Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Faults appearing a year after building. What course of a 2Jun 18, 2020 9:20 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: Faults appearing a year after building.What course of ac 6Jul 12, 2020 8:55 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: Faults appearing a year after building.What course of ac 8Jul 13, 2020 6:13 am 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: Faults appearing a year after building.What course of ac 9Jul 14, 2020 2:49 pm SaveH2O Your other posts show that you are in Victoria. Homeone Forums have a large number of experts in various fields who have joined as advertisers which also supports the forum's continuance and some of these experts also give their time to provide advice to forum members. Two of the best Victorian experts in this field are "insider" who has had a lot of experience with heaved sites and also "building-expert", a highly credentialled former builder who does inspections and has often given expert witness at VCAT. I strongly suggest that you get in touch with building-expert. I have linked his website's blog below. Have a read through it before contacting him. https://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog/ You have also started a new thread dealing with this subject and provided additional information in that thread that should have been posted in this thread. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=99576 As per information you have posted in the new thread and what has been posted here, I offer the following. I don't know whether the finished surface level has been compacted but if so and if it is considered not permeable, it is still not compliant with the BCA regulation that requires an impermeable surface level in your zone of rainfall intensity to be a minimum 75mm below the DPC and sloped away from the house. If the surface is permeable, the gap must be 150mm. One photo indicates that the finished surface level is above the DPC in some areas. The builder's documented written advice to raise the lower finished surface levels is ridiculous. As per the NCC, Part 2. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Click on the above to enlarge. The stormwater grate seen in one photo is above the minimum 75mm gap required for an impermeable finished surface level to be below the DPC. The cracking needs to be monitored and recorded. As per information in the other thread, the builder has shown poor judgement by instructing painters to attend and fill the cracked sections as you and others now have no visible indication of the true extent of the cracking. Filling and painting cracks is not fixing the issue, it is disguising the consequence of the issue. The builder's directive in this matter is 'puzzling', particularly given discovery of the builder's prior experience with such issues. The house has apparently been handed over with non compliant site drainage away from the house. Do you have photos of the site drainage during construction and again, what is your soil classification? Thank you for the recommendation. I have now booked an inspection with Building Experts. I was originally going with New Home Inspections as I have seen their inspection reports before which were very comprehensive but went with Building Experts based on their reputation in this forum. Hope it pays off. Re: Faults appearing a year after building.What course of ac 10Aug 06, 2021 10:27 pm SaveH2O Master Builders represent their members, not the buyers. Contracted referenced Standards are what you go by. Unfortunately you can only notify the builder in writing, take photos that show a refernce to size of cracks and monitor the situation over the next 12 - 24 months. Cracks up to 2mm wide are not considered abnormal but you could consider having some slab levels taken to be used as this early reference point. Your situation has been experienced many times before by other Homeone members, if you use appropriate key words to do a forum search, you will be able to read about the time frames and experience of others. The steps they took may assist to understanding your own situation a bit better. Did you take many photos during construction that show the perimeter drainage and was the house handed over with the correct surface slope away from the house? If there is a slope or pooling problem, you need to rectify it ASAP. Did you have a recorded CCTV inspection of all stormwater and drain pipes prior to handover? Hi there - do you have any contacts that could assist with a cctv inspection of storm water and drain pipes? Do any building inspectors offer this service? Is it recommended prior to handover? Re: Faults appearing a year after building.What course of ac 11Aug 06, 2021 10:51 pm Metropolis Solutions do forensic plumbing investigations and are the go to people. If you do a forum search, their name will come up in several threads. Have a read of their website before contacting them. https://metropolis.melbourne/ I have always highly recommended that new home buyers have a forensic plumbing inspection prior to handover, particularly when building on reactive soil. In Victoria, about 50% of drain pipe installations inspected have been found to be non compliant and H1 is littered with with posts detailing major problems stemming from faulty installations. Again in Victoria, most probably more than 50% of all new home builds over many years have had non compliant roof/stormwater drainage. https://www.vba.vic.gov.au/news/news/20 ... fix-issues 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. Thankyou for your advice. We do have Caesar coming out and hopefully resolve the issue for us. 4 18766 Have look at your house plans and you will probably find that brick articulation joint has been missed. Maximum allowable spacing is 6M or 5.5M for a wall with window… 17 20619 Your house roof does not show rusting other than some surface rust on the flashings. 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