How often do you visit your site?

ghstrida · Jul 02, 2020 4:31 pm

I'm wondering if anyone has got confirmation on visiting their new build during the COVID restrictions. My suburb (Victoria) is back to Stage 3 restrictions and I want to visit my new build once a week. Sacred that the cops will issue a fine.

Louise Robinson · Jul 02, 2020 7:31 pm

ghstrida

I'm wondering if anyone has got confirmation on visiting their new build during the COVID restrictions. My suburb (Victoria) is back to Stage 3 restrictions and I want to visit my new build once a week. Sacred that the cops will issue a fine.

Is your new house located in one of the hot spots too?

ghstrida · Jul 02, 2020 8:03 pm

Louise Robinson

ghstrida

I'm wondering if anyone has got confirmation on visiting their new build during the COVID restrictions. My suburb (Victoria) is back to Stage 3 restrictions and I want to visit my new build once a week. Sacred that the cops will issue a fine.

Is your new house located in one of the hot spots too?

Actually i currently live in one of the hot spots. New house is in another suburb which is not part of the list but is not too far from where i currently live.

domwild · Jul 03, 2020 8:09 am

As often as possible as builders are often guilty of shortcuts. In my case the Afghan bricklayers forgot to add in the 20mm spacers (the need for speed!) to the cavity insulation for the essential air gap in the cavity and despite lots of photos no compensation was offered, just an email to say from now on those spacers will be installed, which still was not the case.

It took a complaint to the Building Commission (WA) to have the builder then do an equivalent job for me in lieu of compensation. Not putting the spacers in reduces the R-rating from R1.8 down to R1.2 or 0.6, so I had asked for 1/3rd of the cost of the total insulation cost, which I got. The builder claimed lack of spacers will make no difference. I sent a letter to the insulation company claiming to be an owner builder using their product and asked them if it would make any difference in R value leaving the spacers out. Had I told them the builder is leaving the spacers out, the company would have supported their customer in their answer.

One large beam was not tied properly to the wall and was pointed out and fixed with a second wall tie. The garage has had the ceiling put in but no insulation and it will be a hard task to place the batts in through a small opening from the rest of the house and six metres into the far corners.

Firstbuild20 · Jul 19, 2020 7:17 am

Same here, location is in VIC and we are currently in stage 3 restriction. We are at the beginning of finishing stage and I have requested with our builder if we can meet our supervisor to see our build progress and to check if nothing is missed at this stage. Unfortunately my builder has told us that due to restriction, HIA has advised that clients can only visit their site at each completion of the stage which in our case is the final stage.

Anyone here who are in the same boat? Or any opinion on this?

Thanks

domwild · Jul 19, 2020 8:12 am

The HIA and MBA will always support the builder and not you. Builders are supposed to have regular meetings with you at the end of certain stages, so have a look at your contract. I will have a tile meeting soon, but I am in WA, so I cannot speak for other states.

It is evident, builders do not like clients noticing faults and then complaining about it.

Hussain sahara · Jul 30, 2020 7:44 pm

Firstbuild20

Same here, location is in VIC and we are currently in stage 3 restriction. We are at the beginning of finishing stage and I have requested with our builder if we can meet our supervisor to see our build progress and to check if nothing is missed at this stage. Unfortunately my builder has told us that due to restriction, HIA has advised that clients can only visit their site at each completion of the stage which in our case is the final stage.

Anyone here who are in the same boat? Or any opinion on this?

Thanks

hey we are also facing similar issue, Henley advice us we cannot visit the site till 20 Aug and we are expecting to finish our completion stage by that time or near to finish as this stage was started 2 weeks ago.

Let's see if anything changes, but with the current situation and increasing cases we don't think there will be any ease of restriction soon.

Hussain sahara · Aug 12, 2020 3:33 pm

elizabethpaige

We check our site daily to make sure that the plan is being followed. But if the day is when our construction supplies like steel materialsor others, we usually stay there for half a day. However, with your situation, maybe 2-3x a week may be enough.

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Hi Elizabeth we are not allow to visit site for next 6 weeks which is ending on 13 Sep, we are hoping to get the house finish by that time if everything goes ok.

Firstbuild20 · Oct 31, 2020 4:02 pm

To all building in Melbourne,

Are builders still required to have 1 trade out on site? Our builder has told me that the delay was due to this. For small scale industry, I thought no more than 5 per site. If you have the link that you can share about this would be great. Thanks

Hussain sahara · Oct 31, 2020 6:12 pm

Firstbuild20

To all building in Melbourne,

Are builders still required to have 1 trade out on site? Our builder has told me that the delay was due to this. For small scale industry, I thought no more than 5 per site. If you have the link that you can share about this would be great. Thanks

Hi Firstbuild20

There is no restrictions on number of workers at the moment. Who is your builder? I think builders are getting too busy now with new customers and work is getting delayed due to overload.

CD12JD · Feb 13, 2021 11:12 am

Been going once a week atm

ZSasha · Mar 03, 2021 8:33 pm

May I ask you a question, guys?

When you do a site visit - what is a purpose of that?

Are you trying to notice any issues to make a builder fix them?
But I assume one has to be a qualified builder to be able to do that.
Or it is just pure interest and nothing more?

Cheers.

Harts · Jun 01, 2021 7:27 pm

ZSasha

May I ask you a question, guys?

When you do a site visit - what is a purpose of that?

Are you trying to notice any issues to make a builder fix them?
But I assume one has to be a qualified builder to be able to do that.
Or it is just pure interest and nothing more?

Cheers.

It is highly recommended that you visit your building site and when there take photos of everything. If you do see an issue discuss with your builder and if no joy, the Building Surveyor. Far too many houses are being built not according to Regulations, Standards, Codes etc.
Even better hire a private building inspector/building consultant, one that knows what to look for.

Harts · Jun 01, 2021 7:44 pm

Firstbuild20

To all building in Melbourne,

Are builders still required to have 1 trade out on site? Our builder has told me that the delay was due to this. For small scale industry, I thought no more than 5 per site. If you have the link that you can share about this would be great. Thanks

Construction can continue

https://www.vba.vic.gov.au/about/coronavirus

Builderg · Aug 27, 2021 4:09 pm

Does anyone know if we can go beyond 5 km to visit our building site for PCI? I'm thinking it's not allowed but then it is kinda essential to progress the build to completion. Any thoughts?