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

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

Dipolog Houseand Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Design problem

Roof Guttering situation on our Dipolog house and lot for sale has been resolved and a PVC mouldings supplier has been sourced, the molding looks quite complicated and I had to ask one of the engineers how it fitted. I am used to guttering which is 100% functional and it catches the rainwater from the roof and diverts it to a down pipe. Here in the Philippines they tend to concentrate more on a molding that looks nice, so will have to hope that it still functions as expected.

We have not heard from the Architect, it seems he is quite busy so our other questions remain unanswered. we also have requested the site engineer look at the roof shingles on the main roof as they do not appeared to have been laid right when viewed from the ground.

The wooden floor upstairs was been sanded, so there was a lot of dust around, but we did see the outline of a wardrobe taking place in the main bedroom. Outside the balcony railing were being installed, and work was progressing on the roofing of the dirty kitchen.

Whilst we were in Dipolog city we visited the town hall to enquire where the Immigration sub-office was located as we had been unable to find it. It appears they have an office near the Bagsakan market off Tomas Claudio street. but even using a map they provided it was a little tricky to find. This is a great find as we will no longer need to travel to Cagayan Del Oro every couple of months to renew my visa

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Dipolog Houseand Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Good Progress

Tropical storms have resulted in many day of bad weather , however out Dipolog house and lot for sale now has its roof on so fitting out has started. Door and Kitchen worktops are being installed and upstairs concrete floors are being leveled prior to adding flooring.

False ceilings installation is progressing well, the house is certainly beginning to take shape. will be doing a site visit tomorrow to discuss some minor points/

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Dipolog Houseand Lot For Sale

Dipolog house and lot for sale

Good Progress

What a difference a week makes and despite the bad weather construction of out Dipolog house and Lot for sale are gathering pace. Also we are getting answers to our problems. the crew is hard at work on the roof and this will be completed by our next visit . we notice the bath we had ordered has arrived and yes it does fit, big sigh of relief. Downstairs wiring has commenced and supports for false ceiling are being installed in main living area and carport. The counter bases in the Kitchen and dirty kitchen have been laid.

One of the reasons for our visit was to select new tiles and there is no longer stock of the ones we selected months ago. This is a bit of a blow, and was one of the reasons we expected to see piles of material awaiting installation.

We visited the hardware supplier and I suppose we spent an hour or two picking floor tiles for the main living area originally we had selected off white tiles, then Jasmin selected black with some white streaks, quite modern looking, but I spotted a Brick effect tile, with a slightly roof finish, and having remembered that one or twice I had slipped on shiny tiles in KK, I thought they would not only look nice but also be unique, it was a hard sell for Jasmin but I said we can also rugs/carpet on top if the pattern is too much. we also need to order tiles for the shared bathroom and maids room where we chose a pinkish shade. finally we confirmed our jet type shower was on order.

Tiles will be delivered this week so maybe this is the next stage. the terrace is also taking shape with its low wall and I requested that the engineer put a small doorway from one wall of the terrace in to the roof area above the car port to allow access for extra storage. I questioned if there would be a manhole leading into main room area.

We will soon be at the stage where we can actively start searching for furnishing to complete our new home. Outside work has also commenced on our deco feature of local stone tiles.

So hopefully next week major construction will be completed/

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