October 2008
Monthly Archive
Hi All! We just got back from our 20 week scan (19 weeks and 4 days, but whatever), and we’re happy to announce that our baby is a boy!! The video of the scan is above. I apologise for the lack of audio, but I think the doctor must’ve forgotten to plug in his microphone.
Basically, he measures the baby’s head, checks the heart beat. Points out things like the lungs, liver, kidneys, stomach etc. It’s a real shame there is no audio, because it is very interesting. Somewhere in the middle you will see that he is definitely a he 
I actually didn’t think it would be that hard to find a cartoon of an octopus wearing pants! Anyway… wasn’t really worth the effort… WORST PUN EVER!!
WOW!
Ok, well anyway…. we have on Occupancy Permit!! WOOT! This means our house is officially suitable for living in! Now all we need is the bank to go look at it and give it a rubber stamp, and then our second inspection, and then settlement and then move in!!
I reckon 2 weeks from now and we’ll be in! Fingers crossed!! We’ll be going by the block tonight to see our completed fence 
Yay!
We dropped by the house last night, not to see the house this time, but to see the fence! We got a call from “u need a fence”, it turns out that they were doing Lot 1’s fence this week and asked if we were happy to have ours done this week too!! Why not, I say!!
Telephone, gas, termite protection all installed!
Portico render finished…looking lovely!
The only potential issue we had was that there was still quite a bit of concrete and mess out the back of the block that was awaiting clean up. We mentioned this to the fencer, and as it turns out he knows our SS. So he got on the phone and got that organised, and got the OK to build the fence early as well! So, as we speak, our fence is probably just about done (it was just posts yesterday).
Also yesterday, MCSConnect came out and dug our phone cable. So that’s another one we can tick off the list!
AND, all the way around our house we now have some “termaguard” thing which apparently stops termites from lunching on our woodwork.
On top of all that, we had a peek in the windows and it looks like the painters have been back and redone the couple of patches that need doing. So that’s another bit of good news! We’re not sure when our 2nd inspection will be, but hopefully soon! With the fence all done, we won’t actually be able to get into our yard to peek in the windows anymore!!
I was about to go to bed, but then Thuy reminded me I haven’t posted about our inspection yet! (I’m sure it could’ve waited until tomorrow… but hey).
Overall we’re pretty damned happy. We had a bundle of sticky dots, but overall we really struggled to find anything to pick on. Most of the issues were very minor paint issues; mostly things like a bit of wall paint on the skirting board, or a scuff on a door or whatever. But for the most part the place was in near perfect condition! We have one sliding door that is a bit misaligned, one bench top that has some strange marks on it, a few lights that must have dodgy globes, and someone must’ve hit one of our down pipes with a bobcat during the clean up but that is really about it.
A couple of things aren’t quite finished yet, but they’ll be done during the week (namely the render isn’t quite finished, and the theatre room door is coming as well).
We went there with the intention of being really picky and going over everything with a fine tooth comb, but there really just wasn’t anything to pick on. Believe me, I’ve read a lot of people’s blogs about the dramas they had come inspection time, and we’re both relieved that we have had no such problems. I mean, you expect little imperfections in paint and stuff like that… particularly on very large walls like the hallway which any imperfection just jumps out, but a lot of what you read you wonder what the hell the builder was thinking.
I thought I’d have a heap of photos, but it turns out we were so busy inspecting that we forgot to actually take any photos…. DER.
I have one photo of the front of the house, and that is about it! The render near the front door isn’t quite done, apparently the guy ran out of paint (or whatever it is that they use).
So with any luck, we’ll have our second inspection friday next week (fingers crossed they can get all the tradies back in to finish the place off), and assuming the bank doesn’t stuff us around with their inspection, we should be able to be in before the end of the month!
Right now I should be writing a post about how excellent our inspection was, but alas it has been moved to Friday. Certainly not a big deal for us, they’re a month and a half early anyway!! Apparently they needed to redo some of the paint which meant delaying the cleaner, which means now we’ll do the inspection Friday arvo. We’re still really looking forward to it! If all goes well we should be able to finalise everything next week. It’s scary to think we could be moved in in only a couple of weeks!
We don’t expect there will be much to pick on though, the place was looking pretty nice last time we saw it, and our SS has been doing a great job of making sure everything is finished off nicely. Fingers crossed!
