Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 2Feb 11, 2024 12:12 am We are Expert Consultant's, and we are here to help. Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 3Feb 11, 2024 7:53 am 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 4Feb 14, 2024 5:00 am Architectural Homes & Duplexes - specialising in custom designing homes to your budget Get a Free Onsite Consultation Today or send a PM for information, questions or advice. Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 6Feb 15, 2024 2:25 pm NELSTU We are building using a large project home builder in NSW. Our build commenced in October 2022, and we have just reached lock-up stage, so we are about 16 months overall and two Summer industry shut-downs. A critical issue is the water-proofing the wet areas. So far, we had a private inspector review the water-proofing twice, and it is still defective. One of the key issues is that they failed to clear the area before applying the primer and water-proofing, things like broken screws were painted over. Our inspector was disappointed by the quality of this work. Are there issues with getting quality water-proofers in NSW right now? From what I can work out, you do need to be properly licensed to do this work in NSW, however it does not appear to be technical, in the same way that plumbing and carpentry are. Further to this, given the delays we have had with our build, I am interested to see how liquidated damages work. There was a big delay after the frames were delivered, they sat on the slab for almost 3 months before carpenters turned up. At what point do we raise liquidated damages? The last 12 months has not seen too much adverse weather, all progress payments paid within three days, so I don't know what we could have done better? Our site supervisor does not answer calls and if he bothers to respond, there is a lengthy delay. I guess we would have been better off going to a custom builder! Liquidated damages should be set out in in your contract as a $ amount per working day, or day, or week delay beyond the contract duration. You can offset this from the final payment. The builder needs to advise you in writing of the specific delay and reasons why at the time (within 10 working days, i think) and you need to confirm acceptance. If they don't do this you can claim the appropriate delay offset. It is not sufficient for the builder to just look up meteorolgical records and simply claim 'rain days' at the end - unless your contract specifies this. Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 7Feb 24, 2024 6:38 pm Kippers01 NELSTU We are building using a large project home builder in NSW. Our build commenced in October 2022, and we have just reached lock-up stage, so we are about 16 months overall and two Summer industry shut-downs. A critical issue is the water-proofing the wet areas. So far, we had a private inspector review the water-proofing twice, and it is still defective. One of the key issues is that they failed to clear the area before applying the primer and water-proofing, things like broken screws were painted over. Our inspector was disappointed by the quality of this work. Are there issues with getting quality water-proofers in NSW right now? From what I can work out, you do need to be properly licensed to do this work in NSW, however it does not appear to be technical, in the same way that plumbing and carpentry are. Further to this, given the delays we have had with our build, I am interested to see how liquidated damages work. There was a big delay after the frames were delivered, they sat on the slab for almost 3 months before carpenters turned up. At what point do we raise liquidated damages? The last 12 months has not seen too much adverse weather, all progress payments paid within three days, so I don't know what we could have done better? Our site supervisor does not answer calls and if he bothers to respond, there is a lengthy delay. I guess we would have been better off going to a custom builder! Liquidated damages should be set out in in your contract as a $ amount per working day, or day, or week delay beyond the contract duration. You can offset this from the final payment. The builder needs to advise you in writing of the specific delay and reasons why at the time (within 10 working days, i think) and you need to confirm acceptance. If they don't do this you can claim the appropriate delay offset. It is not sufficient for the builder to just look up meteorolgical records and simply claim 'rain days' at the end - unless your contract specifies this. It's unlikely that in any sort of reasonable arbitration the builders' claim for lost days that are backed up by meteorogical records would be dismissed. Re: Water-proofing and liquidated damages 8Feb 26, 2024 12:22 pm It worked for me in getting all non notified rain days removed from the builders claim, although the LDs was only $50/day. The contract usually requires the builder to explain at the time specifically how the weather delayed the works. On the day liquidated damages kicked in, I texted my SS "Good morning and happy "Today liquidated damages begins today day!" We had a little over 3 weeks claim and no… 1 2298 thanks Chippy, i hope they have applied sealer but i am doubt to be honest, so i am gonna do this job after handover. 8 17232 Scientists have used random matrix theory to demonstrate theoretically that the neutrino mass hierarchy can be explained mathematically. When a substance is fragmented… 21 21181 |