The number of penalties handed out compared to the number of sub standard home built would be an interesting stat. Fact is builders get away with murder

How long is it going to last? It's been going on for donkey's years and it's not going to change anytime soon

Got a top job done for $4750

That's pretty typical and when you take into account travel time and the fact that he's probably required to spend time in the office you can consider yourself lucky if…

Wny paint? Paint almost invariably lifts and then you've got to patch.
Floor tiles like these http://www.garagestorageworld.com.au/pr ... -flooring/ are great
If you spill paint or something on…

These PVC tiles are great for a garage. get a few spares and you can easily replace any that get paint spattered or similar. Yet to see a paint coating…

Not an uncommon problem, Some good info here but also a range of excuses that will probably mean a lot of finger pointing and zero acceptance of responsibility

There are now entire streets in our suburb where all the houses have dark roofs, and yards covered in dark pavers/fake grass. This needs to be stopped

Looking at that wording I'd agree with IamSam. You didn't ever have sarking included as a standard inclusion. The $980 is for basic sarking which happens to be anti glare

It's going to be under your roof covering so it's not going to be exposed to the sun for there to be any glare. Can't see any point in it…

Must be a unique evaporative system then as evaporative systems rely on replacement of air rather than recirculation.
Air is dawn in from outside through the cooling pads and is blown…

Evaporative cooling doesn't need a return air vent.
Refrigerated air conditioning does but it's normally in the ceiling
Wall vents are just to keep air moving in double brick walls

Is that a return air vent or just one of those wall vents?

Who did you pay for the job? Smartstone or the mason?

Caesarstone have their own liquid cleaner which works very well and is quite cheap considering how little you have to use

Tumeric

Young family? Vinyl is the way to go. Kids will drop things etc.
Bamboo and timber laminates for all the talk damage very easily and are an expensive proposition to repair.…

White/Off white front door are not a good idea if they are going to see windborne dust and rain. We have a Surfmist front door and wish we'd never done…

New globe didn't help. Ended up getting a sparky to change all 4 downlights to an integral type (TAYLOR 9W CCT CHANGING LED DIMMABLE)
Lesson learnt here? People who say…

I imagine there'd be something on Product Review if that's how hundreds of their homes have been built.

Your Site Supervisor is trying to hide a mistake. There is no way any builder would deliberately have the back of the cupboards visible like that through the window

We've arranged for 3 written quotes.

The old girl is a bit beyond DIY but from what I'm gathering cost should be $100/lineal metre installed absolute tops. The clown that quoted $9k included a $2k "discount"…

Thanks, thought as much

We've had Caesarstone in for 6 years, We cook a lot of curries so turmeric and curry powder marks are common. We use Caeserstone's own cream cleaner and have zero…

Next time it rains check if there's any flow out of the downpipes connected to the gutter on that wall.

Ask yourself why they don't want you to get an Inspector in.

Are you a licenced Electrician? If not you've just broken the law and voided your home insurance