I think you need to give a bit more information. Where in the building is this picture? - maybe give us a picture or two that shows more than…

If you only heat your house with a wood heater you will find that it tends to dry the air out in the house.
See the following link (since this is…

Another frame issue...
You may have noticed in some of the pictures in my last couple of posts that there is plastic around the bottom of the frame. This…

Some more frame pictures. No attempt was made to keep the frame clean or dry during the delay caused by the slab problem.

The frame
The steel frame of our house has not fared too well during all this repair work. In some places, use of cutting and grinding tools adjacent to the…

Unfortunately, I suspect similar things happen with most project home builders once something goes wrong.

Putting this all together on here so far has been a good exercise and has helped me to see it more clearly. You're right - the BACV should be…

wakeboardandy - yeah - everyone we have talked to , or who has seen it has said the same thing - when it comes to overhangs and underhangs, our slab…

Carlswill and mdzzj- we have tried to give JG King every opportunity to fix this. It would be best for all of us to reach an acceptable solution. …

Wakeboardandy - I think the issue isn't just that mistakes are made - it's how they're fixed. As for demolish and rebuild - it's easier said than done. …

So, we felt that JG King had proceeded with a significant variation to the original plans without our agreement and we thought this violated the contract. I called the…

Deemaree - there is the BACV. We may yet end up complaining to them. They can do an inspection report and try to mediate any disputes but they…

Deemaree - you may be right. But as you will see as I continue the saga, the only way that will happen is if we go to VCAT.…

To find out how wide the western edge beam was after the concreter had removed a large piece of it, a hole was drilled through it. We discovered that…

Things start to snowball...
I forgot one detail. Before we had a chance to either agree to or refuse the first proposed solution, we met onsite with the local JG…

Bluesteel - if only it was that simple. A new frame would help, but not completely solve the problem as none of the sides of the slab were straight.…

Thanks for the reply mervyn. The saga has a long way to go for us to catch up to the present. As far as independent engineer's reports -…

Here are the initial dimension problems with the slab, wall by wall, as measured by the builder's engineer:
Wall 1: Slab extends beyond frame 20mm at one end and 115 mm…

I have no intention of posting any objectionable information. Just a factual account of what we are going through. I agree that it's wrong to rant and rave…

We are building with JG King and have had a lot of problems so far. I've decided to start a thread because things do not seem to be getting…

I used to think like this... until I had the misfortune of being one of the people in the bad experience group. I will never again build with a…

An obvious problem that doesn't look like it could cause anywhere near the amount of trouble it has caused ...

Bingo!
Apparently this angle iron is some sort of antigravity device that can hold the frame up without even touching it!
I'll post photo 2 in the series later tonight...

I'm about to start a thread about our home build. But in the meantime, I thought it might be fun to start a game of "What's wrong with this…

We are in Victoria, building with a different builder in a BAL-19 zone. It's BAL-19 because we have a few gum trees on and near our property - basically…

Hels - you guessed right - none of the edges are straight - most are nowhere near straight. One edge tapered about 10 cm over a 9m length (before…

We're still trying to sort it out. The biggest problem is where the slab extends out beyond the frame. It extends by so much that it can't just…

I'd take a small flood over our stuff up any day ...
The concreter got the dimensions of the slab totally wrong. It's short of the frame in some…

question answered - Thanks!

Does anyone know...
Are the polystyrene pods used in waffle pod slabs solid polystyrene or are they hollow?