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Our building is not yet one year old. I think it is reasonable to expect that there are faults, and expect for them to get fixed.
However, what has started to concern me is that some of the faults we are seeing look like they may be replicated in multiple units, possibly as a result of poor tradesmen and insufficient or bad project management.
Some people in the committee have talked about not bringing in a consulting engineer/building inspector until near the end of the warranty period. I am of the view that we need to get a building inspector on board now so that the where relevant, the developer is held to account, and where it is not their responsibility, owners can understand what they are responsible for. Some of the faults have the potential to be serious – e.g. water ingress. Some of them require us to understand what compliance should have taken place during installation: e.g. A/C units that have been installed with damaged ducting, and inability to get a filters to clean them; fly-wire screens that can’t be removed without taking out the window winder (looks like wring size fly-wire screens to me). In these cases is there a compliance requirement, or is the installation done based on common sense?
More importantly, does anyone have experience with the timing of hiring an independent consultant building inspector ?
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