When we drove past our site on Saturday (15/12) morning, we were quite surprise (yes, another unexpected one...) to see a trades person who just finished washing the ground floor external bricks, was locking the gate and just about to leave. He wasn't in a good mood and we soon found out why, our not-so-friendly neighbour also approached us complaining about the trades person's strong water flow causing damages to her garden, and she just had a big argument/fight with him... yes, yes, I understand, ...very sorry about that.... yes...blur blur blur blur....
Any way, with the external bricks all cleaned, the whole house looks even more impressive. We were all very happy about it, until we looked inside.....
It was a horrible scene, all the nice and tidy insulation work in the alfresco, garage area and front bay window were damaged. I couldn't believe what I see... The alfresco part as shown below was the worst as the ground was full of mud, and all the insulation materials on the ground were soaked in mud water...
This is the garage, some of the new delivered cornice were soaked in water as well...
This is the front bay window, again, insulation fallen from the ceiling and water everywhere, this is disastrous...I don't understand why would our builder organise to have the bricks cleaned at this stage...They should have lots of experience about this, and should know how to organise different kinds of works in proper order/timing to avoid disasters like this...
I then noticed as shown below, the side wall wasn't cleaned?! I thought the cleaning work was all done!? Or was the guy too pissed off by my neighbour and decided to abandon the work?? There's not much we can do about it, and will leave it with our builder to sort it out. May be they should install a camera, or send a guard here. This way they can work out our neighbour's schedule, and when no one was home, quickly sneak in and get the job done...
We were quite happy to see the 2 air con pipes been re-sealed. The air con contractor called the other day after the inspection, tried very hard to persuade us to leave the 5 minute patch up job until early next year, which we wouldn't accept. Obviously he wasn't very happy, and that explains the long tangling tape not been finished nicely...
As shown below, the unfinished roof job between the porch and the front bay window was still as it was, without any progress. What's even worse, the bay window ceiling is now blocked by the insulation stuffs, wonder how is our supervisor going to fix the leak.
We are also quite happy to see the huge hole above garage now been filled with beautiful shining tiles instead of the previous blue sarkings...
I also noticed this tiny little hook been used at the edge of the tiles, I think this must be to fasten those smaller tiles which were cut into small pieces to fit the roof valley lines. What I don't understand is, why are they only been used in one side of the valley and not the other side?
I thought the insulation problem was the last thing we need to worry for this week, while we were planing to leave, I noticed another major issue. Again it's on the roof valley tiles near the front porch, but this time it's on the other side - the garage side. Have a look at the photo below and see if you can pick up anything...
This is another closer photo for the same spot in a slightly different angle. You can see that at the end of the metal valley there wasn't any tile or gutter under it. So instead of leading all the rain water to the gutter or the roof tiles, it goes straight into the sarking!
I think I can now understand why Allworth homes, one of the builders we approached last year, prefers to play safe and refused our request to add any bay windows to their house designs. The roof design for bay windows/porch area really needs to be looked at carefully, otherwise there will be leaking everywhere.
For all of you with bay windows, front porch, or complicate roof designs, have you checked your roof design carefully for leakage??
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