DumbStick 13 Posted September 25, 2013 Author Share Posted September 25, 2013 indeed! We're onto sockets, switches and light fittings from now or early next week, it seems. It's all starting to come together! Link to post Share on other sites
Curt 1 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 What's the final stage before they hand over, you know how that works? Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 From what I gather, a few days of "House Cleaning" and an inspection by the town office (?), we pay them the remaining amount and we can move in! Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 For us this Saturday our house should be all complete. I will take a look tomorrow. Then next week the inspectors will check that the house has been built according to regulations and then it will be cleaned we then check ourselves next saturday together with our builder and house maker and if something has not been done as we asked then they put it right. We need to then do the final contract signing pay a large sum of dosh and then we get the keys the week after around the 10th October. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Exciting! Link to post Share on other sites
ProbablyaCrazyPerson 2 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Where do the inspectors come from, and what do they inspect? Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 From the housing association of inspectors. They inspect the entire house to make sure that the structure is correct the outside walls electric system roofing etc. Pretty much all essential areas that could affect the house if not done correctly. Link to post Share on other sites
merryJim 1 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Wonder how often they find fault. Or even if they are very 'fussy'. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Hopefully there won't be any delays! Is this before or after the "House Cleaning", you know snowdude? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I seriously doubt they inspect "the entire house". Basically they give it the once over to see if its anything like the plans. In a finished house, pretty much all of the functional stuff is covered up. You can't how a wall has been braced, insulated, how the vapor barrier has been installed, etc. etc. from looking at some siding or some wallpaper. Same for the foundations, electrics, plumbing, etc. They're all hidden. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 27, 2013 Author Share Posted September 27, 2013 Absolutely what I was thinking. There's not much to see is there? I can imagine it just being a procedure they have to do, nonsense talked, looking busy and serious, and then signing papers. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I'm sure you're not implying that the inspectors would be faffing and fannying about there, DumbStick. I simply can't imagine it. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I have an image of the local oyaji mob coming round in their shiny windbreakers, with their official armbands on, big Yakuza sunglasses, baseball cap and "inspecting" ur house Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I think that they just ask compare what is said with the plans for the not able to see areas do a visual all around and check with the plans then put on their very nice Hanko mark and all is good. Actually the houses are also inspected at individual stages. Once the frame was made it was inspected, once the outside external walls were covered with water proofing sheets they were inspected and then the plumbing and electrics were inspected, so we were told by our builder, although I was not there when they carried out these checks. So I think the final one is like an inspection of the inspections all very official stuff but maybe no real meaning. That is how I understand it to be from what we were told. Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 But who's gonna inspect the inspection of the inspectors?? Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 me Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 28, 2013 Author Share Posted September 28, 2013 I reckon I might end up being the strictist inspector. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 Does it seem to have taken a long time, or gone quickly? Good luck with the final stages. Must be exciting seeing it all come together. Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 30, 2013 Author Share Posted September 30, 2013 How was the house snowdude? We're still waiting for the electic/water related stuff to go in this week. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Looks good they were do the final bits last week. I will go and have a look again tomorrow inside should all be finished now. I am bringing an outside sink that I bought that I want them to connect up plus this Saturday when we do the final check I will tell them were I want them to install an electric cable outside so I can connect mains to my shed once I build it. Other than that should now be all finished. I have booked the moving company they will be bringing boxes around this Wednesday then we can start packing some of our bits as we sort through everything something that I cant ask the moving company to do. Link to post Share on other sites
egglesby 1 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 When's the first house party? Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 Does it seem to have taken a long time, or gone quickly? Good luck with the final stages. Must be exciting seeing it all come together. When I look back at the first planning stage last year to actually deciding to build a house to then making the house plan and then finally building it and now it is finished, it does feel like it was a long time ago when we first started and seems like ages since they first started to build the house, but in actually fact only about 4.5-5 months to do the actual building. It is very exciting to actually see what we designed together with the designer actually take shape and become a house and just as we wanted, it is no longer just lines on a piece of paper. In about three weeks from now we should be living in out new house. Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 How long a period will the "move" take, snowdude? Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted October 1, 2013 Author Share Posted October 1, 2013 Does it seem to have taken a long time, or gone quickly? I was looking back over records. It was about 4 and a half months ago when they properly started work on ours, and we're in the final stages now. So about 5 months total. In some respects seems a long time, and in others rather fast. Link to post Share on other sites
snowdude 44 Posted October 1, 2013 Share Posted October 1, 2013 How long a period will the "move" take, snowdude? Two days Start 18th finish 19th afternoon/evening. I am also borrowing a large truck to carry all my farming equipment/machines and green house frames and pipes. As I am doing that myself it will take two days for the house otherwise looking at 3ー4 days. Link to post Share on other sites
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