After another month rolled around, we decided to visit the flat in November to check the progress. 

This is the view of our new street!

There wasn’t a lot of visible progress, but the french balconies had been put up in the bedrooms along with the shutters outside.

In the kitchen you could see the tubing for all the electricity and utilities.

Later in this very spot below, we’d find out that the builders forgot something rather big… there is a utilities shaft missing. AKA a big hole in the ground that should be there… but isn’t. But we were blissfully unaware at this point…

They had put in the tubing for our electrical outlets for the fridge, oven and sockets… but below they were still forgetting to install our extra sockets that we planned. We were not impressed. We emailed. We called. We wrote mean registered letters. They had better put our sockets in before they plaster and tile everything! Electricity setup was done ages ago and we were not impressed that after months of asking about it and being told it was being taken care of, the company STILL didn’t do anything.

And here you can at least see the green shutters from the outside. I think they make the building prettier and I’m excited that they are functional. 🙂

…and the view from the train tracks.

 

Want to catch up?

• Nobody buys a home in Switzerland
• How to rent a flat in Switzerland
• Dreaming the impossible
• How to buy a house in Switzerland
• Shopping for houses
• The World of Neubau
• Flat A vs Flat B: Location vs. Cost
• Paying for Sunshine
• We (I) make a decision
• Our future home: Part I
• How we found our giant terrace
• No Mortgages for Americans? Signing the Contract
• Neubau Progress: I
• Neubau Progress: II
• Neubau Progress: Shower vs. Bathtub
• Neubau Progress: Changing the Electric
• Neubau Progress: Bathroom
• We have a mortgage!
• Neubau Progress: III