, judging by the ripped metal plates down the back of it, and the severely bent top. Hopefully it won't take them too long to replace it. The light fittings are all in and working, although we've got a bayonet fitting in each room at the moment until we get an electrician into install fans in their place. Rob's also finding out if it's going to be possible to get the air conditioners installed now rather than waiting until handover.
