How often do you visit your site?

domwild · May 22, 2020 8:45 am

Norfolk had us all worried with his statement re responsibility, but he is a realist and shows us the duties of his/hers for upt to 15 builds. In my case the supervisor has not told the truth, but I managed to get evidence beforehand. He has not given me his mobile, so like in the navy, he is using a "buffer" and she may even forget sometimes to pass my complaint on. I do not think he has ever replied directly to any of my complaints/suggestions, the best I can hope for to be told by the buffer she has passed it on.

I believe to go to the Building Commission early early to get a $600 refund for flawed cavity insulation installation may set a precedent, that I am not to be trifled with?? Wish me luck.

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.