I wish people overseas watching this could truly understand that this guy is literally becoming an Australian hero. There’s been so many dodger builders in this country, scamming people. This guy saving citizens!
The same is going on in the USA. The checks and balances are only in favor of the banks making predatory loans and their corrupt financial investing in Scam developments. Massive corruption from top down. Under trained and underpaid workers.
USA----same scams going on here by mega developers backed by Banks investing in them, and the banks make the mortgage loans. Win win for the banks and developers. Another whooper is that the banks don't base the loan on the condition (inspection) of the property, they base it on the assessed value (supposedly third part since 2008 collapse). Woot!
@@Ubermicropwned from Sweden here, we have the same problem with builds like this, it’s an danger for the occupants but the worst part is that the inspectors are bribed to pass inspections by the builder! A lot of older inspectors take on a lot of inspections right before they go into retirement at the age of 65 and then they just shut down their companies and all warranties and signatures is just ink on the inspection documents and no one is held responsible unfortunately, if the builder gets sued they just bankrupt their company and no one is responsible but the owners if the house!
You do realize that a inspector has already passed all this. So when it comes down to it the builders going to say well he shouldn't have signed it off then....
Just to show him you don't care, when you go to re-inspect, wear a full clown suit, red nose, wig, oversized shoes and a squeeze horn. 😁Really rub it in.
@@TechGamesAUIt's stupid because ironically, it's fallacious. You're saying that someone loses an argument because of how they spoke, which was using personal insults. That's an attack on character, believe it or not. The problem is, that guy had no argument. He was just being a flippant douchebag. Calling someone an ambulance chaser, seriously? With construction like that, you better wish the hospital is nearby.
What's most satisfying for me is knowing that the REAL clown is watching this, reading these comments and realising that ripping people off catches up with you.
Nothing will happen to the project manager. He walked away with 250k. How is that going to catch up with him. The only way I see that is if he uses the 250k to get rat arsed drunk on a long bender that affects his health, in an exclusive resort in Queensland. He is probably pulling the same scam on someone else as we speak.
I love how they blame the inspector when the get caught red handed. One has to wonder how many homes these builders have fudged before being caught out.
That's the scary thing because time and time again we see builds getting inspected and passed that are below standard. The whole point of having building inspectors is to stop stuff like this🤷♂️
@@mattgraham1983 unions mate, they’re all corrupt, they all know each other, they all take kickbacks from each other and the bribery keeps the whole corrupt system running for dodgy/corrupt builders & trades, doing dodgy works, being inspected by dodgy/corrupt compliance inspectors who are incentivised to look the other way, are often corrupt through union affiliation and in some cases, will face difficulty if they act with integrity (though I don’t consider this as an excuse, they clearly lack moral fibre to begin with when they’re so easily corrupted). It’s one of the most corrupt industries in the country, made worse with foreign money and foreign workers who have little incentive to produce work to a standard and even less integrity.
County building inspector are not doing their job, same here in Finland, wondering do they even get out of their car or is just put name on paper, when county has already collected money from building permits, Then everyone is wondering why brand new school has leaks and mold .
@@pete_lind Same problem in the UK since Thatcher part privatised the inspection system so council inspectors are competing with private ones, there's a huge conflict of interest and it directly led to 72 people being burned to death at the Grenfell tower block in London few years back
Was going to say, I wonder how often this ends up working out for them. Considering how much content we're getting I guess it's at least somewhat common.
I laughed my way all the way through this video, not because I’m horrible, but because this reminds me of every day of my life as a commissioning engineer for the last 30 years. Thank you very much for continuing to shed light on our construction industry
How those people even sleep at night knowing they’ve ruined someone’s life. They’re no different from the dogs that scam elderly people over the phone. Shameless
Scammers kill people, too. Taking away an elderly person's life savings can be a death sentence, especially for those with cognitive decline (which makes them much more vulnerable to scams) who can't look after themselves when they find themselves homeless or unable to afford a carer.
@@thaddeuspoole1704unlikely, but... The problem is that poor workmanship causes issues down the road, which costs even more to fix Generally anything to do with water is the real problem (which is why he always focuses on it)
Never thought as an american I would be watching over an hour long video from an aussie home inspector... Well, this is the third one you've got me to watch! Good on ya!
The Engineer was an insightful addition to your video. He did a great job explaining why the concrete will fail and exactly where. You could see his brain thinking where the cracks would be and sure enough in each place there was one. His reaction to the broken truss was priceless. I'm sorry for the stress to the homeowner. At least her willingness to show her site inspection helps the rest of us learn and hopefully not repeat the same mistakes. Keep up the good work!
You know EXACTLY how this passed inspection! Inspectors that don't give a crap.. paid off.. related to builder.. not held liable.. there's plenty of reasons.
All the red "X"s on the truss work got me thinking, surely the inspector put them there, but nothing got fixed... What did they do, paid him a 6 pack of beer per X to erase them from his memory? 🤷♂
@@darkense666 I couldn't find who you responded to, but things in the USA are bleak. Google: How do lenders protect their interest in a home? Answer and Explanation: (a) Lenders or people who providing loan service protect the interest by making the home the collateral so that the lender can seize the stated property if the borrower fails to make the payment. Lender Interest is safeguarded by liquidating aforesaid property to recover the loss. So basically the banks make mortgage loans, the financial investors (banks) back the real estate developers who hire the cheapest contractors who build shite new homes/townhouses/condos, and banks mortgage shite old homes. Supposedly things have changed since 1929 and 2008, but I'm skeptical bc it still seems like fraud is still being perpetrated i.e. predatory loans on lemon homes. Friends and family have got loans on shite homes. As long as banks can financially invest in real estate, the properties will be flipped and overvalued. The CEO's always make bank, while the banks get bailed out. First it was subprime loans and now it is substandard homes being built or sold. In Oregon, each year, the county assessor determines the property's real market value and calculates its maximum assessed value. You are taxed on the lesser of the two, which is called the assessed value. So our "system" is corrupt. There's no way these turds are worth what they are being assessed at. People frequently blame the underpaid and under trained workers. Honestly though, doesn't shite flow from the top down?
The PM 'engineered' the whole build around him not being accountable. He's as cunning as a SHR, trying to base everything on mutual agreement and trust. Did I read right at one stage he said $5k an hour? He has really exploited their trust.
Unfortunately it comes down to the consumer. I bet you pitched a roof or 2 in your time. Imagine the costs involved these days. Would be 5x the cost of a trussed roof. Houses don't cost 2x your yearly wage any more they cost 5x
I noticed 5200 per hour no dollar sign. So a 5 looks like a $ sign so it can easily be misread as $200 or assumed as typo thinking he obviously meant $200 but a 5 key is not near a $ key. When I read this I knew he was a con man, as once he had started the project and had him in his clutches I bet he did charge a lot more than 200.
@@brianthompson9542 The $ key is located on the 4 key. So it is by no means far. Not taking the PM's side. He's obviously a bad man and I wouldn't be surprised it the typo was intended to mislead. Having said that, if there is no dollar sign a good lawyer might have some fun with that. This is such an important channel.
Mate, so this was the house you were talking about. I was the one who spoke with you over the phone regarding the Hebel. Wow, this is atrocious. I wonder how long the Hebel wall would last with that sheer amount of weight slapped onto it. That is right, max weight it could take is 32kg/m2 and they would have to consult with an engineer as well for weather tightness. Hebel's original intended design is to be a cladding on its own but ey people like doing their own thing so....yeah lol. Anyways, glad to be of assistance! 😅
In Germany we use this kind of walls as not load bearing inside walls. Most of our buildings are build with bricks, not with wood. Roofs here are build differently. I've never seen so thin trusses.
Can you please do a video on a house that you think is well built? Or do you have a video like that? Would love to see you go through a house that has been built well.
These inspectors also need to be held accountable. And the $250 000 need to be returned to the owner so the owner can at least pay for some of the defaults to be repared. He needs to be to be sued and charged.
The insurance on house projects is completely out of step with how much it costs to make rectification, I'm out of pocket $80k and the insurance is fighting me over a max of $60k, but only want to pay $30k.
As much as I agree with you sentiments - 'laypersons' making the comment "...and charged" shows the ignorance (and I mean no offence in that) - of people thinking that their is some 'MAGIC SQUAD' that goes around charging unscrupulous individuals. Let me tell you - there is NO SUCH 'MAGIC SQUAD' - yes - that will shock some - but the police have ZERO interest in the typical civil claim - I repeat - NO interest. People need to be aware of their responsibilities - ALWAYS consult your lawyer about the LEGAL responsibilities. But as most people seem to think that a lawyer is a 'blood sucking scum' and charges them too much money - they go off on their 'merry way' - blundering into trouble and COST - and the result is usually something like this SH-T FIGHT where a SCUM SAM has taken advantage of someone's trust. Hopefully these people can afford the financial burden of the repairs - but if not - most likely, they are on their own - and it appears to me that the PIECE OF SH-T designed it that way. And yes - the seeming lack of accountability of inspectors is a BAD JOKE - how inspectors seem to escape any responsibility - is a BAD BAD JOKE - and seems to assist the SCRUM RAT tradies from any responsibility for their BAD BAD work.
I hope you're not trying to insinuate that lawyers are not bloodsucking scum. The best way to solve the legal system is to cap lawyers income versus the liability and type of the suit... As it is, it is absolutely a corrupt system full of very willing lawyers. @@elvispresley3340
@@kamiruDesignsthat engineer is unhinged. The driveway he is suggesting is more then the engineering that goes into main highways. It would cost 1 million to do what he has suggested and it would still crack.
Unfortunately these people have fallen for the oldest trick in the building registration book. A dodgy, unregistered builder convinces the owners to register as owner builders, therefore putting any liability onus on them. Thery're in a world of trouble. It's unlikely the VBA will help them as they are the registered builders. Take a lesson from these people if someone tries to convince you that "it'll be good, you save the builders profit margin"
They did pay $250,000, I don’t know how much a builder would have charged but maybe that way they had a better chance at having a compliant house at the end (I say maybe because this channel shows that’s not always the case)
@@danaveye3977 His point was the VBA can walk away from it, which is true, it's hard enough to get them to act when it is entirely their job. What your talking about is if they charge him with fraud or sue for damages, which is a whole new expensive, risky kettle of fish that could easily take a decade and end with them still owning a collapsing house and broker than when they started litigation.
@@wobblyboost I know and yes, that is what I was talking about. As always, the only winners would be the lawyers. Doesn't stop this sort of thing making my piss boil and hoping for vengeance.
Yep. It was a trap from the beginning. They will get no help from the VBA. If they need a legal solution they will have to sue the project manager and no doubt they will not be able to get their money back. That said, as the owner-builder, so long as they can track down the tradies who did they work they can force them to remediate rather then having to go through the builder first. That concreter should be run out of town on a rail. So much concrete and no expansion joints. How much of the ceiling insulation is missing? Is there any insulation in the walls? Is there any chance the as built meets the design environmental standards?
Don’t blame utube there to busy calling misinformation that’s not misinformation. While breaching my premium content contract by placing false propaganda by my government about the Scamdemic
I don't know Australian law, but in my country you are not allowed to do that by law except you have a verdict about it and it's proven as a fact, but media still have to anonymize names. Names like Peter Pepper Nice Building Co. would have been shortened to the building company of Peter P. .... But builders have to have an insurance, same as architects and engineers and they have to give a warranty of 3, 5 or 12 years by law (depending on the trade) and if you sue the warranty is extended until there is a verdict.
@@letsgetreal-df7pu conc cracks all the time but not that bad didn't put the right mesh in didn't put charis up theirs all sorts they haven't done its different color everywhere thats plain conc with a color seal on it cheap ass fuck dont know how this was 200k
Before I build my house, I'm going tell my builder to view your videos then tell them I'm flying you up to Cairns to do the inspection. That'll keep them honest.
Engineers. You gotta explain in simple terms management will understand that anything cheaper or lighter will kill people, without being dramatic about it. You have to develop that kill, or you have to go into management.
That concrete drive is nuts! Everyone in the world knows you can't lay it on top of the soil. People just can't cope when they get called out. I would be so paranoid getting a house built in Australia after watching all these videos. Way too much stress.
@@johnsipolismate we are all foreigners even the engineer. Poor excuse. Just need people to be held accountable. People will take short cuts for a quick buck if they can get away with it
For the sake of argument, you could design it to be laid directly on the soil. It would need to have an embedded beam grid, like a large span live loaded floor. Would cost a proper fortune, too.
I'm not an engineer but I know that when you bolt timber together as in that triple truss, it's not the sheer strength of the bolt that takes the load, it's the friction of timber on timber that does, and that is proportional to the compressive force applied by the bolts. That bolt with no nut was applying zero compressive force.
You'd be correct, the bolt in that situation is under leverage and serves only to weaken the trusses by enlarging the hole as they independently shift. In ye olde' days they'd have stipulated a single truss that large but timber that size is too expensive now.
Yeah specially if you think this from northern builders perspective. I'm getting slight panic attack thinking how that whole rood would collapse moment there was any snow load on top of that thing.
That's what the new NZ government - not driven by ideology (they said it) - are planning to do as well, because their donors like big builders, lawyers and insurance companies want to get a bigger slice of the pie at the expense of home owners. This isn't new as we have lots of leaky homes from late 90s/early 00s when constructions were privately inspected by the builders and was used to get the occupancy certificates (CCC in NZ) etc, after building is complete, the builder and the inspectors wind up the legal entities and setup new ones and move on. It is better to be governed by ideology than this level of idiocy.
@htpcnz7378 I've dealt with my fair share of NZ council inspectors and I'll tell you right now most of them are absolute clowns and have no liability. Doesn't matter if it's private or public, if there is no liability it's all fked.
@stuartlaird7341 handing 2m to a random person is stupid . If someone asks u to list yourself as a builder removing all accountability on the "builder" and don't get legal advice you aren't very smart
@@Robert-cu9bm she essentially has been scammed, it's different to stupid. Shes not wrong for trusting someone who is intending to scam her from the get go.
The concreters absolutely fkd the owners. They would've known to cut and fill with road base but pulled a swifty and still charged a quarter of a million bucks!
I wouldn't doubt that the PM actually found the cheapest bids but submitted fake invoices and pocketed the difference. For the construction cost to be that expensive you should have seen at least some good workmanship and it appears that not a single sub did good work. Don't know what your construction costs are down there but in Seattle I could have built that for easily half that price ( maybe a third ) not including the land.
@@RBodge1234 just checking, not being rude but you know this is in Australia right and our dollar is only worth just over half what yours is so of course you could bring the number down to 50%, I believe our wages are much higher too but idk these days, if you could bring the number down to like 40% or less it would be impressive
Yeah pretty sure this guy was straight up embezzling most of the cash on this house. I would 100% ask for each tradie to provide invoices and communications with this Sam fella quick smart.... $100 he has been changing the invoices and asking for subpar work, age old trick of the professional services scammer
Thanks for bring Faizal on - so good to hear from a professional and their assessments of the area and how to properly to do the right thing. Breaks my heart for this owner
The could have been compliant with 80mm anticon roof sisilation with a R1.8 Rating. Looks like they cheaped out with 60mm which is just R1.3 and doesnt meet the energy assesment requirement. I suggest they get some batts up there and sort it out.
Victoria is one big potemkin village. Pretend wealth and prosperity. Actually more like an open air prison. Glad I don't live there anymore, but I feel sad for my family who still do.
Finding an Aussie tradesman is hard and expensive to do. Everyone has kept there little darlins at school for to long to become no one and now rely on immigration to fill the void. Immigrants on the other hand are a dime a dozen with no knowledge
The bloke that overseen this project should be blacklisted from the building game for the rest of his life. This is total insanity. He obviously has no clue whatsoever about building houses.
A lot of these companies , when they get in trouble they just close the company and open a new company .but iam in Toronto, Canada we have the same problem as you guys . We have Mike Holmes doing the same thing as this guy. It seems this is a worldwide problem . The u.s has the same problem, and the inspectors do videos of crap work, too, in the u.s.
You can work with friends or family so long as both parties understand that business is business and that there is a contract that is to be signed and respected
@@darkense666 its just not worth the stress if i did work with fam id treat them like i would any other worker fuck up and ill fire them just like i would a reguler worker i dont tolerate self entitlement just becouse your family does not mean ur immune to being fired. hanse i wont work with family its not worth the stress if they feel shitty bout being fired there gonna treat u badly.
There was a grandson in the US who was given money to do his grandmother's roofing. He took the money and kept stalling the job. When she called him out on it, he murdered her. WTF.
Faisal was a total boss. So many of these videos there'll be fools commenting that there was nothing wrong with the slabs and Zeher was just overreacting, now I can just tell them to watch this video at 52:22 instead of having to explain in 500 word essays why they are utterly wrong. :)
@@wobblyboostwhat that engineer wanted was total rubbish. If the driveway was to be done the way he is suggesting it would be closer to a million bucks and would still crack.
@wobblyboost1582 there would be plans and an engineering drawing for this driveway wouldn't there? Did you see him upload it? No because they don't exist. This inspector is very good at what he does but sometimes alot of it is for show wow factors and views. Anything he posts up with extracts is 100% legit like in this video with the trusses. Shows the work followed by plans and details showing what's required. There's nothing shown for a reason with the drive way. While some of the works is non compliant and Need rectified some maybe not. Why didn't he measure the cracks in the concrete wirh the tool. Because shrinkage cracks are a characteristic of concrete made worse by the fact the concrete is oxid and absorbs more heat. The only fool here is yourself for commenting on something you have not the slightest idea about
@@Severe2jz TL;DR. Despite the fact you clearly haven't the foggiest concept of what you're pretending to be an expert at and your enormous wall of words makes zero coherent sense and has no detectable point: I am declaring you the winner of whatever it is you think you won, here is your trophy princess - Congratulations!
The state of housing in Victoria is a deliberate oversight on behalf of the VBA which comes down from the upper echelons in government: Prevent a housing crash.
@@darkense666the home owner is the builder. They can take the concreter to vcat but the concreter will win as the cracking is within tolerance and Is a characteristic of concrete only made worse by making it black
Eh it's by far one of the smallest problems. Only real difference is the colour which is intended to warn people who are digging in that area but they always put a bucket or shovel through it before they see it since there is dirt on top of it... Best practice is warning tape over a gravel layer on top of the conduit, then you can use whatever conduit rather than the 2x marked up orange crap.
The Project Manager is unbelieveable he thinks he is smarter than the structural engineer, glad that you bring the engineer to check the slab, and how the project manager really did stuff up with reinforcement of the slab.
If they stuffed up he would have shown an engineers detail of how the concrete should have been done. Cracking in concrete is a characteristic and is unavoidable. As a normal person with no idea what do you think may increase the chances of it cracking from the sun, correct making it black oxide. Most concreters will refuse to do black concrete because what is shown in the video happens every time and when the owners are made aware made to sign a waver to say the except its going to crack 😊
THe structural engineer didnt have many issues and provided some very simple, day of work solutions. Even the hire and engineer said he could fix it with nails and a 4x2. The PM isnt responsible for the quality of the work by the tradies especially when he advised the owner that he would be fairly hands off. I agree the work is shoddy, but the concrete and carpentry/truss installers are to blame there.
@@xc5103 it depends on what their contract requires. Too many trades and professionals dont even know how to manage jobs because they expect the pm to do everything...imo project managers are not needed as much as we think
Great report, the Insurer for the Builder, the building surveyor, and the client-appointed Contract manager must be tearing their hair out - with demolition costs and rebuild plus loss of time it will be a sizeable claim. The VBA should be removing these people from the building industry, my condolence to the client, I feel very sorry for them especially because they appeared to have paid top price for the advice. Keep up the good work, and more strength to your arm.
Weird they try to put up a fight against having an inspector come. That's like a criminal yelling "I didn't do it" before police even say anything, all you're doing is arousing suspicion to anyone with half a brain. Sadly with how common shortcuts like this are considering all the content, I imagine at least some people are getting away with it unfortunately.
You got me with that fake location in the intro. I was legit about to look into becoming an inspector solely for the off-chance of work holidays in Fiji.
It's clear they had 100% trust in this family friend, probably paid extra on everything to "get it done right" as she said. Absolute betrayal. And what does the PM mean get a real job, does he think inspectors are pointless?
A lot of homes featured on this channel are ugly, tasteless McMansions built on tiny blocks. The owners get a quote for a much larger house for the same or less than any other builder and get stars in their eyes. Couple years later they're on here with no idea why they got ripped off.
Or that they're just too trusting. Maybe they didn't realise that as an owner builder all the compliance and oversight is on them. That's pretty much it at the end of the day it was up to them to ensure that everything was square. Just think for the cost of having an inspector come out once a week you'd have saved yourself hundreds of thousands of dollars. Even smart people can be taken advantage of. 30% of 2.1 million is a lot of money "saved"
The so called project manager is liable for 75% of the problems and the relevant trades contractors are 100% liable for their respective non complainant work, The building certifier for the government is 100% liable.
@@banana-ui2qd So what's the point of a project manager? What's stopping the project manager from taking the money, hiring shoddy trades and not caring about the quality of work, and then just pocketing the rest of the money and then blaming others?
Love your videos mate, really appreciate what you do! I have a suggestion with the beginning of the video, the sections of the AI voiceovers (reading letters and messages) can be a bit too much sometimes. It was a bit lengthy due to how long the letters and messages were. I feel like you can better improve these sections by simply displaying the messages and giving a quick summary and asking the audience to pause the video if they wish to read it all. I hope you find this helpful. Thanks again and keep up the great work!
Never been interested in this kind of thing and i work for a walls/truss manufacturer. I will say seeing this makes me more keen to learn and also want to always get site inspections get done before buying or fully building a new home. Keep up the good work hope the owners can get things back in order
Last time I used a private Building Inspector he did a visual of works from his car in the driveway as he was so obese it was too much effort to get out of his car. He passed it without question.
As a professional pest inspector I can assure you and anyone living in Keysborough although it’s technically not a “declared” termite area by the council, termites are well and truly in the area. Great to see you mention the termite treatment standards. Some of the chemical concentration rates to obtain a treatment certificate are ridiculous, how can a treatment applied 1/4 strength come close to protecting a structure for any decent amount of time, let alone being disturbed by adding garden beds or concrete.
What are some things you can do if you’ve noticed them on your compound? I’ve found a small mound on my property hidden under leaves and now I’m worried
As someone who lives in Sth East suburbs as well, It's always been dodgy AF here. Wouldn't be surprised if inspectors that sign off on some of these job sites are still being paid off with slabs of beer like the 90's! Love what you do here, Very professional and If I ever get a house built I'd hire you and the team in an instant just so I don't get any NON COMPLIANT, I'd even tell the builder in advance just to get them on edge to do the right thing. ;)
I can honestly say, I've never been so engrossed in watching YT videos before. Like holy shit. 1. The deep knowledge this man has to cite building code off the bat and thoroughness of inspection. 2. The significance of the issues. 3. The editing to pull up, and clearly show the receipts in the clip. Utter respect. Subbed and liked. I'd recommend, though: Showing pictures of compliant 'x' thing on screen, to help understand the issue. For example, the waterproofing for the showers section.
I would love to see you collaborate with FriendlyJordies on a special report into substandard building practices. He has already done some good work on corruption in building at the highest levels of government, so it would be great to tie in and show people what that looks like for substandard work for homeowners. Great work. Please keep contractors honest.
FriendlyJordies has not published anything since he took down Coronation. I think some people with reputations for real violence made very real threats against him. Not just firebombing his house.
You sir are a legend I am about to look into building my first home, I am 30, I know absolutely nothing about it, but you are doing gods work mate. I have heard so many horror stories about building homes, it really deterred me, but people like you existing makes it better. Good on ya mate! I would love to see you looking into 400k-600k housing, that's really where things get dodgy.
The start of building quality degradation started with the volume builders AV Jennings. They were able strongly influenced how the code was changed so they would profit from being able to use less materials to build their houses, then radiator pine was introduced for the frame instead of obhw and the light building code and it's been a slippery slope from there. It is very unfortunate we have ended up with the paper houses that take 2 lifetimes to pay for, are lucky to live out the 7 year mandatory insurance scheme (hope no one has to make a claim on it.) Where do you start to fix a system that now is the norm? It is a tragedy but it is one of our most basic needs -food, shelter and RU-vid .
Corners were cut with the concrete but the Engineer's hypothesis was incorrect. In my experience(25+ yrs) cutting cotrol joints and since obtained an Engineering degree (Civil) in the industry for 8yrs, those cracks would have occured between 12 an 48 hours after the pour. The cracks will open up slightly but will be limited by the steel (depending if the steel is within the concrete). I'll start of by mentioning the lack of expansion joints. For this development, max 12m. Idealy every 6m in the long sections. Lack of expansion will not cause cracks. It will cause lifting, due to the increased length of the concrete. I think it is most likely the cuts were done too late. That is why the distances seem to be so short between cuts in some areas. Trying to cover for a late cut. Once cracked, no amount of cutting wil releive the cracks unless cut through. 100mm is what AS 3727 requires for resi paving. SL62 mesh if the cuts are max 2m, SL72 if cuts are max 4.5m. Double layer steel for a job like that is ridiculous. For highly reactive soils the control joints should be closer. Regarding the cut bottom chord in that truss, the engineer you had onsite was describing the actions if the truss was stand alone. That truss is essentially nulled by the compromised bottom chord, but the roof isn't about to collapse any time soon. There will be deflection and cracking in the gyprok below. But no catastrophe like old mate was going on about. The useless truss is in a system of trusses. The adjacent trusses will be overloaded by 33%. The only way a catastrophic failure would occur if multiple trusses were failed in a row. The factors of safety with more than account for that additional load. Stick to the original engineer's response. That was a lot more reasonable.
Im also 20+ year civil construction eng and road construction masters. I agree with you on the truss no way a catastrophic failure would occur. This guy is nit picking too much. Also what is you opinion on the fence made from hebel+styrofoam and imitation of brick. We do not use this "heble" in Poland. We use autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) or limestone/sand "Silka" slabs from what iv seen its similar. From my exp i would have no problem with the imitation of brick on the "heble" if they used correct long Dowel for thermal insulation in between layers of the bricks. and seperate the foundation from "heble" with underlayment felt or some foil. Its like saying you can not put stoneware tiles on AAC as they weight is sometimes more then 35-40kg/sqm. Foundation then underlayment felt then heble. Then starter strip, XPS (extruded polystyrene), long dowel then the brick immitation. and ur done. Easier would be c10/15 foundation, 2x underlayment felt, c10 concrete blocks. Then slap on the brick imitation on the concrete blocks. End the top with a nice cap with gorges for anti capillary and ur done.
I feel sick to the stomach!!!!! Never seen such rubbish work in 40 years of building. I come from material conservation science back ground, heritage building conservation/restoration in Europe, 40 years building/construction. The 'good old days' 80% of those on site were over 35 years old with a few young apprentices or tradies. Now a days onsite 90% are young ones (as in this video having a laugh) with very little experience or common sense. The system (politicians + bureaucrats) created this mess. I am happy to be out of this industry.
with labor and the unions in charge, no bloody way it will happen, the people voted for these idiots, deserve what we get, this state is fcuked for the next 10 yrs at a minimum.
Never. The developers doodles are in the politicians pockets because they need the population ponzi going otherwise the whole thing is going to come crashing down.
Houses in Australia seem like deep fakes. Fake concrete/block/stone walls made out of Styrofoam, external house walls made out Styrofoam with some crap on top of them. Is Styrofoam cheap there?
Hebel is 9 times better at insulating than brick. It gets fucking hot in Australia. Yeah it's not as strong, but with the cost of power, You can see why it gets used.
Ha, not remotely surprised he's active in Glen Waverley and surrounds. More money than cents around there... The entire area went from literal paddocks with horses into row upon row of mcmansions. Prime real estate for scam builders.
