So after hearing all the good news about the progress yesterday, mum, dad, felicity, and I, oh and our boarder collie dog Joey visited the house! Upon arrival we could see that the house had been foil wrapped around the bottom half of the frame. I was quite impressed by the thick material used and also the attention to detail. Where the foil was cut to go around gas pipes, it had firmly been taped and screwed back together. It was a very neat job! We also got a better look at all the plumbing which had been finished off. It all looked great and in the right locations, expept our back tap is leaking.
I was showing dad the media room when he said to me, "you don't have eave's over your garage"! I looked up and saw that the frame was defiantly shorter around the garage and definitely appeared to have no eave's. I was gutted! I hate houses with no eave's! Why didn't it have eave's? I thought it did! I quickly pulled out my plans to check and there were no eaves drawn in around the garage! I was so cranky with myself that I hadn't pick this up!! I must have looked over our plans 100 times and didn't pick up on this! Once again it was due to the type of facade chosen! I just wish MJH would advise of the changes caused from certain facades!
I ran up the road to look at the other MJH houses being built. All of them have eaves around their garages! Mine was the only one that didn't :( I'm so disappointed! On the drive out, I saw a tradie working on an MJH frame. I stopped and spoke to him about whether it is possible to get eaves this far down the track. He said you need to run in by your SS, but it can be done as an extra peice of steel slides over the frame already there and screws into it!
I really hope we can do this! First thing on Monday morning, I'm going to call the SS and ask if this can be done. I guess if it can be, I'll be hit with the $1000 admin fee for changing something as well as the addition costs in materials! But I really need the eaves over the garage! So spewing I didn't pick up on this!
On a happier note, our bricks and sand were delivered. Our brick colour looks great, just as we remember it being. Funnily enough, every other house in our precinct has chosen a dark brick except for our neighbors and us, who went for the light brick!! Lol. Here are some pics from today.
No eves!! :(
Hi Renee, I feel your pain. The facade we chose didn't have eaves over the garage either and it played on me for ages, I eventually took out the brick stack and put the eaves over the garage, I felt like the house looked unfinished without the eaves. I hope they do it for you.
ReplyDeleteHey Ms Betsy,
DeleteIm glad to hear im not the only one who hates having no eaves! Im still the process of trying to get it fixed. Mjh have told me im the only person who has ever complained about having no eaves, so im glad to hear from you. If you dont mind me asking, how much did it cost you to get the eaves added on? Did you add the eaves part way through construction or before? Thanks for commenting :)