House leftover things

Innocently enough, I thought that when you pay a company to build you a house, it would be all set to move in and start living there. In hindsight, this was naive of me.

There was a glitch with the screen door (long story), such that there's a white strip of wood about 3" wide running across the top, which I need to paint to match the screen door and door frame.

Telstra (the local phone company) disconnected our phone from our old house, but (another long story) couldn't install the phone at our new place. So, we've been phone-less for a full week. Which means we have to go across the street to Mum & Dad's to check e-mail (and post blog entries!).

The kitchen cabinets includes an alcove for the dishwasher -- but no hole for the hoses or the power cord. So, I had to cut those myself.

Some of the downpipes from the gutters need an extra thingy clipped on. The site supervisor has phoned the relevant folks several times, but no one has yet come out to fix them.

The kickboard area on the bathroom sink is a mis-matched color. The cupboard guy is supposed to come out sometime to swap it out -- but he's not doing a good job of returning The Lady's calls, to arrange a time.

Need to install a bracket for the clothes drier, so we can hang it from the wall above the washing machine. (The laundry room is small.)

Need to hook up the dishwasher.

Need to put up a mailbox along the front fence, so we can actually receive mail.

Need to finish putting up curtains.


And that doesn't even **begin** to address all the misc. landscaping-ish stuff. Luckily, my dad's helped out a lot in that regard.


--GG