Browse Forums Building A New House Re: builder's rules... for final inspection 4Jan 22, 2010 8:51 am Masterton Santorini Grande 23/01/09 First Tender 17/11/09 Contract signed 25/01/10 Slab 27/03/10 Frame 7/5/10 Bricks 1/07/10 Roof 9/7/10 Lock up 24/8/10 PCI 16/09/2010 KEYS! viewtopic.php?f=31&t=16418 Re: builder's rules... for final inspection 10Sep 01, 2010 12:18 pm Adam.M The 2nd SS we had for our build (1st one got fired) was a d**khead. First thing he said was "I've built $2M houses before and this is nothing compared". By the end the the Construction Mngr had to defended him by saying "He's only been at X Homes for 3 mths". I'm like WTF, is my house a practice build for him? Well Adam ..... your experience with this company was certainly the same as ours! As they were struggling to construct our front facade after first attempting to build the wrong facade!!!!! ....... they told us that we had to realise they hadn't built this house in this area before!!!!! Well that really gave us the confidence we needed whilst dealing with this bunch. Honestly though they had absolutely no idea of how to go about it and they call themselves builders! Fruitty, agree with you too in relation to the whole industry. You just have to be one step in front of them every step of the way. Research everything and ask many questions ..... in our case they have been stumped many times to provide us with the answers because they know we know what the true answer is! Oh yes and then there is those "Guidelines"! 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 98678 The significant date is when receive final payment invoice Check that section of contract Bit of fluff by builders prior to that 1 15937 1 1923 |