Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 88Jan 24, 2019 7:50 am Could anyone on here share at what point can or should we bring the inspector for the practical completion stage? Can we bring them in prior to handover? We were advised by Ausbuild that no more inspections can be scheduled until practical completion. Just wondering if that’s correct. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 89Jan 24, 2019 3:48 pm I think that's when you'd really want to be bringing the inspector in - once practical completion has been reached (and probably as soon as possible after). That way if your inspector finds anything, it can be addressed between then and handover. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 90Feb 06, 2019 9:24 pm Irish16 Countertops and sinks have gone in. Front rendered (still to be painted). Downpipes installed. Internal paintwork commenced. (Please excuse the mess...) Very happy with how everything is coming together 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 ⋅ Hi Irish Just wondering what choices you have for your cabinets & benchtops in bathroom pics? All looks great! Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 91Feb 07, 2019 10:19 am davenatjack Irish16 Countertops and sinks have gone in. Front rendered (still to be painted). Downpipes installed. Internal paintwork commenced. (Please excuse the mess...) Very happy with how everything is coming together 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 ⋅ Hi Irish Just wondering what choices you have for your cabinets & benchtops in bathroom pics? All looks great! Thank you!!! Davenatjack, tiles are Atlantis Ghiaccio from the National tiles, both floor and walls. Benchtop is Silestone Marengo. Cabinets are Laminex Mushrooms linea. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 92Mar 02, 2019 7:29 pm Hi Irish, Just wondering how you went with your PCI on your build? Ours is scheduled for March 28, so interested to see if you picked up on anything that we should look out for. We are on Sarsfield Place Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 93Mar 02, 2019 8:04 pm Benji924 Hi Irish, Just wondering how you went with your PCI on your build? Ours is scheduled for March 28, so interested to see if you picked up on anything that we should look out for. We are on Sarsfield Place Hi Benji, We had an external inspector at our PC walkthrough. He said that our house was one of the better ones at Harrington (our inspector has done several PC inspections at the estate) and that Ausbuild has improved their processes a lot in the past few months... this was encouraging to hear. There were no major issues, although quite a few areas required paint touch ups or cleaning. The biggest things were a power point too close to a down pipe and wrong colour splashback on one of the kitchen walls. About half of the issues were rectified before handover which was a week ago. The rest of the outstanding items would be rectified within four weeks (items from inspector’s report). Although since moving in we’ve noticed that one of the downlights is going on and off which we will be reporting. I recommend to get an inspector, even just to get reassurance that there are no major issues. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 94Mar 02, 2019 8:05 pm Benji924 Hi Irish, Just wondering how you went with your PCI on your build? Ours is scheduled for March 28, so interested to see if you picked up on anything that we should look out for. We are on Sarsfield Place Congrats on your PC date! It’s so exciting once you get the keys and walk through the house for the first time by yourself and realise it’s yours Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 95Mar 03, 2019 11:54 am Thanks for the info! its reassuring to hear that you didn't have any major issues. We've tried to keep on top of things and were out at our house every weekend looking at things and our SS has been pretty good at rectifying any issues we found along the way. If you don't mind could you possibly share with me the details of the inspector you used, just send me a PM or something Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 96Mar 03, 2019 12:53 pm Benji924 Thanks for the info! its reassuring to hear that you didn't have any major issues. We've tried to keep on top of things and were out at our house every weekend looking at things and our SS has been pretty good at rectifying any issues we found along the way. If you don't mind could you possibly share with me the details of the inspector you used, just send me a PM or something We used AllInspect (recommended by someone from stage 1), they’ve done quite a few inspections at the estate. Our inspectors name was David something, we got the report that same evening. Another one I’ve heard of people using was KSpec. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 97Mar 08, 2019 2:54 pm I was the first to use All Inspect in the Harrington Estate and recommended David from All Inspect to many. David is great. The Ausbuild guys dislike him very much simply because he is so good at his job. Just a word of warning, our handover was 06/12 and were advised the outstanding items from PCI would be rectified by Christmas. We still have items outstanding and it's been almost 4 months. Only this week a few of the outstanding items have been resolved after threatening further action. Once they have your money you go straight to the bottom of the priority list. Also, sinks have been dropping out in several of the houses in the estate. The stone installer was using the incorrect glue. So keep an eye on this and if it happens ensure they use epoxy to rectify. It's a known issue. Re: Building with Ausbuild at Harrington Estate, Bridgeman D 98Apr 07, 2019 12:22 pm Hi everyone, so our slab goes down tommorrow....just see that most of you used Kspec- wondering if u can advise what their pricing is approx? I am thinking of engaging them for stage inspections.... cheers Emma A lot of those Covenants are put in place at the time the Developers are still involved and marketing a certain look and they get ignored or expire after a time. 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