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a 6 year structural warranty on paving bricks? I think your warranty on a paving job lasts about 6 seconds after you pay the guy
The normal warranty period is 6 months for minor defects and 6 years for structural.
Paver movement would be covered in the 6 month warranty. Therefore, you can refer the new owner to the contractor involved for rectification.
The normal warranty period is 6 months for minor defects and 6 years for structural.
That's not what Sailesh said.a 6 year structural warranty on paving bricks?
As I read it, the original poster had a house built and sold it "new". He engaged a builder for the structure, someone else for the paving and, I'm sure, others for cabinets, tiling etc. In my mind this makes him the prime contractor and is ultimately responsible to the buyer.
hmmmm ok so this is what i found out over the weekend.
there's retaining wall along the boundary of one side of the house.....apparently the retaining was just short of the finish floor level (like 5cms) so the paving guy apparently told my hubby that instead of putting up another row of retaining (concrete sleepers), what people tend to do is use hardiplank...so the hardiplank is sitting between where the pavers finish and the fence IYKWIM.
not sure if this now falls back on us because we didn't go the extra sleeper??
Sailesh said:
That's not what Sailesh said.
As I read it, the original poster had a house built and sold it "new". He engaged a builder for the structure, someone else for the paving and, I'm sure, others for cabinets, tiling etc. In my mind this makes him the prime contractor and is ultimately responsible to the buyer. Hopefully he can call on the sub-contractors to correct all defects. I know that in the real world this isn't always possible but that is not the buyer's problem. It is the vendor's.
In Qld there is a "fit for purpose" measure, and a path that buckled within weeks would fail that test so the FINAL seller is the bunny.
If I had been the subject of the responses here I would be moded for my response.
Bottom line is we're not legally responsible, its really the new owners who have to put a claim in against the Paving Contractors but i feel kinda bad because he was the only Paver that actually rocked up to our appointments and started and finished a job when he said he would...we had a really good business relationship happening and wanted to keep that going....arghhhh, thats my super soft side coming out again
your paving guy is right - if the pavers are laid over a soil of clay then no bedding he puts down, except lay a thick cement slab underneath, will stop them from moving.
natural science at work - wet clay expands, dry clay contracts. this can be up to cm's in some cases. only have to look at the dried out dams on the news to see extreme cases or such.