Reply With QuoteMake sure you get reinforcing steel put in the overlay slab as well. You need it for control of shrinkage cracking.Originally Posted by Scouse
OldBushie
That's the least of my worries. I just want the shed up before it rusts away into the ground.
Scott
ChatterBox
Make sure you get reinforcing steel put in the overlay slab as well. You need it for control of shrinkage cracking.
OldBushie
Yes, it's in the quote: SL72 mesh.
Scott
TopicToaster
G'day Scouse,
Just wondering if you have had any developments, breakthroughs or more importantly any resolutions with your slab?
Kind Regards
Lionel
OldBushie
No, no & no unfortunately.
Because the shed co. isn't co-operating with Fair Trading, it's going straight to the Tribunal stage without any sort of mediation.
The problem now is that I need to get a Building Inspection Report done in preparation for a Tribunal hearing.
Now, there's hundreds of Building / Property inspectors around but as soon as you mention the two scariest words in the world "Fair Trading", they're suddenly too busy or they just outright declare that they won't do a report for a FT case.
I have found someone who will do one. He came recommended via another company & only lives 10min from me. He doesn't advertise anywhere so I was fortunate to find him (I think...).
He came out to look at the slab 20min after I contacted him in June. He agreed that it needed repair & asked me how I wanted it done. I went through the two repair quotes I had & he agreed that the 'slab on slab' repair would be his recommendation too (words to that effect).
He told me he's also a Quantity Surveyor & had a big job to complete before I would get my report. No problem, I've been waiting since November 2013, two more weeks won't hurt.
Two weeks goes by - nothing. Ring him after 2 weeks + 2 days.........he's fallen off a roof & injured his back........nothing broken but out of action for a week or so.
Again, no problem.
Wait another two weeks.........call him.......back is getting better - I'll have your report done in 48hrs.
Leave it another week.......another call......."I'm sitting down doing your report now.....".
That was last week.
I don't want to push him too hard as I need a favourable report to ensure the Tribunal hearing goes my way but at the same time, I get this sick feeling that a report will never eventuate.
Scott
ChatterBox
I feel for you Scouse, you sure got the rough end of the pineapple with that shed.
Keep at it, you'll look back and laugh in a few years (hopefully). :-\
TopicToaster
G'day Scouse,
Jeeze Louise you sure are going through a mire of manure over the slab. It must be hard walking around your yard and having to avert your head away from a certain area to prevent your gall rising.
You must be getting close to the Peter Finch in the Movie Network stage. "So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs..." Starts at about the 2:34 minute mark... Accessed 25th of July, 2014 from
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q]Network - "I'm as mad as hell" speech [english subtitles] - YouTube[/ame]
Kind Regards
Lionel
OldBushie
Called him again last Friday.
He's now recovering from pneumonia.
He did promise my report would be in my Inbox before I awoke on Monday morning though.
So, what's in my Inbox on Monday morning......
......no report.
Nothing today either.
Looks like I'll be starting this part of the process all over again.
Scott
TopicToaster
G'day Scouse,
Bugger! How many black cats, broken mirrors ... were in your yard when you decided to get the shed built?
Kind Regards
Lionel
OldBushie
Black cats? I think I've killed a million of them.G'day Scouse,
Bugger! How many black cats, broken mirrors ... were in your yard when you decided to get the shed built?
Kind Regards
Lionel
We've owned this house for 3 years now & it's been disaster after disaster since then.
Bought house, repainted inside, all good.
Replaced kitchen, found no wall behind (not unusual I believe) but found several termite eaten timbers (old damage) & a few new pieces put in. Think: OK, it's semi-rural, termites have been, they've been taken care of & the damage has been repaired.
Remove the carpets a week before we move in & find termite tracks coming from virtually every external & INTERNAL wall along the slab.
Find lots of drill holes in slab where it's been treated but there's no obvious signs of repairs to the walls so I assume nothing has been repaired/inspected internally. The roof is still up so what I don't know, won't hurt me.
Have a pestie (family friend) come in who drills God knows how many holes in slab. 2 guys, all day with 2 hammer drills - hundreds of holes - and all saturated with double strength whatever they use.
So the termites should be good for the next 20 years.
5 months after we move in, we cop a big storm & discover that the land around the house is actually higher than the slab. The water escapes through a couple of drains which quickly block up so we have a moat. It doesn't take long before water (and next doors sewerage overflow) is coming in through the window sills.
Wifey is 6mths pregnant so can't help much. I remove as much wet material as I can & slip over on the cork tiles. Broke a few ribs.
Insurance company starts playing silly buggers & thinks they can clean the carpets but I've already removed them........they get replaced eventually.
So, there's 3 of us living in a bare floored house with everything piled into the one room that escaped the water.
3 weeks after the flood, wifey has complications with the pregnancy & calls an ambulance. The ambo takes an hour to get there after apparently going the wrong way & getting stuck in floodwater.
Anyway, gets to hospital, bleeding badly so #2 son has to come out there & then, 2.5 months early. He's rushed to another hospital who can look after him.
Pleased to say, that part has worked out OK, he came home on Anzac day 2012 (new carpets laid 2-3 days beforehand).
August 2012 & I'm trying to shift a 6' diameter tree trunk & cop the Tirfor handle in the face. One broken cheekbone. Off work for 6 weeks.
November 2012. Riding to work, come off bicycle & smash collarbone into 4 pieces. Off work for 7 weeks.
Start sorting out drainage issues around house, have 480 tonnes of soil removed so house actually sits higher than most of the land (concrete driveway still higher through - WTF?) & then start to sort out why our sewerage pipes need clearing out every month or so.
Turns out there's been a few repairs over the years, using whatever came to hand. Like ice cream containers to cover broken / cut pipes - WTF?
So, rip out all the sewer pipes & start again - sorted.
Lay approx. 200m of 100mm pipe & another 200m of agpipe for the stormwater. Fill with 50 tonne of gravel & dig 6m wide / 50m long trench alongside house so water has somewhere to go - sorted.
Hot water dies through all this too, and it's right where everything is dug up so access is real beaut.
And now the shed.........
Scott
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