Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jul 31, 2009 10:25 pm Hello all, We are a couple of weeks from going through our house with our site supervisor and placing red dots over the areas that are not right or any mistakes that are made. Firstly am I better off taking a building inspector through with us at this stage or should I go through first and mark all the areas that I think are wrong and then get the building inspector go through when they think they have finished thier work? Secondly we received a letter today stating the above re our inspection and it also stated that we will receive a tax invoice outlining our final payment is due. Is this right? Can they do this before we do our inspection? I can understand if there is no problems at inspection then we should pay but if there is issues shouln't we hold the payment off until we are completely happy with the finished result? Because if it is unfinished we will be paying for something that is not completed. Sorry for such a long post but this has been playing on my mind all day. Re: Home inspection 2Aug 01, 2009 9:22 am KGJB, There is no right/wrong answer to the question of whether to use an inspector. It depends on various factors, including how cluey you are to building/quality standards, how quality conscious your builder is, etc. There are some people who engages an inspector when there are problems, and there are people (including myself) who have chosen to "buy insurance" by using an inspector from the start. Even if using an inspector to inspect the various stages, there may still be some things that he'll not see/find. So, if you particularly want a quality job (who wouldn't when this will probably be the biggest spend item in our lives), you should learn as much as you can (this forum is very good) and make inspections yourself even if you are using an inspector (I'm lucky that I can get access to site). Note that at the handover stage, any inspection will essentially be cosmetic only. Chris Re: Home inspection 4Aug 03, 2009 2:29 pm I think in regards to payment that may depend on your contract. I had a HIA contract and I can't remember the exact wording but I think that if there were minor things that were incomplete / needed fixing you still had to accept handover / pay and they were dealt with in the defects liability period. i would suggest nothing is unreasonable for PCI. we did all sorts, including checking the hot water, checking all the GPO's had power, testing that the showers were… 9 98697 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5351 Hi, I have this sewer inspection point sitting in an odd spot in the rear of my yard: https://imgur.com/ghLI98q What I'd like to do is put a firepit in that corner of… 0 6533 |