Hello all,
Interesting one here that has caused much concern for us.
Our builder changed their independent inspection policy after we had signed the HIA contract to require a $250 charge and 14 week (*edit days) delay per inspection to respond to the assessors reports (which adds up if you do 5 inspections).
My understanding of the law around this is that they were never legally obligated to do anything with the reports and they have never said they would prevent our assessors from going on site (which would be illegal) but they essentially said they would throw the reports in the bin. They also said the cost will be charged up front and the time extension would have to be agreed upon and added to the contract length.
Ignoring the pretty big issues that this stealthy policy change was not communicated to us prior to us entering construction and is clearly an attempt to discourage independent inspectors, are there any inspection stages that would be deemed necessary?
Chris