Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Builder's Structural Warranty - Do You Understand it? 4Nov 21, 2009 11:12 am “It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less” George Bernard Shaw. Re: Builder's Structural Warranty - Do You Understand it? 7Nov 27, 2009 4:41 pm Hmmmm, we either don't know much or we know so much that we consider this trivial and not worth participating in ( again) ... On another note, found a great reference to guarantee / waranty : "We guarantee that warranty is *" (quote from Choice). My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 8Nov 28, 2009 8:41 am Looks like it's the builder's way or the highway ... errr, I mean court (in whatever shape or form). A friend of mine is having an issue with a few years old house (cracking) and the builder is saying it's OK (settlement etc.). Articulation joints are running a short distance from the cracking ... I suppose he'll have to get his own structural engineer to assess and then possibly take the builder to court. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 9Nov 28, 2009 9:04 am Well on our last house they had a 25 year structural guarantee. For the longer guarantee's the main condition is that you still live in the house. (Well it was for ours). So if you sell it, you cant or the new owners can claim on the guarantee. I think I remember thinking, gee even fi you rent it out there it goes, so it might be as soon as you move out (but how would they know?!). Basically, a longer guarantee wouldnt be the only thing I would look for in a builder because your statutory rights are the ones that are going to be most beneficial to you and thats the 6.5 yr period. I think I still have the document at home somewhere... Might have to have a read through it again for a laugh Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 10Nov 28, 2009 8:51 pm Hmmmmm, that's really sad ... Ms Builder, how do you know there are conditions attached to the 25 yr G? How did you get that and from who? To me, it doesn't make any sense at all that the G is only valid for the original owner - ??? Isn't it the actual building that is guaranteed, so what does it matter who lives in it? It's like making the rule that the rego on the car ceases immediately if the car is sold to someone else? Just trying to get my head around this and these unfair, unnatural, illogical, decadent, dark ages rules and laws .... . My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 11Dec 01, 2009 1:09 pm Wondering if anyone else knows why the guarantee is only valid for the original owner and only while the original owner is living in the house? Any legal eagles out there? Or knowledgable people? My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 13Dec 03, 2009 8:25 pm I don't know but it's not the first time I've heard of such a thing, ie it only applies to the original purchaser. Perhaps because the contract is only between the builder and the first owner? Perhaps it is considered too difficult to administer otherwise? Re: Builder's Structural Guarantee - Do You Understand it? 14Dec 23, 2009 1:12 pm Found something interesting - quote from a publically available doco from Dept of FT NSW: "The subsequent buyers of any property where residential building work was carried out by a contract builder, a ‘spec’ builder, an owner-builder or a developer, are entitled to the benefit of the 7-year statutory warranties applicable to the work." Also: "Under home warranty insurance, a home owner must take action (eg. initiate dispute resolution by lodging a complaint with NSW Fair Trading) to try to have the builder finish any incomplete work and rectify any defective building work. Where a home owner does not take action to enforce a statutory warranty, an insurer may reduce its liability (or the amount paid under a claim) to the extent that the insurers interests have been prejudiced as a result of the home owner not trying to have the builder complete or repair the work." You can be the judge of the rights that home owners have and where the final responsibility ****** for building defects. Owners have the freedom to choose if they are willing to make a complaint to the DoFT. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... the sun master is the solar heating to "warm" the water in the tank the S26 is your hot water system which will heat the water (25 degrees?) so with both turned on you… 2 14133 Assuming you've modelled the TB8, TB10, TB12, TB2 & J1 joists/LVLs there, it appears as per drawing to me. There maybe should be an additional J1 between TB10 and T12 if… 3 31903 |