Browse Forums Building A New House Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 781Jul 05, 2017 11:30 am So on the capping issue (below) and the tray gutter/box gutter/flashing/whatever thing they've got going on behind there, Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ our SS ended up meeting the roof company boss yesterday instead of today. It has been confirmed that what is there currently is not correct and there is a meeting Friday morning between the roof guy, SS, construction manager, head draftee to work out what the solution will be. Whatever it is will become the new norm for this facade. Surely we are not the first Amalfi since the box gutter regs changed!?! Either way, our drawings were worked on multiple times since then (including when they changed the garage roof to suit the new box gutter rules) and we somehow made it by the building surveyors when we got the permit. I'm frustrated, but at least they're dealing with it, they could have easily looked the other way. Best of all he's not hiding anything from us, like the last guy did when I asked about this issue. It pays to be all over the details and have an inspector to back you up. Not sure if this has any impact on the plaster starting Friday, I'd rather they pause and sort out this hole first, but I won't be surprised if they push on, it wouldn't be the first house that wasn't water tight to get plaster. Front window should go in this week! It must have come Monday but they didn't want to take it off the truck in the rain. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 782Jul 05, 2017 7:58 pm Window is in! Plumber looks to have been. No sign of the insulation guys but it wasn't dark yet Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ A whole 48 hours since our neighbours slab was finished and most of their first floor frame is up, crazy! Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 783Jul 06, 2017 2:53 pm Tomorrow's meeting has been pushed to Monday . I'm starting to feel the delay frustration again. I'm assuming once they figure out what to do there will be another wait for them to do it. I'm not anticipating it will be simple. I guess now I have the whole weekend to brush up on my roof penetration flashing knowledge. Still no sign of the insulation guys, but I'm assuming the plaster has probably been pushed again anyway. The guys that do the site clean we're turning into our street as I left today, hopefully they were headed to ours. Some sort of progress would be nice. Almost can't see the north side anymore! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Tuesday we will have been on site for 4 months! We're inching towards lockup but I fear it might still be a while away. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 785Jul 06, 2017 4:05 pm aloenyx Eee, one step forward, two steps back It is looking good. Hopefully they can sort this issue out quickly for you. Shame about the meeting being pushed back though. That's very much how it feels at the moment . I was so looking forward to getting some more questions answered tomorrow. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 786Jul 07, 2017 9:24 am #!?% Plasterers are onsite and we have no confirmation that the insulation is fixed! I'm furious! Apparently our SS got a text last night to say it was done. Seriously are they nocturnal! We went past at 6 and it wasn't done. He's going to check later this morning . At the rate they're working it will be too late. Hubby spoke to the plasterers and was able to confirm our bedroom wall hasn't been fixed! So we have no paper, it's torn down, a gas pipe that is jammed between the bricks and the frame and excess mortar, all creating the perfect bridge for moisture to come through. Should be an exciting day but instead I'm freaking out and angry . Why can't anyone do their job properly!!! Not to mention we have an open top on the pier in our bedroom and no capping on the roof above the laundry! And a temporary down pipe that has been tucked over the bricks so that it's draining in to the wall on the corner of the master! I wouldn't be surprised if a builder on the neighbours lot put it there because all our water is going on to their site. How many times do we need to tell them to reattach the temp down pipes!?! A thermal imaging camera will be used at the final inspection and I swear they will not be getting away with an inch of those walls not being insulated Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 787Jul 07, 2017 10:59 am So we've been sent some pictures. None showing the corners where the ceiling insulation didn't meet the walls, but i guess they can employ a small child to squeeze in our low roof to fix that if need be. They have done one of the roughest looking jobs I've ever seen but it looks to be patched. SS or the plasterers have taped up the paper in at least the worst spot. Doesn't really solve the issue of the pipe the brickies didn't cut around. Didn't get any pictures of the rest so who knows. I don't believe any of the other issues on our inspection report, ceiling battens with bits removed, loose framing around manhole, and tears in heating ducts have been addressed. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 790Jul 07, 2017 1:42 pm OMG Bank, just catching up.... I can't believe how much you've pointed out to them and they haven't said if it's been fixed or not I would insist on them covering the pipes that are coming out of the roof that haven't been capped. We told our SS about ours and nothing was done till AFTER it had rained and water leaked through the house. To make things worse our SS said that he went up into the ceiling and saw no water damage to the plasterboard!!! Apparently it just hit the pipe and ran down. Pigs a**!!! Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 791Jul 07, 2017 2:19 pm Sorry about your issues ;-; its annoying when you point it out, and it would take such little effort to do it properly. Doesn't anyone take pride in their work anymore? Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 792Jul 07, 2017 6:11 pm aloenyx Sorry about your issues ;-; its annoying when you point it out, and it would take such little effort to do it properly. Doesn't anyone take pride in their work anymore? It doesn't seem that they do! Seriously, why do the insulation guys keep turning up in the dark and ignoring the SS's instruction to fix the paper?! They are employed by the people who supply the insulation not the builder. I'd love to know what their day jobs are, doesn't seem to be installing insulation. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Bricks finished! 793Jul 08, 2017 3:17 pm Plasterers are onsite again today so we still haven't been able to get a "closer" look . Hubby wanted to go last night in case they were there today, I told him not to be silly, we haven't had any Saturday work since the site cut. Turns out he was right, oops. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Someone has "installed" some temporary capping to the pier. I hope the wind doesn't pick up, we could take out one of the chippies, that are stealing our power, next door! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 794Jul 08, 2017 7:56 pm Yay for plasterers!! Especially on a Saturday, but for not being able to check it out properly. That's what happened to me on Friday.. I wanted to check it out in detail, but people was working.. Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 795Jul 10, 2017 4:15 pm So we've had our meeting re the flashing/gutter situation. It's not one hundred percent decided what will happen but basically there needs to be a sump, down pipe and overflow pipe come out of the drain that is beside the pier. They will cut the down pipe back into the inside of the pier so it won't run all the way down on the outside but the overflow pipe has to be able to be seen, so it will run to the ceiling of the porch. Then we have to cover all this ugliness up. First option is to extend the porch cladding (rendered basalt) up on the front but not the side because then you won't be able to see the overflow pipe. This won't be happening. Both construction guys liked this option, Drafting, hubby and I agreed that it would look stupid. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Second option was to box it out with the timber cladding that will be on the house wall behind. Drafting and I thought that would be a bit less obvious, but to be honest all options suck! Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Third would be just to build it all out of monument so it blends with the bricks and hope for the best. After all the fascia and eave lining will hide the gutter and most of the sump then there will just be 2 75mm pipes, one of which will go through the bricks and the other down behind the porch cladding. All this to deal with the water runoff from a piece of roof a couple of meters by 600. The regulations are ridiculous! The plumber did imply that he could leave it the way it is if we were willing to ignore our inspectors report because the odds of the job being audited are slim. I'm content that it will work fine but he wouldn't then straighten out the capping because he's used that to hide the 75mm depth (min box gutter depth) that he has created behind there. So he will ignore the need for an actual box gutter but still wants the depth of a box gutter . In the end I said just fix the plumbing, keep it as small as you can and we'll work out how best to hide it once we can see what is there. But now I just don't know, I'm getting angrier by the minute. This should have been sorted out during the design phase. Whatever happens they're ruining a very expensive facade. And shortly after I get home an email comes with the lock up invoice! Seriously! I'm very temped to reply with - How about you finish the roof and the rest of the wall cladding first! Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 796Jul 10, 2017 4:36 pm Now for the more fun stuff! Lots of photos! Plastering is done except for sanding. Late Saturday I was able to see between the gap that is hidden by the cornice that the ceiling insulation still doesn't run all the way to the walls . I was itching to point this out at the meeting today, but the bloody plasterers came back Sunday morning and did the cornice!! Anyway, we just have to hope the thermal imaging camera does what it is supposed to do! 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That's a Sunday, so SS thought it would start either Friday or next Monday. Some of the stuff for eaves and the like had been delivered but no design-a-clad yet. Chippy will start Wednesday and we'll have another walk through Friday next week once he has finished. Plumber was there working on moving the shower drain and will probably do the island bench conduit tomorrow depending on how long the shower takes. He had also finally fixed the water connection! Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 798Jul 10, 2017 6:23 pm Up, down, up, down for you today!! YAY for the plaster DD and all the other progress. Kitchen is exciting D Boo for the issues with the facade. I don't understand, is yours the first using that facade?? How could this not be worked out previously?? I'm not sure I like any of those solutions either... Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 799Jul 10, 2017 6:47 pm Looking awesome bank... sounds like your facade is suffering though Bring on the kitchen!!! - B A vue of the pines on the Gold Coast forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87210 Re: JG King modified Heywood - Plaster 800Jul 10, 2017 10:27 pm aloenyx Up, down, up, down for you today!! YAY for the plaster DD and all the other progress. Kitchen is exciting D Boo for the issues with the facade. I don't understand, is yours the first using that facade?? How could this not be worked out previously?? I'm not sure I like any of those solutions either... Certainly not the first time this facade has been built. Could in theory (although unlikely) be the first time since they tightened up some plumbing rules about a year ago. It was a difficult meeting, between the chippies next door using their generator and the plumber inside our place cutting concrete we couldn't hear each other. From what I gathered from the draftee this probably isn't the first time, but the first time someone has had an inspector pick it up. I've brought this on myself because I'm the one who pointed it out to the inspector and told him I wanted it built to the plans not as it is built. Tonight we're thinking we might be better to tell them to leave it as it is and put up with it being a little bit ugly than a lot ugly. I would never build with Fowler homes. I built with them in 2021 and till date maintenance issues are pending. All their existing trades and businesses don't work with… 14 105591 1 7955 Hmmm, I have checked your past posts and it seems that you are in NSW, not WA as I had thought. It pays to show your State in your avatar. Retaining wall regulations… 5 7864 |