Porter Davis homes

Oh my god Naama!! 238 tonnes!! That is crazy! Was there a lot of asbestos in that or did they have to take that much as a precaution? I really hope you can get the money back from somewhere.

Hurrow, I hope things get sorted out for you asap. The waiting is so painful, especially when it's waiting for someone else to do their job!

We haven't progressed to much. We have hit another hiccup now.. In January I contacted the council to organise out planning permit, I was told by the nice person in the council planning department that we do not require one. Great news. Last week PD advised me they had submitted the plans to council for approval and they think that will take around 5 weeks. I contacted the council again to see if this was a realistic time frame, then the guy I spoke to said have you organised your planning permit, I said no, because I was told we do not require one. He then said oh, I think you might. So I contacted PD and the came back with 'the building surveyor said you do not require one'. I asked them to get the building surveyor to contact to the council to clarify this and then a week later I get an email saying sorry, yes you do need one it was overlooked. I'm just so annoyed that I was all over this in January and both the council and building surveyor said it's not required.

This it what they do for a living, how did they miss it. So now we need to arrange a meeting with the council to discuss the planning permit and then make the application and wait for a result, as well as paying for it. So who knows how long it will take. I will be insisting that they do it as a priority as it's their fault it wasn't done earlier due to them giving me the wrong information.

Do you want me to tell him

DH asked me to take down the comment about the epa just in case it's still not ok to say even here..

Better to be on the safe side! I love your positive attitude it's a great outlook to have. I really hope we don't run into issues with asbestos as we don't have the extra cash to pay to get rid of it.

Naama, so sorry to hear about all your asbestos problems, but at least it is getting to an end now. Agree with you - long term peace of mind is more important. Hope you can recover some of the costs from the previous owner.

nikil Not very surprised with the sloppiness of the Permits team. I went through the same hell. They just don't know how to do their job and even refuse to hear from their own customers. I'd suggest taking up your case with the customer advocacy team and tell them you won't be shy going higher up in the PD Chain to get attention.

There doesn't seem to be much communication between the various departments at PD. And building as a whole seems unnecessarily complex, so many different sets of rules and processes, all of which need to be signed off one after the other. I'm still happy that we're building as we will hopefully end up with what we want, but gee it sure would have been a lot easier to have just bought an existing property!

I think youre talking about roof sarking - it's not required and an upgrade with almost all builders. It's like weather wrap on houses except for the roof. In my case we had to have it because we built in a bushfire prone area so we paid for that and a number of other requirements. I will say that it helps with insulation & keeping the place a bit cooler, also better protection in the event there may be a leak to the roof.

I think if you have colourbond roofing you are supposed to have sarking regardless of whether you are in a bushfire area or not. We have a BAL of 12.5 so we will be having it anyway.

We had the colorbond steel room promotion, but it specifically said sarking was not included in the promotion. We added sarking as an addon:

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