Cabinets and Electrics

Wow, what a day.  We are getting close to needing to finalise everything so we thought that we would combine our final cabinet maker appointment and our electrical appointment into one day and get them over with. We started early so I could get to work in the afternoon.....

Cabinets appointment went well.  We managed to convince the guy that we could get the bin to work mounted high under our bench, which is something that we have really wanted.  Now we will have two 17L bins in a pull out drawer with a drawer, hopefully 286mm deep beneath the bin drawer.  We will have garbage in the front drawer bin and compost in the back drawer bin and we will put a liner in the lower drawer for recycling.

We had to change our kitchen cabinet colours because the alabaster in the vinyl wrap that the cabinet maker used was a lot darker than the sample that we were going from.  So our kitchen and laundry cabinets are now parchment (looks exactly like alabaster).

Then we had to go from Pakenham for cabinets to Tullamarine for Electrical.  This is a very long way. When we arrived they didn't seem terribly ready for us, apparently they thought we were coming next week.  Given I'd organised a morning off work and we had to get relos to look after the kids and we had just driven a huge distance we didn't really want to have to come back some other time.

Luckily they found someone else to go through the plans with us.  Just like the estimate for electricals that we received from our Premier Salesperson the estimate for the time was discounted by 70%.  We received a letter that said to allow for 1 to 1.5 hours and even excluding the extra hour we had to wait for the replacement electrician it still took over 3 hours to go through our plans.

So over $4,000 in electricals we now have a reasonable comfortable house with switches, lights, tv points and other minor modifications.  I would hate to see what it would cost to get a good home automation system.

Now that I know where all of the light switches are I will have to try to draw them in 3D (I'm not too good with curves yet though).