Five minutes alone with them...that's all I want

Oh, I firmly believe they'll get theirs eventually. There's a big whooping in store for them, I'm sure.

We're (technically) building in Narre Warren South but the immediate area is known as a different name by the locals.

We have the certificate of occupancy...so as long as there's the comittment to repair the windows in place, our site supervisor seems happy for us to move in if the rear windows have been done & the front windows will need to be done within 14 days of us moving in (apparently he has 14 days from handover to finish fixing anything we pick up next week).

There's no way the garage door is going to be done before then, so he's told us there's a specific mention of the time delay for it's repair in the thing you sign at handover.

He'll know in a few days how long the front windows are going to take.

We were originally going to move in on Saturday next week. It looks like we may need to move it to the following Monday or Tuesday, depending on how the windows go (but there'd still be work to be done after we move).

They measure the panes up, get them made up at the factory (as the gas has to be sealed between the glass...they have a black seal-type thing round the edge of each pane of glass), then install them onsite. But they take ages to get made up, by all accounts (I don't know if that's normal or just because we have so many to do at once).

Our windows have 8 small square panes of glass...double-glazed windows with one large pane of glass might be more tricky to get fixed, I don't know.

But any type of hole or crack in the glass that is left, allows the gas to seep out & I understand can also allow condensation to get in between the glass panes...which will fog your windows up (between the glass). You can't just put gas back in & not fix the cracked pane. You need to replace the entire unit as they're sealed at the factory.

Ummmm...hope that makes sense. Bottom line - you can't have a "she'll be right" atitude with double glazing. The individual units have to be replaced & reglazed properly.

Oh no! Thats just awful Hope it all works out for you...

Just a question, if things get stolen/vandalised before handover, is that your responsibility or the builders to fix things?

It's the builder's responsibility to fix them...that's what builder's insurance is for.

But in some ways, that's not the point...the feeling of going up to your house & seeing the effects of the latest theft or mindless destruction is akin to being burgled, really - it's horrible because you know someon has been in your house or has purposly damaged it.

uncle_ant...good luck. Hope you don't get hit too hard (but do be prepared for it because it sounds like you might have a wee bit of trouble with theft).

Sorry to hear that, grime.

It sucks, doesn't it?

Kids these days.....no respect.

I just don't understand the appeal of deliberately destroying someone else's porperty.

I am sure it is built into the contract price!!