24th June 2012
7:45am Sunday morning, literally thousands
of bike riders with the occasional motor bike police escort have been going
past our place on the Esplanade over the last hour, obviously a large event
that at this stage I am unaware of. Where ever they have started from I presume
they got underway in large groups to avoid total mayhem on the roads and at
this point I haven’t determined yet whether it’s three or four groups just
going round the block or a hell of a lot of bike riders. Having said that I
haven’t noticed any repetition of riders and believe me, watching the range of various
shapes and sizes, attire and bike types I think I would soon notice a repeat of
certain participants, - someone please remind me never to wear lycra.
Our builder tells us we should have hand
over in about six weeks time if all goes according to plan, fingers crossed. Currently
the tiler is half way through his work and should be finished by the end of
this coming week at which point the painters come back and complete their work,
they still have some of the outside to finish and all of the inside, apparently
about two and a half weeks work then it’s a matter of final fittings. In the
meantime cabinet makers have finished their installations and the Caesar Stone
bench tops, sinks and hand basins were then installed so it’s starting to come
together well and the garage door has finally been installed so the place is
definitely locked up now. As good as the builders are even the best of plans go
astray, Ryan who is running our job, rang the manufacturer to complain as to
why our garage door had not been installed as it was now a security issue,
turns out he hadn’t placed an official order!!! Poor fellow he was quite
embarrassed when trying to explain to me that the door company had been out
twice to measure what was required but he hadn’t actually placed an official
order for it, mind you I think a bit of common sense from the rep wouldn’t have
gone astray, obviously no follow up to a potential job.
I don’t think the sparky is going to be too
impressed when he comes back to hook everything up, since the cabinet work has
been installed several power points and lighting positions have been covered up
by the cabinet work plus the sheeting under the front deck doesn’t have any
holes for lights so I trust he can remember where he put his wires, some of the
joys of building a house with various trades involved. Sparky hasn’t got a lot
of hair so I guess that could be a cause.
Ryan is “Casey Jackson Homes” manager; he
and Casey share the house constructions between them each being responsible for
a number of builds. Casey does the quoting his wife is the company accountant,
and Ryan does a lot of the design work having a degree in Drafting. Ryan has
some very good ideas and he is particular about quality workmanship, we have
been lucky to have him running our job his attention to detail is really good.
Interesting point when a lot of builders are struggling or indeed folding,
Casey Jackson Homes are flat out, they have an incredible amount of work on
their books, they don’t advertise other than on their construction sites and
rely on word and mouth, they only employ/engage top quality trades and only use
top quality products, they believe in a bit of flexibility with some give and
take, they say they are in it for the long haul and not get rich quick short
lived result. Speaks volumes about their attitude and approach to a sustainable
business.
Reading
that lot anyone would think I was on the payroll.
Our weather is still being quite fickle, we
had a week or so of typical Qld winter weather absolutely perfect, but now it
is back into gloomy, bleak and cold, would like to rain but doesn’t quite. Our
fantastic, reliable winter weather that we are well known for is letting us
down badly I hope it improves soon.
I’ll get some photos when the sun comes out.
Cheers
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