Moving to our home!

We finally moved into our new home on 31 May 2007. Well, that was the date that our rental furniture turned up. Well, the date that most of it turned up. Had the usual things that were broken, rugs that were the wrong size, things that went onto back order, things that were missing kind of story.

Anyway, there was enough here that we moved in on Saturday 2 June. With our new 'beds in a bag' and new towels etc. We spent around $500 last weekend on these so we could survive by 'camping' in our house while waiting for our international inventory to arrive from Australia. So with these and some plastic cups / plates / bowls / cutlery we are ready to wait it out.

Comcast were fantastic and were here on the afternoon of 31 May as arranged to hookup two tvs and put a wireless network in for Internet access, not to mention the phones are now working. The remote controls didn't turn up with either rental tv. This caused a problem with one which we can't tune into channel 3 without the remote. Yes, channel 3 is the Comcast channel so that tv is effectively just a heap of plastic etc sitting in the corner.

Our Australian inventory seems to have been just sitting forgotten in Sydney since it was picked up in Canberra. At least until we called to see what happened to it. After the local contact telling me he had never heard of us, he did an excellent job of pushing things through. Still don't understand why the various promises that it was to be on various flights didn't end up being true for well over a week. Could it be that the guys in Oz were telling porkies?? Things were eventually delivered on Wednesday 6 June. Mostly arrived ok although they managed to slash the rear tyre / tube on the Anthem while trying to unwrap it. Was unimpressed at how the bikes were packed. Anthem was treated like a Repco. My requests for the shocks to be covered were ignored, handlebars were loosened, pedals were turned inside out just asking to rub against the rear shock, etc. LBS here in Bethesda will pack bikes for $35 which I'll be paying before ours go back.

Since then we've had various sagas with rug sizes, wrong sized glass for the coffee table, replacement tvs as couldn't find remotes etc until we basically had everything here on Friday 15 June. Although we're sure there's either a box missing or half a box wasn't unpacked. Lots of little kitchen etc things that we know we packed are missing. We had three boxes with duplicate numbers so possible that one with a duplicate number was lost. But more likely one semi-unpacked box was used to store the paper from unwrapped items. Will see if we can get some compensation but suspect we'll struggle due to lack of documentation of what we shipped and we had to sign off that all the boxes etc arrived. See what happens ...

Malcolm