An April Update - Impending launch

As you are all aware, the demolition component (well our part in it) was completed in the last blog entry.   Since then, the Architect Urs, and his assistant Andi have been inviting many different firms along to quote on the work to be completed.  On arrival back from a trip to Australia on April 21st, Reggie and myself had another meeting to review the first offers.  We were not surprised that the quotes ran over our budget, but that means we go back now and ask them to improve their bids.

Thursday April 30th saw Reggie, Andi and myself meeting at a large bathroom company SABAG AG.  This was a fun morning, where we chose toilets, shower fittings, sinks, taps and a few other items.  We were surprised that a large company could not offer better prices over the same product on the internet.  We feel that there will be some tears soon (for them, not us).  

On leaving SABAG we priced up a very expensive toilet for our bathroom on the net, and it came in a third cheaper .  

Today we met with our electrician for the first time to discuss the location of electrical sockets, lights etc.  This was interesting, and we started at our home looking at the plans before going to the farm to finalise ideas.  Of course, as soon as he had left we remembered that we had not discussed extractor fans in each bathroom, and the finer detail in the kitchen.  We had the impression that we had to make all of the decisions, and received few if no ideas from the electrician.

Monday is May 4th, and is the day the real work begins at the house.  The builder will start his work on that day.  We will be keeping the blog as up to date as possible. Reggie and myself are getting very excited, and all we can do now is keep meeting with the architect, and ensure that the bidding process works for both them and us.