Mouldings, doors and joinery are in and the painter is next. What is found now gets fixed before paint rather than cut back after it.
Render covering the control joints is the one to catch here. Once a control joint is bridged it cannot do its job, and the cracking shows up later somewhere else.
Annotated findings from Fixing inspections on Mickleham builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and steel placement, before any concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, while pods, steel and formwork are open
3FrameOnce the frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before sarking and cladding
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before the plasterer
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before the tiler starts
7Pre-handover (PCI)About a week before your practical completion dateInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
They let the wall move. Render bridging one stops it working, and the movement then appears as cracking elsewhere.
The Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015 for alignment, gaps and finish.
Yes. Cabinet alignment, door gaps and every handle and catch worked by hand.
Appliances are not run, circuits are not energised and no system is commissioned by us.
Around two hours for a typical Mickleham home.
Yes, and in Victoria it usually is.
