Mirvac House Built to Rot

furyou on 08/11/2020 - 15:41
Last edited 16/11/2020 - 16:47

I have a Mirvac built house, one in an estate where a whole row of townies are built in the same way. They are Torrens so no body corp.

I have an upstairs window with a full length next to half length window. Like a sideways L shape.

The bottom ledge, the wood has rotted. It was fixed once when the house was 5 years old. And then fixed once again 4 years after that under insurance.

The second time I saw when the cavity was open. It has this flashing and when the water goes in it would collect and run off all to the side. It runs down to the full length section. It is exactly on this side that the wood always rotted.

So I think it is a building design error.

Mirvac only warranties their house for 5 years from building.

I'm wondering if anyone has some knowledge in this area and knows what I can do?

https://imgur.com/a/2CHuCkE

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  • Mechz on 08/11/2020 - 16:11
    +3

    Sounds pretty typical of today's building. If they fix it again under insurance maybe pay a bit extra so it never happens again.

    • furyou on 15/11/2020 - 10:55

      insurance won't fix defects, they'll only fix the symptoms… weird

  • resubaehtgnolhcs on 08/11/2020 - 18:50

    Are they not using treated pine?

  • Logical on 08/11/2020 - 19:07
    +1

    Check with the NSW equivalent of Qld's QBCC. Here we have a minimum of 6 years for cat 1 defects such as yours. Time restarts after it is fixed. Sounds like a poor design and inadequate flashing and or weep holes. Can you post a photo or two?

    • furyou on 16/11/2020 - 16:47

      So I'm not really sure how to describe it. It's a channel, all the water runs off this side (removed/rotted)
      https://imgur.com/a/2CHuCkE

  • TheBilly on 09/11/2020 - 10:57
    +1

    I'm wondering if anyone has some knowledge in this area and knows what I can do?

    Pull it apart and get a builder to fix it, I highly doubt you have any recourse that many years later from Mirvac.

    People can barely get a builder to fix an issue with a brand new house only months old.

  • furyou on 16/11/2020 - 16:47

    So I'm not really sure how to describe it. It's a channel, all the water runs off this side (removed/rotted)
    https://imgur.com/a/2CHuCkE

  • furyou on 22/11/2020 - 21:54

    It's a stegbar window. I've asked some window people and they're just done crap. Seals aren't done properly, used crappy materials, no drainage holes (how is that possible?) and badly installed.
    Stegbar, who came and repainted a few times to wait out the warranty so they wouldn't have to take out the window and put in properly.
    They're so bad that even though they've been out twice, when you call them they say they've never ever worked on any house on the street before. Ever.
    There are 150 houses in this complex all done by them.

    • Geekomatic on 23/11/2020 - 18:52

      Is there an ombudsman for this sort of thing? ACCC? It's obviously a defective design.

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