Building new home

[schmidty]

Originally Posted by chich

They are the rules but as far as i'm concerned they're complete BS. At the end of the day I'm the one paying $250+K to build my home on my own land - I have every right to barge in and inspect whatever i want, when ever i want within reason. The large companies simply use the law as a justification to keep you out off the site as long as possible so you don't realise that the studs are 1m apart before the house is closed up.

Thats what frame inspections are for, and also why the builder has to offer a warranty. Do you think they are deliberately going to try and shaft you knowing they might end up getting blasted by the building comission and have to fork out to do the job again??

The reason these rules exist, is like everything these days, to cater to the lowest common denominator! Its because some tripper went onsite and tripped over a stick or timber, brick, length of pipe or stood on a piece of timber with a nail hanging out and sued the builder! The insurance costs enough as it is, ad 1 of the stipulations on the policy is no unauthorised people on the site without permission, ir being accompanied by an unauthorised person.

Personally i dont have a problem with anyone walking onto the site when i'm working there, i've got nothing to hide, but if i aggree to them coming onto the job, and they fall of my ladder then the liability lays on my shoulders.

Also you wouldnt believe how many owners act like the friggen construction police. Plenty of know alls around. And they are keen to judge your work before the job is complete. People don't realise although they are trying to look after their best interest, they really aren't. They make things more difficult for themselves.

Had a mate who used to go around every night and pick the crap out of everyones work. The next day he'd call the builder and complain about everything. did it day in day out. Used to go for a quick look when people were working there, and leave a window the tiniest bit unlatched then go back later with a note pad. It bit him when his house was finished and he wanted the handover to happen instantly. Instead they left it sit until the end of the contract period to stick it up him. He also wanted to get inside to put a floating floor down, but the builder wouldnt have a bar of it, told him to wait until handover. Only reason that got done was because i knew the builder and made some calls. Wasn't prepared to intervene with the handover issue, was well deserved.