Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Feb 14, 2008 7:23 am We are loving living in our new home ! https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.p ... &start=315 Re: Anyone else having rain delays in Sydney ? 9Feb 18, 2008 1:06 pm Rikster G'day fellow forum members... I just wondered if there was anyone else suffering rain delays in Sydney ? We are building in Gordon, on the north shore in Sydney & our brickies only manage about 2 days bricklaying a week. This is due to all the rain we keep having. A lot of the time, they can't lay the bricks, because the bricks are wet from the previous days rain. I just keep wondering why they don't cover the brick piles with tarps when it rains, or when they go home. Surely they can't be enjoying only getting paid for 2 days each week either ? Hi Rikster, Check your builder, my understanding is, one of the stages during construction that shouldn't be hurried is the brick layering stage. I was told it's best if they only build certain area up to certain height, then move to another part to wait for the previous part to settle/dry... etc. Ours took 6 weeks to finish (partly due to rain) late last year and it's indeed very painful. But the result was quite good and every trades person who worked on our site said the brick work was excellent. We compared our brick work with a few other sites from the same builder and the quality is indeed much better.... 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 81704 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 73443 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 14588 |