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Building inspections, Defects and Workmanship
Wednesday, January 01 2014

Welcome to SHS Building Consultants Blog pages

Here you will find discussions on Practical Completion Inspections, Building Defects, Workmanship, Legislative Requirements for building work in Western Australia and much more.

SHS Independent Building inspections provide:

handover, practical completion, pre-purchase inspections, building defect identification and  expert witness building reports regarding matters of acceptable construction tolerances, building practices and acceptable workmanship. Within these pages we hope you find information that helps you when you feel you may have a building dispute, defective work or wish to organise a practical completion inspection or pre purchase inspection.

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Posted by: SHS ADMIN AT 07:28 pm   |  Permalink   |  1 Comment  |  Email
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Your new building work is also protected by consumer protection law which states that the person or business who sold you the service -such as painting the walls of your house guarantees the service. This means they are responsible for fixing a problem when the service does not meet a consumer guarantee. To satisfy the consumer guarantee requirements the building work must be undertaken with due care and skill and the work must be fit for purpose.
Posted by Tommygunner on 31/12/2014 - 08:47 AM

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Time limits on complaints for Building Work.

There are essentailly two reasons why you would have a building complaint. They are:

  • You have been adversely affected by building work (this can be a builder you hired or even one that your neighbours have engaged).
  • You have a contract dispute.

As set out in the Building Services (complaint Resolution and Administration Act 2011

Building Services Complaint:

A building service complaint must be made within 6 years after the completion of the regulated building service to which the complaint relates. This means 6 years from Pratccial Completion. It is interesting to note that a Building Services complaint may be made by sebsequent owners for a period of 6 years after PCI.

An example of a Building Services complaint is if the neighbours engaged a builder to construct a new home and the stormwater drainage is affecting your property.

Another example is if you hired a builder to install some new windows and they have begun to crack within 6 years.

If the builder attends to fix something, you get another 6 years waranty 


A Breach of Contract:

You have 3 years to lodge a claim for a contract dispute.

An example may be that you requested a specific brand of tile and it was not installed or the builder did not finish the home building work on time.

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