Money well spent!
The report was emailed to me late last night, but I didn't see it until today.
CG were keen to see it so I sent them a copy once I had read it.
As others have sais, the NHI report is very clear, detailed and references the specific Australian Standard Building codes.
The inspector found quite a few shortcomings, many but not all, introduced since the last inspection. Types of things found related largely to changes that plumbers and others had introduced that would have had long term impacts to the house, such as possibly creaking floors due to cut timber supports allowing too much movement between struts, lack of noggins in some of the woodwork, that would have resulted in difficulty getting the plaster up (and to have it stay without issue), and a number of technical matters.
Pretty impressive report, and CG naturally offered to jump right on it, rescheduled the work for next week, so as to address the raised issues. CG have always told me that they value additional private inspections, they do multiple levels of inspection themselves, but they value "a fresh set of eyes", and seem to truly want to deliver a product of the highest order. I really cant imagine there are too many builders where the site supervisor is allowed to just make this call, and action it.
I am blown away, of all the normal worries of a small family, I am delighted to report that the house build itself seems to be the least, which is not what I expected when I started this journey.
Showing posts with label Roof Trusses. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Roof Trusses. Show all posts
Friday, 5 July 2013
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
Day 119 - Ready to tile garage roof
Roof trusses have been built, tiles delivered, scaffold erected - only thing missing is someone to place the tiles on the roof - hopefully tomorrow.
Quad has been nailed to the eaves, and work has commenced on connecting the downpipes to the roof. Lockup must be close
Quad has been nailed to the eaves, and work has commenced on connecting the downpipes to the roof. Lockup must be close
Monday, 20 May 2013
Day 82 - Scaffold has come down, now the insulation and hebal can go up, and the roofing can be finalised
No other action though.
Promised solar panels not installed, and unlikely to be now due to the scaffolds being down - until the wall scaffolds reach the roof again). 

The rain may be keeping everyone away - from my place, and two other CG builds in the area that I can see (2 builds within 500 metres of our temp accommodation)
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
Day 62 - Tile roof complete
Saturday 27th April extra safety platforms went up around the house
Monday 29th colour bond rear roof and all gutters installed
Tuesday 30th all roof tiles on, and heating and cooling ducts started to be installed
Monday 29th colour bond rear roof and all gutters installed
Tuesday 30th all roof tiles on, and heating and cooling ducts started to be installed
Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Day 49 - Roof trusses arrive and go up
We now have the skeleton of a house, balcony is almost complete, steel frames seem complete, rear trusses are up, main house trusses are up and as of last night we are only missing the trusses over the master bedroom and the garage.
Drive by in the morning on the way to work of the trusses being delivered, most of which were installed by the time I had a look in on my way home from work (below)
This is a view of the flat roof trusses from the dining room, and the balcony trusses behind over the kitchen
Getting dark early, but this is the roof trusses over the rear balcony.
Drive by in the morning on the way to work of the trusses being delivered, most of which were installed by the time I had a look in on my way home from work (below)
This is a view of the flat roof trusses from the dining room, and the balcony trusses behind over the kitchen
Getting dark early, but this is the roof trusses over the rear balcony.
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