Browse Forums Building A New House Re: compensation help needed 2Jan 14, 2010 8:34 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: compensation help needed 4Jan 14, 2010 9:05 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: compensation help needed 8Jan 14, 2010 9:57 am I agree with mdzzj. Get a few quotes for full replacement and that is the starting point in $$ terms for compensation discussions. Of course, whether or not you actually go ahead with the replacement is not the point. Re: compensation help needed 9Jan 14, 2010 10:11 am Yep as they've said The cost of compensation is the cost of ripping up what they've done, purchasing the timber that can be stained and the labor involved. Then tell them to leave what they've done and get something nice added to the house or get the final price of construction reduced. ---------------------------------------- Building the PD Lisbon 24 http://www.porterdavis.com.au/#homeviewer/lisbon/24 Blog of our progress. http://lisbon24.blogspot.com/ Homeone build thread https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=28665 Re: compensation help needed 10Jan 14, 2010 6:23 pm Thanks everyone. They rang today and we told them we would like them stack stoned. They said they would consider doing it for us but we'd have to sign a waiver that if they all fall off they are not responsible.... NO WAY. I have put to them they can give us the money for us to get it all stack stoned ourselves after hand over. Will keep you updated. Thanks again Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6982 Building Standards; Getting It Right! Don't think they are designed for double brick. WA has a particular way of building and unfortunately that's the way a large amount of sills are finished. 3 7066 Any structural alteration to your home requires building permit. Before you get it you will have to supply plans with structural assessment, you will also be removing… 2 4174 |