I love your videos, as a builder here in New Zealand building multi story apartment blocks, I've now got my team and now my bosses watching your videos and i can tell you have made us check and recheck every trade that comes though our doors, your videos helped us identify red flags pertaining to trades giving us fake paperwork and insurance paperwork, some of the paperwork filed to us was so good some of our government's departments had to do a double take when checking them as they all had the right stamps and signatures, we now have such a robust team of 6 setting standards above and beyond what we would normality do, and we now offer this service to other companies here; which helps off set our fixed costs.
which ever company did these bathrooms, should be made to have the last 5 jobs they did prior investigated, and if any are non compliant, keep adding 5 more. there's all too good a chance they've done this on EVERY single build they've done.
Absolutely. The problem is that here in Victoria the VBA normally would not pursue such a line of inquiry, hence chances are it will all stop dead here.
@@davidp7241 and that's why they keep doing it. and why there's going to be a massive cost down the track as these dodgy jobs slowly get exposed. VBA is a shmozzle.
actually right, it will never be right. no matter how much work they put in. start again, if i were an insurance company i'd have the fire brigade on speed dial
they would of knacckered the bricks with their breaker or SDS hammer drill to get all them tiles and glue off. what a shamozzle.....also that type of ciggie i have only seen one nationality smoke. doesnt surprise me of that quality of work. has chinese real estate industry written all over it. as a chippy, i love ur channel.
At 3:38 the Chinese characters "楼下 2号房“ mean "Downstairs 2nd room" and as you were walking out of the room at around 3:50 the workers were speaking mandarin and mentioned something about installing 3 things. Your videos are a service to everyone mate, keep up the good work!
@@88manta88 I work in the building industry and plastering is very often done by Chinese workers. No idea why but that's way it is. As for the entire build, a lot of no-name materials, haphazard construction, corners cut to the max. The whole project smells like something cobbeled together by a a Chinese builder.
As some who runs an Insulation install company I commend your industry. Something you could touch on for a great episode would be the star/NatHERS ratings of homes and how they aren’t being met at the install level. Insulation needs to be taken more seriously.
The problem with the energy efficiency is the sealing of buildings are now getting more mould. First rate can easily be manipulated, you play with the north and shading- no one even checks the windows performance is like the report.
I remember around 15 years ago my boss trying to get some main floor tiling jobs through a couple of big tile companies. They asked what he was charging he said $35/m2. The bloke laughed and said no thanks, I got a team of Chinese tilers, they charge $20/m2 and finish it in one day. My boss said what do you mean one day don't they let the tiles dry...
Don’t forget to add more immigration, we’re already short on property and now we don’t even have proper homes being built. It’s going to be a crazy ride.
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. We need more houses because of our massive levels of immigration. But to build more houses we need more people to build them. Just one big ponzi scheme. If we brought our immigration level back down to a more sustainable number there wouldn't be such crazy demand resulting in these shitboxes being built everywhere.
I’m a builder doing my own tiling, can’t get a tiler in my town , its an 8 month wait for my tiler, my standards are compliant, surely other people on site would have seen this going on, I’m thinking maybe the building supervisor.. That builder shouldn’t be allowed to play with Lego. I might add I’m a certified property inspector, this guy’s knowledge is incredible..
Are these tradies imported from China. Watching these inspections I’d never buy a brand new home. About 15 years ago I looked at a porter Davies display home, it was a rainy day and the carpet in the lounge room was saturated. Water was pouring in from the window. I asked the salesman is this your premium range and he said this build is with all the options we do. A flagship home. I asked does it come with a swimming pool because my feet were soaked wet standing on the carpet. NON COMPLIANT
Dont hire chinese builders is the moral of the story. Its the same in New Zealand, they cut every corner and the language barrier makes it very difficult to get anything fixed to code.
Lol blame the Chinese as per usual. Mate these homes are built by Aussies and the ones that aren’t are due to skill shortage lack of training and just utter disregard for the buyer.
It's a problem, but the big companies are gonna do what they can to keep wages down, especially if they don't think anyone is gonna check. We lack qualified locals, and those that do the job right charge decent money.
Not just cheap hardware but it looks like they imported cheap labour. Chinese building standards are non existent so I wonder if the trades are even trained to Australian standards.
@FilipAus i posted a similar comment and it got deleted, looks exactly that , cheap nasty labor and building materials , untrained in EVERYTHING they do
Thank you for your videos, they are fascinating. Great to see someone is out there protecting home buyers from bodgey work. I wouldn't want some of these blokes building a kids cubby house.
I had a chat with an inspector today. They said the quality of homes is a joke because the building companies use the cheapest tradies out there. This is just Aussie Tofu-dreg
the quality of homes wouldn't be a joke if the inspectors didn't pass jokes of a job. Hence why we need guys like this. The reason Dim Lim and Bong remain in a job doing dodgy waterproofing installs is because the inspectors don't care.
The writing says it all Chinese dodgy builders on visa with fake qualifications. Bet it's not done much better. They don't know how to do the work to standard. . The state of the site is a hazard. The welding in that beam! I love to hear what the building inspector would say if shown this and justify his sign off. How can he look someone in the face and say it's OK?
Going by the writing on the door we can assume this build has been carried out by highly experienced and skilled workers from our'skilled 'migration programme. What a joke!
Great video! I love seeing these videos but also hate knowing that someone has paid for this sub standard work. I am waiting for all the builders to get together and just throw big money at you to buy your silence.
Hope there are more inspectors around like you or are learning. Only way people will learn with the amount of deregulation that has happened is if they're continually getting their butts kicked. Otherwise it seems we cannot get away from sacrificing build quality for profit and laziness.
Ahh the benefits of 457 visas.. Those glass doors come from an importer in Sydney he has a dedicated truck that delivers them to most of the eastern states. He supplies two versions cheep and nasty cheep.
Doesn't matter what is printed on the glass if no one tests it. It's a huge issue. All these regs and no one checks that there's no piss taking. There is A LOT of piss taking.
When the tradies dont speak english they won't know whats compliant. This job is an absolute nightmare for the owner.. Imagine trying to flog this for top dollar 😕
I cant believe this job, what do you do with so much going on, I wouldnt be surprised if by the end of everything it would have been more worthwhile demolishing everything to start again but then thats assuming they wouldnt just do the same dumb shit again which you know is likely. Seems like a job thats going to take them years to rectify and itll still never be compliant
I can't sorry as still in dispute. To be fair this issue was the tilers problem and the tiler was just a no one who can't be found. I doubt there is a new build on planet earth that is 100% compliant. Every build I have done issues have been found after the build so would hate to think whats missed. @@matthewallen5423
Fly in 'Trades' have been a large problem for the industry for some time now. Fines and rectification of garbage work is the gamble these trades take. BSA officials don't care because it's just extra pocket money for them. They're the ones that actually need their feet held to the fire
Can we have some serious regulation in the Australian building industry. No one in their right mind will build in this country until consumers are not continually screwed over.
Good onya mate, as a plumber i always make sure my costs cover the entire build TO CODE, including progression inspections from Fair trading, the profits aren't anywhere near what ACA would like customers to believe, but the jobs done right, the first time, everytime, and im still driving my 2006 Subaru Forester 👍
They should have a compliance sheet or something displayed in each room for each item that needs to be complied with and then a marking sheet that the tradesmen signs off on to confirm that they have completed the work and that its compliant with the requirement as per the sheet.
Apparently the crew learned their trades in China, they are using construction techniques from China with materials from China and even instructions on the wall in Chinese. What would you expect? Does the foreman even read enough English to be familiar with the complex Australian building code regulations for bathroom waterproofing or roofing? For an Aussie tiler who has grown up with Aussie standards the waterproofing would be second nature, but certainly not for recent immigrants who still communicate in Chinese on the site. Same for roofing or any other trade. I hope the plumbing has not been done by Chinese plumbers, as in my experience, China has some of the worst plumbing in the world. Homes or condos that fall apart after a few years are called Tofu-dreg in China and are all too common.
I remember back in Australia working on a major commercial site for the government no less and they decided to hire cheaper trades from another city instead of using local guys, the cheaper trades had never installed acoustic plasterboard and the whole ceiling fell down 😂🤣🤣 local guys ended up redoing the whole lot unquoted 💲💲💲💲
I don't shed a tear at all for this builder ! he brought this upon himself with shoddy work trying to rip the home owner off !! ha ha ha . Well done Brother . ps. I am a Boilermaker welder and that work is dangerous !
This is nuts. I just can't watch any more. They may as well demolish and start over again.. Thanks for summarising the standards. I think you covered all of them with this build. I feel sorry for the owner and builder...
Hi, A couple of 'interesting' observations I made which you may not have picked up on, 1 - Why 'Firestop/Fyrechek plasterboard to all the walls? Is this for acoustics? If so - a number of 'failures' are from the penetrations in the walls - plus the fire separation isn't up to code. Also breaching of the fire seal into the ceiling spaces....A whole host of other things I 'noticed' just with the fire protection - or lack of....FYI...
Builder didn't know what they have been supplied - absolutely lie. No point to keep the supervisor then... This is their regular contractual supplier who are always supplying non compliant products at low price and builder charges home owners for prime item. Money is coming, builder - supplier all happy...
This is an interesting revelation that the builder relies on the contractor to provide certification (as has always been the case) yet I also think that the builder isn't always as naïve or innocent as they make out to be...
Problem is that the actual registered builder will never set foot on site and relies upon often unqualified supervisors and trades to do the work. MBA used to recommend that at key points like waterproofing roofing plumbing that they attend and makes sure that these key items are done as per plans and standards as I can assure you most trades do not know what the standard is as they have always "done it this way" .
No qualified Australian tiler would lay tiles without waterproofing, if he does he is liable, same as the waterproofer, he will lose his licence. This is what I mean when I say these big builders are bringing in immigrant workers who will do what their told, half of Melbourne and Sydney would be like this after 20 years of this scam, the project builders have been let run loose for so long I really think it’s beyond fixing. In all honesty it’s human nature to keep pushing the envelope and cut more and more corners if there are no laws to answer to, no different to a drink driver, the only thing that stops them from driving is that there is a 50/50 chance they will get caught
@@rb30e as I said, if it’s not policed the envelope will be pushed. When you have to compete with Chinese prices ( because the tile company is also employing immigrant works, it’s not just builders it’s every trade now ) you have to stoop to Chinese tactics, as I said the Victorian building industry is broken beyond repair. There are not enough inspectors to police it, the criminals outnumber the law men 100/1. Being a builder up here in Cairns QLD, I refuse to bargain with anyone on quotes ( comparing me to a cheaper one ), because I don’t quote to win, I quote to do the job properly, and if no changes are made the price will never change from what we agreed on, a little tip for the homeowner “ cheap becomes expensive “
Australia is to build 1.5 million houses by trades who have gone TAFE...but the mathematics being taught is not being taught how to do Pythagoras trigonometry to do basic angels etc. The mathematics is NAPLAN mulitupule choice. More American trash imported to Australia. We just import everything I mean everything from overseas they disregard.
Thats if they even have a license to loose. Here is Victoria, waterproofers only need a license if the quote on a job exceeds $5k. Even then, they probably have a way to work around that.
Death threats, we received one today 👎🏼 No bribery www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989785/amp/The-TikTok-building-inspector-exposing-cowboy-tradies-leaving-devastated-Aussies-huge-repair-bills.html
And I thought my recent builder was dodgy. This is next level. Attention to detail is a thing of the past. My first home was built by craftsmen. It was a work of art. Modern Homes are rubbish.
You know what. I get myself a bottle of red wine on Fridays and just sip while I watch your wonderfull, detailed, honest, technically thorough arse tearing exposays of the current state of the give no F's building industry. Your lone voice may be a flickering flame in the breeze today But you are making a difference and over time your revelations will start a fire that will burn brighter than the combustible cladding fiasco. Thanks for your work, I love it, is time for another glass, Cheers to you.
Do you have a video telling people what to do to protect themselves against this kind of poor building quality? What inspections you should pay for, what you're entitled to, it would be really nice to have information for Victoria or if federal, Australia for what to do.
Another thing you've overlooked: the plaster used in wet areas is standard fire resistant plaster where it should be fire + water resistant linings, especially if not fully tanked
The worst thing about this is it actually requires someone to come in and point out all of the dodgy work that has been done before the builder does something about it. If the builders were professionals the problems pointed out in these videos wouldn't have occurred. The builder must know how bad/cheap the quality of the build is.
I have watched a few of these videos and it is obvious building company's are subcontracting people who have no understanding of Australian building standards because they didn't do their apprenticeship here but they work cheap and the builder can maximize their profits. Screw the people buying the house right? Suckers.
Yes ,and that board should be mechanically fastened every 200mm 0r 150mm depending on tile weight per sqm. I have seen tiled walls bulging 50mm because the sheets were fixed like standard walls with glue and fasteners around perimeter of sheet only. The glue lets go under weight of tiles.
Ah well RPL trades again , when one goes into construction and buys a licence and some hire the licence , should be fined and ask to get trained properly , but the loop hole of RPL needs to be stopped and then have tafe not private educational providers provide assessment and then any lacking skills taught , so wrong take pictures of others work and false statements then licences , no wonder this is work standards
Nothing would have been done about these defects unless you had identified this. Can you imagine the distress and cost for the owners buying into the property? It would have been a 5 year dance of lawyers and insurance companies all denying there was anything wrong. Seriously the builder should not have a licence. People who cause these sorts of problems should also have to pay a penalty remediation levy to account for the environmental and resource damage caused.
I wanna do what you do, just so I can constantly tell the plasters and builders it’s not good enough. Because it’s really it all bad from a to b most of the industry is full of cowboys or old hands.
The massive number of defects in the windows, doors, walls, roof, roof gutters and drain pipes, the exterior cladding, the bathrooms, the water proofing, the floor and wall levels, the drainage on verandas, the exterior hoods around windows, and every other aspect of this build are staggering. The inspector(s) who signed off on this should be fined and prosecuted, along with the builders and traddies. Wonder what other builds these clowns have been involved in, and what nightmares the poor home owners are unaware of.
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I wish all inspectors would be as awesome as you .
You, sir, should be Australian of the year !!!!
Just randomly had your video on suggestions watched it and loved it. Subscribed.
The Chinese on the wall says - Down stairs room number 2
Have you done any building work yourself or just complain about others?
His profession is building inspection xD you spaz @@truegame142
I love your videos, as a builder here in New Zealand building multi story apartment blocks, I've now got my team and now my bosses watching your videos and i can tell you have made us check and recheck every trade that comes though our doors, your videos helped us identify red flags pertaining to trades giving us fake paperwork and insurance paperwork, some of the paperwork filed to us was so good some of our government's departments had to do a double take when checking them as they all had the right stamps and signatures, we now have such a robust team of 6 setting standards above and beyond what we would normality do, and we now offer this service to other companies here; which helps off set our fixed costs.
What great feedback! I would love to see an example of a well built building in a video sometime, just to see what good quality building looks like.
This is so great to hear about the impact these videos are making. Keep up the good work!
Way to go Bro, It’s great to see knowledge and skill’s shared.
New Zealand dwellings suffer from the same problems and are in some spaces even worse.
Do you get Chinese trades or other nationalities.
which ever company did these bathrooms, should be made to have the last 5 jobs they did prior investigated, and if any are non compliant, keep adding 5 more.
there's all too good a chance they've done this on EVERY single build they've done.
Absolutely. The problem is that here in Victoria the VBA normally would not pursue such a line of inquiry, hence chances are it will all stop dead here.
@@davidp7241 and that's why they keep doing it. and why there's going to be a massive cost down the track as these dodgy jobs slowly get exposed. VBA is a shmozzle.
And roofing. Probably a different company
@@davidp7241VBA is a joke organisation
The last 5 jobs may have been in China, good luck with that!
The inspector who signed off on that frame should lose his ticket. Simply for missing the shemozzle of welding.
very high chance he didnt even come to site to look at it he would of just got some pictures and a bag of money or a few bags with his normal rate
@@andreweastaughffe1070 nz the same
Agreed. And 5 back from any of those that aren't up to standard
@@andreweastaughffe1070 a bag of no name ciggies smuggled in by someones luggage
This property is almost a knock down rebuild.
I can only imagine the amount of threats you get from grubby builders and contractors. Good on you bro keep it up!
he's advertised for a personal security guard!
The word of the decade - NON COMPLIANT !
Phrase... it's more than a singular word.
New word “condemn”
Imagine being his missus at dinner time just nervously waiting to find out if the pasta is non-compliant. Lol
@@ScoochieR 😂🤣
@@ScoochieRSorry honey, the pasta isn't up to code.
Easier to level them all and start over!
Please continue these videos mate
actually right, it will never be right. no matter how much work they put in. start again, if i were an insurance company i'd have the fire brigade on speed dial
Videos, not video’s. 😉
@@pbfamous07my thoughts exactly
they would of knacckered the bricks with their breaker or SDS hammer drill to get all them tiles and glue off. what a shamozzle.....also that type of ciggie i have only seen one nationality smoke. doesnt surprise me of that quality of work. has chinese real estate industry written all over it. as a chippy, i love ur channel.
the writing is in chinese and it said .down stairs unit 2
so my google translate sort of got it right
At 3:38 the Chinese characters "楼下 2号房“ mean "Downstairs 2nd room" and as you were walking out of the room at around 3:50 the workers were speaking mandarin and mentioned something about installing 3 things. Your videos are a service to everyone mate, keep up the good work!
Why are there chinese workers to begin with?
@@88manta88 I work in the building industry and plastering is very often done by Chinese workers. No idea why but that's way it is.
As for the entire build, a lot of no-name materials, haphazard construction, corners cut to the max. The whole project smells like something cobbeled together by a a Chinese builder.
@@ondrejsedlak4935 Interesting. Here in germany it is usually done by east europeans. I have never seen any aisan construction worker 🙂
@@88manta88 Welcome to Australia :)
Tofu@@ondrejsedlak4935
The surveyor who originally signed off on this should have their license removed and banned for life.
In my opinion this smells of corruption. How else could explain it.
He should have a sight test too
Probs got cash on the side
who knew Tofu Dreg construction was happening here as well. 🤯
Has been happening for decades, Australian homes have always been shit quality.
also the meth head bogans who dont give a shit about anything
As some who runs an Insulation install company I commend your industry. Something you could touch on for a great episode would be the star/NatHERS ratings of homes and how they aren’t being met at the install level. Insulation needs to be taken more seriously.
The problem with the energy efficiency is the sealing of buildings are now getting more mould. First rate can easily be manipulated, you play with the north and shading- no one even checks the windows performance is like the report.
I'd love to see this guy do some nz homes.
We used to buy garbage when we go to the $2 shop. Now we buy garbage when we buy new homes.
I remember around 15 years ago my boss trying to get some main floor tiling jobs through a couple of big tile companies.
They asked what he was charging he said $35/m2. The bloke laughed and said no thanks, I got a team of Chinese tilers, they charge $20/m2 and finish it in one day.
My boss said what do you mean one day don't they let the tiles dry...
The blokes that Site Inspections walked passed sounded like Chinese to me.
@@dxbmick they were
@@RibZe1 what a surprise diversity is a strength remember
@@mehmeh5471 just people getting what they pay for.
All those wonderful skilled migrants we're getting!
Australian Government: We need to build 1.2 million homes in 5 years
Australians: LOL
Can if they’re poured concrete or prebuilt factory homes that get finish build in 3-6 months
Don’t forget to add more immigration, we’re already short on property and now we don’t even have proper homes being built. It’s going to be a crazy ride.
You keep voting for the same two parties, and you will get the same idiot policies and outcomes.
@@arewealone9969 - 100%
It's a self fulfilling prophecy. We need more houses because of our massive levels of immigration. But to build more houses we need more people to build them. Just one big ponzi scheme. If we brought our immigration level back down to a more sustainable number there wouldn't be such crazy demand resulting in these shitboxes being built everywhere.
I’m a builder doing my own tiling, can’t get a tiler in my town , its an 8 month wait for my tiler, my standards are compliant, surely other people on site would have seen this going on, I’m thinking maybe the building supervisor..
That builder shouldn’t be allowed to play with Lego.
I might add I’m a certified property inspector, this guy’s knowledge is incredible..
Oh come on 30 tubes of sikaflex would fix those windows 😂
I swear, all it takes is to give a slight crap
Are these tradies imported from China. Watching these inspections I’d never buy a brand new home. About 15 years ago I looked at a porter Davies display home, it was a rainy day and the carpet in the lounge room was saturated. Water was pouring in from the window. I asked the salesman is this your premium range and he said this build is with all the options we do. A flagship home. I asked does it come with a swimming pool because my feet were soaked wet standing on the carpet. NON COMPLIANT
Looks like it's all been shipped in from china🤦 I'm guessing so we're the tradies. . . . .
You can bet your house that the fire separation between units is…..non-compliant.
Dont hire chinese builders is the moral of the story. Its the same in New Zealand, they cut every corner and the language barrier makes it very difficult to get anything fixed to code.
Hahaha it's not just the Chinese.
Lol blame the Chinese as per usual. Mate these homes are built by Aussies and the ones that aren’t are due to skill shortage lack of training and just utter disregard for the buyer.
It's a problem, but the big companies are gonna do what they can to keep wages down, especially if they don't think anyone is gonna check. We lack qualified locals, and those that do the job right charge decent money.
Tradies will work to the standard they're paid. The real question is who signed off on all the work? Not some guy on a visa, I'm guessing.
the writing on the doors says it all 😂
Yep,
made in china lol
I have a feeling the units are always going to have issues. The cheap Chinese windows, doors etc says it all.
Not just cheap hardware but it looks like they imported cheap labour. Chinese building standards are non existent so I wonder if the trades are even trained to Australian standards.
@FilipAus i posted a similar comment and it got deleted, looks exactly that , cheap nasty labor and building materials , untrained in EVERYTHING they do
@@FilipAusunless you’ve been building in trade for 30 years nobody is trained to Aussie standards, even the locals
@@LS19331and that's the problem right there!
@@zxFroggy when money is the motive, everything else comes last
Thank you for your videos, they are fascinating. Great to see someone is out there protecting home buyers from bodgey work. I wouldn't want some of these blokes building a kids cubby house.
There are still dodgey employers who are in labour hire, and trade contractors.
I had a chat with an inspector today. They said the quality of homes is a joke because the building companies use the cheapest tradies out there. This is just Aussie Tofu-dreg
Lol ph shit you needed a inspector to tell you that did ypu??? What was his ne name nan gwat pham.
the quality of homes wouldn't be a joke if the inspectors didn't pass jokes of a job. Hence why we need guys like this. The reason Dim Lim and Bong remain in a job doing dodgy waterproofing installs is because the inspectors don't care.
@@The_errant_societydo us a favour and lay down the crack pipe for a sec when typing
The no-brand cigarette butts is all that I needed to see. For the ones who know, know.
@@yjkaderProfessionals have standards, no chop shop cigs allowed on site unless your the apprentice
What a mess of a job site! Power cords across stairs, walkways and to top it off in puddles of water leaking from a closed window. Geez 😅
Can you please continue to follow up on this job site I'd like to see if they fix everything
Same
Total demo of the under development is needed. What is underneath and unseen would be of serious concern = Tofu Dreg
The writing says it all Chinese dodgy builders on visa with fake qualifications. Bet it's not done much better. They don't know how to do the work to standard. . The state of the site is a hazard.
The welding in that beam!
I love to hear what the building inspector would say if shown this and justify his sign off. How can he look someone in the face and say it's OK?
Tofu Dreg construction. Cheers bro, great info
Going by the writing on the door we can assume this build has been carried out by highly experienced and skilled workers from our'skilled 'migration programme. What a joke!
‘Cheapest price’
When are you voters out there going to decide that Liberal and Labor are NON COMPLIANT and when are you going to vote them out?
Where they're from, there is a term for that "Tofu-Dreg project".
@@mary69magdalene ADVChina / The China show 👋
@davidvanderklauw yep voting Green next time, Libs and Labor are useless.
Mate Australian of the Year material!! Well done!
Great video! I love seeing these videos but also hate knowing that someone has paid for this sub standard work. I am waiting for all the builders to get together and just throw big money at you to buy your silence.
Unknown brand = illegally imported chinese
"I think this says... non compliant" haha I laughed so hard!
Chairman Mao will not be pleased
That was a huge hit, don't take short cuts and you won't pay the price.
Need to start mass producing houses on an assembly line, seems to be the only way to get a compliant build 😅
Pretty sure they already do this for those little single bedroom houses in retirement villages.
@@zchettazthey certainly do. 10 were erected in north Fremantle for a group of ladies. They are all compliant
Hope there are more inspectors around like you or are learning. Only way people will learn with the amount of deregulation that has happened is if they're continually getting their butts kicked. Otherwise it seems we cannot get away from sacrificing build quality for profit and laziness.
Your videos confirm to me that not only are these buildings in a state of disrepair, but so is our country.
Dear o dear !
18:27 Missed a non-compliance! Chopped structural beam.
Ahh the benefits of 457 visas.. Those glass doors come from an importer in Sydney he has a dedicated truck that delivers them to most of the eastern states. He supplies two versions cheep and nasty cheep.
14:50 - scaffold upstand protruding through floor inside building ?
Doesn't matter what is printed on the glass if no one tests it. It's a huge issue. All these regs and no one checks that there's no piss taking. There is A LOT of piss taking.
You pretty much described convids. All from the “top” down.
When the tradies dont speak english they won't know whats compliant. This job is an absolute nightmare for the owner.. Imagine trying to flog this for top dollar 😕
I cant believe this job, what do you do with so much going on, I wouldnt be surprised if by the end of everything it would have been more worthwhile demolishing everything to start again but then thats assuming they wouldnt just do the same dumb shit again which you know is likely. Seems like a job thats going to take them years to rectify and itll still never be compliant
Legend! Use you to show my students how Construction isn’t an easy course…
It is the easiest thing you can do, if you want to do it right
Dongfang. A mark in excellence of glass.
8:04 That alone is the most ridiculous thing i've ever seen.
I imagine even the best welder in the world would be nervous wondering if that will hold for the life of the building.
Evergrande employees up to old tricks again.
Going through this myself took months to finally get builders to rip out all my bathrooms due to the same thing. I had to go legal.
Any chance you can name the builder ?
I can't sorry as still in dispute. To be fair this issue was the tilers problem and the tiler was just a no one who can't be found. I doubt there is a new build on planet earth that is 100% compliant. Every build I have done issues have been found after the build so would hate to think whats missed. @@matthewallen5423
These follow up videos are gold!!! Always wondered what happened next! :)
Fly in 'Trades' have been a large problem for the industry for some time now. Fines and rectification of garbage work is the gamble these trades take. BSA officials don't care because it's just extra pocket money for them. They're the ones that actually need their feet held to the fire
And now we need more trades through 'skilled migration' to account for the increase in population caused by migration....or so they say
Why is the Timberboards still up on walls, rather than gyprock?
The writing at 3:37 is in Mandarin. It says "downstairs number 2 room"
Can we have some serious regulation in the Australian building industry. No one in their right mind will build in this country until consumers are not continually screwed over.
Maybe if Australians stop historically voting in clowns everywhere things might improve.. don't hold your breath though..
The Chnese says "Room number 2 Downstairs"
I asked my Chinese GF to translate.
This would scare the shit out of you if you were in the market to buy a property that was built in say the last 5 to 10 years.
Mate...God be with you and protect you....thank you for showing people the absolute disgusting shit these builders get up to
Good onya mate, as a plumber i always make sure my costs cover the entire build TO CODE, including progression inspections from Fair trading, the profits aren't anywhere near what ACA would like customers to believe, but the jobs done right, the first time, everytime, and im still driving my 2006 Subaru Forester 👍
That’s a plasterer’s wheels lol. Good on ya
They should have a compliance sheet or something displayed in each room for each item that needs to be complied with and then a marking sheet that the tradesmen signs off on to confirm that they have completed the work and that its compliant with the requirement as per the sheet.
Apparently the crew learned their trades in China, they are using construction techniques from China with materials from China and even instructions on the wall in Chinese. What would you expect? Does the foreman even read enough English to be familiar with the complex Australian building code regulations for bathroom waterproofing or roofing? For an Aussie tiler who has grown up with Aussie standards the waterproofing would be second nature, but certainly not for recent immigrants who still communicate in Chinese on the site. Same for roofing or any other trade. I hope the plumbing has not been done by Chinese plumbers, as in my experience, China has some of the worst plumbing in the world. Homes or condos that fall apart after a few years are called Tofu-dreg in China and are all too common.
I remember back in Australia working on a major commercial site for the government no less and they decided to hire cheaper trades from another city instead of using local guys, the cheaper trades had never installed acoustic plasterboard and the whole ceiling fell down 😂🤣🤣 local guys ended up redoing the whole lot unquoted 💲💲💲💲
Qld government did it with the trains..
Dodnt last long, now gone back to being built here..
"The writing is on the wall"
That explains everything 🤣
I don't shed a tear at all for this builder ! he brought this upon himself with shoddy work trying to rip the home owner off !! ha ha ha .
Well done Brother .
ps. I am a Boilermaker welder and that work is dangerous !
Looked good from far....
But far from good!
As a chippy, this is a legitimate nightmare to fix.😬
This is nuts. I just can't watch any more. They may as well demolish and start over again.. Thanks for summarising the standards. I think you covered all of them with this build. I feel sorry for the owner and builder...
‘The builder’. Are you kidding
@robertbarnier45 i feel sorry for anyone that has to fork out cash. At the end of the day the builder needed to supervise the subbies more.
@@amerserougi Absolutely. The industry is a shambles.
Tofu building?
Chinese writing says room 2 downstairs. And the replacement door is not level. It's nawn comploiant!
Hi, A couple of 'interesting' observations I made which you may not have picked up on, 1 - Why 'Firestop/Fyrechek plasterboard to all the walls? Is this for acoustics? If so - a number of 'failures' are from the penetrations in the walls - plus the fire separation isn't up to code. Also breaching of the fire seal into the ceiling spaces....A whole host of other things I 'noticed' just with the fire protection - or lack of....FYI...
Ah Dongfang seems like it all Chinese quality build
chinese builders ?
More likely Chinese suppliers labelling as per cut list.
Builder is a very loose term.
Looking forward to see the NEW GoPro Hero 12 on your chest than watching this Schmozzle.
🤣👍🏼 I’m thinking of getting the new DJI?
Builder didn't know what they have been supplied - absolutely lie. No point to keep the supervisor then... This is their regular contractual supplier who are always supplying non compliant products at low price and builder charges home owners for prime item. Money is coming, builder - supplier all happy...
This is an interesting revelation that the builder relies on the contractor to provide certification (as has always been the case) yet I also think that the builder isn't always as naïve or innocent as they make out to be...
This is your best episode, no csi voice. The update is a perfect continuation
I love the CSI voice.
$200,000 is just the start mate
Problem is that the actual registered builder will never set foot on site and relies upon often unqualified supervisors and trades to do the work. MBA used to recommend that at key points like waterproofing roofing plumbing that they attend and makes sure that these key items are done as per plans and standards as I can assure you most trades do not know what the standard is as they have always "done it this way" .
Building certifier passing the cruise boat in the Indian Ocean.
No qualified Australian tiler would lay tiles without waterproofing, if he does he is liable, same as the waterproofer, he will lose his licence. This is what I mean when I say these big builders are bringing in immigrant workers who will do what their told, half of Melbourne and Sydney would be like this after 20 years of this scam, the project builders have been let run loose for so long I really think it’s beyond fixing. In all honesty it’s human nature to keep pushing the envelope and cut more and more corners if there are no laws to answer to, no different to a drink driver, the only thing that stops them from driving is that there is a 50/50 chance they will get caught
Friend of mine is booked into builders VCAT DBVRB or whatever it is becasue of an Aussie tile company doing a 1/4 ass job.
@@rb30e as I said, if it’s not policed the envelope will be pushed. When you have to compete with Chinese prices ( because the tile company is also employing immigrant works, it’s not just builders it’s every trade now ) you have to stoop to Chinese tactics, as I said the Victorian building industry is broken beyond repair. There are not enough inspectors to police it, the criminals outnumber the law men 100/1. Being a builder up here in Cairns QLD, I refuse to bargain with anyone on quotes ( comparing me to a cheaper one ), because I don’t quote to win, I quote to do the job properly, and if no changes are made the price will never change from what we agreed on, a little tip for the homeowner “ cheap becomes expensive “
Australia is to build 1.5 million houses by trades who have gone TAFE...but the mathematics being taught is not being taught how to do Pythagoras trigonometry to do basic angels etc.
The mathematics is NAPLAN mulitupule choice. More American trash imported to Australia.
We just import everything I mean everything from overseas they disregard.
Thats if they even have a license to loose. Here is Victoria, waterproofers only need a license if the quote on a job exceeds $5k. Even then, they probably have a way to work around that.
@@keithcragg6474 A good job ain't cheap. A cheap job ain't good. Stick to your guns mate.
Love your videos mate. Do you ever get into situations of intimidation or threats of violence? Perhaps attempts of bribery?
Death threats, we received one today 👎🏼
No bribery
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10989785/amp/The-TikTok-building-inspector-exposing-cowboy-tradies-leaving-devastated-Aussies-huge-repair-bills.html
@@Siteinspections that’s absolutely terrible but not as all suprising sadly
I hope you report it to the police and have it followed up
Stay safe
And I thought my recent builder was dodgy. This is next level. Attention to detail is a thing of the past.
My first home was built by craftsmen. It was a work of art. Modern Homes are rubbish.
You know what. I get myself a bottle of red wine on Fridays and just sip while I watch your wonderfull, detailed, honest, technically thorough arse tearing exposays of the current state of the give no F's building industry. Your lone voice may be a flickering flame in the breeze today But you are making a difference and over time your revelations will start a fire that will burn brighter than the combustible cladding fiasco. Thanks for your work, I love it, is time for another glass, Cheers to you.
still waiting to see a vid where the builder passed ur inspection
楼下2号房
Language: Chinese
Meaning: Room 2 downstairs
It's amazing to think if they had just done it correct in the first place the amount of headache and money they could of avoided.
They don't know how to do it properly .
Do you have a video telling people what to do to protect themselves against this kind of poor building quality? What inspections you should pay for, what you're entitled to, it would be really nice to have information for Victoria or if federal, Australia for what to do.
Get an inspector like in the video.
Inspector at frame stage, lockup, slab as well if you don't know what your looking for, and hand over also if you don't know what your looking for
Your like a human inspector gadget go go gadgets
Another thing you've overlooked: the plaster used in wet areas is standard fire resistant plaster where it should be fire + water resistant linings, especially if not fully tanked
The worst thing about this is it actually requires someone to come in and point out all of the dodgy work that has been done before the builder does something about it. If the builders were professionals the problems pointed out in these videos wouldn't have occurred. The builder must know how bad/cheap the quality of the build is.
I have watched a few of these videos and it is obvious building company's are subcontracting people who have no understanding of Australian building standards because they didn't do their apprenticeship here but they work cheap and the builder can maximize their profits. Screw the people buying the house right? Suckers.
Yes ,and that board should be mechanically fastened every 200mm 0r 150mm depending on tile weight per sqm. I have seen tiled walls bulging 50mm because the sheets were fixed like standard walls with glue and fasteners around perimeter of sheet only. The glue lets go under weight of tiles.
@@Vanceydress they know how dodgy it is
@@Vanceydress they come straight of the plane and to the job and flood the place with 20 or so workers then move on to the next place .
Who is this builder hiring workers from China?
Ah well RPL trades again , when one goes into construction and buys a licence and some hire the licence , should be fined and ask to get trained properly , but the loop hole of RPL needs to be stopped and then have tafe not private educational providers provide assessment and then any lacking skills taught , so wrong take pictures of others work and false statements then licences , no wonder this is work standards
China is exporting Tofu Dreg to Australia.
Nice to see long lasting products in the build.
Nothing would have been done about these defects unless you had identified this. Can you imagine the distress and cost for the owners buying into the property? It would have been a 5 year dance of lawyers and insurance companies all denying there was anything wrong. Seriously the builder should not have a licence. People who cause these sorts of problems should also have to pay a penalty remediation levy to account for the environmental and resource damage caused.
In some European countries there is jail on the table for those liable to allow work like this
I wanna do what you do, just so I can constantly tell the plasters and builders it’s not good enough. Because it’s really it all bad from a to b most of the industry is full of cowboys or old hands.
Looks like they will re use the
Tiles 💯
Love seeing updates on your inspections!
The massive number of defects in the windows, doors, walls, roof, roof gutters and drain pipes, the exterior cladding, the bathrooms, the water proofing, the floor and wall levels, the drainage on verandas, the exterior hoods around windows, and every other aspect of this build are staggering. The inspector(s) who signed off on this should be fined and prosecuted, along with the builders and traddies. Wonder what other builds these clowns have been involved in, and what nightmares the poor home owners are unaware of.
The work gets self-certified, that's the problem.
Id hate to ask but who were the builders, local or imported with the windows