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From: Noddy on 5 Jun 2010 00:22 <OzOne(a)Crackerbox-Palace.com> wrote in message news:aofj0654r2h32rgn5rb70aoo8s1aefqaue(a)4ax.com... > > A Lancia 037....Oh wait..... Yeah, we are. -- Regards, Noddy.
From: D Walford on 5 Jun 2010 03:02 On 5/06/2010 3:51 PM, Noddy wrote: > "Milton"<millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message > news:4c09e013$0$28652$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > >> I'm sorry to hear you have c*#p going on in your life atm because puting >> our differences aside (and yes, there's plenty of them) I hope it works >> itself out for you. > > There's not too much going on at the moment that I'm not happy with. > >> As I told you one other time, what we say in here stays in here and should >> not reflect on our lives in the "real" world. I take it building your new >> home is what's causing the stress, I can relate to that which is why I >> said this home will be the last I will ever build. You employ a builder >> and then he employs subbies who are only interested in making a buck and >> to heck with quality workmanship. > > The builder is actually very good and I'm quite pleased with both the > quality of the work and the timeliness of the schedule so far. > > The house is about 2 weeks away from lock up stage at the moment, with the > brickies on site as we speak. The colourbond roof looks great, even if the > colour isn't as dark as we thought it would be, and it was a great relief to > finally walk through the house a couple of weeks ago after the frame went up > and find that the layout is exactly how we imagined it would be. The > difficult part in building a custom designed house is that on the plan > everything looks great, but it's not until you see it going up and can walk > through the place in the real world do you get a sense of perspective and > see how your plans turned out. I didn't realise it was up to that stage, I might even be able to find it now:-) I passed your street a week or so ago and thought about driving up and having a look but for some reason I didn't, if the weather is reasonable I might even go for a drive tomorrow morning. Daryl
From: st3ph3nm on 5 Jun 2010 03:13 On Jun 5, 3:21 pm, D Walford <dwalf...(a)internode.on.net> wrote: > Yep:-) > Bloke I used to work with has a 1946 Buick convertible, bright yellow > with tan trim in mint condition I love its styling and the straight 8. > Just to be different I'd also like a grey Ferguson tractor:-) > > Daryl Did a straw poll around work once. The question: Which vehicle was the first you had on two wheels? Top answer? Fergie! :) Cheers, Steve
From: st3ph3nm on 5 Jun 2010 03:31 ()N jun 5, 3:21 pM, d walf0rd <DWalph...@I|\|73rn0d3.On.N3t> wr0t3: > Yep:-) > Bloke I used to work with has a 1946 Buick convertible, bright yellow > with tan trim in mint condition I love its styling and the straight 8. > Just to be different I'd also like a grey Ferguson tractor:-) > > Daryl d!d a z7raW p()ll |\round W()rk 0Nc3. 7h3 qu3Z7iON: which V3h1C13 Wa5 7He first yOu had on tW0 Wh33ls? 7()p answer? F3rg!e! :) kh33rs, s73Ve
From: PhilD on 5 Jun 2010 04:35
"Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message news:4c0a025f$0$28642$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... > > "Noddy" <me(a)home.com> wrote in message > news:4c09e765$0$34204$c30e37c6(a)exi-reader.telstra.net... >> >> "Milton" <millame23(a)yahoo.com> wrote in message >> news:4c09e013$0$28652$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com... >> >>> I'm sorry to hear you have c*#p going on in your life atm because puting >>> our differences aside (and yes, there's plenty of them) I hope it works >>> itself out for you. >> >> There's not too much going on at the moment that I'm not happy with. >> >>> As I told you one other time, what we say in here stays in here and >>> should not reflect on our lives in the "real" world. I take it building >>> your new home is what's causing the stress, I can relate to that which >>> is why I said this home will be the last I will ever build. You employ a >>> builder and then he employs subbies who are only interested in making a >>> buck and to heck with quality workmanship. >> >> The builder is actually very good and I'm quite pleased with both the >> quality of the work and the timeliness of the schedule so far. > > Xcellent! >> >> The house is about 2 weeks away from lock up stage at the moment, with >> the brickies on site as we speak. The colourbond roof looks great, even >> if the colour isn't as dark as we thought it would be, > > I don't know about Vic, but up here in coastal Qld, Colourbond roofs after > about 15 years, they tend to become "powdery" and need re-painting. Still, > I went with colourbond again but went close to tiling it when drawing up > the plans. > There's a number of colourbond roofs around the Darwin region where there are palm trees close to the house. Over a period of time with winds blowing the fronds around, there's now a swept pattern across the roof. Looks bloody horrible. There are some others that look more like painted surfaces that were done when they were built to resemble colourbond that have discolouration similar to mould. > > and it was a great relief to >> finally walk through the house a couple of weeks ago after the frame went >> up and find that the layout is exactly how we imagined it would be. The >> difficult part in building a custom designed house is that on the plan >> everything looks great, but it's not until you see it going up and can >> walk through the place in the real world do you get a sense of >> perspective and see how your plans turned out. > > Yep, that's exactly how it should be. The kind of probs we had was first > the builder was going to tile the toilet when the whole house is timber > floor (except of course the laundry, bathroom and ensuite. Then I noticed > on the framing the doorway into the bathroom was a slider when it should > have been a swinging door. Then the guy fitting the front door (a very > very expensive feature door) drilled the hole in the wrong place for the > door knob and they just filled the hole with timber, sanded it and > varnished it. Looked ok for the first 3 months. Then the electrician when > putting the coach lights around the home had two of them on the wrong line > of bricks. Then the painter put the Woodmans on the verandahs straightaway > so he could be paid instead of waiting 6months as recommended for the > tannum to come out of the timber. I could go on but all I can advise you > is don't be afraid to check on everything, no matter how happy you are > atm. > Having had a number of places built I'm not surprised at those things. People who have a home built and don't visit regularly won't know for some time just what a coat of paint has been used to hide. You have to check everything is there you are paying for, right down to numbers of electrical fittings. On one we found out late that they weren't going to concrete the driveway. When asked they said that we deleted the landscaping section and they considered it part of that. It got done, at a reduced rate, especially as we caught them out on a number of other things. For the last 2 places we demanded, and got, a clause that they paid us a lost rental rate if the contract date wasn't kept. PhilD |