Hello everyone,
Firstly thanks for reading my first post. I am new to the buying off the plan thing, and I have my 90 day maintance period coming up. I have submitted my list - however the builder is refusing to fix a number of defects that weren't caught in the presettlement inspection or due to "natural shrinkage" (not sure what that means).
These include chips to the paint, tiles. However I am worried about a flyscreen which the middle has fallen off leaving a big hole, this is a major issue. This occurred around 2 weeks after moving in, anyone would expect that a flyscreen stay on the window for more than 2 weeks!
Is it normal for builders to refuse to fix these issues? Missing paint, scruff marks, broken flyscreens? They have pretty much crossed out 95% of my list. They have apparently written these types of defects into a document which says that they are not responsible to fix, does this have any legal standing or am I screwed?
Thanks in advance
Advice - 90 day maintenance period
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Hello everyone,
Firstly thanks for reading my first post. I am new to the buying off the plan thing, and I have my 90 day maintance period coming up. I have submitted my list - however the builder is refusing to fix a number of defects that weren't caught in the presettlement inspection or due to "natural shrinkage" (not sure what that means).
These include chips to the paint, tiles. However I am worried about a flyscreen which the middle has fallen off leaving a big hole, this is a major issue. This occurred around 2 weeks after moving in, anyone would expect that a flyscreen stay on the window for more than 2 weeks!
Is it normal for builders to refuse to fix these issues? Missing paint, scruff marks, broken flyscreens? They have pretty much crossed out 95% of my list. They have apparently written these types of defects into a document which says that they are not responsible to fix, does this have any legal standing or am I screwed?
Thanks in advance
Firstly thanks for reading my first post. I am new to the buying off the plan thing, and I have my 90 day maintance period coming up. I have submitted my list - however the builder is refusing to fix a number of defects that weren't caught in the presettlement inspection or due to "natural shrinkage" (not sure what that means).
These include chips to the paint, tiles. However I am worried about a flyscreen which the middle has fallen off leaving a big hole, this is a major issue. This occurred around 2 weeks after moving in, anyone would expect that a flyscreen stay on the window for more than 2 weeks!
Is it normal for builders to refuse to fix these issues? Missing paint, scruff marks, broken flyscreens? They have pretty much crossed out 95% of my list. They have apparently written these types of defects into a document which says that they are not responsible to fix, does this have any legal standing or am I screwed?
Thanks in advance
I believe that if there are things that have been damaged by someone (rather than a fault) and they weren’t picked up at pci it’s impossible to prove that you haven’t done it since moving in. In that case the builder can refuse to fix.
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