Dipolog house and Lot For Sale

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Dipolog house and lot for sale
Looking Good

Our latest visit showed that our Dipolog house and lot are proceeding fine with an estimated completion date at end of first week of January. All the doors and windows are now in place and the upstairs is virtually complete apart from cupboard fronts,bath screen.hot water supply and a couple of electrical fitting.

We met with the owners of Mediatrix homes, to finalise the final details which includes the fitting of the guttering which is in transit. We also requested an estimate for two walls and gate. we would like to build up the garden to the original height so need to have the top soil that was originally removed returned so we can organise landscaping of the garden after we have moved in.

We have also ordered a built in oven which will need a cabinet building in the dirty kitchen as we want to have the oven at eye level. This will be delivered along with other items that we have ordered from Emcom, one of the best sources of equipment in the southern Philippines

We are now starting to plan our move and will make a further visit on 5th January with the idea of moving on the Moon of the New year, Monday the 9th.

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Dipolog house and lot for sale
Still Slow Progress

As the year draws to a close it is evident that the workers are eyeing the holiday season as very little progress is being made. One of the holdups is with the Guttering which was promised for last week but now is expected to arrive next week. This has delayed the outside painting.

Door frames are being painted, so the inside is slowly taking shape. Master bedroom bathroom and communal bathroom tiling is completed. Powder room is virtually finished apart from shower, not sure on where hot water supply comes from and notice that light switches are inside bathrooms, which can be a cause of electrocution and is banned in UK, but of course we are in the Philippines where health and safety have little bearing on the matters.

Whilst we were in Dipolog we choose the various light fitting, it was a bit chaotic not knowing exactly where the fitting would be placed as we did not have the lighting plan with us, so we will be in for a surprise on our next visit to our Dipolog house and Lot for Sale.

We have now been promised a date in January for completion, so can now start sourcing furniture in the year end sales, so long as the shops are prepared to store it until our house is complete.

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Dipolog house and Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Slow Progress

The optimism from out last visit to out Dipolog House and lot for sale has disappeared, with very little progress from out last visit. Room painting is underway, however the Rain gutters have not been delivered and are not due for another week, this will result in missing our December deadline.

Jasmin and I had some discussion on the window tinting, I would have preferred a light blue colour to enhance the the colour of the skies but Jasmin wanted a darker grey to provide more privacy. we also need to contact the architect to design and provide a costing for fence/walls on the two open sides of our property.

So many items unfinished means it is difficult to see real progress so we will do not plan to visit again for a couple of weeks. We still have some issues on fittings which were ordered as part of the contract and regret that Mediatrix homes did not accept our proposal to have a detailed specification attached to the contract, rather than their standard wishy washy contract which is vague.

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Dipolog house and Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Architect Meeting

Yesterday we had the long awaited meeting, at our Dipolog house and lot for sale, with the Architect and it was most productive. We reviewed the suggested colour scheme and have arranged to have some sample area coloured to finalise the colours on Wednesday. All doors will be varnished.

Our driveway has been completed and the conduit laid under the carport to the junction box below the stairs. Covings have been added to all the rooms and will be painted white.

The bath has been installed in our en suite bathroom and we will be having modifications to provide a sliding screen. The bathroom will also be fully tiled with white tiles.

The target completion date is prior to Christmas so we are now entering the final phase. Windows will be fitted next month and we will choose the tinting on our Wednesday visit.

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Dipolog house and lot for sale

Good Progress

Progress on Our Dipolog house and lot for sale. proceeding at a pace. wooded flooring has been completed on first floor, And tiling on ground floor is being completed. The task for us now is to finalise what colours we want to pain the rooms and exterior. It is a pity that Dulux pains are not available in the Philippines ad they have an excellent mouse paining tool on their Australian website, which allows you to upload photographs of you room and then use you mouse to intuitively fill the various areas with colours. Once you have named an area which can be quite time consuming you can quick test out a number of combinations.

The painter will give us an idea of what we want then we will pass our colour selection to the developer for then to match them up with what is available locally in Dipolog city.

foundations for our driveway are also being made and we expect our driveway to be completed this week. we have not heard from the architect yet, nut he has given plans of base our Kitchen island bar to the foreman, but has not sent it to us. We note however that the top section is missing. we hope to meet with the Architect when he visits next week.

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Dipolog House and Lot for sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

we have not visited our Dipolog house and lot for sale this week due to other commitments but are hoping that next week work will have started on completion of downstairs and perhaps the windows will have been installed.

Until my computer was damaged by a power surge we had started work on our colour schemes but it is a bit difficult because we really need to also know the colours of our floor and wall tiles and we cannot remember what designs we chose.

Hopefully the parquet floors upstairs will have been sealed and all the roofing finished off. we also need to be thinking about the garden. we now have a puppy called Fred so we will need to build two walls, one along the front and another separating us from the lot next door, so that he cannot stray.

We still have had now news at all from the Architect who does not answer any emails and this will very soon become a major issue as it will delay the completion of our Dipolog house.

The only problem we forsee in the house is the lack of storage areas, we had requested a door be cut into the wall from the patio leading into the roof area above the car port but this has not been done and will be more difficult as concrete has been poured in the wall.

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Life in Philippines

Life in the Philippines
Philippines Power management damages Computer

Today my computer problems were finally diagnosed and the root of the problem was not the power supply unit but the motherboard of the computer has been fried as a direct result of the total failure of the Zanorte Electrical supply company to provide a constant stable electrical supply. Do they feel guilty No, however it is one of the many reasons why many companies think twice about setting up business in the Philippines.

You would think that with the sun almost directly overhead they would make great use of Solar power but they seem to operate with their heads in the sand. They also fail to control illegal connections to the grid. surely if they knew what they were doing they would realise that the amount of power they produce when compared with the total of the consumer bills clearly shows how much power is being stolen.

Anyway now my main computer is scrap save for the shell, as the hard drive, processor and memory are not compatible with new motherboard so all have to be replaces. Hopefully I will pick up the computer tomorrow and then have to spend the day reinstalling various applications so I can get back to work.

Our unplanned spending continues to mount, also due to the cost of Jasmin's Anti- Rabies course, next we will have vets bills for Fred, and of course my Dental bill. Heres hoping there are no more surprises in store this month. The only blessing being that costs here are lower than Malaysia.

Until the next time
David Ogden