Week 28 - Practical Completion Inspection

We'd arranged for our independent inspector Damien of Project Logic to carry out a pre-PCI inspection last Friday (12 Dec) instead of the final inspection which we felt we could do ourselves. As it's our first time building, we wanted to be most prepared for our PCI inspection on Monday, which would be our last opportunity to flag any defects that needed to be fixed.

We got Damien's report over the weekend listing 16 items (in several locations) to be addressed. In summary, some doors/hinges to be adjusted/tightened, a couple of walls and the balcony balustrade to be squared, a couple of minor electrical items, the master WIR not quite right (more on this below), but mostly just finishing touches on paint, grout & render. So all up not a bad report as no major/structural issues, and as Damien said himself better than most he's come across.

We had our PCI inspection with our SS Nick this morning, and went through all of the items in Damien's report. We (both us and Nick) pointed out any items we'd noticed as we were doing the walk through, and they were marked-up/added to the defects list. One item of concern was the laundry chute exit which was too low and didn't allow enough room to have a laundry basket underneath for the clothes to fall into, so the exit/whole would have to be moved up.

The other was the master WIR which had initially been incorrectly installed without the rear panels, so they were meant to remove what was there, put in the rear panels and re-fit the shelves, drawers, etc. But instead they simply tried to put in the rear panels wherever plastered walls were visible then patched it up. No need to say that the end result was not esthetically pleasing, not to mention didn't look at all like the one displayed at Byron.

Anyway, Nick agreed that the WIR was not good enough and this would be referred back to the contractor for them to completely remove and replace it. The laundry chute issue would also be referred back to the contractor to see how it can be resolved and hopefully they can come up with a good solution. All the other items on the defects list will be addressed, some in the few days remaining before Christmas and the others when the trades get back in the New Year.