The blending of the bricks within the finished walls of this home needs a little work!!
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This roof line was left undulation up and down along its length!!
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Looks like the fitting of this insulation needs a little work. Did you know that Sustainability Victoria’s Energy Smart Housing Manual warns that if batts are not snugly fitted then up to 5% of the ceiling area will not be properly covered, which would lose up to 50% of the potential insulation benefit!!
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The sub floor construction on this home involved piers and beams, unfortunately no one told the carpenters that the beams had to actually sit down hard onto the piers!!
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You can see the mould growing up the face of this wall from the excessive water from the downpipe that was a little too short!!
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The mortar repairs to this wall still need a little work!!
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This is what happens when the concreters forget to allow for the installation of a shower base. You guessed it – the plumbers come through and just jack hammer their way through the slabs beam with no care about the structural integrity of the slab!!
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This roof brace of this home had been cut through by the plumbers installing the flue of the heater – don’t worry about the structural integrity of the home, at least it will be warm inside!!
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More steel reinforcement exposed along the bottom of a slab, which if left, as it had been to date, would rust, expanding as it does so, leading to the future cracking of the slab and possibly its failure!!
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They must have run out of concrete while pouring this footing because they just stopped half way and left the mesh hanging out!!
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The insulation in this roof, as it is in so many, is not all the way out to the side walls. In fact it was up to 500mm short to most of them in this house!!
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This time the brickie had dropped the excessive mortar down the back of his brickwork across the cavity between the bricks and top plate of the ground floor timber frame, which if left would have allowed water and moisture to transmit across onto the timber and into the ceiling!!
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The metal filing had been left on the prepainted finish of this roof to rust their way through it!!
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This shower waste would have just fitted in next to this floor joist – but what the hell, they just cut through its top chord and webbing anyway!!
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With both this fascia and gutter out of level I wonder how the water was supposed to get to the downpipe!!
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This job caught my eye when I saw that the bags of wall batts had been thrown out into the drive to give the plasterers more room to move as they hung the wall sheets in the house!!
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The damp-proof course/cavity flashing is meant to be installed into the brick course below the bottom wall plate – not above it!!
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This roof beam which spanned the width of a 6 metre wide Alfresco area was only bearing onto the post by 4 or 5mm but it did have 6 or so nails in it to help hold up the weight of the roof tiles.... the scary this about this is that this frame had been approved by the relevant building surveyor!!
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The prepainted finish along the edge of this colorbond fascia had been blown off during the brick cleaning procedure, which had left the raw zincalume base metal exposed and susceptible to rust from the acid used to clean off the brickwork!!
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The jack studs over the windows of this home had been installed in the wrong orientation, which left them to short across their depth for the brick layers to tie their brickwork back into!!
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This external wall had been constructed with the brickwork hard up against the timber frame!!
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The owners of this new home had this deck installed around it to enjoy the outdoor area. I wonder how much more a straight one would have cost!!
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I can only wonder how much a straight roof line would have cost!!
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The bottom of the side wall along this house was left overhanging the edge of the concrete slab by up to 80mm!!
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The contractor who installed the skylight into this house clearly has no understanding of how trusses work. Otherwise he wouldn’t have cut through its top chord rather than just move his skylight up another row of tiles!!
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