Connections, bearing and the engineering drawing in Edmondson Park NSW
Most defect arguments are about tolerance, and tolerance arguments are slow. A connection that does not match the engineering is different, because it is a comparison rather than a judgement: the drawing shows one arrangement of members, brackets and bolts, and the frame has another. That finding was recorded twice on Austral frames, on two different jobs, six kilometres from here. Alongside it sat not enough bearing at an external lintel, a bottom plate discontinuous under a loadbearing and bracing wall, and a steel column simply not installed. Each of those is a fact rather than an opinion, and each is invisible after lining.
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A connection not matching the engineering was recorded twice, on two Austral jobs.
Bearing length is a specified number, so not enough bearing is measurable.
A bottom plate broken under a bracing wall interrupts the load path into the slab.
A steel column recorded as not installed is the plainest possible finding.
None of it can be verified once the plasterer has been.
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Written by our local inspection team from work carried out in Edmondson Park. Licensed building practitioners.
