Fingers crossed they get everything in the inspectors report fixed before then!!
All the best Melt, what a long journey it’s been.
Browse Forums Building A New House Re: My build in Bloomdale- Handover not accepted ☹️ 232Jun 22, 2018 9:02 pm I totally agree, I had the biggest meltdown on our second PCI walk through. I don't think they care all I got told was everyone is overworked. Good luck I have enjoyed watching your built. Melt23 Cscmjb It's so stressful we build 20 years ago I don't remember being as stress as I felt building our house now. We have been in for a month our front door is 6mm out. I got a man out to come and measure for security doors, he has stated he is not installing them until the builder fixes the problem. I will never build again. I truly hope you are in your house soon. Thankyou- I hope your builder fixes your door without too much hassle! I’m not sure if standards in the building industry have gone downhill in the recent years but it just feels wrong that you have to fight with the builder to get a quality house that meets standards when you pay so much for the build! Re: My build in Bloomdale- Handover not accepted ☹️ 233Jun 23, 2018 9:28 am Melt23 Thankyou- I hope your builder fixes your door without too much hassle! I’m not sure if standards in the building industry have gone downhill in the recent years but it just feels wrong that you have to fight with the builder to get a quality house that meets standards when you pay so much for the build! I don’t want to excuse the poor job your building is doing and you should chase this to the bitter end. But just to answer your question regarding house quality. 1. Houses these days are more complex. Multiple bathrooms, heating cooling, rendering, stone bench tops, WIR etc none of this stuff was common 20-30 years ago but now they are expected at all price points. Problem is margins in the domestic building industry is poor. This is compounded by the next point. 2. Internet age allows people to compare headline specs of a home easily between builders. This puts a lot of pressure to compete on spec sheets in particular the price sensitive segment of market. In order to still make a living, builders needs to cut corners that’s not on the spec sheet. This is where the expectations of the home owner and builder leads to disappointment. The home owner expects quality job at an affordable price, these 2 things are naturally contradictory. Quality isn’t cheap. But the builder can’t cut corners on spec sheet materials as it will drive the buyer away through all that google comparison work. So they have to cut corners that’s not in the contract. 3. In order for builders in particular the price sensitive end to survive they cut corners like labour and things that’s behind the plaster and floor coverings. Quality trades are expensive, the best ones are reserved by top end builders in exclusive contracts. The middle tier has a large variance and usually reserved by mid range volume builders. Go down from there and it gets *******. SS ets split across way more jobs the lower end of the spectrum you go. Unfortunately I think your builder has let you down here and used some very sub par sub contractors. Things that you don’t see are things like timber thickness, water proofing area etc. That ceiling plaster warp don’t happen on higher end houses because they use laser leveled aluminium guide rails accurate to 1mm to long ceiling runs and the plasterboard attach to that instead of roof joists. The thing is none of this stuff appears on spec sheet pre contract and that’s where the expectation and reality clash. At end of the day it comes to $$s not size of builder. The experience at the higher end is very different. Building Standards; Getting It Right! We are building on a zero-lot. The first-floor windows on the zero-lot side is 1.2m away from the boundary. There are 3 windows on that side of the house in the first… 0 343 Can you give advice on how to get missing certificates needed for a form 21? Our bank requires us to provide one but we are missing 4 building certificates from our first… 3 71729 yes it does, you've just not understood it. theres a difference. 4 5205 |