Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 29, 2010 2:48 pm So I have posted before that our exterior timbers were meant to be stained, as per the contract. However timber that cannot be stained was installed. We jumped up and down a little and refused to pick paint colour until they gave us some form of compensation. This still isnt finalised but they are going to brick around the back timber posts on the alfresco which we really like and we will then agree to pick a colour for the front posts and beams. Well our front door is wattyl scorpion red and the bricks are brown with woodland grey gutters windows etc. I dont want 4 red poles at my entrance and I dont want grey (prison bar looking) poles. So we thought we'd pick another feature colour. NOTHING goes with red. So we though easy we'll change the front door colour and match the poles to a less full on feature colour. Will the builders let us change the front door colour... NO!!!! Go figure, why?? There cannot be any serious reason why. They say the contract says 'scorpion' so they cannot change, UM HELLO the builder breaking the contract is what started this problem!! I even said I was happy to pay extra for the additional paint they'd 'technically' have to buy. Seriously they are driving me nuts with endless mistakes and crap excuses! Thanks for the rant! Re: SOOOO annoyed cant wait til this build is finished! 4Jan 29, 2010 3:25 pm So frustrating, isn't it?! I'm slowly learning the rules don't apply to the builders... We've recently been told we have to re-pick our colour selection for the front panels of all our cupboards. I assumed we'd be able to then re-pick our cupboard tops too... because obviously we picked them to go together, but nope... sorry no can do! Was told to pick something as close to our first choice as possible. Only to later be told, sorry you can't have that either. Finally ended up with our 6th choice being okay... pretty shocking really!! Re: SOOOO annoyed cant wait til this build is finished! 5Jan 29, 2010 3:42 pm lachjor So frustrating, isn't it?! I'm slowly learning the rules don't apply to the builders... We've recently been told we have to re-pick our colour selection for the front panels of all our cupboards. I assumed we'd be able to then re-pick our cupboard tops too... because obviously we picked them to go together, but nope... sorry no can do! Was told to pick something as close to our first choice as possible. Only to later be told, sorry you can't have that either. Finally ended up with our 6th choice being okay... pretty shocking really!! We had to re-pick our bench tops. We down right refused to unless we could change the whole cabinet selections and the feature tiles which matched... stuff em!!! Guess what they did?.... installed totally the wrong colours for top doors and kick and now have to replace them all! How hard is it? 1 13128 interesting situation what happened after builder issued final invoice? did you list as defect or not does the building surveyor have any responsibility? ie. issuing… 13 46972 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Hi all, My neighbour has built his 15m long garage on our boundary. It was agreed as part of the planning permit that the wall must be in exposed recycled brick. For some… 0 10916 |