Walls down or floors polished?

Following my review of the brick work the other day I felt a bit down.  Following this her indoors chatted to the brickies on Monday and she ended up a bit down.  Apparently her conversation even resulted in the hint of water works starting so the poor brickie felt a little sorry for her.  This prompted her to ask "If this was your house would you be happy with a patch repair of the other walls?"  Being a brickie with high standards of course the only answer he could give was "No."

This prompted a phone call to the builder the next morning asking for an immediate meeting on site, which ended up happening yesterday afternoon.  After walking around the house and pointing out areas that were unacceptable Romeo have now agreed to the following:

• Remove all of the bricks above the lower course of the highlight bricks on the South and West Walls.
• Remove the bricks between the rumpus ans study window
• Remove the bricks down to the fourth course from the top on the North West corner.
• Remove the bricks to the right of the front door and down to the base of the lounge room window.
• Reinstate all of these bricks with new of cleaned old bricks.
• Repoint the internal corner at the front door to the full height.
• Spot repair areas that look uneven.
• Engage a firm to colour the final mortar so that matches across the project and provide a certificate and guarantee for this mortar colouring.
• Reseal the damp proof layer with an epoxy and provide appropriate certification.

The reseal is required due to the following:

In the process of removing bricks the damp proof membrane has been damaged.

Following agreeing to all of this we were left with the decision as to what to do next.  Do we want to try to have the inside finished as early as possible so that we can get in, or do we want to have the brickies finish and then get the inside done.

After a bit of back and forwards we decided that the best course of action was to rebook the floor sanders / polishers (they had to be cancelled due to the bricking).  Have the brickies take a few days off whilst the floors are being done and then have them back once the floor has fully cured.  This way the inside can progress to final inspection and everything inside can be done.  We don't necessarily want to move in but with this in progress the bricks should be finished on the day of handover so everything should be sorted.

Our new timeframe is to have our final inspection in just over a week from now, then two weeks after that we have hand over.  We may be in just before the end of the easter school holidays.

By the way, here is our kitchen tap: