Amazing how much of a difference lighter furnishings can make in opening your space up!

Hi there, I see you posted in july. I was wondering if you found any solutions for your kitchen yet?

Hi all, Have signed up with a relatively well known building company who we went with in large part due to their 'Guaranteed Completion Date' guarantee. It's also written into our contract that we will get this on completion of 'floor down'. If said company fails to deliver on this, they express that they will pay for any additional costs e.g. rent, temporary accommodation etc. Our floor went down 2 weeks ago, and we were notified (and invoiced) in writing. We have waited more than a couple of weeks post 'floor down' for this Guaranteed completion date (and have emailed to pester for this) with no mention that this won't be provided, but that it's just a little delayed whilst finalising contractors. We have today however been told that a Guaranteed completion date cannot be offered, instead w can have an 'expected move in date'. They have cited Covid19 as being the reason they cannot offer a 'Guaranteed date'. We are not in an area that has Covid cases, or the recent outbreaks. Does anyone know the legal stance on this, given it's in the contract (and all over their website/brochures that this is one of their guarantees that make them stand out above the rest)? Does Covid change the contractual obligations? TIA

We have a builder replacing parts of our 1970's roof. A 'change of pitch' flashing between a 45degree and 10 degree roof has been fixed 25mm from the bottom. NZ Roofing code of practice clearly has an example of this flashing requiring a perlin at the top of the flashing so that fixing through the corrugate does not penetrate the flashing and also Eliminates stresses placed on that flashing by hard fixing two separate roofing areas. Our builder is claiming that because he has replaced the roofing elements with the same materials and fixed them in the same place then following this roofing practice is not required. We had the roof checked by another roofer, who said he would have failed his exam had he installed this element that way. We want feedback and confirmation that our belief is that regardless of the work being done by a building professional they must apply current building standards when doing their job. Sometime this necessitates some extra work. Surely we should be following best practice to improve weather tightness. This builder is lining up to have a date at the disputes tribunal.