Defect, or simply inside the allowance
The fight is over what is permitted, not over what is there.
In short: Citing the tolerance turns a disagreement into a measurement.
Two questions
What got built, and whether that falls within an allowance. Only the second gets argued.
Where allowances come from
Your contract, the National Construction Code, the relevant Australian Standard and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017.
Why citation matters
Call something poor workmanship and you have opened an argument. Set against a tolerance, it turns into a number.
A worked example
A bottom plate overhanging the slab by 25 millimetres is not an opinion. It is a dimension set against an allowance.
The split
We divide every report into structural and cosmetic, since that is what tells you where to push.
Written by the Owner Inspections team from inspections carried out in Leppington. Licensed building practitioners, NSW Fair Trading licence 366177C.
