I'm a old school painter and decorater from the 70s I painted a lot of homes and the quality of the work was A+ and now the work done on homes are absolutely criminal. What we pay for homes now is also criminal. There are only a handful of trades people out there the rest are pretenders with very little experience. GOD HELP US ALL
YES! I remember back in the day when painters were actually really skilled. They'd do your house and it would last a lifetime. They'd actually do apprenticeships. Now they come in, charge $2k per room, don't even sugar soap the walls, slap it up and it's chipping off within a few months.
@ethel.13 because insanely high demand for homes mean quality control suffers... same goes for motorhomes and caravans... the demand was so high that the manufacturers decided it was better to slap them together now, and worry about fixing them later.
I walked through a ten year old home in the outer north a few weeks ago on auction day, it has a corrugated colour bond conventional hipped roof, one would expect it to be water tight for a couple of lifetimes, but there are obvious water stains under the eaves & the outdoor dining entertaining area.It sold for just a few thousand under $900,000. What is going on with roofing? Ask the VBA i guess.
Imagine every project would get an inspecton, videotaped and published like this. Make it a requirement by law, at least for any public funded project.
Or just give somenone else (architect...) the oversite of the construction process, who is liable for the the result. Like done in many other countrys.
@@scottcarr3264the government is more corrupt than anyone else you think these jobs actually cost what they say. Normal price for regular people 5 grand same job for government 25 grand
Hold up a liquor store for a few bucks go to jail. Sell fake or counterfeit goods as real go to jail. Buy a defective product get it fixed or replaced or a refund. Take a million dollars to build a home and deliver a defective pile of junk no jail or refund.
Great video. Worrying that it has been certified as compliant and signed off by the Victoria Building Authority who clearly haven't done their due diligence of the builder or actual on-site inspections.
While watching this video it dawned on me that 3 of the main bad players not mentioned. They are the CFMEU, Master Builders Association and the HIA. These 3 bodies have one objective and that is to protect the builder.
The prevalence of poor building standards in Australia requires new criminal laws to punish the substandard behavior of all participants of the build. Civil courts put more financial burdens on victims and the perps just file bankruptcy and open another company.
There needs to be prosecutions from top to bottom. Certifiers, builders and trades. If im going to gaol for doing non compliant work, then im not doing the work! When scammer builders have trades telling them to fark off and no one will work for them what are they going to do then? Rat out a scammer I say!
The scope of failure is amazing from the plans, individual tradies, onsite management, off site management, etc. It is like a giant conspiracy to defraud.
This is disturbing to watch, this highlights the in incompetence of people that regulate the building standards, builders are one problem, but to sign off on this building as compliant, I’m shocked
The roof overflow discharge directly on top of a resident balcony was hard to watch…until I saw you can remove the balcony tiles with your hands to find a a secrete ash tray.
He would have a harder time finding a compliant housing trust house, if you think these tradies are lazy you should see the ones that get paid by the government.
Builders should be required to publicly list all the names of the tradesmen who work on each part of a project. Suspect that that are a lot of unqualified people working these jobs for cash in hand. Then again I suppose it pays for their holiday in this country.
It isn't the builder, it's the subcontractors who employ unqualified people. You'll get a Chinese or Korean tiling crew and they'll bring in their workers, none of whom speak English, who knows who they are. Generally the builder isn't employing people directly. They have the details of the subcontractor but who knows who they have working for them. All this is supposed to be picked up during inspections though and the builder made to rectify it. The biggest problem is bad oversight, if there's holes in the system then the dodgiest people win and honest people who do a good job get outcompeted.
The failure in standards is across so many trades it frightening. I’m sure each trade would have an excuse or come back but it is just unacceptable that trades can charge what they do and deliver substandard quality.
lol! Shoulda took a pic, I saw in my minds-eye once he explained the overflows, of water cascading from balcony to balcony, making a hellish racket, splashing everywhere, denting the thin sheet metal and flooding the flats.
As a young Plumber many years ago it was great having an inspector turn up and review your work. They were very helpful in answering questions and even problem solving with you. But of course all the inspectors were finished up and plumbing work in Victoria became “self regulated”. The rest is history 🙁
Looked at two buildings with water leaks recently. Owners trrying to escape spiraling legal and repair costs. Decided not to take any risks with new unit purchase. It's all these fancy new buildings that seem to have most of the quality problems.
I just got terrified watching him walking along this roof and touching those exposed power cords....Australia this is frightening, no wonder nobody is building
The issue or the white elephant in the room that no one is speaking about is because these properties that includes the one I'm living in is for low income people, the general attitude of builders, subcontractors, government is we should be grateful, if something goes wrong it always does just put up and shut....my place is a builders nightmare
As soon as you said affordable housing - I recall hearing about this affordable housing projects a while back and I knew it will end up being worse than any private builds - which are bad themselves
This is just one apartment block. Extrapolate this out to every government funded project and multiply the waste. Now look at all the industries that the government colludes with and allows to thrive, combined with the cost of living for the average citizen. Time for a proletariat revolution.
My friend is paying 450/wk for a 1 bedroom that has no ventilation at all and mould all over everything in a modern warehouse conversion project in the city. I’m not a builder but i have half a brain and 1 eye to see how it’s built, and I’m baffled. Surely it’s not legal…
His levels are working fine,it’s the shithouse tradesmen that don’t know what they are doing and everything is not level or non compliant. Your probably one of these shoddy contractors aren’t you huh ?
@@Billskins4dayz I love my old $100.00 stabila it’s my excuse if anything is slightly off I just tell them I don’t have one of the new fancy ones because they don’t pay me enough haha
Looks just like our "affordable housing" building in Ascot Vale, if you want to do a series on this! It's so mouldy and water damaged that is not safe to live in, we've been to VCAT and they've been found in breach of duty but Homes Vic won't do anything. It's a systemic issue and it's genuinely unbelievable.
another great bit of content, as always where do you feel the shortfall starts? is it the builder not having proper knowledge and supervision of their trades? is it the contractors not keeping up with the changes in the Australian standards or not having access to them in the first place? are our trade schools not teaching in the guidelines of the Australian standards? or are the government regulators not doing anything? or is it a mix of everything above? As someone in the construction industry, I feel we are spiraling and if something isn't changed there will be no return
It’s cheaper to make a donation to State government, than to fix. 2 boxes are ticked this way, government can say we have built X amount of housing in X amount of time & they get a political donation. Win, win. The hilarious part with these type of buildings, is that In probably 30 - 40 years, government will condemn the building & investors & owners will lose the lot or most of their money.
Ah thankyou, my eyes knew something was very wrong in that stairwell but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. There's not supposed to be anything at all in a fire escape rated stairwell that is flammable, PVC can be set alight with a match, this also makes the left over timber formwork lazily left there a big nope. The huge air-drafting gaps in those walls filled with flammable expandy foam are also terribad, in the event of a fire they will either suck oxygen out of the stairwell; feeding the fire and risking escapees fainting, or vent noxious smoke or even flames into the stairwell. So much wrong in such a small space.
@@gnomiefirst9201 yeah, you have a point there. We are definitely living in an era where construction codes & building practices don’t align. The uneven floor tiles brought back some memories, l remember Afghans laying floor tiles some years ago, l came over to check there work, l told them to rip up half their work.
In other videos of yours I've asked where the building inspectors were. Now I know they just have people that "say" they are building inspectors but don't know squat about building. The people don't have any protection.
19:50 I laughed so hard at this I scared the possum in my roof. It couldn't be better designed to both flood and set the building alight with an electrical fire at the same time, razorsharp metal just biting right into conduit and waterlines. Unfathomably negligent. After laughing comes the dark realisation how the residents are in actual imminent danger.
When is a class action happening? Slater & Gordon usually take on Civil Group & Government cases. There needs to be accountability & harsh penalties! seize all there personal assets & finances with a prison term sounds good to me
After using their savings to purchase a property, many owners cannot easily afford to pay for engineers and lawyers to pursue shoddy builders. There needs to be more stringent regulations on who can be a builder, on who can be an inspector and on the whole inspection regime. At every turn, an unsuspecting buyer can find themselves overwhelmed with the whole business of 'non-compliance' defects.
Thank you for the video, depressing part is that nothing will change or come from this. Australia standards have truly gone down the shitter, and as allways the tax payer are the ones hurt from it. Disgusting
Aren't there any follow up videos for these? Is anyone ever held accountable? Has any surveyor had to explain his reasoning for passing some of these places? So unsatisfying not seeing any of the fallout. I need answers.
The builder spent maybe 10 million dollars and the government pays 20 million. Lots of grease money to go around. Building it according to standards would not be in the interest of the people involved. Bad workmanship has become more financially rewarding. This has to change.
no that didnt that what it cost to build it on 3000sqm block the sqm size of the buldings 2500sqm bottom floor there 29 apartments how many stories lefty ?? My parents 3 story luxury home cost 1.8 milion to build the homes 400sqm wide idiot ! building a home 33% more under socialist wankers labor & green killing the logging industry and 14% more taxes on a truck
@@coopsnz1 are you responding to me? Are you talking about industry averages for large, legitimate construction companies? A markup of 25% would be quite common in the construction industry, possibly leading to a few percent "net profit" after fixed expenses. With government connections and corruption, as is obvious in this case, the markup may as well be astronomical. Anyways this was a hyperbolic statement to make a point, which you apparently failed to get.
worked on shangri-la construction buildings between 2017-2020 as a mechanical plumbing apprentice . can say they are not built to code and feel sorry for anyone that has built with them. remember our tool boxs on sites getting broken into a couple of times too.
Problem with the builders on these commercial sites is they are not licenced builders they don’t require a licence to build commercial. Let’s get back to getting builders licences like most small builders did years ago do a course and on site training for 4 years these days ya get a builders licence online cmon guys non compliant 🙄
God dam! That’s down the street from me. That big block they put up 3 doors down from Centrelink. Spitting distance from the library and a swing of a dead cat from Cheltenham station, another tofu dreg.
It's not taxpayers! It's theirs! They print it They set it's costs (interest rates) They define permissions for it's use (where a mask when told to. Don't leave your house when told to. Don't travel faster than we tell you. Behave the way demanded, or they take it or some off you). Permissions! They choose groups to give more to. First home buyers, Solar electricity users, etc.. Take from others and print the rest. Do your best and print the rest! 😁 It's not taxpayer's and it's certainly not yours. It's not even money It's currency!
@@cryptodojoau5425 I don’t know mate, when I give something somebody wants, they usually pay for it. It’s called a marketplace. Then, the state takes a percentage of my sale to pay for the maintenance and security of the market place, also know as tax. That tax, everyone pays. It goes into the state coffers for spending on those things I mentioned. It also pays for welfare, hospitals, schools and roads. The states can also borrow money from the central banks. Which also has a loan facility at a certain percentage. This keep pressure on people to keep producing goods at a profit to pay the interest. It’s called an economy…
the poor workmanship reminds me of Yarraville's incredible sinking village, which was built on a former tip, too soon and resulted in all the Units built thereon leaning and/or collapsing. this happened a few decades ago, but in some ways, it would seem like the more things change, the more they stay the same!!!,
4:54 That non compliant was purposely signed off there by none other than VBA to get back at inspector if he ever had the nerve to inspect their 20mil shemozzle
9:56 don't think you're right about the puddle flange being sealed by mortar or tile adhesive. If mortar or tile adhesive were waterproof, then there would no need for a waterproofing membrane
Victoria's Tofu dreg construction industry at it's best . Dodgy Dan, dodgy builders, dodgy inspectors, dodgy regulator. Is there anything not dodgy these days.
This is why we need to categorically reject rushed building of mass apartments, or rush rush build dog boxes regardless of housing crisis in Victoria. It is unfair to move people in or have them purchase off the plan, only to find major waterproofing and structural defects destroying their life financially…building well initially but slowly and thoroughly saves money in long run..
What this guy has done has been a real eye opener. It will help guide a lot of people in purchasing a property. The construction industry in Australia is shit. Regulatory authorities don't give a toss. Federal gov wants more housing to cope with the burgeoning population. What a shit show it is.
My community housing unit is a disgrace. I have 2 or 3 magazines under wall unit to stop it from tipping. All drawers open on their own due to the tilt being so severe 😜
In the UK, in my mate's counsil house he's given to live in because of health issues not alowing him to work, I went to help him decorate his bedroom, and when the wallpaper was off we found holes in the plaster at the bottom of the wall where there was a huge gap just shoved full of newspaper and wall papered over! 😂It's a joke I swear.
Multiple reasons: Australia has hundreds of thousands of immigrants that they cannot manage. Same with millions of migrants in much of Europe and North America. Government regulations for net-zero have made building a house unaffordable. Government zoning does not allow construction in many areas driving up prices. Etc.
It's complicated.... but, We keep building shit places that are expected to last maybe 20-30 years, get knocked down and replaced. So where a house used to be expected to last 60-90 years its now 20, maybe. So we spend more time rebuilding. As mentioned, in a desperate bid to prop up neoliberal perpetual expansion economics multiple Australian governments have opened up immigration, obviously beyond sustainable levels. Property is wealth and many people are holding multiple properties. Some do lease them, but combined with AirBnB turning places into hotels this has also eaten supply of rental properties. A thing that the tax scheme was supposed to make more of has effectively inflated housing prices and reduced the market availability. No government for the past 30 years has made any meaningful spending on affordable subsidized housing or social housing. All while population has kept increasing including with the new immigration pressures. TLDR, Greed, Failed Economic Theories, Greed.
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The fake expansion joints prove not just bad workmanship but willful negligence. That should be a massive fine and/or criminal penalty.
And to think, we are getting 100 storms a year.
I'm a old school painter and decorater from the 70s I painted a lot of homes and the quality of the work was A+ and now the work done on homes are absolutely criminal. What we pay for homes now is also criminal. There are only a handful of trades people out there the rest are pretenders with very little experience. GOD HELP US ALL
YES! I remember back in the day when painters were actually really skilled. They'd do your house and it would last a lifetime. They'd actually do apprenticeships. Now they come in, charge $2k per room, don't even sugar soap the walls, slap it up and it's chipping off within a few months.
@ethel.13 because insanely high demand for homes mean quality control suffers... same goes for motorhomes and caravans... the demand was so high that the manufacturers decided it was better to slap them together now, and worry about fixing them later.
Its not experience thats the big issue is laziness and care factor. Nobody takes pride in there work anymore.
I walked through a ten year old home in the outer north a few weeks ago on auction day, it has a corrugated colour bond conventional hipped roof, one would expect it to be water tight for a couple of lifetimes, but there are obvious water stains under the eaves & the outdoor dining entertaining area.It sold for just a few thousand under $900,000.
What is going on with roofing? Ask the VBA i guess.
Yep I’m the last of the bricklayers but not doing houses anymore it’s a mugs game.
Imagine every project would get an inspecton, videotaped and published like this.
Make it a requirement by law, at least for any public funded project.
Absolutely, If our Government is Paying that much for a Housing building, it should be totally Compliant.
Or just give somenone else (architect...) the oversite of the construction process, who is liable for the the result.
Like done in many other countrys.
Perfect 👌 we know just the man for the job.
They all do get inspectors they they have to get signed of at every stage. You can't build without permission.
@@scottcarr3264the government is more corrupt than anyone else you think these jobs actually cost what they say. Normal price for regular people 5 grand same job for government 25 grand
Hold up a liquor store for a few bucks go to jail. Sell fake or counterfeit goods as real go to jail. Buy a defective product get it fixed or replaced or a refund. Take a million dollars to build a home and deliver a defective pile of junk no jail or refund.
Thats beyond “do your best & silicone the rest”. It has gone into “bigger the blob, the better the job”.
Great video. Worrying that it has been certified as compliant and signed off by the Victoria Building Authority who clearly haven't done their due diligence of the builder or actual on-site inspections.
*For 'due diligence' read 'criminal negligence'.
While watching this video it dawned on me that 3 of the main bad players not mentioned. They are the CFMEU, Master Builders Association and the HIA. These 3 bodies have one objective and that is to protect the builder.
The amount of extra work “created” by not giving a crap in the first place is beyond my comprehension.
Loving your work and content from Canada!
The prevalence of poor building standards in Australia requires new criminal laws to punish the substandard behavior of all participants of the build. Civil courts put more financial burdens on victims and the perps just file bankruptcy and open another company.
@@Vgallo you must be one of those shoddy builders
We barely have enough builders to keep up with demand right now. And we’re in a housing shortage. Basically we’re screwed either way.
There needs to be prosecutions from top to bottom. Certifiers, builders and trades. If im going to gaol for doing non compliant work, then im not doing the work! When scammer builders have trades telling them to fark off and no one will work for them what are they going to do then?
Rat out a scammer I say!
The scope of failure is amazing from the plans, individual tradies, onsite management, off site management, etc. It is like a giant conspiracy to defraud.
This is disturbing to watch, this highlights the in incompetence of people that regulate the building standards, builders are one problem, but to sign off on this building as compliant, I’m shocked
The roof overflow discharge directly on top of a resident balcony was hard to watch…until I saw you can remove the balcony tiles with your hands to find a a secrete ash tray.
Do you think they put that on the amenities list?
You'll find non compliant issues in public housing. My friend lives in a mould infested home that never gets fixed properly
He'd just condemn it and make them homeless it colder outside in the rain and mold🤔
He would have a harder time finding a compliant housing trust house, if you think these tradies are lazy you should see the ones that get paid by the government.
No pride, no conscience, no ethics, no skills sums this up.
Who the f**k puts the main lights switches in the middle of the f**king house. WTF
Budget cuts
They are giving out oil lanterns after every sale of an apartment lol
The brown envelopes on this job must have been nice and fat
Love the fake expansion joints
Some one was paid off, that is the ONLY explanation. This building should be condemned
Well that's non-compliant
😂😂x50
Builders should be required to publicly list all the names of the tradesmen who work on each part of a project. Suspect that that are a lot of unqualified people working these jobs for cash in hand. Then again I suppose it pays for their holiday in this country.
It isn't the builder, it's the subcontractors who employ unqualified people. You'll get a Chinese or Korean tiling crew and they'll bring in their workers, none of whom speak English, who knows who they are. Generally the builder isn't employing people directly. They have the details of the subcontractor but who knows who they have working for them.
All this is supposed to be picked up during inspections though and the builder made to rectify it. The biggest problem is bad oversight, if there's holes in the system then the dodgiest people win and honest people who do a good job get outcompeted.
The failure in standards is across so many trades it frightening. I’m sure each trade would have an excuse or come back but it is just unacceptable that trades can charge what they do and deliver substandard quality.
I'm building a house and purposely avoided box gutters solely because of videos like these
How come?
They'll just install the other design options incorrectly as well.
Don’t understand them. Here in Canada our gutters are on the facia on the outside 🤷🏻♂️
I honestly don't know why they're so popular. Complicated to do well and hard to spot if somethings going wrong. Nothing wrong with eaves gutters.
Never seen one in Europe, they are completely unnecessary and most of all, ugly.
There needs to be a royal commision into the VBA
I saw a literal flood coming from this building during its construction. I felt sorry for anyone who had to live there.
lol! Shoulda took a pic, I saw in my minds-eye once he explained the overflows, of water cascading from balcony to balcony, making a hellish racket, splashing everywhere, denting the thin sheet metal and flooding the flats.
As a young Plumber many years ago it was great having an inspector turn up and review your work.
They were very helpful in answering questions and even problem solving with you.
But of course all the inspectors were finished up and plumbing work in Victoria became “self regulated”.
The rest is history 🙁
This is an absolute disgrace.
Looked at two buildings with water leaks recently. Owners trrying to escape spiraling legal and repair costs. Decided not to take any risks with new unit purchase. It's all these fancy new buildings that seem to have most of the quality problems.
I just got terrified watching him walking along this roof and touching those exposed power cords....Australia this is frightening, no wonder nobody is building
All the sharpie calculations on finished concrete really shows the level of expertise involved in the making of this project
The roof membrane warranty would be voided ? This is absolute shocking for a gov project.
The issue or the white elephant in the room that no one is speaking about is because these properties that includes the one I'm living in is for low income people, the general attitude of builders, subcontractors, government is we should be grateful, if something goes wrong it always does just put up and shut....my place is a builders nightmare
As soon as you said affordable housing - I recall hearing about this affordable housing projects a while back and I knew it will end up being worse than any private builds - which are bad themselves
Best thing is to use is stainless steel shower tray then tile inside it so it will never leak thats we do sometimes in new zealand
This is the tip of the iceberg. The back room lobbying, corruption is what getting on with the job really means.
It's not even "back room"!
It's blatant!
You're watching it!
VBA are hopeless
This is a 20 million dollar public housing project! Someone has to be held accountable for this crime.
Love your work mate, people spending millions for the house of their dreams and builders being negligent good to see someone showing them what for.
For $20,000,000 you'd expect absolute compliance....
But alas....
*NONNNNN COMMMPLIIIIIAAAANNNT*
You don't even get a light switch by the front door!
The news of Dan Andrew’s today being on the kings honours list is also NON COMPLIANT
HE'S WHAT!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂
Chucky can just rename it the Kings' Dishonour list and put himself on it.
Spot on. Everyone except the deluded know he is criminal.
@@user-er3bx8qb1j No surprise coming from a generically named empty sock account, totally deluded nonsense take.
@@user-er3bx8qb1jgot us through Covid… hahahahha that’s wild
Well the builder will now be up for a few hundred $$ to register a new company, that will learn him !
Love your vids but ya gotta start pinging some of the electrical non compliant works. I'm an electrician and i'm seeing plenty of AS3000 violations!
Problem is as always; no one policing the authorities
Eerrr
Those making the rules are beyond them! 😉
This is just one apartment block. Extrapolate this out to every government funded project and multiply the waste. Now look at all the industries that the government colludes with and allows to thrive, combined with the cost of living for the average citizen. Time for a proletariat revolution.
My friend is paying 450/wk for a 1 bedroom that has no ventilation at all and mould all over everything in a modern warehouse conversion project in the city. I’m not a builder but i have half a brain and 1 eye to see how it’s built, and I’m baffled. Surely it’s not legal…
If nobody of authority checks then it's quasi legal
@@michaelcook2290 That is what refugees say about raping Australian teens!
VBA is often more of a fee collector than a regulator or watchdog.
Think you need a new level mate it hasn’t worked in any of the houses you’ve inspected haha
Yeah if he has a few beers before hand 😅
His levels are working fine,it’s the shithouse tradesmen that don’t know what they are doing and everything is not level or non compliant. Your probably one of these shoddy contractors aren’t you huh ?
Yep, he definitely needs one of those high end bendy rubber levels.
@DR650adventures aha I know your taking the piss but he's got the best of the best haha the 400mm one is $600
@@Billskins4dayz I love my old $100.00 stabila it’s my excuse if anything is slightly off I just tell them I don’t have one of the new fancy ones because they don’t pay me enough haha
Not sure this gets mentioned much but the editing in your videos is top notch.
Looks just like our "affordable housing" building in Ascot Vale, if you want to do a series on this! It's so mouldy and water damaged that is not safe to live in, we've been to VCAT and they've been found in breach of duty but Homes Vic won't do anything. It's a systemic issue and it's genuinely unbelievable.
another great bit of content, as always
where do you feel the shortfall starts?
is it the builder not having proper knowledge and supervision of their trades?
is it the contractors not keeping up with the changes in the Australian standards or not having access to them in the first place?
are our trade schools not teaching in the guidelines of the Australian standards?
or are the government regulators not doing anything? or is it a mix of everything above?
As someone in the construction industry, I feel we are spiraling and if something isn't changed there will be no return
We are witnessing the death of "The Australian Dream" first hand in the state of Victoria.
And yet better than Queensland!
@@Low760 Every state is cooked.
The government passed it. Problem gone.
Corruption.
There's a vast difference between the "real" Australia and "Danistan".
PVC conduit in fire stairs.Needs to be steel conduit for fire rating. WHAT A SHOCKER!!!
Dodgy builders cheaping out on materials
It’s cheaper to make a donation to State government, than to fix. 2 boxes are ticked this way, government can say we have built X amount of housing in X amount of time & they get a political donation. Win, win. The hilarious part with these type of buildings, is that In probably 30 - 40 years, government will condemn the building & investors & owners will lose the lot or most of their money.
Ah thankyou, my eyes knew something was very wrong in that stairwell but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. There's not supposed to be anything at all in a fire escape rated stairwell that is flammable, PVC can be set alight with a match, this also makes the left over timber formwork lazily left there a big nope.
The huge air-drafting gaps in those walls filled with flammable expandy foam are also terribad, in the event of a fire they will either suck oxygen out of the stairwell; feeding the fire and risking escapees fainting, or vent noxious smoke or even flames into the stairwell.
So much wrong in such a small space.
@@midnightspares Based on what he can see in the inspection I'm guessing the stuff that he can't see is a complete disaster. 3-5 years max.
@@gnomiefirst9201 yeah, you have a point there. We are definitely living in an era where construction codes & building practices don’t align. The uneven floor tiles brought back some memories, l remember Afghans laying floor tiles some years ago, l came over to check there work, l told them to rip up half their work.
In other videos of yours I've asked where the building inspectors were. Now I know they just have people that "say" they are building inspectors but don't know squat about building. The people don't have any protection.
Don't know if this falls under educational or comedy. I just have this nervous laugh the whole time due to how dodgy the work is.
19:50 I laughed so hard at this I scared the possum in my roof. It couldn't be better designed to both flood and set the building alight with an electrical fire at the same time, razorsharp metal just biting right into conduit and waterlines. Unfathomably negligent. After laughing comes the dark realisation how the residents are in actual imminent danger.
When is a class action happening?
Slater & Gordon usually take on Civil Group & Government cases.
There needs to be accountability & harsh penalties!
seize all there personal assets & finances with a prison term sounds good to me
After using their savings to purchase a property, many owners cannot easily afford to pay for engineers and lawyers to pursue shoddy builders. There needs to be more stringent regulations on who can be a builder, on who can be an inspector and on the whole inspection regime. At every turn, an unsuspecting buyer can find themselves overwhelmed with the whole business of 'non-compliance' defects.
Mate, will you please get rid of that wonky level. It makes the floors look crook.
Thank you for the video, depressing part is that nothing will change or come from this. Australia standards have truly gone down the shitter, and as allways the tax payer are the ones hurt from it. Disgusting
Aren't there any follow up videos for these? Is anyone ever held accountable?
Has any surveyor had to explain his reasoning for passing some of these places?
So unsatisfying not seeing any of the fallout.
I need answers.
Hi I have a question. My friend bought a townhouse from 2016, 3 stories and one of the garages. Does he need door separation from the dwelling?
The builder spent maybe 10 million dollars and the government pays 20 million. Lots of grease money to go around. Building it according to standards would not be in the interest of the people involved. Bad workmanship has become more financially rewarding. This has to change.
no that didnt that what it cost to build it on 3000sqm block the sqm size of the buldings 2500sqm bottom floor there 29 apartments how many stories lefty ?? My parents 3 story luxury home cost 1.8 milion to build the homes 400sqm wide idiot ! building a home 33% more under socialist wankers labor & green killing the logging industry and 14% more taxes on a truck
only 2% net profit building a home you dont know shit
@@coopsnz1 are you responding to me? Are you talking about industry averages for large, legitimate construction companies?
A markup of 25% would be quite common in the construction industry, possibly leading to a few percent "net profit" after fixed expenses.
With government connections and corruption, as is obvious in this case, the markup may as well be astronomical. Anyways this was a hyperbolic statement to make a point, which you apparently failed to get.
Non complaint falls
Zeher keep doin what your doin mate your the voice of honesty , ethics & genuineness
God bless well done
you were so high on the roof. Thank you for teaching us about water ingress etc. Please come to Perth ❤Australia loves you 🎉
worked on shangri-la construction buildings between 2017-2020 as a mechanical plumbing apprentice . can say they are not built to code and feel sorry for anyone that has built with them. remember our tool boxs on sites getting broken into a couple of times too.
Why would you need to fire rate the penetrations through the landing within the same fire isolated stair?
Close Enough is Good Enough...
apparently
Problem with the builders on these commercial sites is they are not licenced builders they don’t require a licence to build commercial. Let’s get back to getting builders licences like most small builders did years ago do a course and on site training for 4 years these days ya get a builders licence online cmon guys non compliant 🙄
Surely this is not correct??
You must hold a Commercial Builders Licence (CB-U) to construct multi residential/retail tenancies and Carparks.
They most certainly are Licenced
@@CRob_Run get ya facts right mate in NSW you certainly DONT google how do u get a commercial builders licence if ya don’t know them don’t comment
Rude mate. Love it. Let's keep going!!!
My back yard garden shed has a better roof on it than that building.
16:32 At Least That One Was Smiling. 😂
Another quality piece of work brought to you by the CFMEU
I'm a structural engineer in the USA. Anyone forcing construction to be done correctly or face consequences has my support.
God dam! That’s down the street from me. That big block they put up 3 doors down from Centrelink. Spitting distance from the library and a swing of a dead cat from Cheltenham station, another tofu dreg.
Non compliant edge protection on the roof, where is the health and safety in Victoria
Do you allow sprayfoam or construction adhesive for low density blocks or would it be a high plaster and/or high sand mortar down there?
It’s not their money! It’s wasting taxpayers’ hard earned money!
It's not taxpayers!
It's theirs!
They print it
They set it's costs (interest rates)
They define permissions for it's use (where a mask when told to. Don't leave your house when told to. Don't travel faster than we tell you. Behave the way demanded, or they take it or some off you). Permissions!
They choose groups to give more to. First home buyers, Solar electricity users, etc.. Take from others and print the rest.
Do your best and print the rest! 😁
It's not taxpayer's and it's certainly not yours.
It's not even money
It's currency!
It's their money now. They love stealing our money and funnelling it to ultimately land in their own pockets.
Yep, you me and every damn tax payer paid for this! People deserve better!!!
@@petersuvara
Nope
It's not yours
@@cryptodojoau5425 I don’t know mate, when I give something somebody wants, they usually pay for it. It’s called a marketplace.
Then, the state takes a percentage of my sale to pay for the maintenance and security of the market place, also know as tax.
That tax, everyone pays. It goes into the state coffers for spending on those things I mentioned. It also pays for welfare, hospitals, schools and roads.
The states can also borrow money from the central banks. Which also has a loan facility at a certain percentage. This keep pressure on people to keep producing goods at a profit to pay the interest.
It’s called an economy…
Public money into private hands that's all it's about.
Bro! Come here to Armidale NSW and do a check! I have a bricky crew and can tell you nothing is done right and it shits me to tears
Email him some pics, he just might come take a look.
Imagine if everyone like this man took their job this seriously
I wouldn't even trust walking around on that roof
Another awsome video....please do a video if the VBA or any powers above contact you...keep them coming👍👍👍👍🍻
In China crappy construction is known as Tofu Dreg. We need a name for Australian construction.
Hope you had your safety harness on hooked up to the roof anchor points whilst doing the roof inspection.
the poor workmanship reminds me of Yarraville's incredible sinking village, which was built on a former tip, too soon and resulted in all the Units built thereon leaning and/or collapsing. this happened a few decades ago, but in some ways, it would seem like the more things change, the more they stay the same!!!,
Everybody is so quick to judge. I know this builder personally and it’s not his fault. He is allergic to levellers.
The Building WIZARD IS ON THE CASE
4:54 That non compliant was purposely signed off there by none other than VBA to get back at inspector if he ever had the nerve to inspect their 20mil shemozzle
9:56 don't think you're right about the puddle flange being sealed by mortar or tile adhesive. If mortar or tile adhesive were waterproof, then there would no need for a waterproofing membrane
Victoria's Tofu dreg construction industry at it's best . Dodgy Dan, dodgy builders, dodgy inspectors, dodgy regulator. Is there anything not dodgy these days.
agree many defects in that roof however as per HB39 box gutters must lap 50mm underneath an expansion join and if of course must not be rivet joined.
Bet we won't see this on MSM
it was on msm
and yet it was on the ABC.
This is why we need to categorically reject rushed building of mass apartments, or rush rush build dog boxes regardless of housing crisis in Victoria. It is unfair to move people in or have them purchase off the plan, only to find major waterproofing and structural defects destroying their life financially…building well initially but slowly and thoroughly saves money in long run..
What this guy has done has been a real eye opener. It will help guide a lot of people in purchasing a property. The construction industry in Australia is shit. Regulatory authorities don't give a toss. Federal gov wants more housing to cope with the burgeoning population. What a shit show it is.
Dystopian future of building industry unless there is personal accountability.
Incompetence breads corruption…
My community housing unit is a disgrace. I have 2 or 3 magazines under wall unit to stop it from tipping. All drawers open on their own due to the tilt being so severe 😜
Fuck that’s bad
In the UK, in my mate's counsil house he's given to live in because of health issues not alowing him to work, I went to help him decorate his bedroom, and when the wallpaper was off we found holes in the plaster at the bottom of the wall where there was a huge gap just shoved full of newspaper and wall papered over! 😂It's a joke I swear.
Standards need to be lowered to suit the quality of workmanship
What I don't understand is, *WHY* do we have a "housing crisis" in the Western world???
Multiple reasons: Australia has hundreds of thousands of immigrants that they cannot manage. Same with millions of migrants in much of Europe and North America. Government regulations for net-zero have made building a house unaffordable. Government zoning does not allow construction in many areas driving up prices. Etc.
@@ChristianWagner888 So essentially the same as here in New Zealand.
Not enough supply. Too many immigrants.
It's complicated.... but,
We keep building shit places that are expected to last maybe 20-30 years, get knocked down and replaced. So where a house used to be expected to last 60-90 years its now 20, maybe. So we spend more time rebuilding.
As mentioned, in a desperate bid to prop up neoliberal perpetual expansion economics multiple Australian governments have opened up immigration, obviously beyond sustainable levels.
Property is wealth and many people are holding multiple properties. Some do lease them, but combined with AirBnB turning places into hotels this has also eaten supply of rental properties. A thing that the tax scheme was supposed to make more of has effectively inflated housing prices and reduced the market availability.
No government for the past 30 years has made any meaningful spending on affordable subsidized housing or social housing. All while population has kept increasing including with the new immigration pressures.
TLDR, Greed, Failed Economic Theories, Greed.
Because we the west thinks it’s more important to be ‘nice’ than to be competent.
How arnt the subcontractors who carried out the work on this job haven't been held responsible?