In December we went back to the flat and they had started plastering our walls. It was a step towards finishing!
Around this time they had also installed (or at least placed) our bathtub and shower basins!
This view is from the bedroom looking toward the hallway.
Here is a shot of the hallway where the built in closets will be placed and all the tubing for the utilities on the left.
Here is the office/guest bedroom update:
Shower basin…
Kay walking through our smoothed over flat…
And the kitchen… which still doesn’t have the bloody extra sockets we asked for in the corner!!
At this point we were kinda pissed about the electrical sockets because they had begun to plaster over everything and our sockets definitely were not there or even marked to be put in. We wrote some unhappy letters at this point.
More of the hallway:
A week or two after this we visited right before we went to America for Christmas and they had laid our floor heating. I took a bunch of pictures for progress reports, but I accidentally wrote over the photos when we were preparing our cameras for our US trip! Sooo sad… A fellow buyer in the complex gave me a photo or two of the floor heating, but you can’t really get the picture of how all the tubes looked laid out next to each other…
It looked something like this in our flat:
(Image via Aubrey Cornfoot)
So you get an idea what the floor heating *would* have looked like… still mad I told Kay to reformat the card. Next house I’ll be more diligent!
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
- Neubau Progress: IV