I Inspected Australia's Best House… 8 Years Later
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- In this video, we revisit a home once featured on 'Best Houses Australia.' Purchased by a family swayed by its acclaimed status, they've lived in this house for the last 8 years. Today, we put it to the test and investigate how it has stood the test of time.
Will this house still live up to its accolade? Are you ready for some surprising findings? From mould, leaks, and non-compliant works - we uncover it all!
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Just highlights that "Best Houses Australia" is basically a paid advertising system for builders/designers to create self-proclaimed awards.
This is obviously a horrendously constructed home but in terms of design there are some head scratching decisions too. Australia has much better to offer than this.
Mate these builders are going to put a price on you,exposing their non compliant operations.keep it up and flush em out of the industry.
It's the developers thatll make a person go missing. Almost every big name in the industry has family in a bike club.
Was thinking this exactly, his work is thorough and succinct. Worried when the dodgy wackjobs with powerful connections decide to respond
@@EXZACHTPERFORMANCE What do you think this is? Tour de france? They have family in a bike club? I find your threat non compliant.
@@alkiii lol. He never names the builder or developer. He is just doing his job and providing his client with a thorough report. That is what professionals who take their job seriously do. Which is the exact opposite of what the unprofessional builders are doing.
Although lets be honest. Your average stand over/hit man or member of the local bike/rotary/bowling club. Would use youtube comments as a means of intimidation. Scary stuff. It's not even directed at me and I am quaking in my boots.
That IS a good australian house.
A friend of mine was a german architect and got 16 years blocked from other builders to get a builders licence. I'm a german trained house electrician and later electronic technician.
How often got we told we are "blo.dy arrogant krauts" because we couldn't believe what type of houses in australia get build.
We wouldn't use something like this in europe not as a garden shed.
My friend build himself a workshed german style, double brick, tripple insulated windows, Alloy thermo entrance door, and so on.
It was cool in the summer without aircon.
And that was only a working shed.
He tried to build houses with australian tradies and has done the same experiences like I had.
With all the "cowboys" on the market it's better you do your renovatings or repairs yourself.
17 years, renovating 3 houses, I could tell you storys you don't want to hear as a Australien.
And it's not much better with car mechanics, tools, materials, and so on and on.
My friend is gone back to europe.
He couldn't live so.
I gave up houses and live in a caravan.
Is not much worse as a australian house .......
Sadly, this is so true.
Seems that people are just a bit spoilt and lazy.
I'm sad your friend went back to Germany. I love the way European homes are built to truly last and I'd have hired him as I'm currently saving to do a knockdown and rebuild. Hope you and he are both doing better now.
Oh I’ve seen videos about double brick German houses and they are my dream house! Sadly I can never own one. Since I got my house I’ve come across 4 plumbers and none of them done a proper job, had to figure everything out by myself. Where can I learn all the necessary skills if I want to renovate my house by myself?
I’m NEVER buying a house that’s build after the 90’s. This channel is amazing.
They would not of had the rules and regulations back then for majority of the non compliant items the Site Inspector finds, Waterproofing alone was only made mandatory as part of the standards from 1996, Don't be fooled into thinking older is better, all they knew was cement back then.
@@Blikle1I suspect he means the cultural heritage type of house, because many sad quality house in 90s probably can’t survive to a livable condition today. I wish I can get that much money for the old stone houses, they are beautiful.
@@Blikle1 I can assure you that older homes are better built than modern ones.
The simple fact is that the more moving parts you add to something the more problems will arise, just like cars. Old cars were basic design and easy to work with with minimal problems. Now we have cars where you have to attach an obd to find the faults because its all electrical.
Not only that but in older homes you didnt need so many rules and regulations because builders back then built homes with pride and passion and didnt take shortcuts or use shitty cheap materials. Now its just a job.
I have a weatherboard built in the 1940s thats built with redgum stumps and solid hardwood wall studs that are actually notched into the top wall frames to prevent movement and added support where you will never see this done in modern builds that are built with soft pine.
I had a building inspector come to check out my house before I bought it and he couldnt fault it. There isnt a single leak anywhere and its all still level from the foundations up.
I can assure you that my old nearly 100yr house is more solid and better than most newly built homes.
The simple rule in design is keep it simple in design and very little goes wrong. Now developers add so much crap to home building that just isnt necessary and ofc there are lots of gaps, leaks, cracks and so on in newer builds. Not to mention, modern home builds have NO character and all look the same and most of the supplies come from bunnings of all places.
This is why on this guys videos you mostly see that all the roof drainage used is cheap piping from bunnings rather than proper high flow sumps.
All the tradies dont source their materials from reputed dealers or manufacuters. They just turn up to bunnings at 7am, load up and head to the site.
My old house built around 96/97 was mint excluding one issue. No mould, no water ingress to carpets, no swelling , no leaking waterproofing. However, the roof area pretty much funneled all water to one spot and it would overflow the gutters into the kitchen window in torrential downpour, this was when thousands of houses flooded. It happened twice. So we first did some dodgy pipes onto the verandah areas then plumbed into the system properly later. It had a large concrete footprint around the house, concrete retaining walls, retaining walls metres from house, outside drainage on verandas, termite barriers, etc. it must have been built by a builder for himself. They don't make houses like that now. A Hong Kong/singapore inspector came through is like this carport not compliant. 2 $15 parts later compliant 😂. He's I'm never seen a house this good in Australia. Said most builders here would be striked out. Three strikes and you lose license forever.
Sadly I don’t think this channel will ever run out of content. The building industry in Australia is a mess.
I moved from Australia to Canada for 4 years and wow... It's like the wild west over there. Australia has way more rules and regulations but i suspect builders/trades arent keeping up or think "she'll be right"
Exactly! You can have all the rules in the world, but if no ones regulating it properly then some builders will try (and then get away) with cheaper/easier builds. The systems designed for home owners to call out when a builder is doing something wrong, but we' re not all NCC experts.
It's the same crap all over the world+-
For some reason noobs think they can work in construction industry without any actual knowledge.
I'd like to see him inspect houses in other countries with local inspectors.
That would be great.
@@MrFrozenFrost Why? You wanne get him killed or what?)))
We have seen the dodgy jobs, you should do a perfect or near perfect build inspection.
Would love to see you do a home where they (tradies) have absolutely hit the nail on the head and done a mint job. So we can see the comparison of what it should actually look like.
They're almost non existent outside of bespoke houses like owner builder situations. Some of the smaller more expensive builders are also reasonably good but it's very hard to tell.
Probs gonna be totally impossible to find in this current culture.
@@Sneakyboson definitely not. Do you really think that all Australian tradies are dodgy?
That’s a ridiculous idea.
There a heaps of absolutely incredibly builders/tradies.
Unfortunately there are likely even more lazy dishonest ones.
@@Sneakyboson Just look for the builders who charge the most and youll find plenty of good ones.
@@Bluegrunt25exactly people get upset when they get a shit job but got 5 different quotes and chose the cheapest no sympathy everyone knows you pay more for quality
Man its nice to see an inspector that takes his job seriously. As a concrete delivery driver and concrete pumpy ive seen some of the negligence firsthand. On one job we had to wait for an inspector before pouring conc, she rocked up hours late and ticked it off from the footpath coz she didnt wanna get her high heels dirty. We were pouring a slab out the back.
Wow talk about unprofessional
Sounds like another diversity hire that has no business tending to a role assigned to her.
He got excited on everything he found.
Name and shame the high heeled inspector - it's the only way things will change and improve in Australia
I’m a NZ builder and just came across your YT channel. Even though you’re in Australia your videos are absolute gold. Just great to see things from a building inspector’s perspective and you provide a wealth of information. Thank you
I hear in NZ councils are reponsible for building inspectors?
@@sabamacx True
Any comment on education of trades and compliance in NZ? A friend told me that the kiwi tradesman that he encountered working in Sydney had high workmanship standards in comparison to locals, but this might be unfair comparison because ones that seek work OS may not be fair representation.....
Any comment on education of trades and compliance in NZ? A friend told me that the kiwi tradesman that he encountered working in Sydney had high workmanship standards in comparison to locals, but this might be unfair comparison because ones that seek work OS may not be fair representation.....
@@sabamacxSadly, in the past a lot of dodgy work has been signed off by council inspectors. I suspect that what is being seen in Australia is commonplace throughout NZ and the UK too. Seems to be the nature of the game thaws days .
I will never get over the ability to build so close to the neighbouring houses, without at least making it accessible to an adult sized human being. Besides the water issue, how do you maintain that space?
You literally can't. I believe it's called a zero lot wall. It just becomes a haven for every creepy crawly you can imagine haha.
Because developers are greedy Carnts.
Builders: that sounds like a you problem, friend. That'll be 3.4 million dollars please!
Not an easy problem to fix that’s for sure.
As my old man said so close you could hear every word next door said. Then there is fire with all that foam.
This is the type of bloke you want as a consultant throughout your build. Not from the finish,from start to very end. Who cares if it'll cost more a house is easily one of the biggest assets. My next build or investment, I'll definitely give this bloke a call.
He would have to literally live on site so that he could inspect every bit of work done every single day.
Tradies would be going bonkers, can you imagine: "Mate, that's 1mm out. Rip it all out and do it right! Oh, by the way, the fall on the balcony is out by nearly 1/1000th of an inch. Not good enough." 😂😂😂
@@ozymandias7940 That's a bit disingenuous mate.. To use that as some excuse as to why he shouldn't worry about inspecting the tradesman on his next job when we've seen HOURS and HOURS of disgusting evidence of the most shoddy work turning the innocent families lives into horror shows.. I'm a site supervisor and these scum bags should lose their licenses and be banned in Australia.
@@malsmith2012 I wasn't suggesting that he not inspect the tradesmen on the next site. I was referring to the impracticality of living on site or returning to site every day to inspect the work. Unfortunately, as seen in all these videos, and being a building inspector yourself, you would know full well that once a tradie has 'finished' his/her work and left the site, it is very difficult to get them back to rectify anything not up to spec.
The entire building industry is a shambles and unfortunately, nobody seems to want to take on the responsibility to acknowledge and fix it.
When I saw the title, I thought this would finally be an inspection of a house with few or no defects. Nope! I missed the question mark...
Same...he got me
You begin to appreciate how many folks are getting ripped off & it's depressing to watch , but very very informative
When building a house, don't build one with balconies and box gutters. Builders just never get these right, always has leaks and drainage issues.
Building balconies seems to be a lost ancient art.
@@GG-mf3rz it's because the plumber who installed the drains assumes the concreter will get the fall right, but the concreter assumes the tiler will be able to make fall happen to the drain but the tiler assumes the plumber set the drain height correctly when in reality the drain height was set for whatever was easiest for the concreter. But the all assume the water proofer is a magician and will solve any drainage issues.
There are no proper tradies out there now they all lazy I see it everyday
Box gutters should be banned from residential homes full stop
@@Miakel
You're spot on. The problem is trades dont care about anything or anyone other than themselves. Being a floor layer myself and one of the last trades to work in the house, i see it all the time, walls not square, subfloors both concrete and yellow-tounge well beyond tolerance etc.. Then, we try pointing these things out to the site supervisor but of course, they expect us to work miracles to make it work.
Makes me sad, coming from 2 generation of builder's, that there's still big problems with builder's to this day, breaks my heart, that it takes someone like yourself to expose the dodgy industry that needs to come to light, with your great work
i would love to see a review on 1 or 2 of the block TV show units, I think that would be a gold mine
They probably have someone come through and tidy up all the defects.
With the way the industry has become, your going to be very famous. Keep it up.
"All I have is a little rule and this camera" Plus ... Knowledge ! - Awesome work. I'm going to hire you for our build coming up!!
It’s means a lot, thank you 🙏
Outstanding example of how you cannot polish a turd yet you can roll it in glitter.
Your videos are fascinating and shocking at the same time.
Your workmanship is excellent!
RIP Spider, couldn't escape the defects
Honestly half the problem is the way trades get taught now. When I did my trade I only got taught 30% of the strandards he picks out, and the Tafe I went to was one renowned to be one of the most strict and critical tafes when it came to teaching and testing.
An architectural marvel with the facade boasting sheer grandeur.
However, the old adage to never judge a book by its cover rings true here.
You are national gold, mate, we need more real professionals such as yourself exposing this scam of an industry
Absolutely
Im so grateful that i own a 90 year old, double brick/stone house that is structurally sound (i.e no rising damp or reactive clay under the footings) It will outlast me and my kids
I feel that the new (waterproofing) standards make it even easier for tradies to take shortcuts. For example, by not allowing door frames to be embedded into a tile bathroom floor. This would just further hide bad workmanship. As a non-builder, whenever I'm renovating I always pay extra for non-MDF. How is MDF even allowed. It sweals up if it just looks at water.
I'm a tradesperson, the amount of MDF I've pulled out of bathrooms would blow your mind. 🤣
As someone who recently bought a house with my wife I'm now terrified to get anything done... Without personally knowing a builder and having no building knowledge ourselves, how the hell are we meant to know if we're hiring someone dodgy or not!?
By the price sir get multiple quotes and the cheapest is usually the shitest
you cant rely on price these days, so many cases of going with the higher quotes expecting good work just to get dodgy work but paying top dollar@@user-bq7zd5oh8p
@@user-bq7zd5oh8p umm not necessarily?! He did a video of a 3 million dollar house with the same issues as this place!
@@user-bq7zd5oh8p So can the most expensive. Its all about due diligence and looking at previous works of the tradies and builders and talking with other customers that have dealt with these ppl. Going online and looking up reviews is the worst thing anyone can do to get a recommendation. Reviews can be bought and made up.
Yes, and watch out if they show you a folder showing lots of renovations they've done in the past which lulls you into a false sense of security. They can show good looking rooms but it doesn't show close ups and whether compliances have been followed.this happened to me with a bathroom renovation guy once. The bathroom he gave me had chipped tiles and a litany of non compliant works. He employed his usual tiler old man who cut tiles on the outside of the house on the ground without a table and with a power tool from bunnings! And the licence number he gave me I assumed he was for a builder.
.. I checked it out after the problems and it turned out it was for a HANDYMAN and not a builder, so he was only authorised for works under the amount of $2k! I complained to NSW authority and they did nothing. The builder threatened me and refused to leave my house when I called him out. I had to call the police. He came out, and the police laughed and joked with him. I knew then that Australia is now a lawless country and every part of it is corrupt and you're on your own. The police and trade authorities are corrupt and they are bigger predators than the cowboys.
This channel is going to blow up! Keep up the good work!
I lived in one of these shithouse new build townhouses in seddon, Vic. The balcony drainage was so busted it was leaking into the garage and completely destroying the ceiling. Top quality.
unbelievable, is it possible to do a follow up and find out what the builders response is to the warranty claim ?
I would like to see that.
If they still exist
The building company likely has dissolved, gone bankrupt, and has started a new business to escape warranty
yer always interested to see what happens next
@@rajahferrier7475 government should step in if they have.
we need more professionals like you leading and policing stricter penalties to the mafias out there working as builders. insane insane
How do they even fix this kind of thing? Feels like the whole house would have to be stripped and start over.
If you rebuilt it, the next builder could do a worse job lol 😂
How knowledgeable are you videos brother, well done for educating us all. Big props 👍
Thank you it means a lot to me 🙏❤️
On the flip side I have a friend getting a renovation done and your videos have helped me determine the builders are really good
My mother in Northampton WA desperately needs a guy like you to inspect her disaster of a house rebuild after a cyclone destroyed it a few years back. I was banned from entering the state at the time and the "handymen" who somehow masqueraded as builders fleeced her for all she had left and now her only asset is a decaying & dangerous mess.
Most of this occurred without my knowledge and unfortunately I was banned from entering the state to inspect for myself.
I work in design consulting for the past 16/17 years, mainly as a design draftsman in various disciplines. Knowledge like this must be shared with regular folk embarking on thier new builds or renovations as the BCA is exemplary, if only the standard of builders matched and followed it. It's a great service you're providing here for us as viewers so thank you very much.
I watch your videos on Facebook and just came across your CZcams channel. Your videos are so good to watch. It would be mad if one day you can do a follow up video or just in the comments on what happened with your clients. I hope many of them get these problems fixed or money back.
Yes 100% it would be awesome - we all want to see a happy ending to these nightmares.
After all these poor quality inspections, have you had one that was actually good? there probably isn't one that's 100% compliant down to the letter, but at least one where it's mostly compliant and built properly. would love to see a comparison.
You ought to see my neighbour's house...
Broken bricks on the base of the two-storey building? Just fill it in with crushed bricks and slap some render on it! Also, the 4 metre high 'retaining wall' he built adjacent to my backyard looks like it was made with LEGO bricks that have been chewed on, and his boys backfilled my side of the wall with chunks of leftover mortar and tree branches they snapped off my trees during their work - so ingenious!
On the plus side I'm picking up a fair amount of Arabic from hearing the workers shouting at each other all the time!
Get them to pay 15k and he’ll come point out all there problems then they can court and spend lots of time and money or get a out of court settlement of 15k lol
It any part of the tree is on "my" side of the fence, I have every right to trim your tree that's over my property to the point it's not on my property anymore
@@everythingpony That's correct, but you can't come on to my property to cut down trees or pull off branches to make it easier to build your wall from my side of the dividing line, which is what they did.
I think a big contributing factor on all these builds is that thereis never a site supervisor on site. They're not even there when critical points during construction are happening. Trades are left to run riot and the main motivation for the trades is to get it done quickly, get paid and move on to the next job because it'll be years by the time someone notices that the work they did showed actual contempt for the builder (their client), and the home owner (the end client). A good site supervisor will pick up on all these details and get the trades to adhere to the necessary standards, however they cost money and builders like these don't see the value as they don't win work on reputation, they win it on price. I think all trades should be licensed. Any dickhead can buy a hammer and call himself a chippie, and it's usually these same guys who believe they can build. And with building licenses being shared around like a ciggie behind the bikesheds is it any wonder that same dickhead with that hammer has now built your dreamhome?
My house was completed in 2011 and I must have been super lucky. Not only was I regularly inspecting the site myself but the site supervisor was damned near a perfectionist.
Sure I spent maybe 10% more at time (about $20k on the build cost) but it was worth every cent.
We had the odd dodgy tradie. The fencing guy and the painters especially but the site supervisor and builder were all over them.
It amazed me some of the corners the trades will cut. Ducting for the exhaust fans was a classic. The bathrooms would steam up and not clear. The cause the ducting was 2 sizes under specification. Once replaced the problem was solved.
The smaller ducting saved less than $5 per bathroom. The cost to rectify would have been in the hundreds. Especially once the builder inspected their other sites and found the same shortcut.
A decade on the house isn't perfect. I have some minor cracks from settling and some wear and tear but overall the house is sound and watertight.
Homes a couple of years old shouldn't have all these problems.
@@davidbrayshaw3529 the problem isn't Architects, only about 5% of houses in Australia are designed by Architects. It's Draftspeople who design the majority of houses. They just care about the Res code, how close can they go to maximising the footprint, how high, how to get by council, etc. Not about livability and space, construction materials and methods, sustainability and energy efficiency, how things age and dare I say it... aesthetics.
www.aaca.org.au/wp-content/uploads/Industry-Profile.pdf
@@davidbrayshaw3529thank you agree
Since living here for past 12 years, I have to say I am absolutely amazed at the absolutely shit workmanship from many tradies. The whole you must get a licensed tradesman to do the work is an absolute rort. Electrician to change plug or replace a light fitting is just 1 thing that spring to mind.
The deal is that even though these people are "licensed" they are regularly shit at their job! In the 3 houses I have lived in from being here, the electric installs have been hilariously bad. Everywhere they can cut corners they do. Things like sticking the high draw kitchen sockets on the same circuit as the general downstairs socket circuit. Not a separate circuit for external sockets (well just poke the wire from through the wall so it's classified as internal).
I have fully wired out houses that I've built in other countries, so I know my way around things, so I recently did all the wiring for my outside area and shed, with a sub-switchboard etc. Being a good boy I called in the licensed man to connect it to the main board and powering it up, he turned up and was amazed at how clean the install was and the fact I had test all circuits for possible shorts and grounds, as in his word, "he never does that!".
He basically looked at it, wired it into the mainboard, switched the power on, took his money and buggered off.
The other thing that confuses the shit outta me is how are these house given building permission that are nigh on touching the neighbouring house! I have seen several places where the guttering is overhanging the neighbouring house, unbelievable.
(Also don't even start me on the use of nail guns! They seem to think they are the only way to connect two piece of wood together! Needs to be stronger . . . MORE NAILS!)
Thanks for doing this, I will never ever ever ever ever ever ever build a house in this country.
dont panic. there are good builders in australia. its just a matter of talking to the right people and a bit of due diligence.
So this house was on Australia's best homes?
Why? Zero yard, beds in the home are closer to the neighbours toilet than their own and looks to be a new highway going in no more than 3 meters away.
Probably paid over $1.2 million, but with interest, closer to $1.7 million.
This type of building practice needs to stop.
So glad I got colour bond, lot of issues with tiles by cowboy roofers 🤣
I'm flabbergasted with your findings too Mr. Black Ops.
Great content! on a binge watch atm.
I so thankful there are still people like your self in this crazy world genuinely doing the right thing
Only Started watching the channel last night after the recommendation and have seen about 25 vids so far. Good job on the filming orientation and liking your normal voice 👌
OK, how many of us really only watch the videos to see the drone work and suspenseful music? Come on, admit it. I am officially addicted. Each video shows how trades, expected to be some of the best, cut corners, use poor supplies, leave messes, etc.
Thanks for showing a completed property from a certified Building Inspectors perspective.
We almost got the builder of this house to build our house. I've actually been in this house when it was a display house just before being sold. I feel for the current owners having all these defects..
gee a display house with that many defects......imagine what the real quality would be like for joe average
What is the name of the builder?
Maybe if i took the job offer years ago I would've done compliant work
@@minthkwho is it?
We need to name and shame - there is too much of this happening. Currently SR Construction are replacing the 4 million dollar roof on my complex in Sydney, and the defects are atrocious - i can see clear daylight between the side of my window jamb and the wall, yet they've not handed out the remotes so I can't open them either. I can also hear water dripping directly on to my ceiling when it rains. The new roof is worse than the one they replaced. They haven't lapped sheets properly, they haven't sealed any of the tek screws - none of them, meaning there are literally hundreds if not thousands of uniform leak points throughout, not including the hi-lite windows. It's an absolute disaster. Scaffolding is still up, so i'm doing my best to shout and scream before it comes down.
I'm from NZ and have heard and seen a lot of stories of leaking with the last rainy season. We've been getting more torrential downpours with rain coming and dumping in a short space of time. I'm sure you've heard about the flooding's in Auckland etc. I feel like a lot of guttering's are being overloaded but like you said, these are supposed to have overflows. Makes you wonder. Love your videos btw. Keep up the great work.
There is no overflow requirement with quad guttering, slotted quad guttering is not permitted in Victoria.
The back of quad gutter is lower than the front, if the gutter overflows the water will escape at the back of the gutter between the fascia.
Old houses do not see much water damage from quad gutters due to having eaves. Modern houses without eaves suffer from more water damage due to box gutters and quad gutters higher than fascia.
I'm enthralled by the destitute expertise of this builder.
By the drone footage the 50mm pvc sewer vent stack was never finished, there needs to be a penetration through the roof tiles with that, also double stories are more susceptible to syphoning the water traps. I see this all the time.
Good job mate thoroughly enjoy your vids. I have built houses in South africa, England and France. Australia bewarned, avoid flat roofs, boxed gutters.They are problematic in the extreme. Give me an old fashioned pitched roof even with no gutters, you can see whats going on.
Love how he is pointing at those really "hard working" tradies on the site next door... This guy is a national treasure.
How the hell does the situation of such a small gap between buildings get approved??
Non combustible external walls of garages. You see it on almost every block these days with new subdivisions. Able to squeeze more blocks in and put bigger homes on smaller blocks. The homes are almost built back to back with alot having no eaves on the side of the garage
It sucks laying bricks through the frame on those. Hate it
@@dragginmedown $2 a brick ?
Min. 600 to allow maintenance, vermin/pest inspections etc. Even that'd be conservative for mine.
@@gregdogg10 yeah roughly.
Wonderful work brother. We need more people like you in this world.
Hey mate great video, your doing a true public service with this info. I hope you keep it up.
You should hunt down all the tv show houses from the block ect ect and give them a free inspection just to show the defective works and make these videos 😂😂😂
I'm beginning to think that "some" of those properties might be a little bit better actually.
Why should he do it for free? Anyone that bought those houses had some idea of what they were getting. Considering I paid for an Inspection of my place and overall I would be surprised if they even bothered to look at anything properly and just walked through so they could fill in the report. Much rather hire someone willing to do the Job I've hired them to do and have them do a complete and thorough job of it.
Oh my god I am so addicted to your videos I can’t believe how much I learn per video.
Mate nice work , keep the videos coming . Good to know that someone actually cares about building standards!!
Imaging the state of these homes in another 20 years !!
Knowledge is Power.
Maybe that 50mm PVC pipe that's terminated in the roof space, is actually a 50mm vent line that should terminate to atmosphere at least 300mm from the top of the tile... I believe it has a little vent cowl on top of it to...
My neighbour was a clerk of works. He was visiting a hospital site and as soon as the bricky saw him he started to dismantle his brickwork. He had a lot of stories about shoddy work too.
Australia, were living in "it". A country were oversight and accountability are just unwanted foreigners. "She'll be right mate" attitude is so prevalent here.
Hope someone will produce something like this about our flat units builds in this country.
1st time hearing you can't use slotted gutter in Victoria. I know when the Brisbane floods happened it caused a huge amount of damage and they then banned slotted gutter and had to have spacers between fascia and gutter, but then lysaght had the slots widened and had a engineered performance solution and then the rest of the suppliers followed.
As an Woolsafe carpet inspector I find so similar situations
Straight away have to comment I love that it's horizontal! Watched a few vids but just struggle with vertical videos. Especially for things like this. Keep up the horizontal!
Will also add that I fuckin love these videos. I'm living in Pascoe Vale, by the train station. This whole area is copy & paste town houses and I guarantee you'd have a ball going through this place.
he loves the words "non compliant" :D
Hey mate, love your work,
I was a form work carpenter and doing from multiple stores to 1 suspended slab, work for myself for 20 years, we were concreter, steel fixing, done the lot, in Yeppoon Qld. They build different up here. Everything is W50 cyclone rated and don't have the trouble that Victoria has.
Just I've noticed watching your show that when there's a defect, like waterproofing, or the things that would only take a extra hour or less to doing it properly but now they must rip out the whole bathroom for a hour extra time doing it properly,
Most of the none compliant works are just because the tradesmen are just lazy. Maybe you should say with an extra hour to do waterproofing properly, it would save a lot of problems and money.
Cheers mate
Yeh some of it is cost cutting which 'I understand', it's not right especially when it's going to add like 1% to the build but I get it.
But the stuff where they just couldn't be bothered to do that extra minute here or that extra 10 minutes there is mind boggling self centred.
8:32 That's everywhere. So many houses have that in Vic, including one that I owned.
i like the music you added to the drone shots. pretty cool
Jeezus, The neighbours roof almost touches.. Insane how this is allowed.
thanks for your work mate. I was wondering if you could post a review of a home (old or new) that has been well built?
This is discraceful. Thanks for pointing all of this out for us.
Huh, now I understand why so many builders are going under nowadays...
The builder is Berstan Homes if anyone is interested.
I've also just come across this channel from NZ. It must be heartbreaking for all first homebuyers when this stuff is revealed. What the hell has happened to craftmanship and pride in a job well done. Anyone know if NZ is experiencing the same shonky attitude?
I've been in the trade for 18 years. New Zealand is a lot better nowadays, aside from the areas where Chinese builders are active, mainly in Auckland. Those houses are every bit as bad, and are the sequel to our leaky building crisis that is 1990s and early 2000s houses.
Maybe one thing you could do is to highlight the builder at the start of each inspection video, showing off their good/bad/shocking work. No builders are going to give a shit if they can just keep leaving people with issues and having no accountability for it.
Jesus Christ. Thats horrendous. I feel for these poor owners.
My father built our home in the early 1960s. The house is still standing and has never ever had any water leaking issues. I can’t believe that people pay so much for their homes and they have nothing but water leak issues. Unbelievable.
I've seen a few inspection vids, and one takeaway, so far, as a potential homebuyer, is to avoid floor-level walk-in showers, considering none of the ones I have seen on the show are water-tight ( all being "non-compliant" ). ...A much safer bet being showers with conventional, pre-fabricated, single piece pans - aka. "step-in showers" - or else, showers over bathtubs, like in the old days. That should minimize water leak sorrows, in any case.
The owner did not get what he paid for at all something smells bad in the home building industry
This Award Winning Home is definitely demonstrating being "the Titanic". Great videos for the lay community and for a budding property valuer in training.
Holy f@$k how close are those house's together!!!?
Just discovered your channel, very interesting.
None of these compliance issues ever get addressed do they?
A few owners of 5 to 10 year old homes I know are replacing bathrooms (at their own cost) due to faults in initial construction.
I recognise the tiles! Fragile, subject to slipping etc. They've been the cause of thousands of complaints by property owners and were finally discontinued by the manufacturer.
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Great work 🥇👍
How the F is it legal to build houses so close together you cant even walk between them lol
Its becoming common in metro areas with space to build new homes running low. The next progression is skyscraper condominiums.
Because developers along with state and local governments decided that urban infill would be a great idea, and sadly many people don't mind paying $350k-450k for a 200sqm unit. Personally there's nothing more disgusting to me than demolishing a 600sqm property with a beautiful brick house and a garden/old trees and then turning it into a three 200sqm grey blocks with plastic grass out the front.
You forgot the feature garbage bins out the front as there is no where else to put them.
Well done. Hopefully you do a follow up that ensures t he builder rectifies these non compliances. Great work.
I wish you guys were in Sydney. Would love a report from you guys on my home.
These houses are aesthetically awful and terrible for energy conservation but I get it, we can’t all live in Toorak, as we’re indentured servants to the banks.
Mate come to Mackay QLD and take a look at some houses passed by a building inspector who signs off on Q/B jobs without leaving his office, eg roof bearers as posts after complaints to council "they cannot do anything" its signed off. I dont agree that builders are to blame its the Inspectors not doing their jobs.
G'day,
This builder need to be named. I'm guessing this was a major one by the accolades it received.
I hope you do a follow-up video to see if the job was rectified.
From what I can find in my own research it might be Berstan Homes.
sooo much mold and grass where is shouldn't be that this home owner would almost qualify for a farming subsidy
I see great success to this channel as many people out there including myself have no idea about building and construction and it's interesting to see a professional's take.
Please always explain why something is non-compliant. You definitely do this a lot more in your newer videos which is good.
And PLEASE, respectfully stop the youtuber voice over catchphrases that cringe over every time you close out a section of the video lol you don't need them. Your style is good enough.
All the best!
Your thumbnail game has levelled up
What I am confused is in Victoria its non compliant to supposed have slots in the gutters but yet everywhere I have been the majority of the builds are using slotted gutters. So this requirement must be not be too much of a issue if its not being regulated.
I was told building inspections are done buy private companies not council. Worst thing they aren't liable. Need more training and accountability.
Lol the music during the drone flight
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How do you go about rectifying these basic trade errors? We have similar issues and dont want to rip out the whole bathroom.
I had the same issue didn't want to pull the ties out so I settled on a shower basin.
@@omercan71 you hit the nail on head with the shower basin comment. i would not have anything else.
If i were ever to build a house in this place, how on earth do you find the "good builders"? Do you have lists of the good builders?