Like your logic here. Yes if you trust the builder enough it's well and good. the problem is tradies and not the builders themselves. Tradies can be slack. Best of luck..
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: How often do you visit your site? 637Dec 17, 2018 8:02 pm steel I have no suggestions but whatever is afoul is on them and they will have to fix it. I'd get it assessed by someone for damage. well they have said they will replace the doors and dry out the floor. I have asked them to get the stairs assessed by the supplier / manufacturer . There is a race against time as they wont be working past this friday so all this to be done in the next three days. Whew ! Re: How often do you visit your site? 638Jan 23, 2019 4:36 pm We went most weekends (we lived 40kms away). Can't recommend it enough. I even took a slab down for the brickies once, turns out they were muslim and didn't drink...oops We kept on going through site managers (they were all leaving the company), went through 4 in total. I wanted to keep control of the situation, because in some cases there was obviously no "Hand over", and we found out our site manager was overseeing 14 homes. We took lots of photos. It was tough when little progress had been made, and we weren't afraid to say so (given our build went 6 months over) but we were paying the bills, and it was OUR house. Once it got to lock up stage, we noticed that the upstairs french doors to the balcony, were not closing properly, so instead of saying something, we used it as our access. Took a ladder with us, and climbed up the front balcony. Towards the end, the site manager had a pretty good idea, because he'd arrive on Monday and there was loads of yellow tape on the "defects". Don't be afraid to go, you will find things and you'll have to say something, and they will know you went down. It's just how it goes. We've got a house we are really happy with, so it worked!!! Re: How often do you visit your site? 639Feb 11, 2019 12:37 am Every 2nd to 3rd day. Don't let anything go. If you go and you see something wrong - email them straight away. At least this gives you evidence for later if you need it. We even got the "Stay Away" 3 weeks out from PCI and still went out. Was fantastically embarrassing when the builders left stuff open and we had to ring them and say - well we aren't allowed on our land but you've left everything open and then asked if we could shut it!!!! Re: How often do you visit your site? 640Feb 11, 2019 9:53 am Agree completely, I regularly point out things as I see them. My SS has grumbled a little bit but I have explained to him the benefits to both of us - I would rather point out things now so that they can be fixed while the trades are there, rather than presenting a list at the end. There have been several examples where things have been easy to fix, but would be much harder at the end. 9 19180 In Victoria you cannot put a caveat on arising from a domestic building contract. 65 105616 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 30545 |