Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Jan 27, 2008 4:26 pm Hello everyone
We have our contract and it stipulates the following: "The CLIENT is to undertake the construction of underground stormwater drains (roof and surface stormwater disposal)... after handover of the home, all within coucil and developer requirements and to engeneer's specifications." We were told we are basically responsible for connecting the downpipe to a system to take the water away from the house. We will be having 7 downpipes (at least 1 hooked up to a water tank) coming from all sides of the house. How would we go about doing this??? On the road to building our 1st home Re: Has anyone had this before? 2Jan 27, 2008 4:30 pm I just got told this from my plumber that, that is the norm now.
Luckily not when I built 20 years ago! Get an independent plumber to advise you. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Has anyone had this before? 3Jan 27, 2008 6:43 pm Our builder told us if we wanted him to do the stormwater it would cost over 2k. So we are organizing for someone else to do it. Re: Has anyone had this before? 4Jan 27, 2008 9:59 pm Is your builder looking after the water tank thing or are you doing it by yourself? My understanding is, if you let them do it they will look after it at least to the boundary (which means to the front fence of your property), and you can either (1) let your builder connect all pipes to mains, or (2) get your own plumber to connect to the mains...
Not sure which area you are building, it might be different for every state/council as well. Might also want to check with the council... Have you signed the contract yet? If not, shop around and ask for 2nd opnion from other builders. They will be very happy to explain all these to you if make them feel like "you might build with them"... That is a really good attitude Akin to you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I do enjoy watching that tik tok inspector from Victoria but he does go a little… 12 81847 Hi All, we are starting to think of building with Masterpiece Builders in Victoria, has anyone had any feedback or experience with them 0 13567 Hi we are looking to talk to people who have built with them recently. We have signed mid range built contract but identified that a lot of things are not included.… 0 646 |