Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Simonds Homes problems 224Sep 01, 2009 10:44 am Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: Simonds Homes problems 228Sep 02, 2009 9:53 am Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: Simonds Homes problems 230Sep 02, 2009 10:55 am Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: Simonds Homes problems 233Sep 02, 2009 2:43 pm ![]() How many items did you have on your 3 month maintenance? We are trying to avoid having mountains of touchups, and having them patched up now hopefully will save us some trouble later on! Same here, i have tried very hard to get everything fixed before handover... so I don’t have a long list, only 15 items Paint touch up just for cornices (but for nearly the whole house), and the pantry I thought it would be hard to ask them fixing it, especially the pantry, I did sign the PCI showing that it is fixed, but in fact, SS forgot it and i didn’t check, so when they said they are going to fix it, it is a relieve for me ![]() Simonds is hiring an external company to do the maintenance, so my file will be transferred to them and i will be contacted and arrange time for fixing those items.. approx 4-6weeks wait though ![]() Blog - http://clageonewhouse.blogspot.com/ Building Thread - viewtopic.php?f=31&t=10886&hilit=milan I am in, with my husband and my beautiful bunny Re: Simonds Homes problems 234Sep 02, 2009 3:56 pm Wow SherWin, what have they done to your mortar?!?! That would be terrible to see what they've done to it!! I'll make sure that if they fix it, they try to fix it properly. otherwise it'll be terrible having two toned mortar and bricks all the way around the house!! will keep a close eye on it, thanks Sherwin! Claego, its good that they decided to fix that up for you. If its blatantly defective i don't think they have any issue with fixing things. If there were cracks and dints in the wall... they were picked up and will be fixed before handover. The contentious items are the ones they deem to be normal/within standards. I'd like to see their display homes standard to be the standard of mine. I don't think Head office would ever let cornice finishes and paint work like mine to ever be displayed! Keep pushing and get what you are entitled to! I'm planning on doing so, I hope it's worth all the effort! ![]() Re: Simonds Homes problems 236Sep 02, 2009 7:49 pm Hey Sherwin, Thanks for the heads up! The mortar didn't seem as bad as yours i must say. There were bits and pieces that were blown out. But in the end you could probably count them on 2 hands. Mostly around the corners of window sills etc. So i think the Manager at the time didn't seem too fussed in fixing them as he's obviously hoping to close the book on our build as soon as possible! In regards to emailing photo's to head office, we wanted to hold off until after the 2nd PCI before doing so. that way they have a chance to rectify these properly! We have forwarded the complaint to HO and perhaps thats why there was a sudden change of attitude. I can't be sure i'm not within the Company. It shouldn't take a complaint to Head office to provide proper customer service, but in this case and in yours SherWin, seems like it did. That frame photo is an absolute disgrace!!! How that can be approved by anyone as acceptable is absurd!! or blind! I couldn't stop laughing at those overhead cupboards... disbelief comes to mind!! It sucks that they took you so long to rectify these issues. Keep us posted as to how you go with CA and what the building commission say on some of your issues! All the best and give em hell! ![]() Re: Simonds Homes problems 238Sep 02, 2009 9:03 pm The tradies should have the courtesy to knock on your door and tell you what it is they are intending to do on your house! after all they are on your property... I was at the house the other day - and a tradie pulled up, and started saw cutting the mortar in order to cut out a brick on front facade!! He then left without saying a word! Myself and my partner were standing outside the whole time and he didn't bother making eye contact nor did he acknowledge our existence. Must have had a bad day! its crazy what Tradies will do and what they think they can get away with! obviously not all of them are like this... but the bad ones are REALLY bad!! I don't often get a chance to visit the house during the week so i don't get to see what the tradies are doing - its hard, i'm just hoping everything that went smoothly and not too many shortcuts were taken! Were you able to visit while the tradies were onsite Sherwin?? If i could i would have done so! Re: Simonds Homes problems 240Sep 03, 2009 10:48 am We had 1 onsite visit where there were tradies doing their thing. The other times we were on site with the SS there was no work being done on the place! I was interstate on work for pretty much the entire build and would only come back to Melbourne on weekends. Made things hard but we managed! Back in Melbourne now so hence can chase up these issues!! Hoping to hear back from 'S' Soon regarding the status of those defects we picked up on Tuesday, and hopfully a settlement date! Hi all, has anyone been ask to do the weeds in their property while in the middle of build? 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