Barrier, steel and set out, checked in the last hours before concrete.
What we hold for Schofields at this end of the build is the vapour barrier, recorded as missing or not visible on two separate occasions at frame stage, which is well after the point anything could be done about it. That is the argument for the pre-pour stage in a sentence: the barrier either exists as one continuous layer on the day, or its absence becomes a permanent unknown.
Annotated findings from Slab pre-pour inspections on Schofields builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid
7Pre-handover (PCI)Two to three weeks before your handover dateInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It is the only thing between ground moisture and your slab, and it works as one unbroken layer. A missing section is not a partial barrier, it is an opening.
Not once concrete is down. On these Schofields jobs the absence was only recorded at frame stage, by which point the observation is a note in a file rather than something anyone can act on.
Constantly. We reschedule to match and there is no charge for it.
Roughly an hour to ninety minutes on a standard lot, with the report generally out that evening.
We record their positions where visible, because moving one before the pour costs almost nothing and after it costs a great deal.
The engineering for your lot together with the soil report it was based on.
