It's been some time since the last update, that is for various reasons. In short, there have been delays in the construction, some of those delays are behind us and some will be with us for a while. Building is hard.
So, where are we at?
The bathroom is basically finished. The tiling, heated tiles and mirrors are all in. The fixtures, the bath and toilet and basin, are going in this weekend.
The bedrooms are basically finished. The walls needs another coat or two of paint and then flooring and fixtures.
The hallway is the same: paint and then light fittings.
The laundry is the same, although it has had some extra attention as there have been delays with our planning permit and the extension will not be built straight away. So we are doing a bit more work to make the future-laundry area suitable as a kitchen, and move the actual laundry features into the old bathroom, which we have patched up to make it a suitable laundry - like giving it a floor.
The house is fitted with back-to-base monitoring, which our plumber discovered works quite well a few weeks ago when he tripped the alarm. As well as an ear-splitting siren (two sirens in fact) the security company is notified which in turn notifies me.
We're connected to the nbn, which on its lowest speed contract is giving me 11.5Mbps (rated at 12Mbps). Conversely, my adsl2+ gives me 7.5Mbps. Interestingly, I got just over 8Mbps when sitting on the corner of La Trobe and Swanston on my 4G phone last week.
Lot's of little things to go, but combined the little things take time.
