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Warranty inspection woes.

curlewhouse

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Well rather than repeat everything here, this is the link to the issues we've had with our building warranty inspections. At it's most basic the issue is that our inspector has not dealt with SIPs before and both he and his boss appear to have objections to anything other than brick and block.

 Those issues have taken up weeks of the time we should have been working on the house. In the end, although his boss claims he's been an inspector over 10 years, his behaviour/knowledge level makes that seem very, very unlikely, and both our mason who has had contact with him, and ourselves are convinced he is actually new to the job. Even if he is, that is still no reason to expect us to complete his education however, or to bring our build to a halt repeatedly.

 

I have advised the SIPs company that they may want to make future clients aware of this firms view of SIPs and hopefully save them the hours and hours of wasted time and stress we've suffered  due to it's aversion to SIPs, and will be telling our building society the same - this BCO/Warranty firm was only put on their approved panel for our build, so I think it's the right thing to do that we should inform them for the sake of future customers.

 

 

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vivienz

I've watched with horror the unfolding story of your private BCO and can only echo all the comments that have gone before.  I met with our architect yesterday to get things moving on our build as we now have PP, and he is very keen for us to use a private BCO.  Your experience was at the forefront of my mind at the time and I told the architect that I was happy to consider his recommendation but would only take things further if I received assurances that they were comfortable with MBCs building system and wouldn't require me to educate them on anything that would stop the build progressing.  Small comfort to you, I know, but thanks for being so up front with it all as it has been a valuable lesson for me.

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PeterW

Don’t forget that private companies bid for your work in effect so there is no harm in providing a draft set of sample plans and asking them if there is anything untoward that they aren’t used to. I can recommend a company in the Midlands that I’ve used - helpful and very keen when he saw it was a self build and saw the quality of the build work so far. 

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nod
On 17/01/2018 at 17:01, vivienz said:

I've watched with horror the unfolding story of your private BCO and can only echo all the comments that have gone before.  I met with our architect yesterday to get things moving on our build as we now have PP, and he is very keen for us to use a private BCO.  Your experience was at the forefront of my mind at the time and I told the architect that I was happy to consider his recommendation but would only take things further if I received assurances that they were comfortable with MBCs building system and wouldn't require me to educate them on anything that would stop the build progressing.  Small comfort to you, I know, but thanks for being so up front with it all as it has been a valuable lesson for me.

I’m not sure why anyone would use a private building control as a posed to local authority 

I’m paying  £700 for local authority I tried three others all around 800 One would match the 700 But the clincher was 

local BC Ring before ten Same day visit The others would not match that Most of the time you able to give a couple days notice 

But at the foundation and drainage stage our local was visiting twice per day at the beginning No extra  cost

Our warantee chap has visited twice Didn’t get out of the car for foundations Inspected the roof from the ground second visit

Just requested lots of photos 

£2500 well spent Or was It?

 

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