Thanks Canberra_gal, I will definitely contact master builder association
Hi Jimbo05,
So the occupation certificate or interim OC included in your handover? is it part of delivery from the builder…

Thank you very much.

Thanks Franky,
Quite stressed.
Metricon organised everything with a private certifier called New Home Building Certification Group, I assume a lot of M's clients use them through M.
Franky, did you get IOC…

Is it normal practice? I just found it very hard to understand that we spent a lot of money on the house, and when the house is handed over…

Is interim OC or OC part of loan reqirement and its bilder's responsibility? When you had handover, is OC or IOC part of things handover to us?

Thanks very much,
Is IOC Metricon's responsibility? Is this written in the contract? Or part of loan requirement?
We are in St George area, but we are using private certifier and do…

Thanks. The brick overhang is approximately 35mm. The builder finally filled the overhang with some kind of concrete, I think. Now we were told the engineer would come back to…

Thanks very much.
Driveway is actually not part of the contract, we are planning to do driveway after we move in because we are currently renting and lease expiring very…

Thanks for the link!
ours is a private certifier, can we change to another private certifier or change to council or get a second opinion from another certifier in regards to…

Congratulations SteveMC!
Hi Everyone,
PROBLEM in getting either interim occupation certificate or occupation certificate
Just as we were prepared to compromise issues related to painting, grouting and skirting etc, we are prepared…

Thanks Everyone,
PROBLEM in getting either interim occupation certificate or occupation certificate
Just as we were prepared to compromise issues related to painting, grouting and skirting etc, we are prepared to…

Hi Everyone,
We were advised by our builder and had our prehand inspection and settlement booked for tomorrow, but now because the following, we are not sure we should settle because…

Thanks, Franky for sharing your experience. Hope your pool and landscaping issues get resolved soon.

Hi Franky, how was your experience with post handover maintenance team? Have you had things fixed by the maintenance team post handover? Do they come to fix issues quickly? …

Hi HMGBuild, we have the same issue with our alfesco beams. Beam is splitting and paint is cracking and starting to peel. See pic below. Did your beams get fixed…

Thanks, Franky.

Congratulations, Glendale. Your house is beautiful. Love the kitchen.

Hi Franky, did you endup putting Megaseal in your shower recesses? If you did, how did you find the product? We looking at putting it one of our shower recess.…

Hi Franky, with the termite protection, were the chemicals already in or you had to organise it yourself? Thanks.

Thanks so much Ponzu
Feel frustrated due to lack of knowledge and experience in these areas. Your message sheds the light and enlightened me indeed! I checked the contract…

Thanks very much everyone
Feel frustrated due to lack of knowledge and experience in these areas. Can SM refuse us being there because of occupation health and safety concerns etc? but…

Hi everyone,
We were told we have reached practical completion by Metricon. When requesting to accompany our independent practical completion inspection PCI inspector, we were told we can not accompany the…

Hi everyone,
We were told we have reached practical completion by our builder Metricon. When requesting to accompany our independent practical completion inspection PCI inspector, we were told we can not…

Hi Franky, there is a gap between our garage door and the brick wall. Is this normal? Or is the gap supposed to be silled with a rubber strip? Thanks.

Thanks Franky, jsmi & Orpheus.

Thanks, Orpheus & Aria. My contract does not specify the number of hinges.

Hi Franky. There is a gap all around our stove. We have a similar stove to yours. Does yours have a gap like pics below? Thanks.

Orpheus, where in the contract does it say that the front door is 5 hinges? We found that there's only 4 hinges for our main door.

Nice cake.

Stunning, Orpheus!!