$7 Million Build Nightmare | Engineering Plan Error…
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- Опубліковано 14 вер 2023
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Great way to start the weekend with some non-compliance.
I love the smell of a schamozzle in the morning!
Loll I dream of non compliance
Or the best way to start weekend is saying…. THANK GOD THIS IS NOT MY $7,000,000. build 😢😢😮😮
How was dinner?
Non-compliant!
@@eliz1957 haha so bloody true! My build cost is pennies in comparison.
Hey mate, carpenter's apprentice here. Really appreciate your videos.
Started researching all specifications related to what we do noting them down and its helped alot. Appreciate you
The government should be doing this with every purchase.
thank you for taking pride in the quality of your work
That’s awesome to, that’s the attitude every chippy, every trade, needs to adopt and take pride in their work. Cutting corners just to do something quicker or cheaper is only going to affect yourself and others in the long term, financially also.
All the best in your career brother
None of this non compliant work is ever going to change until certifiers become more liable for passing/certifying non compliant work. Any non compliant work found after being certified should be rectified by the certifier at their cost... that will soon get them to be more diligent.
watching this while sitting in a large complex of apartments all with flat outdoor balconies with water ponding around the drains and strata levies being raised to repair the resulting water problems.
I've watched quite a few of these videos now. From what I've seen, the builders would go broke if the noncompliant work was actually recitifed properly. The insepctors passing the dodgy work lose their licence, and pay a fine.
@@jumboegg5845 why do they do it incorrectly in the first place? Aussies are too dumb?
So you think certifiers have hundreds of thousands of dollars to fix these houses? That will just lead to their being no certifiers at all.
@@J-Bird1234 Make the private certifiers have personal indemnity insurance to cover the costs. It will soon make them clean up their acts if their insurance premiums are through the roof. The incompetent ones will sink and go out of business just like it is with any other profession/business that is incompetent.
What a sad state the Australian building industry is in right now even for high end luxury builds as well.
Agree totally with your estimation...
FYI estimates are indicative only
@@davidsmith-ih2kkwhat estimation 😂😂😂
high end doesnt mean anything when builders and clients will always go for the lowest tender... very rare to see good tradies who know what they are doing doing jobs for cheap
It's a crap chute!
Anyone building a new house in Australia is nuts. Rolling the dice for your entire life's work.
It's so sad the the Aussie government keeps it this way. They have the power to stop this and just won't. ZERO meaningful protections for people getting new builds done..
Electrician that works in high end homes. I don't see many dodgy builds. Only a handful the last 12 years
@@DoomKidall state governments
I've seen some pretty wild existing homes, you'll always have your dodgy tradesman regardless of the era.
I am almost complete with a new home build. However, I had the inspections done and quality was top. Very hard to find an honest builder that will follow BCA standards
Imagine dropping 3mil on the build and the blokes are spot fixing your tiles in the bathroom 😂 Fuck me dead 💀
Tiling is saving heaps of money on the job using less glue lol
@@murry001 So basically scamming the owner
@@murry001not really.... maybe a thousand or two at best for those size bathrooms. Going to cost him way more now to fix.
I've seen guys do better jobs on $250k apartments, but that's going back 15 years... times have changed...
i know, i was paying them out lol@@adamregan4921
Can you plese one day take us to a PERFECT coded house with no issues?. I wanna see what it should look like after 10 years
doesn't exist lol
I'll show you one after the yeti has been caught riding a unicorn.
That’s a unicorn
A whole lot better than 1 with problems from the start.
Neighbours must be real happy having that monstrosity built next to them
Thought the same. The building is cracking it but not as much as the neighbours. Building fence to fence to fence and as high as they can go. Real neighbourly.
Unfortunately it's their land and within the confines of the shire you can squeeze any house onto it. But I take your point and agree.
Yeah the Victorian State Govt makes the planning laws and whoever designed this home built it to within the centimeter of maximums
@@davidsmith-ih2kk
There used to be a law that you needed a meter between certain walls and the property line didn't there? To avoid this kind of shit..
@@DoomKidpretty sure all those old building rules actually still exist in the real world of building and construction! I still think it’s absolutely hilarious - but then I remember the days when blocks were surveyed properly and plumbing and drainage was taken into account when designing the build itself! Some people are just really stupid and think they can bullshit their way through by thoroughly stuffing up not only their own lives but everyone else’s too….how stupid are these people? Even if you’re an owner/builder you should bloodywell fact check what the so-called “professionals” say about everything these days because the so-called “cutting of all the red tape” in terms of building permits etc is what the actual problem is!
those HVL trusses are weathered so badly that I would not pay another penny till replaced. the delamination means structural integrity is gone.
@ site inspections You guys do fantastic work. You guys checked our garage roof works along with kitchen, bathroom, toilet, and laundry and found 45 non compliant issues. We passed on the reports on and have gotten all rectified. Tradies are taking notice
I've been tiling for nearly 20 years unfortunately.... spot fixing vs notching walls has got me in a few arguments over the years . When I started spot fixing was acceptable as tiles were generally a 200x200mm tile and didn't weigh that much , tiles and methods of fixing tiles have changed, large format tiles are a pain in the ass to lay properly and achieve 90%+ coverage. Spot fixing is heaps easier and quicker but at the end of the day it's dodgy, it doesn't comply with the standards. The tiling game has gone to shit if we can't even get the basics right.
U cant hang 30 plus kilos of tile on a wall with a few dots and hope for the best
If your supplying the glue then your gonna take shortcuts in time and cost at the owners expense. You know that your supposed the use a notched trowel and spread the glue everywhere on the intended areas on all walls and butter the back of the tile and in the worst case scenario add blobs to the buttered tile to achieve face alignment … but is and never was permitted in the shower cubicle. Not to be rude it’s only been the Vietnamese, some Koreans and now the Philippino tilers do it because lack of training. Everybody thinks that tiles don’t ‘sweat’ on the backside and that grout is watertight. WRONG…
Monkey see monkey do. 👎🏻
as an electrician sometimes its really hard to bend 16mm2 cable into the distribution box... i guess its much easier if I just use 10mm2 cable instead. (i hope you understand what im getting at.)
@@robmcd I fully understand … do you use the stand on it method or have the apprentice bend it over the wheel barrow handle.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 lol
I've replaced untolds of metres of wall tiles that were "spot fixed."
I started doing remedial (repair) work during the early 80's.
A lot of home owners get the cheapest quote, and that's often why they get a shit quality job done,
and a lot of home owners can't tell the difference twixt a good job, or a shit job.
As far as I can remember, Spotting has never been an acceptable way to attach tiles.
The tiling spec used to state;"There shall be no voids"
Adhesive is cheap; callbacks are expensive.
All these flat roofs seem to be dependent on large amounts of silicone. Silicone does not last!! How is this an acceptable construction technique?
Silicone. Polystyrene cladding. Box gutters and roof plumbing requiring complicated calculations that aren't taught at trade schools. Madness!
Just because you can use a CAD program doesn't mean you should. Idiotic house designs everywhere!
Doesn't matter, they'll demolish the entire thing in 10-15 years anyway. Disposable houses.
My thoughts exactly!
Box gutters and flat roofs are a recipe for disaster.
Flat roof house designs became very popular back in the 60' and 70's in my parents home country of Finland. However, it wasn't long before people found out how problematic they are and how many issues they cause during the lifespan of a building. It is an undisputed fact that flat roof construction is a risky building method with few actual benefits, other than aesthetics.
My Architect always advised to stick to pitch roofs
I would say this building company has either had a change in management and sourced cheaper contractors without the skill set, or have never taken on a build of this size and complexity. Absolutely devastating for the owners.
I would probably agree with that ... or the " tradies" are just sloppy workers who dont maybe even know what a compliant job looks like.
It very much has the vibe of the job just being too big / overwhelming for them
I think the only thing the builder got right was turning up to the right address
There is no better education on correct house building than there videos of yours. Your doing your Aussie mates a very valuable service. Thank You Mate !
BWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
He is only half right, Misses heaps of serious issues. I am a retired building surveyor from NZ and I am stunned that people consider this inspector as good. I'd rate his knowledge as below the average (for a kiwi builder). I'd give him 10 out of a 100 as a building surveyor. I am still stuggling to believe that people pay him.
Bet there’s a whole bunch of tradies that are owed money on this job. ☹️that site looks like it’s been closed up for at least a year.
Every time I watch your vids the thing that impresses me most is your recall of the standards. Even if you're looking them up beforehand, it's still impressive 👍
lay off the weed and it will become less impressive
@@thewhitedwarf3846What pointless snarky shit is this? Considering how many regulations there are it's impressive to be able to name so many and recall what they pertain to right off the top at any moment. Unless you're some kind of autistic savant..
Jesus the level of incompetence of these dodgy habibi builders
I knew the outlet was supposed to be 90mm just from watching your vids. I'm a bus driver 😂. You had the tape on it showing 60mm and i'm like...its supposed to be 90mm isn't it...lol. Then you said 90mm and i'm like "yes!"
our council in QLD forces over 100mm stormwater pipes now TBH now idea why they went 60mm as 90mm cheaper in both pipe and fittings ...
Mate the amount I now know about bucket gutter dimensions and the overflow specifications of high performance roof sumps is out of this world.
I'm a programmer 😅
@@mcspud haha we missed our calling.
@@GregRickardits true!
@@christopherstaples6758they probably had it on hand and pocketed the money.
I feel sorry for the rich guy owner and I’m broke as hell
I have worked in the building construction industry all my working life and this is all pretty typical so nothing here surprised me except the 10amp power cable wired to the fence and scaffold in 2023, wait till worksafe sees that! In the UK and Europe this building would have a "clerk of works" in essence a building inspector working direct for the developer/owner separate to the builder that comes onsite and checks each section of work for compliance and tolerance as they are constructed and as per the drawings so the mistakes cannot multiply and revisions can be made to suit. A typical 3x2 or 4x2 cottage is not a huge problem to fix but multi million dollar developments and houses are usually over complicated to build in very condensed spaces so corners are cut by the trades not necessarily the builder and builder may miss many mistakes until its too late. If the client had enough money to build a 7 million dollar home they should have forked out the money to hire a building inspector from project start to finish because cases like this one only ever end in misery!
When it goes to court both builder and owner will lose plus the owner has to live with the knowledge their 7 million dollar home was only ever "Fixed up" to a standard and was never built to an original excellent standard expected.
It use to be so but we had a Torrie Government who were hell bent on deregulation and importing tradies many couldn't even speak English on 45 visas so small wonder it's gone pear shaped. Building inspectors are not what they once where. We now have USA crap buildings but still no tar paper roofs. I agree with you but...
For a job that size, there would be a project manager who should meet and sit with the trades with plans and get it clear on what is needed. Many times though, the tradies will ignore that and do their own thing as long as the job looks good, nothing more is said about it.
Clerk of works sorts them out, one of the jobs when as apprentice working on Prince of Wales Hospital Randwick, white 6x6 fixed in sand & cement, coving to all internal and external corners little nibs and hobs everywhere also with the coving, clerk of works used to come on a regular basis check the wall tiles with a two bob piece for voids behind the tiles, any hollow sound and we had to replace those tiles, had some would be tilers walk of the job there because their work was not up to scratch.
yeah but the problem is most building inspectors dont care or are incompetannt anyway... other problem is even if he makes an order the builder will ignore it... people have loans to pay, its a 2 year legal procedure to make someone pay to fix something and they will just change the business number 2 days before enforcement after you have paid 30,000 or so in legal and court fees.. if you move into the house then the builder is no longer liable... you could fix it in 1 day by making it a 3 year prison term and take all the builders assets if they refuse to fix somehting in 2 months,,, they would not ignore it then... they ignore everything in AUS because the GOV does nothing and everyone is so greedy even the lawyer you hire to go after the builder will try to scam and over charge you.
I would love to see some builders/designers/engineers ( whatever the hell you wanna call yourselves ) chime in and explain why they think they can just ignore the f**king building diagrams.
That is not aimed at the builders and all that that actually know the regulations and follow them like you are supposed to. You lot rock, keep up the good work.
And the building surveyor/inspector
Building diagrams 😂😂😂
Amendments need to be made to drawings /plans all the time because what is drawn on paper is at times unachievable in situ/onsite. Take a look at a set of plans and they are hardly ever on Rev 0 usually around Rev 3 or Rev 4. "OK for construction" plans can easily change to Revision 3 or 4 during the building prosses, this is why Government projects always blow out big in time and costs.
@@dentrayTruth!! On a site now where we went from revision E to revision Q within a week and a half.
I just did
Your channel is the best demonstration that you can pay somebody to do a job, but you cannot pay them to care about it.
Astounding that the homeowner has paid so much but gotten so little
If that was my house built using my money, I would be so angry that I'd either have an aneurysm or be actively out looking for revenge. Seriously, how can paying so much money result in this kind of garbage?!
This need a follow up video upon the home owner and the length needed to rectify and proceedings to get it all fixed and sorted.
Just stay away from box gutters. Obviously too hard to get right and nightmare to maintain
Yea, what’s inherently wrong with a pitched, tiled roof with external guttering? Flat roofs with box gutters seem so over complicated with far too many points of failure.
More block size is required for these homes, limits the potential of divisions etc.
So glad im in a house built tough in the 70s built properly
Me too. Solid as a rock. Bone dry.
From my experience in a pool company, it's preferable to get the excavation done early while plant equipment has access. An experienced team can even peg out, excavate and drop a fibreglass shell or build the concrete shell before the pad goes down. All you have to do after is temp-fence around it and put scaffolding in the shell.
That's going to be a $10,000 hole to dig unless there's site access I can't see... Shovels, wheelbarrows and jackhammers if there's big rock.
This makes me feel sick, not even the pool getting built first!! How are these builders getting away with this shit!
@@davidwesternall873 Ah no worries just hire a crane to lift it over and keep it there all day hoisting the dirt away as well.
I am simply flabbergasted with your findings
They had a whole management team on site in that basement office who should have been able to get every detail correct. I wonder what they were doing all day. The lack of quality control is just mind boggling. Exposed rusted rebar is one of the most visible and foundational mistakes that is impossible to miss. At 42:48 minutes there are even additional exposed rusted reinforcement bars on the side of the basement drain.
I also wonder about the choice of design with so many inside gutters that are hard to get right and hard to maintain. Additionally, with such a high budget, why did they choose wood framing rather than masonry walls (bricks, AAC, etc) ? The poor waterproofing everywhere (roof, bathrooms, windows, balconies, etc.) in combination with the wood-framing will lead to lots of trouble. I would expect masonry walls and outside gutters to be much more durable and easier to maintain than the chosen design.
Looks very complicated with all the different materials.
@@robertnelson2784 Yes overcomplicated, easy to draw almost impossible to build.
It's actually never easy to draw either, with tight time frames and often not full scope of service
And lack of understanding or communication between builder, client and design team
As a landscaper my jaw dropped at the exterior retaining wall to start with, even just the basic design whereby both the rear and right hand neighbours land is now shedding water directly onto that block. "that's gotta be flooding that sight badly", I thought and sure enough, with the basement tour it clearly was. To then see that groundwater managed so horribly chaotically that undermined footings have that whole structure falling apart before they even finished is just jaw droppingly dumb. Modern building techniques are dodgy enough but ignoring code so blatantly is just astonishing and the place would have multiple visual signs of settling, water damage and rust inside a few years of owners moving in.
You are a true professional someone has to be accountable wheres the council inspectors this is criminal expose these builders keep up your great work thank u for cariing
Could you ever show us a house thats got everything doing good and everything approved?
Makes it obvious why the main problem people seem to have with their houses/apartments is water leakage. The quote for fixing and finishing this will be huge.
Am feeling so sorry for those people who got that built 😢😢
The homeowner works very hard to have this built and the builder is very disrespectful, I feel so sorry for the owner, just not fair! They pay big $$$ for rubbish. I hope it works out in the end at no extra cost.
You have to wonder what happened. Anyone who builds a house like that is going to do checks on the builder, and the builder would know his tradesmen.
@@Ken-er9cq You cannot get tradesmen or materials its quite that simple, many trades are here on working visas and some building companies are forced to outsource their project management to China!
We need more migrants to build homes for more migrants.
Thank you poor owner at least with your help he knows what’s required.
At 38:17 - there is a spray bottle of Exit mould. On the whiteboard under "labour list" it has "EXIT MOULD PLASTER" circled. What's going on there? Are they attempting to remove mould that has started on the gyprock / plaster??
This has turned me right off building a new home. Just shows that the saying "You get what you pay for" has no standing in the construction industry.
I'd be suing the builder, nevermind letting them attempt to fix the work.
unfortunately the law works against you in this case, you basically have to let the builder fix the work first
@@mcbean1 So true it's a real shame but your ✅️ right....
Building industry has been bad for a decade or more. I would not be building in this environment.
Truth is engineered building products require immense regulation versus simple stick built homes of our fathers .many homes 100 yrs old wernt built like this
If were a builder in Australia I'd quit building the parapet walls that require the sump gutter. No no gets them right.
This video kinda made me want to become a home builder, seeing just how cozy those guys made that basement for themselves. Working there must be a riot.
read an article where a 'house build' was insured for $500K. Builder went bust & had done such a crap job that not even a full insurance payout would've covered the repairs !!
I’ve literally seen effluent coming out of every sink/toilet/shower tray in a 27k square foot mansion in Fernhurst,West Sussex.
It was 4 days before hand over..
hard to judge home construction practices here in USA, some of the large builders do some awful work, but you Aussies have taken it to another level. Honest inspectors need to watch their backs.
I've just recently started watching but I love it when he says non compliant.
I'm in the US, don't know construction outside of little diy projects, but I must say I love your vids and commend you for really making a change! So much dang corruption and incompetence everywhere!
So even if I spend $3million on a house it's still going to be crap quality... 🤦♂
If you can afford that, do it right , get a design check by people with lots of initials after their name , get the right builder , get an inspector in every week for a couple of hours , Not sure Aussie cost , but assume $250/hour so say 2 hours check every week at $500 is money well spent . Plus it's a monstrosity , their money , their choice, but I can only imagine a few edge cases for needing such a house . Plus that much flat roof , unless young and inheritance/lotto everyone knows it's a crap shoot , unless done right. Huge hail storms then cold rain on top , cloud burst etc . Least with pitched roof and huge eaves , even if guttering on outside fails , it shouldn't be a problem and easy to see falling water. Even for an average Joe , If you are paying someone for a technical fix for say $30000 to something on your property. Sometimes worth getting an expert to arrange work and sign it off . They know builders etc . The builder can just BS the homeowner. You pay more more ( and maybe a lot less in the end ) for less stress and peace of mind . Plus you will probably get it done faster as they can get quotes quicker and more on focus
just found your content and i find it incredibly interesting and i wonder if you could show us a building where you would say "this is good workmanship, thats how you do it" but i guess they dont call you to inspect good/exceptional stuff
So sorry for the owner , keep keeping the bastards honest , love your work
Not as sorry as I am for some poor bugger who was scraping to get into a budget home...
This is the real reason why no one wants to build right now and hence the housing shortage. We can not trust builders when they can just get away with dodgy building. There is no consequences. I would love to build a new house but ...no way would I trust any builders right now, I would rather buy an old house and do my own reno educated by UA-cam.
Non compliant Non compliant great name for a TV show. It would be an instant success. Just brilliant work mate.
How the hell can a live cable be left open like that on wire and a fence? Surely worksafe needs to get involved?
They will now. Probably shut down the site until it's rectified.
He didn't show it live
I've seen a suggestion in many of these videos, "force inspection at each building stage/" Can't see it making a difference in most instances, after all, how many times do we hear the words "and this has been passed by the inspector, unbelievable...".
Imagine all of the other homes that haven’t met this scrutiny… probably on the market due to all their issues… buyer beware… great video mate
Regarding that big ass roof,You would think that builders would be mindfull when the rain buckets down and that water has to be directed somewhere very quickly so using a small outlet would not help out all,unless they want a pool on the roof ,The reinforcement bars on top of the concrete at the balcony will expand in time due to moisture and water intrusion causing the concrete to crack along with the tiles ,Like that building in florida that came down due to high corrosion in the rebars in the concrete !!
Yeah it's a rust time bomb and the visible reo is the fuse, in just a few years that house would be riddled with cracks, warps, bulges, water damage, rising damp, dry rotting timbers and random tiles popping like firecrackers at 3am on winter mornings.
The more you spend the worse it gets. It could be a beautiful home if done right.
this is why I getting a 2 bedroom home, reolcated, and rebuild the hose as much as neccessary so Im aware of what condition the house is in plus what it eneds eventually.
Beautiful home? It's vulgar and ostentatious, like most homes in that part of the Ivanhoe area.
These videos have given me the confidence to build my own hempcrete home. I was on the fence with doing a traditional build using a builder. Thank you for your good work sir!
I would love to see what a true pro builders site looks like.
Easy fix for all these problems is to allow homeowners to claim through the builders insurance to rectify all these problems. That way dodgy builders will simply get knocked back from insurance companies and wont be aloud to build anymore. I'm sure all the builders will start cleaning up their act then.
The rich and poor equally take the hits in the building industry, it doesnt' discriminate in Australia. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thank the state governments for self regulation its clearly working.
Honestly, if I was going to build a new home, I'd do it as an owner builder. At least that way I know exactly what I'm getting into and not getting jerked around. If a tradesman attends site, so do I to make sure the work is done at a high standard. If they don't like me looking over their shoulder they can bugger off!
I find it weird how in my opinion there is always so much to be completed but the solar panels have been installed, i think that should be the last thing.
I think building design has become complicated. The old Queenslander on stumps was simple and effective.
Yep and modern houses all end up looking like grey monolithic medical centres anyway😂. I have NO desire to live in one. I renovated- in keeping with the era- a small 3 bedroom double brick 1959 austerity house 2years ago- it is SOLID. Will last another 70 years at least- longer than I need it for . Very happy with that choice over a new build and I still have an actual backyard. 😊
If I was going to spend this sort of money I'd make sure there was the best building inspector overseeing the whole project, start to handover.
Everything checked every step of the way.
Agree totally.....
Good luck finding a builder who will work with that.
@@thebackwardpointinggodwit8080 Like I said... if I was going to spend that sort of money I would take the time to recruit the best.
Starting with a top flight architect, engineer, builder, plumber, sparky, the works.
Believe me, they are out there.
@@thebackwardpointinggodwit8080If the builder won't agree, you've got the wrong builder.
Having watched quite a few of these videos now, I would agree with you, and I have pushed this site to friends and family, some who will be building in the near future. HOWEVER, when we built, I had no idea this sort of thing went on, we believed there were processes and checks in place that would make it impassible. ahh the naiveite.
Just cover the re-bar in 30mm silicone. It's fine.
Maybe some non compliant artificial grass
Put a box gutter against the house and door and re-slope it back towards the house.
Wouldn't it be quicker to just point out what is complaint?
That rebar sitting on top of the pour... WTF? That's below apprentice level sort of screwup. For those that don't understand that means the rebar is going to get lots of moisture exposure, it's going to rust and thus expand and crack the concrete. Hence why it needs a minimum level of cover. This is the primary way that reinforced concrete fails.
Plumbing aside up top, love the barn siding screws topside of the flashing with the rubber washers. Nothing like a flat fastener on a flat surface with a random-failure mode to make your future interesting.
I have to say, if there are any builders looking to relocate to North Queensland you are in for a rude shock, first thing is we don’t have council or building associations who do inspections, we have private certifiers who are liable if it’s approved and something fails, anything structural needs an engineers signature or he will get out the X-ray gear and check every weld and fixing and count the nails and screws. The other thing is as a builder you are at the bottom of the professional trade ranking, people will listen to the woman working in the local baker shop before they listen to you, they believe that the silicone installer is more experienced then you, therefor you should do their work for fuck all because your just the builder. They will pay a drug fucked tiler $90 an hr and expect you to work for $40………but!!!!! If you are a project builder building hundreds of shit boxes,then you must be a professional
@@daniel.s8126 but this is what happens when you put it in the governments hands. I know the larger project builders have their private certifiers and pay them under the table to sign houses off, but if something like this happens ( and to be honest, I am 53 yr young and have been in the industry since I was 17 and I have seen defects like what this man shows ) it needs to be traced back to the certifier and builder, small things slip through but not these.
Wow, the home owner would be mortified. Your inspections are so thorough and informative. Would like to see a future post about this home and whether the repairs get rectified at the cost of the builder.
Good from far, Far from good! love it!
I am blown away man that is just insane great work brother keep exposing this stuff
There must talks within the industry about who are the scammers and the ones to stay away from.
Where are all the whistleblowers?
You can be anonymous whowver you all are!
People's lives are being destroyed.
THERE WILL BE CHILDREN LIVING IN THESE NON-COMPLIANT HOMES AND WHOSE LIVES WILL BE AFFECTED BY THESE!
THIS IS WHY WE LOVE THIS GUY. IT'S A START BUT THERE COULD BE MORE OF YOU!
Good work man we need more inspector like you, we'll done keep up your great work.
Your assessment inside was good
engineer should be 100% hold liable
That abandoned basement/office has those Chernobyl vibes
As a structural engineer, I doubt 100mm of extra height nor the gap between the web of the UC post and panels will really be an issue. Certainly not enough to make it fall over. Also could pretty easily pour mass concrete into the gap if the owner was concerned about aesthetics. The wall installer really should’ve checked to see beforehand though.
I'm only half way through and it's too depressing to watch. The whole house needs to be rebuilt!
This is awesome! Keep up the good work!
I love the passion you have for your job. Having watched your videos I would never have a new home built! Thank you for sharing your amazing knowledge.
I know its a very expensive house. But the question still remains, did the owner still pick the cheapest quote?
I work on cars, not houses and see a constant stream of vehicles from the cheapest shops in town. To be redone due to shonky workmanship or parts.
Always excellent information and specific details. Again, outstanding video. Another 40 minutes of worthwhile viewing.
A great building inspector is one that you want to inspect a house you want to buy but don't want to inspect your house if you want to sell.
Have you ever found a house that's actually compliant? How do you ensure a builder is actually doing the right thing through the whole process?
Did one were he found only minor defects " within tolerances" so yar he does. But doesn't matter the price or you get what you paid for here in Pyrmont heaps of building defects and sell for over $2.0000.000 base price.
wow - am learning heaps. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
It would be interesting seeing the other side of your job like including what sort of details you have to mention on the reports and how payment is made to you and from who ? Love the vids mate
Great work sir!
Building is a difficult game to be in, even for those who have the best of intended practices we still miss things, this job is an abomination however I got a non compliance for a DDA bathroom on my first ever building project the bathroom was under 10mm too small! The size of the skirt tile! we had to pay an independent consultant $1800 to say that it was was compliant. To this day no one has been injured because the space was 10mm too small. Some things are ok even if they are slightly off, there needs to be middle ground at times.
What kind of council approved this monstrosity...😮
Depending on where you live, Local Councils don't have anything to do with home building. It's the responsibility of the Building Certifiers. It's all private nowadays. Council's usually deal with Planning matters.
I feel for the home owner, it’s just incredibly sad that all this time and money has been used to create an unliveable home, my heart breaks for them
Keep up the good work. Always entertaining.
Pretty dog act to draw up plans that are not standardised, then chuck on a note in a corner. But as a roofer, you got to know your trade and the relevant standards and if there is an annomoly you always check with the certifier.
What is with the tin roof systems used in so many homes? They are like roofs used on backyard garden toolsheds.
I bet they got the apprentice to suck the water out with the Ozito.
What a shame, looks like a pretty good floor plan 😞
Nah. If your plan isn't a basic rectangle you are asking for trouble.
First time watching anything from your channel. You’re doing fantastic work in an industry that does require meticulous inspection after the building workmanship of late that ranges from shoddy to downright criminal.
At 34:25, you measure the centre to centre of the H / I beams for the retaining wall. I notice that you hooked the tape measure on the end of the sleeper, and forgot to measure that end gap between the beam and the end of the sleeper. So, in reality, the post centres may well be at 1840 mm. The sleepers are 1800 mm sleepers. Now, a silly question: What thickness were the bottom 2 sleepers in the wall? If the wall is built properly, the bottom 2 sleepers in each bay should be minimum 100 mm thick.
The designer / engineer should know that the sleepers are 1800 mm, so therefore, their calculations are up the duff, as it is impossible to get 1800 mm centres with an 1800 mm sleeper! The other thing to bear in mind is that the installers, depending on the method of installation, can either install by sling / grab hooks held by pressure, if they have machine access, or, by hand. From the measurements, my guess that this wall has been installed by hand, as what the installers do is to lay one end of the sleeper in the channel, then lift the other end into position. The extra gap that they allow is enough to get the sleeper into position without damaging the ends of the sleeper. They then try to leave an equal distance gap at each end, so the sleeper is catching the H / I beam flange equally. To get the sleepers against the face flange, they use wedges of wood behind the sleeper and the other flange before backfilling. Just hope that they used mixed gravel, not soil / clay backfill! And, put a drain pipe in to remove the water soakage!!!
I agree things should be done right, and you should get what you pay for, However, I was also thinking, surely there is a tolerance between centres to allow for some movement. And surely the strength of these new concrete walls are way more than the old treated pine retaining walls of yesteryear?
@@adamregan4921 It just needs an engineer to verify it's ok
Imagine how many buildings and homes are non compliant that get away with this ! Unbelievable.
If builders did things properly, their razor thin margins would diminish. The industry as a whole is virtually non-viable unless you're an elite builder.
Contractors & builders robbing their clients blind.
1. Australian Standards should be readily available in full for free, not behind paywall. 2. Big house with big flat roof = lots of potential leakage, even if correctly built. No one needs such a big house. 3. Each stage of work should be photographed and certified along the way, do it once and do it well. 4. Unrealistic expectations of owners to live in mini resorts gives rise to poor design which compounds problems ie ffl of ground floor dug out at back, better to raise the building if possible. That site is drainage nightmare. Great work by you btw, so much dodgy building around.
Amen to that paywall BS, regs have to be publicly accessible. The roof and window drainage was annoyingly dumb, anyone knows that invites water into your walls, but the ret. wall and basement drainage gave me a migraine, the entire chaotic design with the neighbours surface water draining directly into it untethered; is just sabotaging the core structure before it's even finished, pure insanity.
Go to your library.