I was asked for a “wee list” of what remained to be done at the house.
First and foremost, electrical completion and certification.
Then the plumbing – cold water, hot water, central heating.
Finish the kitchen installation would be good. The kitchen hob and kickboards were not installed. The pipes to the washing machine (which was not re-installed in place) are positioned wrongly.
The roof was the wrong material completely. Apart from that, there are broken tiles, skylights missing frame kits, underlay not correctly overlaid.
The garage door was not installed.
Then other things:
– the sump pump at the back did not work, I replaced it with a new one and my electrician helped install. This meant that the basement flooded.
– the drainage at the front floods (see photo below) where the builder put a new ground drain. The front, which was concreted, needs re-profiling so all the ground water drains into a working ground drain. (An easier solution might be to ignore the new ground drain and the new downpipe, as it is only a few more meters to the old one (which works), but that is the only other downpipe (?to check), so it would need to be tee’d down and in from the gutter so it flows into the working downpipe.
– in the new shower room, the extractor fan is vented to a small void in the attic, and the sewer stack pipe, which should go up above the house and used to before the extension, terminates in the same small space. It needs to be extended through a hole in the roof to somewhere sufficiently high, so that smells do not re-enter the house.
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