" well look you can see when I put this inside, well can you see my little pin, my little tool right in there you can see little tool coming in and out " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My brain went straight into meltdown and I 😂😂😂 like hell. 😂😂😂
I emailed your office and they said you don’t come to Perth 😭 I’ve had non compliant work on my pre-slab and slab and I could complain to the building commission but I’ve been warned by other people who have built the commission normally sides with the builder.
Greetings from the USA. Thank you so very much for sharing your work. We need more inspectors like you on this side of the pond. I am aspiring to be such and am learning so much from you. What model BlackHawk vest is that you're wearing in your videos?
The bit with the painter really highlighted a thing I've encountered elsewhere. I don't expect my painter to do the entire job with just a brush, but if you can get a painter that you know *could* do the job with just that brush, that's a good sign that you're in good hands.
perth painter here. we have to work neat here or we have to go back and fix it. the plasterers in perth are the big concern. there aren't many good ones and the prep we have to do can vary greatly. please for the love of god people, stop doing negative detail, or find a gyprocker who can do it.
finally something good with the inspection, to be honest, it's refreshing to see. Well done for the paint job, flooring as well as the the roof framing job.
The cables are compliant by As3000 as they have less than 600 clearance above them that is deemed as a non-accessible area and you can run cables as you wish
Mate - this is awesome quality for WA - you couldn't list all the faults in our house in one day - need a full week at least. A few favourites in WA... 1. Showers not usually set down. Slap a few bricks and tiles across the bottom of the shower and bog it with silicone - no barrier behind wall tiles - bonza mate! 2. Top row of roof tiles cut to 1/3 length and laid flat or angled back toward hip - only a problem if it rains! 3. All gas fittings overtightened and split leaking gas - had fire under cooktop! 4. Junction box in roof - no side on it - I mean they had to fit a dozen power cables in somehow. 5. Door frames twisted - and handles on double doors 20mm height difference. 6. Double garage panel door - auto door opener screwed into hardiflex sheeting not into timbers - no timber in the right spot so who cares? 7. No visible weep holes - all burried completely - after all they're sooo ugly. 8. Walls not sealed before painting - paint peels off in big sheets. 9. Insufficient soakwell capacity - overflow with rain. 10. WA preferred special gutters without slots that overflow at the back so it pours into the house. Just a few of the more frustrating ones - oh yeah its very important to use qualified WA trades - then you know the jobs done right ✅ 🙄
Mate as an old 'fussy bastard builder ' I have been called in many times to fix problems left by other's bad workmanship. Try PVC down pipes concealed in the cavity with no glued joints! Rain caused the rooms to flood from under the window sills! In addition to that, I rectified a job in Nedlands with this problem and when I went in front of the Builder's Registration Board, they asked me why I put on stainless steel rainwater heads and down pipes. I just said,' what do you think I should do on a $ 1.2 million house? Stunning silence.
Pleasant surprise that the painter is an actually skilled immigrant. Doesnt matter if your painting interiors or painting cars etc.....its a demanding job.
I just got back from walking the dogs with my 14yr old boy only a few kms from where this video was shot. While walking I pointed to some flashing and said to my boy do you know what that’s called, he answered no, my reply was non compliant flashing.
Hahhahahah I used to tile for Zorzi homes. They are definitely worst then project home. Even Spaddacini. All those luxury homes are terrible. They look good but lack movement and expansion. after 2 years. problems shows up and that's when the 1 year building warranty expires
Kind of amazing the amount of praise you have for people doing their job correctly. The way you commended the floor and painter was like how a commentator celebrates and athlete winning an Olympic gold medal. Instead of them doing an absoltutely incredible job, they just DID their job. Sad that we're awarding gold stars to builders that just do their job. It's amazing how with all the technology and ease of access to information that we have in the world these days that possibly the worst construction in history is occuring right now. Nobody wants to go near new constuctions, the dodgy tradesmanship rocking the country right now is causing people to skip new builds in favour of older builds. If I'm ever to buy a house in Australia, you're my first port of call. I don't care about the rules/regs, just need someone that can see a dodgy job from a mile away and charge the builder for fixing their own short cuts.
this review although started with criticism, but as we go further into the review, recognitions was given to the stuffs that was done correctly, wall, floors, painiting, roof struts and beam.. this builder is really far far better than those you have reviewed at the east!!! Mine to share who they are especially the painter lol, at least we can go to a trusted specialist/builder in future for new build in WA.
That's my neighbours house , so glad you're shining a light on the situation. We have a 2019 build that had been exploding 12 bursts in 1 year iplex issue and builders are shonky.
The other issue with gutters through eaves is that when they calculate the number of downpipes required based on as3500.3 they used the standard tables. The table assumes the gutter is attached at the base of the gutter. Attaching at the back significantly reduces the volume they carry. Hence you need twice as many and larger downpipes.
FANTASTIC to see you over in WA looking at our builds! I can tell that that house is a budget build too. However I will say, that rending the plasterboard at the front of the house is something I've never seen before! My house built 2018 is rendered onto brickface. Those door handle stops have been used in houses here for many years as opposed to the floor stoppers, every time I go into a friends old 20+yr house they have them too.
The ending was funny we did the painting on this house not the bloke on the video. no wonder we spend some time doing touch ups it was you who was picking it. We usually dont have that much touch ups as we try to do everything as good as we can. If the supervisor told us that is was you who wants us to come there we could have rock up.
Never judge a book by its cover …. here I was thinking that the painter caught a 13Cabs to the site . Well done to the painter 👏👏 the overall build wasn’t too bad seen much much much worse many in Victoria
Well the waterproofing isn't great and all the downpipes are non compliant. Water ingress is the biggest issue which can cause mold to flourish and in turn make the occupants seriously sick. So not that reassuring if im being honest
@@Replayfix That's what inspections are for though mate. When the issues are raised, they can get addressed before it becomes a real problem. I don't ask my builders to do a perfect job, but I do ask them to act in good faith and address the issues as they get pointed out.
@@Replayfix We have to be realistic here, waterproofing is virtually every job. Its usually going to be picked up. At least the shower area was compliant, which it never usually is over east. Yes i agree about the downpipes but remember, Z picks on far more things than what he did in this video when he does videos on housing in the east.
I wish we had someone like you to do our pre purchasing inspection. The guy we had was a joke. I don’t know if it was because they were the realtors personal property inspector but it’s cost us a lot of $$$ to fix the faults (& undoing ones). When I contacted him to ask him why he didn’t pick these issues up he told me I should’ve got an electrician and a plumber out to inspect the house as well! I told him over east that’s the job of a building inspector but he just hung up on me. This house has so many non compliant issues I could right a book. I really enjoy your content.
@@Granite2three look at housing between Camden and Penrith in Sydney. Nothing to really brag about that shit either, at least here in Perth, we've got tons of beaches, parks and national parks at our fingertips, and they cost half as much. Sydney can keep it's traffic congestion and pollution.
maybe in some shitty outliner suburbs but most of Perth is pretty green actually, especially around Fremantle, Cannington (Ferndale etc), even the areas surrounding the CBD are lush.
Being from victoria, i was blown away when my colleague in Perth told me he was building a two storey double brick house with a second floor concrete slab. None of that lightweight cladding rubbish.
The inspection Ninja strikes again! It's so great to see a house almost built to standards throughout. That might be the least you should expect these days ~ almost to standards! Thanks for uploading this video. It almost gives you hope for this industry. And you should show the builder and painters when thy do a good job, they deserve some kudos and exposure for those looking for good trades men and women. Maybe we should expose those that do crap work too, so that we can avoid them like the plague. That could be one way to clean up the industry, where Governments don't have the cohones to do it themselves. Hope you enjoy your stay in Perth too.
@SillySandgroper7076 I'd also say nicheliving... the place I'm in now 2years old.. bathroom has major water leaks and damage. In the ceiling and also behind the shower/bath tiles. And niche hasn't responded in 2 yrs to requests to inspect and fix
@@SillySandgroper7076 Tbf, we got a BGC home a couple years back. While there are some dodgy things, they are actually pretty good at coming out and getting stuff fixed when we call them up fo it. For example about 6 months ago, we were having some security screens installed. Installer showed us the bricky left our door as a Banana door, and sort of bent the frame to make it fit, which would explain why it never properly fit right. They came out, realised it was fucked and booked it in for a full repair. They took the door off, took out the frame and installed a new one and new door. Have been quite surprised with how positive they are thesedays, though I think thats half to do with the fact that so many people are just angry at them all the time. Is it perfect, nah, but if you want perfect you gotta drop big $$ and really research builders.
Honestly after my dads build in wa and me wanting to build watching your channel really puts me off. Unless I can get you or someone as good as you for inspections I just don’t wanna risk it aye!
I think you are to used to eastern states builds. -Bump stops behind doors have been like that for 20yrs plus in WA -Its a concrete floor so it should be level. -Waterproofing is a rubber based paint used on the floor and up the walls in bathrooms. -sand/ float walls with a lime based set as final coat (sometimes gyprock). - 2nd fixing carpenters paint tops and bottoms of doors. -Painters quality determined a lot by the quality of plastering . -We have steel frames therefore painter undercoats and sprays door, doorframes and hinges all at once. Then gloss. - Called a "stick roof" the roof carpenter has installed.
You know so little that you don't even know what he's talking about, so why are you trying to correct him? Where is the waterstop that SHALL be installed to retain water within the wet area per AS3740:2021 4.8? It's in our dreams, that's where it is. He's showing you that there's no waterstop and you start talking about rubbed based paints.
@@fookooseeya7094 Where is it? It's a wet area (not on the list of exceptions e.g. kitchen) that REQUIRES A WATERSTOP. A waterstop SHALL be installed to retain water. Laugh all you want mate but you're clueless and yapping.
@@fr0berMoan all you like about the need for water stop but the fact it's they have only just been introduced to the Australian Standards and have a practical application in multi storey construction, stick housing, and situations where separate tenancies may be affected by a breach in water, but in single storey concrete and brick construction they are a complete load of bollocks and completely unnecessary. 99% of water damaged issues we have in these style houses are due to waterproofing failure in the shower recess causing damage on the wall in adjacent rooms. Until the latest revision of the AS came out, the only waterproofing that we required in a bathroom of a single tenancy building with an enclosed shower with a hob was to have a membrane on the floor and 150mm up the walls, and 50mm from an internal corner up to 1800mm. Now while this is a terrible minimum standard and needed updating (pretty rare you saw a builder doing that minimum, they still tended to paint a membrane to the entire wall perimeter of the shower recess), it has gone about 15 steps too far in requiring a water stop at the door. The new standard also requires waterproofing to 25mm above FFL to the edge of the room. I imagine people won't be too impressed when the paint on their steel door frames looks like crap because it has waterproofing under the paint. The problem with Australian Standards is that they cater to the lowest common denominator to cover their ass, and punish situations where the standard really doesn't call for such an excessive requirement.
Gutters are far less of a problem because they use soakwells to disperse runnoff into sand. Overflow runs out the holes and soaks in. Flooding only happens in old swamps. I agree though that these guys are very rough. Winds at wellard can be very strong on occasion. Been in a scisor lift at 80kmh+. Went home that day.
Great video, awesome work in recognising excellent work and letting the appropriate people know of it, it's easy to pick on the people how make mistakes and don't rectify them. However important to reflect when someone does an awesome job! Great work painter sir :)
Loving this I actually have pictures they don't waterproof to the door frame just near the shower an sink my house built the same In 2021 but that painter an flooring guy did a smashing job wow impressed
so So happy that the painter was NOT a skippy (like me :) , and had done a great job. IMHO too many personal biases exposed here in the comments, does great painting and drives a taxi at night - good on you mate, welcome to the country and hope you and yours stay here a long long time (like my mob did in 1807). And the area manager that sticks up for and is proud of his workers is clearly a first gen POM - gets better :)
Good painter was goooood. And yeah, usually on refresh jobs you'd usually not paint the tops of old doors, because unless you take them off and clean them they're usually too damn dirty and annoying to paint. But it's definitely something that should be done in a new build, because it's far easier. And that roof space is amazing in how correct everything seems to have been done properly for once, and even though the electrical wiring's non compliant, it seems to be routed correctly for bloody once. I also prefer traditional roof struts, because trusses are a pain to get around.
Having a 25mm gap between the counter beam and the ceiling joist doesn’t mean jack if the hangers are directly connected to said counter beam as the whole ceiling will move as one structure.Also down pipes require a break rather than a direct connection in case the soak wells over flow causing water to back up in the down pipe which could flood the eaves.
It's all about the comparative soil types and what you are used to. Generally in Victoria most building sites would comprise clay soils of varying degrees of reactive movement which require strict control of ground and roof water to prevent supersaturation of the clay which will lead to structural failures. The majority of Perth homes are built on the sand plain which is inert and can withstand large volumes of water discharge directly into the ground without any effect on a building providing it is discharged sufficient distance from the supporting sand pad so it doesn't affect compaction. A slight overflow is unlikely to have any deleterious effect. There are similar active clays and soils in the Perth hills, foothills and river flood plains which require specific structural engineering design and careful control of ground and stormwater. Sheeting over brick walls to provide a base for decorative render is a good way of isolating building settlement or other movement from the cosmetic finish which otherwise would appear as unsightly cracking. It is particularly useful on sites where active clays are present.
I wouldn't be surprised if all the internal walls are solid masonry, so all of them can be load bearing, then would be silly to have trussed roof. That how they like to do it over there (Perth region )for some reason, masonry internal walls. Probably a lot to do with the fact that the Perth basin is a massive sand pit, no shortage of material to make concrete. The sand you see around the house in the video, is pretty much what the soil looks like in Perth.
Ross North, this is a good one. These things you’ve noted as non compliant are just WA standard. 24 years painting in the WA housing industry, I’ve seen it all plus some.
We live in Perth and built with easy start homes a branch of summit homes, our house is very similar to this one 13:41 and the workmanship is top notch, been in our house now for almost 8 years and not one problem.
A couple of our SAT judges have building backgrounds, and honestly do a phenomenal job on SAT side of building. They can stomach and parse thousand complaint item jobs, and efficiently process those cases too. I always wondered how much that affected things for us here in Perth vs other states.
I sort of think the roof strut was compliant as the 25mm is there to accept roof load which is not present at install. Now its loaded and still does not touch any other member. Also i would argue about what you said about the cabling in as3000 cable just need to be adequately supported which laying flat on a surface is as there is no stress on terminations or insulation. The requirements being that anything within certain proximity to underside of ceiling shall be rcd protected. I also like the idea of the downpipes installed this way but i guess the risk is what was identified in the other properties. The set down in showers should alleviate any other wet area issues we see over the east coast as well as being brick construction mostly I think this was a pretty good quality home and probably one of the best I have seen on your videos. Good to see the trades taking pride and doing things right especially in the housing industry which appears to be run by a lot of cowboys. Love your videos thank you
You are absolutely amazing mate! Can you do inspections at an already built home (10 years) and if any non compliant stuff found can this still be taken up with the builder? I wish I knew of you when I built my home!
A lot of the tradesmen are from the uk and Italy over many years and have past there skills on to the next generation through apprenticeship Well done WA
A painter who is doing a great job, a skilled job - better than most - and still has the requirement to drive Taxis on the side. This says a few things.
19:00 That roof looks similar to a roof in Germany. No wooden spiderweb where you have no chance to move. Only we have no metal roofing, we use heavy ceramic tiles and most roofs are build in a way that you have an attic and can use it to store stuff or even expand your home.
Glad I came across this. Not sure why it popped in my feed but glad it did. I'm no builder by any stretch of the imagination but I'm in six roofs a day as a pest management tech. I work in that area and have seen some decent jobs and some really dodgy ones. I'm just about to start the building process myself a few minutes south of where you were for this video. I'll be keeping a keen eye on your reviews. Cheers mate 👍
Plasterers in Perth hide a multitude of sins. Internal walls are made with Fast Wall (large clay bricks). A mate had a house built 26 years ago and I had a look when the walls went up, one internal wall was so bowed / crooked I could put my forearm behind the spirit level. I came back when the house was at lock up stage and the wall was dead straight, my mate said it was the same wall, not rebuilt. The plasterer must have used 80mm of mortar filler to make that wall straight, I was amazed at how such crooked brickwork was hidden by the plaster work.
There is not a chance an internal wall is bowed out 80mm and a plasterer is fixing that 😂 Plus if it's its wall that's tied into the external you have no cavity and if its one of your dividing walls inside that 80mm bowed section will be a 80 hump on the other. That wall would have definitely been knocked down and rebuilt. Fastwalls are terrible don't ever biuld with them
@@drizlerone It was not at external wall, it was a single brick internal wall. The wall was not knocked down but it certainly should have been. Some poor bastard rendered the crap out of that wall to make is straight, I saw before and after mate and I could not believe it myself.
I always thought the common practice was not to pin clip it if its under 600mm in height ie right up against the truss heel. maybe i have been doing it wrong, i asked chat gpt to review as3000 and this is what it said: In accordance with AS/NZS 3000:2018 wiring rules, for roof spaces with a height of less than 600 mm, cables such as TPS cables do not require pin clips or cable ties, provided they are installed in areas where there is no risk of the cables being stood on or damaged
There are certainly spots above that wire in certain areas where the roof is more than 600mm above those cables. And do they mean specifically ONLY above the cables? Or the height of the entire area the cables are in? Because that crawl space is as high as more than a meter, that guy is standing straight up in there.
I didn't know you come to this side of the "wall" mate I hope you do more houses here this is horrendous compared to other states please do more videos here in WA cheers
Gonna have to bulldoze and start again after old mate rocks up to site 😂 Jokes, good to see a building inspector actually doing their job. That storm pipe connecting the two gutters is wild, never seen that one before.
In every single subdivision I see, the slabs are always set as low as possible here in WA. A case of find the lowest point on the block and set the slab 100mm above that. Absolutely no account for grade, the yard level and run off at all. Unless the owner wants to remove 50/100t of fill, the weep holes are sure to be covered.
I cannot believe how all the houses in and around the Perth area have those horrible gutters that sit on top of the fascia and the downpipe comes out of the back of the gutter. I only see this in houses around Melbourne that were built in the seventies. Having just got back from Perth the other day I was witness to those horrible gutters and downpipes are all rotting now(no surprise). A friend of mine just had her gutters replaced ,(the house is only about ten years old) the gutter sits on top of the fascia, and in a recent downpour surprise surprise the gutters overflowed into the eaves. I am a gutter installer so of course my eyes go to the gutters, and I can see a lot of work in Perth but of course with my experience I would be bringing the gutter to the outside of the fascia by placing a batten on top of the existing fascia and then extending the roof line via flashing to inside the gutter . Keep up the good work Site Inspector.
Only way they’re going to overflow is if the gutter or downpipe was blocked or if roof plumber didn’t install appropriate amount of downpipes. Not a design issue. “I am a gutter installer” not even a roof plumber, just weighing in with your uninformed opinion. Your “solution” to this non-existent problem is utterly insane and makes me think you’re not even a gutter installer either.
@@eggshapedisraelioperative6317 "Non existent problem", really, so where is the water going to go in a downpour ? If you took any notice of what was presented then you would have seen that the water on one of the gutters was flowing back in the opposite direction, so in a downpour where is the water going to go when the water cannot get to the downpipe quickly enough?
@@1darryloflife That’s an installation problem you peanut, not a design problem inherent to fascia gutters. Have you ever heard of the saying “you don’t know what you don’t know”? There’s such a gap in your knowledge that you think running battens along a fascia lip and flashing the ends of the sheets to suit isn’t completely insane. Quit while you’re behind
LOL me being surprised that the painter is coming by taxi, nooooo, wait, he's the driver! lol man. he's a busy busy man, needs to get the paint done perfectly the first time so he can work the taxi job, probably working towards something big and great, wishing him all the best!
Z will be back in Perth next Monday, the 23rd! Let's Go (Different Builder)
@@Siteinspections I Would love to see a high-end build. I'm building next year somewhat scared about it.
" well look you can see when I put this inside, well can you see my little pin, my little tool right in there you can see little tool coming in and out " 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 My brain went straight into meltdown and I 😂😂😂 like hell. 😂😂😂
I emailed your office and they said you don’t come to Perth 😭 I’ve had non compliant work on my pre-slab and slab and I could complain to the building commission but I’ve been warned by other people who have built the commission normally sides with the builder.
Greetings from the USA. Thank you so very much for sharing your work. We need more inspectors like you on this side of the pond. I am aspiring to be such and am learning so much from you. What model BlackHawk vest is that you're wearing in your videos?
Does anyone know, can I go back to the builder years later for non compliance items?
Its refreshing when you find work that is actually really good. Props to the flooring and painting crew
The bit with the painter really highlighted a thing I've encountered elsewhere. I don't expect my painter to do the entire job with just a brush, but if you can get a painter that you know *could* do the job with just that brush, that's a good sign that you're in good hands.
The Plasterer must have given him a good surface to work on.
perth painter here. we have to work neat here or we have to go back and fix it. the plasterers in perth are the big concern. there aren't many good ones and the prep we have to do can vary greatly. please for the love of god people, stop doing negative detail, or find a gyprocker who can do it.
@@joereedsmith1531 Not sure how many companies do this, but the trend nowadays is to just slap on plasterboard instead of floating plaster internally.
@@joereedsmith1531 keep yapping ya plasterer. I've never seen a good plasterer in my career.
So glad you've come over to WA to hold these guys accountable. Your just a number over here and you get what you're given. Need more to call them out.
Wow, finally a good home!!! The Builder and Painter so honourable and should be very proud of the work that they do, it shows!
The painter is a legend. Well done sir 👍
This make me soooo happy to find builders still proud of their work !! I enjoy this knowledge more than cowboys 🤠. 👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
Cowboys built this country. Not Turks telling everyone things weren't non-compliant because a pencil pusher said so.
"Ive been painting since I was 5 years old and I paint my whole village with one brush".
- The Painter from Punjab, the Legend.
A legend indeed. looks like a real work horse too, doing cabbie work as well.
I need his no, I’m in Perth
I need a good painter too
Can I get his number
Sometimes immigration system works.
finally something good with the inspection, to be honest, it's refreshing to see. Well done for the paint job, flooring as well as the the roof framing job.
The cables are compliant by As3000 as they have less than 600 clearance above them that is deemed as a non-accessible area and you can run cables as you wish
100% agree as the mechanical protection is only required when the cables can be damaged e.g. by walking on....hence the 600mm clearance max.
I was about to say the same thing
@@jackg3854 100% correct ✅
@@jackg3854 same here
as a sparky, i noticed this as well and came to the comments to see if it was pointed out.
The most loved inspection agency out there, every one loves you bro….except the builders😂
If they do it right the first time, they won't have problems.
Mate - this is awesome quality for WA - you couldn't list all the faults in our house in one day - need a full week at least. A few favourites in WA...
1. Showers not usually set down. Slap a few bricks and tiles across the bottom of the shower and bog it with silicone - no barrier behind wall tiles - bonza mate!
2. Top row of roof tiles cut to 1/3 length and laid flat or angled back toward hip - only a problem if it rains!
3. All gas fittings overtightened and split leaking gas - had fire under cooktop!
4. Junction box in roof - no side on it - I mean they had to fit a dozen power cables in somehow.
5. Door frames twisted - and handles on double doors 20mm height difference.
6. Double garage panel door - auto door opener screwed into hardiflex sheeting not into timbers - no timber in the right spot so who cares?
7. No visible weep holes - all burried completely - after all they're sooo ugly.
8. Walls not sealed before painting - paint peels off in big sheets.
9. Insufficient soakwell capacity - overflow with rain.
10. WA preferred special gutters without slots that overflow at the back so it pours into the house.
Just a few of the more frustrating ones - oh yeah its very important to use qualified WA trades - then you know the jobs done right ✅ 🙄
Mate as an old 'fussy bastard builder ' I have been called in many times to fix problems left by other's bad workmanship.
Try PVC down pipes concealed in the cavity with no glued joints! Rain caused the rooms to flood from under the window sills!
In addition to that, I rectified a job in Nedlands with this problem and when I went in front of the Builder's Registration Board, they asked me why I put on stainless steel rainwater heads and down pipes. I just said,' what do you think I should do on a $ 1.2 million house? Stunning silence.
It's crazy door stops are so common in wa was surprising see you react that way to them
Never get used over east, always proper ones.
I prefer them tbh
@Big_mayooo double brick home that's why.
Wouldn't get away with that on plaster board 🤣
Pleasant surprise that the painter is an actually skilled immigrant. Doesnt matter if your painting interiors or painting cars etc.....its a demanding job.
Painting is an underrated trade..
@@jayvee3859 Yet they are expected to fix everything!
As a painter. Cheers !
Looks like he is a taxi driver too! 🚖
I just got back from walking the dogs with my 14yr old boy only a few kms from where this video was shot. While walking I pointed to some flashing and said to my boy do you know what that’s called, he answered no, my reply was non compliant flashing.
Then your son said "check out the brain on Brad"
This is literally down the road from mine
@@rikeralpha100”check out the BIG brain on Brad”. 😂
I would love to see you inspect a “high end build” like a Tomizzi or a Zorzi home
To see how compliant they are in the cost plus market.
yeah, lets see how compliant the targét shopping clients new homes look... ooolala
Zorzi homes are next level
Hahhahahah I used to tile for Zorzi homes.
They are definitely worst then project home. Even Spaddacini. All those luxury homes are terrible. They look good but lack movement and expansion. after 2 years. problems shows up and that's when the 1 year building warranty expires
Kind of amazing the amount of praise you have for people doing their job correctly.
The way you commended the floor and painter was like how a commentator celebrates and athlete winning an Olympic gold medal. Instead of them doing an absoltutely incredible job, they just DID their job.
Sad that we're awarding gold stars to builders that just do their job. It's amazing how with all the technology and ease of access to information that we have in the world these days that possibly the worst construction in history is occuring right now. Nobody wants to go near new constuctions, the dodgy tradesmanship rocking the country right now is causing people to skip new builds in favour of older builds.
If I'm ever to buy a house in Australia, you're my first port of call. I don't care about the rules/regs, just need someone that can see a dodgy job from a mile away and charge the builder for fixing their own short cuts.
A nice change to see a video with a smile on your face and decent work being done.
this review although started with criticism, but as we go further into the review, recognitions was given to the stuffs that was done correctly, wall, floors, painiting, roof struts and beam.. this builder is really far far better than those you have reviewed at the east!!! Mine to share who they are especially the painter lol, at least we can go to a trusted specialist/builder in future for new build in WA.
Everything he said was wrong about the weep holes. They are no problem at all.
That's my neighbours house , so glad you're shining a light on the situation. We have a 2019 build that had been exploding 12 bursts in 1 year iplex issue and builders are shonky.
The other issue with gutters through eaves is that when they calculate the number of downpipes required based on as3500.3 they used the standard tables. The table assumes the gutter is attached at the base of the gutter. Attaching at the back significantly reduces the volume they carry. Hence you need twice as many and larger downpipes.
FANTASTIC to see you over in WA looking at our builds! I can tell that that house is a budget build too. However I will say, that rending the plasterboard at the front of the house is something I've never seen before! My house built 2018 is rendered onto brickface. Those door handle stops have been used in houses here for many years as opposed to the floor stoppers, every time I go into a friends old 20+yr house they have them too.
I'm a somewhat recent WA resident, never seen those stoppers before moving here and I actually prefer them, nothing to stub your toe on.
The ending was funny we did the painting on this house not the bloke on the video. no wonder we spend some time doing touch ups it was you who was picking it. We usually dont have that much touch ups as we try to do everything as good as we can. If the supervisor told us that is was you who wants us to come there we could have rock up.
@@allan_lorenzo where in Perth are you based ?
@@joed7599 SOR but we still do NOR depends how far.
@@allan_lorenzo what is your business called? Or can you send me your contact details?
Fuck yeah.. You got the honours brother . Top job. Keep it up
What's your company mate?
Man I’m so glad you here in Perth
Never judge a book by its cover …. here I was thinking that the painter caught a 13Cabs to the site . Well done to the painter 👏👏 the overall build wasn’t too bad seen much much much worse many in Victoria
Well this is very reassuring being in Perth.
Well the waterproofing isn't great and all the downpipes are non compliant.
Water ingress is the biggest issue which can cause mold to flourish and in turn make the occupants seriously sick.
So not that reassuring if im being honest
@@Replayfix That's what inspections are for though mate. When the issues are raised, they can get addressed before it becomes a real problem. I don't ask my builders to do a perfect job, but I do ask them to act in good faith and address the issues as they get pointed out.
I would love for him to check adelaide housing where I am.
Seeing this yeah the shit they failed isn't great.
Hardly the worst but still pathetic.
@@Replayfix If you read the description you'll see all of the 85 issues were rectified.
@@Replayfix We have to be realistic here, waterproofing is virtually every job. Its usually going to be picked up. At least the shower area was compliant, which it never usually is over east.
Yes i agree about the downpipes but remember, Z picks on far more things than what he did in this video when he does videos on housing in the east.
Good to see some good workmanship.
Well done.
I wish we had someone like you to do our pre purchasing inspection. The guy we had was a joke. I don’t know if it was because they were the realtors personal property inspector but it’s cost us a lot of $$$ to fix the faults (& undoing ones). When I contacted him to ask him why he didn’t pick these issues up he told me I should’ve got an electrician and a plumber out to inspect the house as well! I told him over east that’s the job of a building inspector but he just hung up on me. This house has so many non compliant issues I could right a book. I really enjoy your content.
This sums up Perf nicely. Volume produced homes sprawled over hundreds of kilometers with next to zero trees planted.
In my area “Cockburn council” they planted over 500 trees last year and are keeping to their program of continuing to match that this year.
to be fair the climate would kill a lot of trees without irrigation, almost like it's just a hot desert, shrubs and cacti tend to do better
@@Granite2three look at housing between Camden and Penrith in Sydney. Nothing to really brag about that shit either, at least here in Perth, we've got tons of beaches, parks and national parks at our fingertips, and they cost half as much. Sydney can keep it's traffic congestion and pollution.
@@jimbothegymbro7086 nonsense
maybe in some shitty outliner suburbs but most of Perth is pretty green actually, especially around Fremantle, Cannington (Ferndale etc), even the areas surrounding the CBD are lush.
Being from victoria, i was blown away when my colleague in Perth told me he was building a two storey double brick house with a second floor concrete slab. None of that lightweight cladding rubbish.
That’s the way we like to build them here
@@jay-em imagine how WA people feel when they hear how homes are built over east.
@@InfinitePlain House of twiggz innit. Hope they aint got no big bad wolves over there.....
It's a shame the builders doing million dollar homes on the beach front in Safety Bay can't build as well as budget home builders in Wellard
@@billyaccount100that’s easy to answer, us down in Kwinana are treated as 3rd world area
Thanks for finding so many non-compliant issues and pointing out the positives.
Welcome to Perth! Like everywhere in Australia we have some very successful dodgy builders...
The inspection Ninja strikes again! It's so great to see a house almost built to standards throughout. That might be the least you should expect these days ~ almost to standards! Thanks for uploading this video. It almost gives you hope for this industry. And you should show the builder and painters when thy do a good job, they deserve some kudos and exposure for those looking for good trades men and women. Maybe we should expose those that do crap work too, so that we can avoid them like the plague. That could be one way to clean up the industry, where Governments don't have the cohones to do it themselves. Hope you enjoy your stay in Perth too.
Good to see you doing WA Perth videos, keep them coming !
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Great job painter and flooring team. We have to appreciate those that do great work! Overall, a great builder.
Massive props to that painter, I bet he'd put even some of the old timers to shame
Been waiting for a WA inspection. Cause we have a lot of flog builders here
Looks like we started with the best, but if there's shamozzles over there, Z will find em.
let him loose on some bgc jobs - this guy sounded like a smaller volume budget builder. really good apart from the guttering and landscaping!
@SillySandgroper7076 I'd also say nicheliving... the place I'm in now 2years old.. bathroom has major water leaks and damage. In the ceiling and also behind the shower/bath tiles. And niche hasn't responded in 2 yrs to requests to inspect and fix
@@SillySandgroper7076 Tbf, we got a BGC home a couple years back. While there are some dodgy things, they are actually pretty good at coming out and getting stuff fixed when we call them up fo it. For example about 6 months ago, we were having some security screens installed. Installer showed us the bricky left our door as a Banana door, and sort of bent the frame to make it fit, which would explain why it never properly fit right. They came out, realised it was fucked and booked it in for a full repair. They took the door off, took out the frame and installed a new one and new door. Have been quite surprised with how positive they are thesedays, though I think thats half to do with the fact that so many people are just angry at them all the time. Is it perfect, nah, but if you want perfect you gotta drop big $$ and really research builders.
Honestly after my dads build in wa and me wanting to build watching your channel really puts me off. Unless I can get you or someone as good as you for inspections I just don’t wanna risk it aye!
I think you are to used to eastern states builds.
-Bump stops behind doors have been like that for 20yrs plus in WA
-Its a concrete floor so it should be level.
-Waterproofing is a rubber based paint used on the floor and up the walls in bathrooms.
-sand/ float walls with a lime based set as final coat (sometimes gyprock).
- 2nd fixing carpenters paint tops and bottoms of doors.
-Painters quality determined a lot by the quality of plastering .
-We have steel frames therefore painter undercoats and sprays door, doorframes and hinges all at once. Then gloss.
- Called a "stick roof" the roof carpenter has installed.
You know so little that you don't even know what he's talking about, so why are you trying to correct him? Where is the waterstop that SHALL be installed to retain water within the wet area per AS3740:2021 4.8? It's in our dreams, that's where it is. He's showing you that there's no waterstop and you start talking about rubbed based paints.
@@fr0ber 🤣🤣🤣
@@fookooseeya7094 Where is it? It's a wet area (not on the list of exceptions e.g. kitchen) that REQUIRES A WATERSTOP. A waterstop SHALL be installed to retain water. Laugh all you want mate but you're clueless and yapping.
@@fr0berMoan all you like about the need for water stop but the fact it's they have only just been introduced to the Australian Standards and have a practical application in multi storey construction, stick housing, and situations where separate tenancies may be affected by a breach in water, but in single storey concrete and brick construction they are a complete load of bollocks and completely unnecessary. 99% of water damaged issues we have in these style houses are due to waterproofing failure in the shower recess causing damage on the wall in adjacent rooms.
Until the latest revision of the AS came out, the only waterproofing that we required in a bathroom of a single tenancy building with an enclosed shower with a hob was to have a membrane on the floor and 150mm up the walls, and 50mm from an internal corner up to 1800mm. Now while this is a terrible minimum standard and needed updating (pretty rare you saw a builder doing that minimum, they still tended to paint a membrane to the entire wall perimeter of the shower recess), it has gone about 15 steps too far in requiring a water stop at the door.
The new standard also requires waterproofing to 25mm above FFL to the edge of the room. I imagine people won't be too impressed when the paint on their steel door frames looks like crap because it has waterproofing under the paint.
The problem with Australian Standards is that they cater to the lowest common denominator to cover their ass, and punish situations where the standard really doesn't call for such an excessive requirement.
Gutters are far less of a problem because they use soakwells to disperse runnoff into sand. Overflow runs out the holes and soaks in. Flooding only happens in old swamps.
I agree though that these guys are very rough. Winds at wellard can be very strong on occasion. Been in a scisor lift at 80kmh+. Went home that day.
The painter painted the house with one brush since he was a baby but the house is completely painted with spray , what a magic Indian painter
Great video, awesome work in recognising excellent work and letting the appropriate people know of it, it's easy to pick on the people how make mistakes and don't rectify them. However important to reflect when someone does an awesome job! Great work painter sir :)
Loving this I actually have pictures they don't waterproof to the door frame just near the shower an sink my house built the same In 2021 but that painter an flooring guy did a smashing job wow impressed
Glad to see you over this side of the Pond, the standard in the building industry here isnt what it used to be believe it or not, love the vids ❤
Refreshing to see some good work - well done to the painters
Big welcome ! love to have you here mate, enjoy your time in W.A
Well that’s good to know in WA, hope you get to look at a flat roof house with the box gutters
Yasoo Rre, grateful for the know-ledge served on a platter.and your good work.👍
Wow. I wasnt expecting this to be so interesting. I picked it to put me asleep but now I am wide awake and wanting to check my weep holes.
so So happy that the painter was NOT a skippy (like me :) , and had done a great job. IMHO too many personal biases exposed here in the comments, does great painting and drives a taxi at night - good on you mate, welcome to the country and hope you and yours stay here a long long time (like my mob did in 1807). And the area manager that sticks up for and is proud of his workers is clearly a first gen POM - gets better :)
Showing Aussie tradies how it's done
The stereotypes come from truth, most chinese/Afghans/middle easterners in general are no hopers on site.
Stfu bleeding heart do- gooder immigrant lover
@@MrDeano-eu9rg Pretty sure the painter was from around the Indian subcontinent?
I’d rather not pay for a jeet
Good painter was goooood. And yeah, usually on refresh jobs you'd usually not paint the tops of old doors, because unless you take them off and clean them they're usually too damn dirty and annoying to paint. But it's definitely something that should be done in a new build, because it's far easier.
And that roof space is amazing in how correct everything seems to have been done properly for once, and even though the electrical wiring's non compliant, it seems to be routed correctly for bloody once. I also prefer traditional roof struts, because trusses are a pain to get around.
Good to see you in Perth WA thanks Les from Perth 🎯🎯🎯
i like how uve actually showed a good job for a change. would like to see more of these ones
Having a 25mm gap between the counter beam and the ceiling joist doesn’t mean jack if the hangers are directly connected to said counter beam as the whole ceiling will move as one structure.Also down pipes require a break rather than a direct connection in case the soak wells over flow causing water to back up in the down pipe which could flood the eaves.
It's all about the comparative soil types and what you are used to. Generally in Victoria most building sites would comprise clay soils of varying degrees of reactive movement which require strict control of ground and roof water to prevent supersaturation of the clay which will lead to structural failures.
The majority of Perth homes are built on the sand plain which is inert and can withstand large volumes of water discharge directly into the ground without any effect on a building providing it is discharged sufficient distance from the supporting sand pad so it doesn't affect compaction.
A slight overflow is unlikely to have any deleterious effect.
There are similar active clays and soils in the Perth hills, foothills and river flood plains which require specific structural engineering design and careful control of ground and stormwater.
Sheeting over brick walls to provide a base for decorative render is a good way of isolating building settlement or other movement from the cosmetic finish which otherwise would appear as unsightly cracking. It is particularly useful on sites where active clays are present.
Over flow for the gutters is the fentrated (slat holes in the gutters)
I wouldn't be surprised if all the internal walls are solid masonry, so all of them can be load bearing, then would be silly to have trussed roof. That how they like to do it over there (Perth region )for some reason, masonry internal walls. Probably a lot to do with the fact that the Perth basin is a massive sand pit, no shortage of material to make concrete. The sand you see around the house in the video, is pretty much what the soil looks like in Perth.
all internal walls are masonry.
They did it also in sout east Asia , at least in Indonesia all internal walls are masonry/bricks
Ross North, this is a good one. These things you’ve noted as non compliant are just WA standard. 24 years painting in the WA housing industry, I’ve seen it all plus some.
Quite an uplifting episode.
That painter is hilarious! "I paint my whole village with one brush.."... i think i saw that brush when he held it up to show you!
Very happy to see a build review in Perth. Thank you
The most compliments ive ever heard haha
good to see good builds in WA. Can't wait to see more builds from the WA side
Really enjoy your videos from California. Got a great voice and the content is top notch.
Was there a single house you’ve inspected that followed all the standards? Or had minimal non compliances? I’m curious. So far this one looks the best
Nice to see the painter and someone from the builder there, would be great to see what and how much of the stuff you flagged got fixed
We wish we could have inspectors like ypu in Queensland. Your channel is great. Thankyou.
Hey buddy thanks for the inside ceiling explanations. I was just surprised with the absence of sarking ??
Sarking under a metal roof is not a mandatory requirement under Australian building standards.
All down to the trades and good Supervision well done to all involved
We live in Perth and built with easy start homes a branch of summit homes, our house is very similar to this one 13:41 and the workmanship is top notch, been in our house now for almost 8 years and not one problem.
would love to get you back in Perth in the new year, to do a video on a 6 month maintenance inspections
A couple of our SAT judges have building backgrounds, and honestly do a phenomenal job on SAT side of building. They can stomach and parse thousand complaint item jobs, and efficiently process those cases too. I always wondered how much that affected things for us here in Perth vs other states.
What a Awesome channel!! WA is known to be sloppy city with no sloppy standards..
I sort of think the roof strut was compliant as the 25mm is there to accept roof load which is not present at install. Now its loaded and still does not touch any other member. Also i would argue about what you said about the cabling in as3000 cable just need to be adequately supported which laying flat on a surface is as there is no stress on terminations or insulation. The requirements being that anything within certain proximity to underside of ceiling shall be rcd protected. I also like the idea of the downpipes installed this way but i guess the risk is what was identified in the other properties. The set down in showers should alleviate any other wet area issues we see over the east coast as well as being brick construction mostly I think this was a pretty good quality home and probably one of the best I have seen on your videos. Good to see the trades taking pride and doing things right especially in the housing industry which appears to be run by a lot of cowboys. Love your videos thank you
good to see WA builds. Would like to see more
You are absolutely amazing mate!
Can you do inspections at an already built home (10 years) and if any non compliant stuff found can this still be taken up with the builder?
I wish I knew of you when I built my home!
A lot of the tradesmen are from the uk and Italy over many years and have past there skills on to the next generation through apprenticeship
Well done WA
Good to see some wins ... Good going Perth Builders 👍
My father was a top renderer and would be shocked to see those sheets. Wow 😮
A painter who is doing a great job, a skilled job - better than most - and still has the requirement to drive Taxis on the side. This says a few things.
19:00 That roof looks similar to a roof in Germany. No wooden spiderweb where you have no chance to move. Only we have no metal roofing, we use heavy ceramic tiles and most roofs are build in a way that you have an attic and can use it to store stuff or even expand your home.
Glad I came across this.
Not sure why it popped in my feed but glad it did.
I'm no builder by any stretch of the imagination but I'm in six roofs a day as a pest management tech. I work in that area and have seen some decent jobs and some really dodgy ones. I'm just about to start the building process myself a few minutes south of where you were for this video.
I'll be keeping a keen eye on your reviews.
Cheers mate 👍
Haha.. we have been using those doorstops here for 30 years :). Very budget item. (But sad)
Thx for your great videos, keep up the good work!
Plasterers in Perth hide a multitude of sins. Internal walls are made with Fast Wall (large clay bricks). A mate had a house built 26 years ago and I had a look when the walls went up, one internal wall was so bowed / crooked I could put my forearm behind the spirit level. I came back when the house was at lock up stage and the wall was dead straight, my mate said it was the same wall, not rebuilt. The plasterer must have used 80mm of mortar filler to make that wall straight, I was amazed at how such crooked brickwork was hidden by the plaster work.
An they still gettin paid penuts
There is not a chance an internal wall is bowed out 80mm and a plasterer is fixing that 😂 Plus if it's its wall that's tied into the external you have no cavity and if its one of your dividing walls inside that 80mm bowed section will be a 80 hump on the other. That wall would have definitely been knocked down and rebuilt. Fastwalls are terrible don't ever biuld with them
@@drizlerone It was not at external wall, it was a single brick internal wall. The wall was not knocked down but it certainly should have been. Some poor bastard rendered the crap out of that wall to make is straight, I saw before and after mate and I could not believe it myself.
The guy at the end. Embodies the word dude.
Wow! So cool. I was hoping to find a good inspector for WA if I ever buy a house again.
The painter is one of those next-level painters.
I always thought the common practice was not to pin clip it if its under 600mm in height ie right up against the truss heel.
maybe i have been doing it wrong, i asked chat gpt to review as3000 and this is what it said:
In accordance with AS/NZS 3000:2018 wiring rules, for roof spaces with a height of less than 600 mm, cables such as TPS cables do not require pin clips or cable ties, provided they are installed in areas where there is no risk of the cables being stood on or damaged
There are certainly spots above that wire in certain areas where the roof is more than 600mm above those cables. And do they mean specifically ONLY above the cables? Or the height of the entire area the cables are in? Because that crawl space is as high as more than a meter, that guy is standing straight up in there.
Good to see some decent trades and good work being done 🤜
thanks bro i did the floor for them
Nice job! 👍
I didn't know you come to this side of the "wall" mate I hope you do more houses here this is horrendous compared to other states please do more videos here in WA cheers
Gonna have to bulldoze and start again after old mate rocks up to site 😂
Jokes, good to see a building inspector actually doing their job.
That storm pipe connecting the two gutters is wild, never seen that one before.
In every single subdivision I see, the slabs are always set as low as possible here in WA. A case of find the lowest point on the block and set the slab 100mm above that. Absolutely no account for grade, the yard level and run off at all. Unless the owner wants to remove 50/100t of fill, the weep holes are sure to be covered.
What do you do for fall protection. I thought I saw a harness once but I swear I see you sometimes with out some kind of fall arrest system
The 1 downlight had me 😂 🙏 gonna need a headtorch
Great work very thorough job 👍🏼
Why no sarking / anti con under the roof sheeting?
FYI that’s cement render not fc sheeting on the external wall
I cannot believe how all the houses in and around the Perth area have those horrible gutters that sit on top of the fascia and the downpipe comes out of the back of the gutter. I only see this in houses around Melbourne that were built in the seventies. Having just got back from Perth the other day I was witness to those horrible gutters and downpipes are all rotting now(no surprise). A friend of mine just had her gutters replaced ,(the house is only about ten years old) the gutter sits on top of the fascia, and in a recent downpour surprise surprise the gutters overflowed into the eaves. I am a gutter installer so of course my eyes go to the gutters, and I can see a lot of work in Perth but of course with my experience I would be bringing the gutter to the outside of the fascia by placing a batten on top of the existing fascia and then extending the roof line via flashing to inside the gutter .
Keep up the good work Site Inspector.
not to mention they also need to design them with literally more than 2 downpipes, more than 100mm of rain & they can't take the volume.
Only way they’re going to overflow is if the gutter or downpipe was blocked or if roof plumber didn’t install appropriate amount of downpipes. Not a design issue. “I am a gutter installer” not even a roof plumber, just weighing in with your uninformed opinion.
Your “solution” to this non-existent problem is utterly insane and makes me think you’re not even a gutter installer either.
@@eggshapedisraelioperative6317 "Non existent problem", really, so where is the water going to go in a downpour ? If you took any notice of what was presented then you would have seen that the water on one of the gutters was flowing back in the opposite direction, so in a downpour where is the water going to go when the water cannot get to the downpipe quickly enough?
@@1darryloflife That’s an installation problem you peanut, not a design problem inherent to fascia gutters. Have you ever heard of the saying “you don’t know what you don’t know”? There’s such a gap in your knowledge that you think running battens along a fascia lip and flashing the ends of the sheets to suit isn’t completely insane. Quit while you’re behind
@@1darryloflife There are slots in the gutters that will flow out onto the pavement
Damn it... you were just around the corner from me !!! I wish I knew as I would have loved to have met you bro
LOL me being surprised that the painter is coming by taxi, nooooo, wait, he's the driver! lol man. he's a busy busy man, needs to get the paint done perfectly the first time so he can work the taxi job, probably working towards something big and great, wishing him all the best!
Absolutely, that guy is the type of person we want in this country.
The spacing of the roof battens will depend on the spacing of the rafters. That point may be contestable.
Non compliant Waterproofing is a default inclusion in all reports now days
Awesome video
Name and fame is a nice different touch at last 👍🏽