Friday, May 22, 2009

Day 8 after handover

Yesterday i was at the house from 7.30am, waiting for appliances to be delivered and installed.  Can't understand why they can't call you before they come, so i don't need to wait there for a whole day ::: 

Never mind, the whole day was full of drama

First, the rangehood guy didn't know that he needed to duct to the ceiling, so he didn't prepare the tool, also there was no order from Simonds that he needed to do the ducting to ceiling, so he has to ask SS to send him a purchase order first then he can come back next week ::angry:: i told SS a number of times that i need the ducting to outside (and in fact i have paid for it and it is on contract), but still.... argh ::angry:: 

Second, the location of my hot water system is facing the garage wall of my neighboure house. This morning, the bricke were there and doing bricking for my neighboure house, and they started from the garage side 
::angry:: . As you can imagine they put all the ladders and bricks there and blocked the whole area so that my plumber could not get in and install the hot water system... My neighboure is also building with Simonds, so clearly there is no communication internally otherwise they should know that i have applicances installed today. And today, all Simonds SS were attending a conference meeting and not reachable, so i couldn't reach my or their SS either..
Finally we worked with the brickes and they promised to finish the garage side in 2 hours (which they did), so that my plumber could install the HWS, the plumber wasn't happy but he waited, better than coming back next week.. so overall the plumber was at my house for nearly 4 hours...

Third, more problem..... argh, the phone conduit has gone missing, couldn't find it, called my CSR who need to follow with SS on Monday (because of the bloody conference).. So my electrican (also onsite today) couldn't complete the wiring for me...
I suspected that the bricke next door has broken it, but can't be sure, so i went home and gone through all the photos, i realised that the conduit was already missing since the brick time.. so???? look like they hide the conduit inside the brick.. argh, why i never noticed during inspection...

Forth, they put my garden tap on the side of the house... i told them i need it at the back of the house and they still 
::frown:: ... they just did it while i was talking to the electrican... @#$$@#@ ::angry:: 

Fifth, once they tested everything and left, the oven fan off... i asked myself, is this a joke???? It worked when they were here and once they left.. WT???  

So overall, i was at the house from 7.30am and i am not home until 5pm... a whole day has gone with appliances installed but too many outstanding issues, I, now, just don't want to think about Monday because i will need to make a lot of @%$#@# phone calls, i feel very tired, when this can be over??

The only good thing is - i sold my house yesterday, although still waiting for the process to complete, but it is in writing.. this is a relieved.. 

1 comment:

brimbank_gardens said...

wow, that's more of less what happened to us although a bit different. for us, SS forgot to book the range hood installer and it was only done 5 days after the other appliances were installed. good thing that we didn't ask Simonds to have the oven exhaust through the roof so we just asked the range hood guy to do it for us and pay him extra.

ducted vacuum, this has only been installed 9 days after the previous appliances and yet it's not finished because there's a missing connector from the in-house pipes to the vacuum unit himself. SS is suppossed to come back today to have this fixed but he never did, what else is new.