It will smell. Regardless if it has the u bend.

Interesting to see other houses around yours all have similar color tones?
Did the council make it that way? or maybe just the photos.

No it's normal. Throwing unwanted material to next door neighbour is not normal.

My guess is your sewage inspection point.

Yes it's normal after acid wash and usually good buidlers will patch them up.
And it's not sandy usually it's good.

Does typical house build in last 5 years have neutral wire in their switches?

Lol NZ still uses council to do inspections.
I bet houses in your areas would be better.
In Oz it's all private surveyor and before recently it's all appointed by the…

Thanks for your detail examples.:
{I know in ours (& our neighbour) they seem to have screws in every second corrugation of the roof sheets.}
I can't really check my 1st floor…

My SS said, by regulation the sarking should come out a bit from the lip of the roof (not sure if I'm describing it correctly). So naturally it can vibrate…

Was your old house colorbond roof or tile?
Yeah ,the sarking flapping against the colorbond roof and in some cases even vibrating against the colorbond roof. Crazy.. I recorded the…

Hi,
For those of you that have sarking with colorbond roof, do you hear flapping, vibration sound from the sarking during strong windy days.
Man, one of my regret is sarking..…

Great timing.
Imagine your admin stage didn't have all the delays. 😉
And completed your build before July..
Market was not great prior to July.

I reckon cutting pavers with handgrinder is fine.
At the end u need to choose your battles.
Trades people get annoyed when client tries to tell them on how to…

Is flexi storm water pipe bad?

yeah, Hence the problem... And people just go for the bulbs and smart downlights since smart switch is still not popular in Oz.
I found some, but they are…

Is there any smart switch in Oz that's Australian approved that doesn't use bluetooth?

No. Norfolk is definitely not a builder. He had a huge fight with his builder and if u want bad experience story u need to hear Norfolk out.
What he…

It's good discussion to have OP and others thinking.
As oppose to the initial one line reply.

For single storey yeah.
Doubke storey u only lose one quarter.
But anyway as I said it depends.
Definitley true if it those long narrow piece of land.
But if its…

Hmm I tend to disagree. It depends.
Facing east with houses built
boundary to boundary u don't get much sun at all, particularly ground floor. And if it's single storey…

HI,
Did anyone installed a Bosch solution 5000 alarm system in their new build recently?
Do you have remote monitoring installed for it using phone app. All I know is you need…

The steel battens is basically to screw in the plasterboard.
Steel battens attached to floor joist and plasterboard to the battens.
It's not structural support for the 1st floor.
Common…

U can't listen to tradie for financial advise!
If its your PPR. U can't

If you suffer from bad luck. If your old sewer pipe is not cut and left in its existing spot by chance they pour concrete piers for your new slab.…

I'm not sure how other does it.
In my case the framer nail the yellow tongue board to the joist during frame stage.
After lock up stage and before carpeting/flooring.…

Does it slope away 70mm for the 1st meter?

Did u test out the 1st floor for any creaking or squeek?