In this article, I would like to
write my experience with pre-purchase building inspection and gutter
replacement.
I recently bought a single story house
in Black town Council area( Sydney West suburb) , New South Wales (Australia) and after couple of months of house purchase, realised that it got
crap/ corroded gutters. Unfortunately my building inspector (Catcam Group,
Abbott Road SEVEN HILLS) did not report the issue in report. After some
research I realised that it’s hard to make them responsible for this fault. As
I paid for the service, I expect them to report all possible issues but it
didn’t happen.
PS: I am not giving feedback about Catcum group
here but I am just expressing my concern.
So finally I have decided to replace gutters and
called few gutter companies to provide a quote. I have received quotes from
following companies with respective quote amounts. These quotes excludes down
pipes as my down pipes were not in bad condition to replace. House is 80 Square
meters single story.
1. Advanced Watering services $ 1800
2. ABC Seamless - $ 2000
3. Becker's Roofing - $1900
Here is my review or feedback about
the Advanced Watering services for replacing
gutters. This feedback DOESN'T mean that other companies I
mentioned above are not good, simply I didn't use them.
Out of all 3 persons I met, I felt
dealing with Tim smart is easy and felt reliable. Giving job to Advanced Water
Services was not purely due to low cost but also I felt they are reliable.
He also agreed that he will do the job personally but later for some reason he
couldn't to that. Initially I was worried how other person will do
the guttering job but he did a good job.
After few weeks, I noticed some water
leakage from gutters and then called Shayne ( I think he is owner of the
company), he organised someone to visit and fix the problem. This is
great as I hardly seen people respond to you after work finished and you paid
them
Thanks guys (Advanced Watering
services)
Pros: professional, easy to deal with,
warranty support
Cons: sometimes delay in responding to queries and
sometimes hard to contact
This is purely my experience based on
my interaction with Advanced Watering services. After gutter replacement, I dealt with Bathroom renovation and my experience and checklist for bathroom renovation updated here.
And recently I have documented a check list to go through before confirming the property or during cooling off period.
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