Windows and doors and wires Oh my

not to mention plumbing and solar......

....well here is the thing about the solar, despite taking pains to contract a reputable solar company I've managed to contract possibly the most incompetent in the industry.

The fact that they were a week late doing the installation we can live with, whats not so easy to accept is them installing 70% of the system on the wrong roof, and a south facing roof at that (NB in southern hemisphere solar systems should generally be north facing).

It turns out that the solar company we contracted to do the work didn't send the installers a copy of the drawing I sent them which identified the exact location of the installation, and when the installers found they couldn't fit the system on the front roof they contacted the site supervisor who told them to install the rest on the adjacent roof (ambiguous but technically correct)... it just strikes me as remarkably dumb that given a choice of two roofs that fitted the bill the installer chose not to use the larger of the two or the most northerly facing of the two!

We are not happy!

Font with Solar Hot Water and PV system on NW roof

SW roof of house with solar panels in wrong place

NW roof without solar panels

The rest of the week has gone pretty well, windows and exterior doors have been installed, as has electrical cabling and pipework, the Window installers managed to break one of the panels on the patio doors, but that's the builders problem not mine.

We had a meeting early on Tuesday with the electrician who was very helpful, we set the locations for all the sockets.

After the cabling was installed I went in and drilled more holes in the noggins for routing the network and AV system cables, since I didn't have enough time/daylight to route the cables, I just installed mouse lines rather that risk the dry liners getting the jump on me and buttoning up the walls before I could install the cables this weekend..

Patio Doors

Bathroom Plumbing

Hot water system plumbing

Next week the bricklayers and dry liners go in... which means we are probably due a another stage payment, but more importantly it should mean that the exterior of the house is nearly complete and we move into the finishing stages of the Build

Dry lining ready to go