Pre-handover Inspection Today

That's fantastic news Colleen

Lots of luck with the inspection - I'll keep my fingers crossed that Kevin doesn't find too many issues for you.

The countdown to moving in to your lovely home begins

I believe that Matt had a number of issues identified before the inspection and Kevin found another page worth

I plan on using him - even if there's no major defects evident I'd want all defects to be rectified and I want the piece of mind that I've had an un-biased third party opinion.

Major issues....

YES!!

Don't over estimate the builders ability to disguise defects...

They are ** little critters...

Kevin is sneakier!

Firstly... I don't have any photos.

Handover will be on 16 May. I found a few issues, the site supervisor had already found a few of my issues and some of his own, and Kevin found a few more (he found the expensive to fix ones lol). He did find what he said is a big issue, I won't go into details as I have mentioned my builders name in the past and I don't want to land myself in trouble but hopefully they'll be able to rectify it. My brother in law is a builder in country Victoria so I'm going to give him a call over the weekend and talk to him about this issue and see what he thinks, not that I doubt Kevin, I just want someone to explain it to me in "dummy" terms

Kevin is sending me his report on either Monday or Tuesday and I will then send it on to the builder, he verbally went through his list of defects on site so we're already aware of what needs to be done. I was disappointed when I arrived as my carpet was supposed to have been laid on Wednesday but it was not there. They've had a set back and are now supposed to do it tomorrow - I imagine though that the weather might hold them up. Also, my driveway was supposed to have been done today but the ground is too wet for it so they are now hoping for Monday (assuming it stops raining long enough).

Like Ray (I think) said recently, you feel like you've placed about 300 dots around the place. I don't think it was that many but there sure is a lot of repainting to be done!

This afternoon, after the inspection, I arranged for Telstra to connect the phone line. My trenches and lead in pipe (or whatever the preliminary stuff is) has all been done as part of my build, so I just need Telstra to do their bit. I'm hoping it can be done by the end of next week and then I can aim to get my internet connected before I move in - I can't live without the net

I've received all my final papers, and the certificate of occupancy, so I just need to get insurance and then I'll send all this stuff off to my lender with a request for a final cheque. I researched the home insurance thing a few months ago but I'm going to do some quick online quotes again to see if anything has changed.

I'd definitely recommend Kevin's services for anyone who is a newbie to building, like me. He found things I was too overwhelmed to even think of looking for internally, and he went over the external areas and found issues there too. He's also seems to have a good knowledge of the building code.

Oh, and I'd like to add my name to the list of people who aren't overly impressed with the "builder's clean". I actually had to ask whether the cleaner had even been (which apparently he had). I'm thinking then that the builder's clean doesn't include cleaning the floors, as the tiles looked the same as they did last time I looked through the windows, or cleaning the dust off the window ledges (or the dead flies), or cleaning the bench top... but the windows were fairly clean.