7th December - False Alarm

So, Steve was up at 5am, excited by the prospect of the pool liners arriving at 6am this morning as scheduled. However, they did not show!  Steve rang them and it seems they got confused between Kellyville and Glenbrook (well, they have 3 letters in common).  I tried to see the funny side, but I confess to having struggled with that.

So the contractor said we would be on the list to do next week (subject to rain delays).  

5th December - Pooling our Resources

We have had a long and stressful experience with the pool but it looks as though we are nearing the end.  We were advised we were not allowed to proceed with our chosen paver and directed instead to choose a natural stone.  The reasons behind this seemed spurious to me and having challenged the site manager, the pool supplier backed away from this position. We selected Travertine in the end just to avoid any further conflict and the landscaper (A Turner) did a fantastic job with the installation. They even replaced the plastic skimmer box lid with a piece of travertine with a handle which looks beautiful. 

We had some difficulty with the safety certification after the certifier advised that we are now breeding exceptionally agile toddlers these days who can somehow single-handedly scale a 2M fence and then (tight-rope like) balance along the top edge of a fence before nimbly climbing down the other side into our pool area using the thin metal fence bracing to spring to the ground! Surely such superhuman babes are likely to be able to swim.

After many tense emails and wrangling over the financial status, we have finally had a call from the pool lining folk who are coming in the morning to line the pool – hoorah. Everything else is looking good.

5th December - Update

Lots has happened since my last update.  Following a long internet drought, I got out of the habit of updating the blog but Telstra brought us out of the online wilderness a few weeks back and I have been meaning to get back to it.

As you know, Steve was desperate to buy a leather sofa and we ordered his dream suite 3 months ago and it arrived on Saturday.  We spent around 20 minutes ‘testing’ the motorised recliners at either end.  I have mined the cushion mountain for a variety of beautiful scatter cushions that Steve has to admit has transformed the room! 

We still have a long list of snags (not sausages but defects) which require rectification and we had an inspection from Metricon’s QA bloke who seemed surprised there was still so much to do.  Given their responsiveness to date, I’m not unduly concerned but I am getting annoyed with their reluctance to replace the damaged sill of the stacker doors. I’ve agreed to another attempt at repairing it but if it still looks rubbish, I will demand a replacement.