Waffle pod beams on a Beveridge slab
The beams between the pods carry the house. Pods that move narrow them.
Fixing is when a Beveridge house starts to look finished, and when what was built can be compared with the plans room by room.
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Beveridge fixing visits have turned up a butler's pantry window at the wrong height, a stormwater pipe missing from where the drawings put it, rainheads without overflows, render over control joints and Category 3 cracking in the brickwork.
Annotated findings from Fixing inspections.
1Bored piersOnce the holes are bored and cages set, before any concrete
2Slab pre-pourWith steel tied and pods placed, the day before concrete
3FrameFrame standing and trusses on, before wrap and sarking
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)Roof, windows and external doors in, before insulation and plaster
6WaterproofingMembrane on and cured, tiles not yet laid
7Pre-handover (PCI)Roughly a week before the builder hands overThe beams between the pods carry the house. Pods that move narrow them.
Waste points cast in the wrong spot surface when the walls go up.
Where roof load lands decides whether walls and ceilings crack.
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Pipes are still exposed at the house before landscaping. A missing or broken connection means roof water dumped at the slab.
An opening in the rainhead face so heavy rain spills outside the building rather than backing up into the box gutter or roof.
The joint is there to absorb movement. Rendered over, it cracks along the line it was meant to protect.
Yes, by hand: hanging, gaps, plumb and fixing.
Your plans and selections, the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015 and the NCC.
It is late for framing, but brickwork cracking and floor levels are still visible and worth recording now.