"I'm not worried, I'm contractually covered." "I don't care." When told it isn't compliant. Nice. Dude is actually crying about it! 🤣 Bet his family is proud.
Exactly, rather than the novice buyer signing off that it 'looks' habitable and safe, take inspectors report with you and say settlement is conditional upon all major non compliance being remedied before a single cent is transferred. There's $100K of renovation required at a bare minimum.
Nowadays everyone should be afraid to build a house. And the big question I always ask myself after finding these defects is who is going to pay for all this to be repaired, if it is done at all.
i can see you are not familiar with the process.. most of the time, nothing gets done, patch work or something small can be done instead.. in most cases, the building stays, infact, pretty much all cases the building stay.. its not like you tear down an old house cause its leaking, you jsut deal with it the best way you can,..
Unbelievable that in the construction sector this is still the most normal thing in this day and age. When building a house, a quarter of the costs should be in a separate pot and only after an independent inspection, and only after approval, should it be transferred to the contractor. And if it is not approved, the mistakes can be corrected from that pot of money before the house is transferred to the buyer of that house. Reporting agency for all bad builders and contractors so that it can be found by everyone and shows whether they are capable of building a house without construction problems.
seems like a really good move to annoy the inspector so much that he wants to take you down... good business practice and we can see why, its an awful job the game was up and he knew it probably putting in the bankruptcy papers and simultaneously setting up a new building company as we speak
TV antenna installation at 37:10 is 🥴. Million dollar install there.. looks like the Dektite rubber boot is sitting very proud of the roof sheet with a big gap, doesn’t look like it’s even attached. Excess cable bundled up is potentially exceeding the specified bend radius for coax, and not fixed to the mast. Cable ties will be broken due to weathering within a year or two, looks like crap.
I'm 3 mins in and already I know this guy is hiding things. "You are breaking in!!! You can't be here!!!! "Untill later today". Beacuse it makes soooooooooooooo much diference. What is he going to fix/change/hide in like 40 mins.
Funny how he never did call the cops when he was so certain that Z had commited multiple crimes; break and enter, tresspass, refusal to leave private property, theft from premises, posession of devices for forced entry, felony giggling at gronk with intent to hurt feelings and defamation.
@@zorbakaput8537 What? the concept is easy. If Anything it can be seen in a public space it can be video'd .To suggest otherwise is something Dan Andrews would dream up.
WTF is it with those artsy-fartsy roofs. That's just asking for trouble, just build a goddamn rectangular house and put a roof with two or four facets on top then you don't need a degree in advanced non-euclidean geometry to find out where the water goes.
You are so right. And with a rectangular standard pitched roof you don't flood your house if your gutters get blocked. Water just overflows your gutters outside your house.
I see no problem with complex roofs if they're designed correctly and built in accordance with a detailed design instead of a suggestion. Sometimes you need complex roofs. The architects and engineers for these shit shows have a fiduciary obligation to properly document the roof and roof drainage design. If the builders have to guess then this is what you get.
Using that shallow gradient probably helps keep overall max height at the limit so they can have higher ceiling heights inside. If they have to raise it, they may not get approval now as new roof line might breach max-height regs. Maybe, I dunno, just my impression.
It's for a shit water storage tank filled by a charged storm water system. Literally "shit water" based on what they said about how it has been installed!
The Architect is guessing so the engineer is guessing so the plan drawer is guessing so the builder is guessing so all the contractors are guessing - so how in the name of hello kitty meets godzilla is the surveyor not simply guessing that it's compliant? 😆 Shamozzle.
I would like to propose that side brick wall not be knocked down but instead be transplanted to Canberra and re-erected in a public place as a memorial to the death of Australian building standards. The monument should retain its characteristic wobble so that mourners can visit the shrine and tangibly feel the shocking decline in the national build quality.
That models called "The Eye Gouge" I think, you're not even allowed to have uncapped star pickets temporarliy on a building site cos they're lethal, let alone at eye level as a permanent structure - unbelieeeeevable.
@@wobblyboostI'm guessing it's an overlook requirement to the next property and only there to pass inspection. Ridiculous that an inspector would pass that blatant garbage.
That brick wall is a public hazard. It could kill a person. Get the site quarantined as a safety hazard and fenced off by the council until that fence is made good. I'm sure the neighbours aren't too thrilled about it either. The potential new owners are lucky they now have the opportunity to walk away from settlement. That place is now..."An uninsurable liability" Add that to your voice dongle's repertoire.
Why are there SO many bad surveyors, I know there are crap builders like the one that build the townhouse but the surveyors must be a trusted professional and do their job correctly.
It's all about the money. If you're a surveyor and you do your job properly and you keep failing your builders they stop hiring you and hire someone else that will sign off on it, meaning you get less jobs so get paid less. The issue is that none of them are liable when defects are found after they have signed it off.
So many of these roofing issues begin from design stage. That along with confusing standards (e.g. fixings on cappings) and inability to freely access standards has guaranteed that no roof in Australia is compliant.
what amazes me the most is the amount of quick made up legal mumbo jumbo he spits out when challenged, if hes so good at remembering all this made up crap, its surely only a little more effort to learn the actual rules and regulations....
I really don't understand why the developer thought it would be a good idea to confront him on camera. Did he think it would make people more sympathetic to him?
I'm an Aussie who lived in the UK up until 2022. Have returned and love these videos. Now complete different regs, obviously, and im not saying the UK is better just different. I developed my property over in London and had a 35M twin fall box gutter on an edge wall. It was all in Lead and built like an absolute tank. Probably 30cm wide and 100mm deep. The tin box gutters here just look so poor in comparison. The guy that installed was a specialist gutter guy and installed in around 4 hours. Just an interesting comparison.
You can't be charged with trespass because its a registered worksite UNTIL settlement, and you have permission from the purchaser to inspect the property. Pre purchase inspections are lawful. INfact that builder has to grant you access to enter unfettered and without harassment to perform your job a licensed building inspector. All you need to do is call the police and explain to them that the builder is harassing you and impeding your access to the site to perform the job you were contracted to due, and the Police will charge that builder. In fact this whole video should be submitted to the Victorian Police and you must make a full complaint that the builder or agent of the builder harassed you and impeded you from entering the construction site to perform the pre purchase inspection. He's facing several counts alone in this video. He even admits that he personally doesn't want you in the property, yeah because he knows he's a dodgy builder. You haven't broken into a house that was open, and you had permission to perform work there. Thats the builder trick, to say you have no permission to be there and that you are trespassing. But imagine when the Union rep turns up on site, the builders would loooooooove to kick them off site, but they can't and its against the law to kick a union rep off site. Same as the building pre purchase inspector, because its a construction site and a registered workplace and not the builders personal property. He cannot deny you access nor the state government licensing authorities access for inspections, in fact if the builder doesn't open up for inspections, he can receive massive fines. Show this video to the VBA and lodge a complaint and he'll be reprimanded and fined for his harassment of yourself and your assistant. You have a lawful right to perform a pre purchase inspection. That builder needs to cool his heels in jail for a few nights. What the builder did is called "Stand Over Tactics" to try to frighten you off of the site until he hands over to the home owner. Builders use stand over tactics for decades or centuries, until Unions came along and the government changed the laws to prevent these stand over tactics. Basically you could have defended yourself from his harassment by knocking him out, because you were there lawfully. No one has the right to harass you while you are at work and to provoke you and make threats of police and make bogus claims that you are trespassing. The builder was provoking a fight, and if you loose your cool and knock him on his @ss, then too bad, you do have a right to defend yourself from this kind of workplace harassment and bullying - the builder is a bully and bullied you off the site and he knew full well you had a right to be there. But when he saw it was RU-vidr Site Inspections he had a fit.
Funny how all of these jobs with issues are these stupid block modern designs that look like every other house and flat roof. Crazy how a normal pitched roof works better.
So he says he is "covered"?????....lets see if his insurance policy says he is!!!!!!.....would be great to see the end result of this project. Insurance companies are not stupid!......they look for ways to avoid payouts. I would be sweating if i was him!
Under contract law, the builder cannot impede the access to a construction site of any contractor, including if the owner has book in an inspector. That Builder is in violation of the law
Given inflation and how every day people are struggling, the housing market and rental is fully strained. It's criminal that our government is allowing developers/ builders like this to still be in business. They need to be in jail.
U talk about this industry like it has changed haha. Mate no one has ever given a shit about anything but money. Can talk all compliance bs u want to but we are far far away from sorting out this industry
It has changed. In the 1930s through mid-1970s the majority were compliant solid builds. In the 1980s ceiling heights dropped by a couple of feet and homes (now glorified dog boxes) were built on concrete pads, not foundations. Everything went downhill after that.
The video was actually available for comments, but it couldn't be watched yet as it was set to premiere at 5pm today. That’s probably why you're seeing comments from earlier while the video itself appears as newly released.
Nice - no defect will stop settlement. Stitch up prospective owners to pay for a dump and have to chase rectifications and VCAT. How shameful to take advantage of people wanting ti buy a home.
My wife and I are in the process of deciding whether to build new on our existing block or move - looking at all these videos, i think it might be best to go look at a 80s/90s house and just fix up the small things it may need just from age rather than dealing with all this stuff on a new build.
Leaf strainers, really ive been washing and cleaning gutters rooves and all that!!! With staff for 8 years now. Dont catch water!!!! Fml Wow. Im going to hate roof maintenance soon
In recent years, for a lot of the cases in this industry, I wouldn't agree that developers are the ones to be blamed. Their hands are pretty much tied as once they signed the contract with builder after getting designer, financier and every party's jobs sorted out, it's pretty much all up to the builder whether a "liveable" project would be delievered or not. After all, the builder is the one who actually built it, no matter how they got stuffed up by subies or simply just don't care about their jobs, the developer and buyer are all victims of those disqualified works. the developer may have more unsold lots in hands than all the buyers combined have in a project.
It is beyond despicable that supposed professionals can’t get the angle of the damned roof correct. As if they didn’t know it was wrong when they were doing it. Mental.
Absolute "piss your pants" panic reaction from the builder, what a plonker! Good info on the roofing stuff, the way that's been built the new owners will have the indoor pool as soon as the first rainstorm hits.
He just wants to rub it in that guys face that he's gonna get mauled by patent lawyers, the gronk deserves it too. DB guy is an expert, his words carry a lot of wieght, so a bit of free advertising seems fair to me.
seems crazy how client and seller sign a contract and then the agreement is not met by the developer. Can't figure out how fraudulent this industry is and how they have no fear continuing to deliver dangerous and non-compliant works. If that wall fell on a little kid it could kill them whthin a minute of being in the garden in their new family home.
Why should the building surveyor be responsible for the plumber who is licensed? The surveyor shouldn't be there to babysit the plumber. The plumber is licensed. If an individual is licensed and installing the incorrect product, they need to be the ones held responsible. Bring in a 3 warning system. Third time they get caught, plumbing license revoked.
