Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Builder's Warranty Query 2Jul 30, 2020 10:52 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: Builder's Warranty Query 4Jul 31, 2020 10:37 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: Builder's Warranty Query 5Aug 01, 2020 6:36 am SaveH2O Caught between a crock and a tard place. tard Noun (plural 'tards)
@SaveH20 that is a pretty offensive way to describe someone It is a shorten version of a word used inappropriately to describe someone with a mental disability. Re: Builder's Warranty Query 6Aug 01, 2020 10:17 am @ forrestmount, you obviously do not know the background of the context I used to describe the VBA. The etymology of the word retard is traced back to the Latin words re (meaning back) and tardus (meaning slow) from which the Latin retardare was derived. It is often used in different context, for example, to retard a motor or pump, an expression commonly used in the industry I am in. Merriam-Webster define retard as a transitive verb and states "to delay or impede the development or progress of : to slow up especially by preventing or hindering advance or accomplishment." Numerous lexicons have similar and other meanings. The VBA was set up with retarded regulatory powers and while their powers have been incrementally increased by small degrees over the years, the organisational structure and resultant failures to act on issues to protect new home buyers is still very real. What I find offensive is their history of ignoring and/or failing to act on serious non compliant construction issues and bad building practices that cause new home owners dreams to evaporate in financial ruin, broken marriages and documented suicides. Anyone of reasonable intelligence familiar with the VBA knows that the failure of those in positions of power to remodel the now discredited VBA into a respected regulatory body that protects new home buyers rather than continuing with unfathomable lack of actions and/or poor decisions that often lack any semblance of intelligent/knowledgeable reasoning reasonably casts doubt over the intelligence of those responsible for those decisions. As such, I stand by my description of this offensive 'regulatory' body, those responsible for establishing the VBA as a toothless tiger and those in positions of power who have failed to exercise their consumer responsibility and social conscience to bring about much needed regulatory changes to protect new home owners. 3in1 Supadiverta. Rainwater Harvesting Best Practice using syphonic drainage. Cleaner Neater Smarter Cheaper Supa Gutter Pumper. A low cost syphonic eaves gutter overflow solution. 2 7209 There is no reason why building contract reconciliation cannot be done prior to handover, if the builder won't do it get someone to do it for you. Why would you pay for… 3 6690 |