Thanks Danois for your tips.
I am trying my luck out there again...

Still waiting...

No one is happy with their driveways??? That's scary.

If so, would you please give me your concretor's contact? I am looking for someone to do our driveway and I do not want to try my luck (which I…

Hi all,
We have had a bad experience with our 4-month-old concrete driveway: wrong color, cracks, powdery surface. Our concretor agreed to take it out for us for free but he…

We have about 700 left over face bricks, off white cement 6bags*2kg/bag, abou 1 ton of white sand for sale. The bricks are Austral Alsphat, smooth surface. Want to sell…

Hi,
The plumber hit rocks when he was digging for the underground watertanks. In our contract, there is no indicated price for rock excavation. The builder has not charged us yet…

Thanks everyone for your thoughts!
We finally decided not to use one. The builder provides 3 month check sort of thing so we can live in the house, feel the wrongs…

Hi all,
Me again. A lot of problems during the build.
Today we found the plumber installed our wall mounted basin's drainage pipe like this.
Now my questions, how can they…

Hi all,
We found our house slab is higher than the natural ground height so some part of the slab is exposed. Our land is sloping from back to front so…

Hi Kiki,
Oh, still no start? Why?
Jin

Thanks everyone!
We think we will use one.
Jin

Hi all,
We are getting very close to the handover and I am wondering if we should hire an inspector to do walk-through with us before we make the final payment.
If…

wall and ceiling insulation is not part of the base price. these will be charged under basix allowance. in our case, it was about $4K.
there are a lot of other…

Hi Simon,
That's a long list of upgrades! May I know how much did AV Jennings charge you for that?
We are building with them as well. We got our CDC today…

Hi,
We are building with them as well, in NSW. I just want to say your site cost is not high compare to ours. Ours is 45K for site costs (1…

Thanks!

Thanks! I am building in upper north shore. Do you mind telling me more about how you use his service, like how many inspections he should carry out for your…

Hi,
We are going to start building soon (I hope) and we are looking into hiring an independent inspector to check the building quality. We are building in Sydney, NSW. Can…

Thanks AJW!
Decided not to supply our own, just to save the headaches.

Thanks Kyton,
The builder will let me delete them if I want but I am not sure if I should supply my own.

Hi everyone,
I am wondering if I ask my builder to delete the standard oven and gas cooktop and supply my own, do I need to hire a plumber/electrician to install…

Thanks everyone!
I will get it connected to the rainwater tank then.
Jessica

Hi Jessica, where are you building? We were told by our builder in Melbourne that they would NOT do this. We fought over it, and they still refused,…

Hi everyone,
My builder is asking me if I want my washing machine to be connected to rainwater tank. The CS girl said most people do and it can earn points…

Thanks for your input.
I am sure there are honest builders out there. And for those who are not honest, shouldn't we fight for our rights or just put up with…

Thanks bashworth!
If the contract price increased due to things unable to be foreseen, I wouldn't think they are unreasonable.
For example, the clause about us paying for the cost if the…

Hi everyone,
Here is our drama.
We paid our deposit with a major builder in NSW in July 2010 and they carried out a survey on our block. Tender 1 in Oct,…

Hello Michelle,
May I have his contact details as well?
Thanks!
Jessica