Went out on Sat and Sun to install some more sound proofing insulation to some of the internal walls and tidy up some of the wiring. I have now added speaker cables to the family room, dining room and Alfresco areas. I have also completed all the wall insulation between the kids bedrooms, the bathroom and toilet, ensuite toilet and upper storey waste wall cavity to cut down on the noise transfer.
On Sat morning 'K' arrived for his inspection (a very nice bloke BTW). He did a thorough check of the place and was 'reasonably' happy with the work to date. He said most of the things he found were common across a lot of homes.
I have included a brief (but not complete) list of items:
- various missing noggings
- double studs on the end of the openings to doorways should be tied together to prevent movement
- Selected walls out of plumb
- The Bathroom window has been installed and trimmed around externally up to 12mm out of level
- The brick vent which has been installed in the side wall for the Powder room exhaust fan has not been placed in the correct location and will need to be relocated
- Some of the articulation joints around this house and garage have been constructed without any foam backing in them and as a result are now full of mortar
- Flashing needs to be finished off where the rumpus rm roof meets the back of the second storey
- the sewerage vent is located too close to the Evaporative Cooler on the roof (2.5m) Needs to be min of 5m.
- excessive mortar build up over the pipework along the side wall which will hinder drainage
- corners on the Garage slab have broken away resulting in the bottom corner bricks being partially unsupported
Overall I don't believe these items to be significant to what I have seen and read about from other new home owners, nor do I believe that it would take long for 'F' to get them rectified. I will be organising a catch up with him later this week hopefully to see how he has addressed these.
Oh... and BTW... we are now at Lock up Stage and the invoice has arrived to prove it! $$$ :-(
No pics this time, but I will make sure I get some next post as the scaffolding should have been dismantled by then - woohoo.
4 comments:
Sounds as though you've had a good crew working on your place...hmm....I wonder what K would say about our rough-in job???!!! While we are looking forward to being at lock up, we are also dreading the rather significant drain on the bank balance that it entails...bit of a bummer, that, isn't it??!!! Look forward to those pics without the ugly scaffolding (that we're just in the process of having erected!)
I've been walking past your place and it looks fantastic, hope you haven't had too many hassles... I wish I had have known about having your own independant building inspector... luckily we live and learn and next time I'll be onto it. Kirsty.
Thanks Kirsty. Are you in the dark brick house that is getting a new retaining wall built across the front?
Well done Tim, sounds like you've been busy getting all your gear in the walls!
Hope the meeting with "F" goes/went okay and that he's happy to fix up what Kevin picked up. Just wondering if Kevin picked up many more mistakes than the BSS guy?
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