Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Apr 20, 2010 9:49 pm Hi all I've built a home last year with a well known building company. Since the heavy storms in Melbourne a couple months ago, water has leaked in from my roof to my ceiling and into one of the bedrooms. My insurance has inspected it and says it is a construction fault and the builder should fix it. I have contacted the building company but they keep delaying and until now have yet to get anyone over to do repairs. Can someone please give me advice on what to do next? Would it be best for me to find a building constuction lawyer to deal with the builder? I'd like to get this fixed asap because we are now in wet season. Thanks. Ahda Re: Newly built house - dispute over who will fix 3Apr 20, 2010 11:01 pm Put it in writing and give them a date to rectify the problem by and that if you do not hear from them you will commence legal action. If they don't agree it's their problem then at least you will get a response and can move on to the next option. Re: Newly built house - dispute over who will fix 4Apr 21, 2010 2:04 am Fortunately all builders are registered in WA and a parliamentary act with huge fines and the ability to de register forces immediate resolution to such matters. My advise is to give 15 days notice of your intent to effect repair and then recover the debt, including costs and claim damages for inconvenience. Re: Newly built house - dispute over who will fix 5Apr 27, 2010 2:51 pm Have you ever contacted your maintenance guys from the builder for any minor maintenance work. If you have ever deal with them, you should already have some sort of idea about their quality of service.... If it's always bad or never deal with them, then don't think you can expect much for major issues like this... Get the insurance company to provide something in writing, and based on that, as the others suggested, write to them and send it in registered post, mention a dateline before further action take. Better get a solicitor involved if possible. Might also want to include a list of things damaged: furniture, carpet/timber flooring, ...etc. Can also try the other way, setup a blog and publish the progress in "neutral" tone with everything based on facts, and send them the link. So that even if they want to bring you to court, they can't do much if you have all the documents supporting you. Good luck! The unit normally clips into a metal plate screwed to the wall, either plate is not flush, or unit not hooked in and could be hanging from the pipes partly, either might… 2 15786 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5322 My daughter and son in law are about to start building, they are having a 600mm induction cook top and 900mm oven. It's personal preferance 5 10863 |