Did they use Anticon under the roof sheets?

You need to go to Consumer affairs, they will give advice and also act on your behalf (depending on state you are in) there are laws that protect Consumer against…

Is there a doorway in the hallway / passage?

It gets very tricky from an insurance point of view, in Western Australia you would have to take out another building license as an owner builder to do the remaining…

I'm pretty sure you only need a floor waste in the laundry, bathroom and ensuite (other than the shower recess) if there is no overflow on the vanity basin or…

Hi tb124abc, it depends what state your in, if your on the East Coast all the trades have to be licensed it's very doubtful you could bring in someone from…

If there is a floor above it you can't have a raking ceiling

Which builder? Sounds a bit suss

I didn't say the quality was bad, only what the board is made of, but thank you all very much for supporting Australian manufacturing and industry

I wouldn't be getting cabinets from China, there is a well known cabinet maker in Perth that was installing cabinets made in China for a large builder, that cabinet maker…

DIY if you are handy, not 100% about the external plaster, may be worth going to a specialist paint shop i.e. Dulux or Wattyl and show them the pictures, it…

Don't bother lodging a complaint with the building commission you will be wasting your money, if you google WA guide to tolerances and standards (a publication from the building commission)…

Brickwork should be fully complete and that's not complete, hard to tell by the picture but doesn't look like brickwork above the internal door is in either. I would get…

It's definitely not included as per the wording of the item, so it's your responsibility. I think its more of a moral obligation from the builder they should of told…

No consequences for using H3, it's the same timber with a higher treatment level, it's going to cost you a fair bit more but no problems using it at all

Might want to look at a Facebook group called $honkybuilderswa (with an S not a $) I think there might be a few things there on them.

Hi Newgirl,
You need to say what state you are in, building contracts are different for each state

StructuralBIMGuy you must be living under a rock to say society trusts Enginners it would be the same as saying I'm going to get lucky with Angelina Jolie!
Look at…

Hi Mick,
I would suggest you're in WA and if so it is more than likely one of the big project builders, if all is correct it seems a little long,…

Once again structualBIMguy you show that you have no idea what your talking about, you have a habit of it

To put it into prospective a gang of 5 or 6 lay between 8,000 to 10,000 bricks on a single storey house and that would take a week, so between…

Yep I'm an estimator, have been for about 15 years, those price increases are all cost, they are Sub-contract rates for labour, so before Covid19 we were paying $1:20+GST…

This is what is happening in Perth, I have tracked all major increases since January 2021 (There are others I haven't worried about) this is on top of the increases…

Used Kelsie Davies a few times, she is very good and never had any dramas
https://www.kdla.com.au/

Sorry that imagine is shocking it's Bluescope steel Technical Bullet TB-34, just google that

Here is an industry bulletin from Bluescope personally I don't like steel framing and much prefer timber.
It's borderline with Bluescope is regards to neing that close…