Steps in a slab and the steel that has to follow them
Where a slab changes level, the reinforcement has to carry past the step.
Your full list, written before practical completion and the final payment.
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Gables handovers are where facade and balcony items surface together. Weep holes missing or too far apart, joints rendered over or left out where the brickwork steps, balcony tiles on dabs, a membrane that never reached the overflow, cappings with water lying on them. Inside, an upstairs bedroom window without a restrictor and a laundry without a water stop.
Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections.
1Bored piersOnce the piers are bored, before any concrete arrives
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, once steel and pods are set
3FrameFrame and trusses standing, roof cover on, before sarking and linings
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)Roof, cladding, windows and rough-in done, before plaster
5FixingJoinery, doors and trims in, before the painter starts
6WaterproofingMembrane cured, before the tiler arrivesWhere a slab changes level, the reinforcement has to carry past the step.
Steel beams and columns in Gables frames are only as good as how they are joined.
Services crowded together inside a wall are the most common lock-up item we record in Gables.
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Two to three hours, longer on a large double storey.
A device limiting how far an upstairs window opens, so a child cannot fall through. The opening limit is 125mm where the rule applies.
Too few weep holes leaves water in the cavity. Spacing over 1200mm was recorded on a Gables home this year.
We view it by drone or from a ladder where safe, and enter the roof space where accessible.
Yes. A recheck marks each item fixed, partly fixed or still open.
Ideally not. Your report is the leverage while the final payment is outstanding.