Thread: Laitance on a new slab - how to approach removal/repair?

awful situation for you to be in , but stick with it. You shouldn't have to put up with bad work anymore than the people who did the bad work would if the boot was on the other foot.
cheers,
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Well, yesterday didn't go very well. Why do the judges who preside over building cases have NFI about building work?
She couldn't understand why I needed to go through the NCAT twice for the same contract & couldn't fathom why the concrete would affect the shed itself. The shed company didn't help by still sticking to their new story that the original slab was fine.


Anyway, the judge decided that 3 months to assemble a shed was perfectly fine & so my claim was dismissed.


What's even worse is that the shed company even lied under oath about the extortion attempt saying it never happened.




Now that this is all officially over, if anyone in the Sydney area is planning on buying a shed, I'll gladly let you know which shed company in the SW Sydney area to avoid like the plague.

That's terrible are you going to appeal the decision?

I don't think I can appeal without risking losing more money than I might recover.


Besides, if they're prepared to lie about what happened, it just turns into my word against theirs.

It's been a little windy here lately but I certainly didn't expect to find this:
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My first thought was that the wall/roof flashing had been blown up as there's no screws in the vertical face but then I found 3 screws had come out of the wall sheet so I think the wall might have blown out at the weakest point by a gust of wind through a doorway.

Fortunately it all came back into place easily enough so I added a few more screws & will do the same on the other 3 sections.

I've done a fair bit of industrial sheeting of late and even back in my residential sheeting days what happened to a screw in every nord (the ridge part of the sheet) along the bottom line plus who doesn't fix the bottom corner of a flashing?. Another thing and this may be a personal but not industry standard is that the the barge flashing has no "insurance policy" in that it only covers 1 nord as opposed to covering 2 nords so the pan in between will catch any rain that blows over the first nord. How well that flashing was fixed to the vertical could be debated for a long time given that colorbond wall cladding (if that's what was used and I presume so) is of a thinner steel than the roofing material.

I'm now convinced the lack of screws was a deiberate act on the part of the shed company. I had a look at Muddymech's shed today, built by the same builder - 4 screws on each vertical face of that flashing.