Browse Forums Building A New House Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 308Jul 08, 2015 9:34 pm noisuf Hey Harmelb, how did your re-inspection go? Our reinspection of defects is happening on Monday. I can only assume handover will occur soon after that if all issues raised are ok? Our re-inspection didn't go as good as expected... Most of the issues were fixed inappropriately . The painting still looks awful and the SS is trying to defend by saying that as per Australian std only those marks that are visible from 1.5 m are to be addressed, which sounds stupid... We haven't given up yet and have escalated things to the CSR. She has followed up on those and the issues are likely to be fixed by this week end. Also the decking has a few Knots and holes in it which the SS says that is a common characteristic of timber and this complies with the Australian standard and will not be getting replaced. It looks awful and was wondering if that's the case with everyone? How did your re-inspection go? Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 309Jul 08, 2015 9:39 pm msangs23 Hi harmelb/noisuf, Did you get the Building Inspector to do the PCI and you attended the PCS? We had our building inspector inspect the house on the PCI day while our SS was walking us through all the electrical items, cabinets and other items in the house... Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 310Jul 08, 2015 11:18 pm harmelb noisuf How did your re-inspection go? Our reinspection didn't go too badly......still a few issues that needed to be resolved. I should be seeing the SS again on Monday to sign off hopefully and get the keys next Wed. Fingers crossed. Hopefully you will have a better experience and get closer to settlement too. Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 311Jul 08, 2015 11:19 pm msangs23 Thanks noisuf. Did you have a PCS aswell? Did you sign any documents on your PCI inspection day? Not sure what you mean by PCS... The SS gave us a copy of the signed completion of works inspection report Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 313Jul 09, 2015 2:51 pm msangs23 When do you sign off the documents on your re-inspection day? The issues are yet to be fixed...We would be signing off the documents once it's all done... The bank is yet to do its final inspection and then the final payment... So the handover is a few steps away... Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 314Jul 09, 2015 2:55 pm Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 315Jul 16, 2015 2:57 pm Great news ... We are having our handover tomorrow... We have been going back and forth on certain items such as painting and kitchen tiles, but ultimately everything is fixed now.. We got our floor tiles delivered today and the tiler would start the tiling tomorrow after handover... Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 316Jul 16, 2015 9:53 pm harmelb Great news ... We are having our handover tomorrow... We have been going back and forth on certain items such as painting and kitchen tiles, but ultimately everything is fixed now.. We got our floor tiles delivered today and the tiler would start the tiling tomorrow after handover... Congrats!!!!! We got our keys on Wed. Weekends are not going to be mine for the next 2 years...........haha.... Good luck. PS. You will pick stuff up after you get the keys, no matter how comprehensive you were in the inspections.... Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 317Jul 17, 2015 10:03 am noisuf Congrats!!!!! We got our keys on Wed. Weekends are not going to be mine for the next 2 years...........haha.... Good luck. PS. You will pick stuff up after you get the keys, no matter how comprehensive you were in the inspections.... Congrats to you as well... Did you take any pictures of your finished home . I would love to see those...Did you move to your new home ? Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 318Jul 17, 2015 10:09 am dran15 He is going to email me tommorrow with PCI and Handover date. How is your build going dran? Did you have your PCI? We had to have multiple inspections after the PCI to get the defects rectified ... They don't fix everything at a single go and do things only if we nag them about it... Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 319Jul 17, 2015 5:56 pm We got our keys today... Can't express how excited I am... We didn't think this morning that we would be having the handover today as the paint touch ups were yet to be completed ... Then we got a written email from the SS assuring us that it would be done afternoon.. Anyways, it's all done and time to finish off the left over jobs and move on... Re: Our Simonds Harcrest in Melbourne 320Jul 17, 2015 6:31 pm Keys! Congratulations that's very exciting. 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