Lock up Inspection

So we got to lock up stage (kind of no garage internal door yet!). We got our Building Inspector out again and he found a few things that needed to be looked at.

In the Alfresco the corner support steel post had not been bolted down firmly to the slab - the bolts were able to be undone with fingers. This is a minor one but still important to be found before it was bricked around.

We had paid for upgrades to our heating system & vents so that we could add cooling to it down the track - it was found that the ducts installed were not the correct ones and would not work for cooling. A minimum of R1.5 is needed in the roof space when heating & cooling is used in the same vent. R1.0 were installed in our house and this can only be used in the roof space for cooling if the roof is lined with a thermal blanket which ours is not.

There were also a fee spots where the gas pipes & sewage pipes were not fixed at the required spacing. Also with this there were a few water pipes that did not have enough silicon around them when they went through the wooden frame (to help stop knocking noise).

Both bath hobs were not level. A few missing noggins that we had already noted but was great to get included in the document as it meant that PD would have to address them. 

The main issue was that the electrician had drilled through the topside of a floor joist - floor joist can be drilled through the center of the beam but not the top or bottom as this is where the strength of the beam is. This means that somehow they will need to make sure that this beam is strengthened so that we do not have any issues in the future.