Browse Forums Building A New House Re: New build with Hallbury homes 12Jul 04, 2019 12:57 pm 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: New build with Hallbury homes 13Jul 04, 2019 2:22 pm Dcj8 Hi I’m experiencing the same with my build. I previously had someone called Claude, a great supervisor. This person called Bradley, is just crap. Yes we had Claude too who we were really happy with. In saying that a lot of the problems that are cropping up now may perhaps have been under his supervision and have been transferred to our new guy. But the new guy just doesn’t seem to be there often enough to be noticing them. It’s really awkward and frustrating when we have to point out things like that above rangehood being clearly not centered. And many other things Re: New build with Hallbury homes 14Jul 04, 2019 2:25 pm So firstly Thankyou very very much for your detailed reply and taking note of something we didn’t even know was an issue. Due to the recent issues we will be getting in an independent inspector for the PCI. In relation to what you have raised I have read your post about 5 times and it still Goes over my head. Is this something that we need to raise with them now or I should I leave it with the independent inspector to raise in their report ? Thankyou again Re: New build with Hallbury homes 15Jul 04, 2019 3:42 pm KDRSEMELB In relation to what you have raised I have read your post about 5 times and it still Goes over my head. Is this something that we need to raise with them now or I should I leave it with the independent inspector to raise in their report ? I tried to estimate the roof areas off one of your plans on another thread. Just try to go through it section by section and it will fall in place. It will be best if you have a grasp on what is required for compliance. There are two issues, poor design and non compliance. Poor design is where they have a lot of water directed to a small area of gutter which then has to travel a long distance to the downpipe, how far it travels I can't see but a downpipe should have been plumbed at the house end of the gutter for efficiency. A lot of gutters overflow in that scenario even when the roof drainage is compliant. I wish I knew the roof area harvested by the upper downpipe because I would love to know the total roof catchment area drained to the lower downpipe. Eaves gutter roof drainage compliance is based on a regions 1:20 ARI which then determines the maximum roof area that can be harvested by set gutter and downpipe sizes. It is rare not to have houses with slotted gutters now as they provide an emergency overflow requirement but slotted gutters have a smaller cross sectional area than the same size and shape non slotted gutter. If a large roof area is harvested, then large gutters and downpipes are required. There is a chart in AS/NZS 3500.3 which references different combinations of the 1:20 ARI, the roof catchment area and the gutter and downpipe sizes. Unfortunately in Victoria, plumbers sign off on their own work and the Building Surveyor sights and accepts the certificate of compliance as proof of compliance. Your independent building consultant almost certainly won't recognise roof drainage non compliance but he should be able to understand the issue if he reads my notes. I have no doubt that you have non compliance because there is still roof area x that doesn't figure in my guesstimates. I would discuss it with him and he should be able to work out the roof areas drained from the plan. I am sure that it is a 22.5 degree roof slope and so he only needs to multiply the house plan roof areas drained to the lower downpipe by 1.21 to factor the catchment area. Most people have damaging overflows over garden beds, you have concrete but the concrete also makes plumbing a downpipe next to the house impractical. The overflows will only happen during heavy rain and it may be preferable to cutting the concrete. The first thing to do is find out the gutter's cross sectional area as that will tell you the maximum roof catchment area that can be diverted. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Re: New build with Hallbury homes 16Jul 04, 2019 5:55 pm Dcj8 KDRSEMELB Dcj8 Hi I’m experiencing the same with my build. I previously had someone called Claude, a great supervisor. This person called Bradley, is just crap. What are the invoices for? That’s really odd and poor communication. I just had a long phone call with our site supervisors manager and feel a lot better about things. He told me that he was very surprised our house is in its current state and when I brought up all of my issues he genuinely seemed to be on the same page about rectifying them. We used “new home inspections” for thre slab stage and then not again but now tossing up to use them again which would be $730 or darbecca who I just had a quote from at $1350 Re: New build with Hallbury homes 17Jul 04, 2019 5:57 pm Dcj8 Do you think they can throw us any invoice (with the final bill) that they come across to cover their costs? We have not provided with any variations nor have been advised of them before. They want us to pay for scaffolding they had for Hebel which we know were idle for many weeks as the Hebel workers only worked on Sundays. I had enough of this build already. I have no idea about the legalities of it all but surely things like scadfollsing should have been taken into account in the initial cost proposal and not after the majority of build. Re: New build with Hallbury homes 18Jul 04, 2019 6:00 pm Thankyou. Still going over my head. But my husbands bestie is a carpenter and whisky. It the same trade he generally knows this kind of stuff so going to run it past him tonight. Also I raised it when I spoke to the building manager this afternoon and he said to forward any doubts of compliance to him and he will make sure it’s rectified. So will chat with our mate then use your posts to forward to the builders for clarification. Thanks again Re: New build with Hallbury homes 19Jul 05, 2019 9:40 pm Hey guys I've moved in. I have a different building supervisor. He is pretty good but it's tough for them too. Look to be honest. These guys say they build high end homes but in reality are doing high end looks with the lowest grade materials possible. I've been in for 2 months and still having people round fixing defects. I cringe every time I find a new one as it can be a bit of a battle to get anything rectified. I would advise you double check everything. We found some of our windows weren't the right type of glass and lots of other things too. Good luck. Happy to speak via primate message if you need anything. Getting landscaping done now.... another pain in the bum. Re: New build with Hallbury homes 20Jul 25, 2019 6:46 pm Seems like every building project with custom or volume has its issues. We are meeting Hallbury this weekend for an initial design meeting. Will also then inspect quality of display homes. Based on your overall spend are you happy with the end product? Would you have spent another $2-$k a square for a better finish? Easy to say in hindsight but this is my challenge the moment, go with volume, go with mid level volume with customisations, go with custom or try and do a mix of custom and me finishing it off. Conscious of quality finishing and what you actually get for your money. I also have a sloping block and some great height that I don't want to lose with a deep cut. Hi there! Putting the feelers out there for those who have (or almost) built with Arli homes! Interested in your experiences who've built from their stock home designs… 0 23198 Thank you so much everyone. This all makes a lot of sense. I guess when you talk to a builder who butters up everything to look very polished, you get to start believing… 7 17198 3 47363 |