Oops

I think that might be what our SS said today (or perhaps something stronger?!). 

We were concerned that the expansion joint in our slab had received no termite protection treatments.  Our building inspector at work suggested I contact the company that issued the building permit as they are required to have all the termite treatment information prior to a Certificate of Occupancy being issued.  To cut a long story short the company contracted to provide the termite protection treatments were never told that we had an expansion joint and so it hadn't been treated.  We're furious.  It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet for termites.

I'm impressed with the service we received from Plan Scan.  I was put straight through to the surveyor who issued our permit - he listened to my concerns, promised to follow up on it and then rang me back to let me know the outcome.  I only wish Metricon's customer service was half as good!

We had our final inspection last Thursday and when I have calmed down a bit more I'll post about it.

Red dots

No pictures today.  The house is finished.  The Certificate of Occupancy has been ordered and it's time for the final inspections to begin.  Hopefully this isn't going to be a drawn out process as the sale of our house settles on the 8th December!

I went up to the new house today and there are red dots everywhere!  I'm assuming this means that the Metricon quality assurance people have been through the house and it looks like our tradespeople have some work to do.  We can't get inside the house so I'm not sure how many dots are inside but there are a lot of red dots on our windows.  There's a number of bent frames where is looks like they've been dropped before they've been installed, there's windows that meet at the top and have 7mm gaps at the bottom and yet other windows that have gaps at the top, meet in the middle and have gaps at the bottom again.  Short of pulling out the windows I'm not really sure what can be done to fix some of the problems - but I'm sure Metricon will come up with something.

Still waiting on a few other issues to be resolved.  They include:

• Obtaining a credit (or at the very least not being charged) for work we completed,
• Adequate termite protection,
• Payment of the electricity bills (as our land is larger than 700m2 we had to arrange the electricity connection so it's in our name, not Metricon's)
• Credit for the tree guards (temporary fencing to go around trees on our nature strip) listed in our contract.  When we signed our contract we argued that these weren't necessary and it would be better to put a guard around our water meter, but we were told they were mandatory and couldn't be removed from the contract.  The tree guards were never even on site, let alone erected, but our water meter did get run over within days of the site start!