Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building delays and claims 2Apr 15, 2011 8:02 am First thing i would do is arm myself with weather info of the days around the claimed date. And go from there. Hope you can find it here,just look for your building area. Apparantly a rain day is 5.0mm or more,from what i have read on here somewhere. http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDN60901 ... 5765.shtml
Re: Building delays and claims 3Apr 15, 2011 8:16 am Maybe they made a mistake with the date. I would chase it up, just to let them know you are watching them. Metricon Riva 33 - http://herlihy-riva.blogspot.com Site start 15/03/2010 - Handover 23/12/2010 9 months and 8 days (284 calendar days) from site start to handover Re: Building delays and claims 5Apr 16, 2011 6:59 pm I think they probably can claim it anyway. They may reasonably argue that even though they did their best to maintain construction during the weather, the rain prevented performing a particular task (e.g. because of OH&S and a wet roof) or site access for a particular piece of equipment which then had to be rescheduled for a later date resulting in a delay. Matt's Brando: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=46340 Started March 30th 2011 PCI July 15th Re: Building delays and claims 7Apr 17, 2011 12:00 am It did pour like crazy at our site too. But that was the day they put the roof trusses over the garage, completed framing and invoiced me the very next day for framing completion. I mean the one day is really not a big deal but certainly it reflects on their work ethics and integrity. Tarneit : The Reserve Just to makea point about this, an approach that some people have found sucessful in negotiating these rises down, Is to provide some workings to the builder, specifying… 4 81999 In fairness nobody gave a crap about the ACCC and the gag clauses continued in the pro forma templates of a few other builders after the ACCC took on Wisdom, and more… 19 74246 While i was across this behavior's pre appointing my (the builders) surveyor, I did tell the builder i was aware what they were doing and while i disagreed with it, they… 13 14684 |