Friday, August 08, 2003
stupid architect deigned to visit the house this morning. after maybe 8 weeks of pretty much ignoring us while we got on with builder-wrangling. informs me that there's a 13 week period to fix any "defects", starting 4 weeks ago when we moved in. so why did he wait four weeks to turn up?
then he says it's best to wait until the end of the period to submit our "owners' list" so that it's a firm list with a payment riding on it. what a fool. here I am, 27 weeks, and he's suggesting we should hold off from a perfectly good working relationship with our builder, who is getting it done, slowly, and then trigger a tradesman-fest when I'm, what?, 36 weeks pregnant? the man has two small children. but he's an idiot who slavishly spouts about the "contract" - we think he likes to follow the rules because it makes him feel professional - and regularly suggests that we change the way we do things rather than he build the house to our needs.
plus he turned up with a student in tow. no biggie, but I'd asked him yesterday in an email to confirm that he got our to-do list, which he ignored. so I suggested that a phone call warning me of another person would have been nice, then mentioned that we weren't happy he'd sent some people from our street to look through our house a while back WITHOUT TELLING US. they were halfway down the hall before we saw them! he said "it was a building site" - the hell it was, it was our home, full of our stuff, it was Saturday morning and we were here working on the place! the only satisfaction we got out of it was to warn them that he has nada communication skills.
ah. that feels better. not exactly a baby blog, but can't defame the man on my regular blog. though if you're about to hire an architect in Melbourne, mail me their name and I might let on if you're in danger of hiring him. the house looks good, btw.
I guess I'm just feeling that nesting thing, and having strangers turn up without warning, escorted or not, is never my favourite thing anyway. she was OK; she tried to do the chat thing, but I nicely said "while they're (builder and architect) having their meeting, I might get on with a few things. and I did. I'm definitely not here to entertain his work experience people.
being naughty; sorting/moving a few things this afternoon. just can't resist it. the ice seems to help the pelvis a lot. I ran my motorbike for 15 minutes to keep the engine ticking over and very nearly went for a ride; I still fit on it. and I do want that last ride...
then he says it's best to wait until the end of the period to submit our "owners' list" so that it's a firm list with a payment riding on it. what a fool. here I am, 27 weeks, and he's suggesting we should hold off from a perfectly good working relationship with our builder, who is getting it done, slowly, and then trigger a tradesman-fest when I'm, what?, 36 weeks pregnant? the man has two small children. but he's an idiot who slavishly spouts about the "contract" - we think he likes to follow the rules because it makes him feel professional - and regularly suggests that we change the way we do things rather than he build the house to our needs.
plus he turned up with a student in tow. no biggie, but I'd asked him yesterday in an email to confirm that he got our to-do list, which he ignored. so I suggested that a phone call warning me of another person would have been nice, then mentioned that we weren't happy he'd sent some people from our street to look through our house a while back WITHOUT TELLING US. they were halfway down the hall before we saw them! he said "it was a building site" - the hell it was, it was our home, full of our stuff, it was Saturday morning and we were here working on the place! the only satisfaction we got out of it was to warn them that he has nada communication skills.
ah. that feels better. not exactly a baby blog, but can't defame the man on my regular blog. though if you're about to hire an architect in Melbourne, mail me their name and I might let on if you're in danger of hiring him. the house looks good, btw.
I guess I'm just feeling that nesting thing, and having strangers turn up without warning, escorted or not, is never my favourite thing anyway. she was OK; she tried to do the chat thing, but I nicely said "while they're (builder and architect) having their meeting, I might get on with a few things. and I did. I'm definitely not here to entertain his work experience people.
being naughty; sorting/moving a few things this afternoon. just can't resist it. the ice seems to help the pelvis a lot. I ran my motorbike for 15 minutes to keep the engine ticking over and very nearly went for a ride; I still fit on it. and I do want that last ride...
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