Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 3Oct 12, 2009 4:04 pm Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 7Oct 12, 2009 9:12 pm 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 8Oct 12, 2009 9:12 pm 'A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.' Louis Pasteur Vegie garden: viewtopic.php?f=19&t=27637&start=0 My Backyard Adventure Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 9Oct 13, 2009 8:21 am Fiffaro We've been sent an invoice, despite having no glass in the bi-fold doors, or any locking mechanism on them. When I inspected with our independent building inspector today, (pre-plaster inspection) we could see the door blowing in the wind and damage has already occurred where it has blown back against the brickwork. They have also had to remove some of the brick work to rectify a slab 'blow-out' that was drawn to their attention when the brick work was only about 30% complete, and which H3nley did not appear to inspect until after the brick work was complete. I have assumed that a door is fixed when the wind can no longer blow it around. Surely it is not fixed until then??? Damage to the door is a separate issue and having locks on the doors doesn't seem to have a bearing on whether "lock up stage" has been reached or not. But if your brickwork is incomplete, I wouldn't be paying. We held off on a couple of stages because work wasn't done to a satisfactory standard and had no argument from our builder. Let them know in writing that you won't be paying until the brickwork is complete and refer them back to the definition of lock up stage, particularly the part about external cladding being completed. If they have a problem with that, I'm sure they'll let you know. Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 11Oct 13, 2009 12:02 pm Thank you all for your replies and your suggestions. I vacillate between agreeing with Sierra that keeping the building process moving quickly is important and thinking that if we let them get away with this, what else will they try. Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! Re: Victoria - Lock-up stage definition? 12Oct 16, 2009 1:14 am Since I last wrote, our lender advised us that their valuer had inspected the building and that it was not at lock up stage, and hence they would only permit a part payment of the invoice, and that only if I was happy for this to be done. Our builder admitted that they do accept part payments and agreed for us to do this. They then sent us a very interesting email, in which they seemed to be arguing that the building had reached lock up stage, because the lack of completion of the cladding around the front door was caused by them waiting for more cladding to be delivered! Out lender also very gently wrapped us over the knuckles for approving a payment for a stage when it had not actually been completed, but we had raised these issues with the builder who did not respond until the day the invoice was due. Pfiff Finally making progress again, with a clothesline (yippee) and some much needed little things being attended to over the holidays. 40 C on New Year's eve? We love our a/c! 1 3403 I ran into trouble finding a lock that would fit my particular door, like your situation with your pivot door. I wanted a safe lock that couldn't be messed with easily. 4 25692 Hi folks, Victoria resident here. I've submitted my owner builder application to the VBA. I thought I'd share my experience so far. I submitted my application… 0 6179 |