Our final invoice was emailed through within an hour of our walk through.
Must admit that we were both rather nervous about that final bill!
However there were no unexpected costs that hadn't been revealed to us. Provincial Homes actually credited us part of the Storm Water Provisional Sum and a couple other things as well.
This will greatly help towards the cost of our driveway :-)
No our nasty surprise was about to come from the Certifier.
We have our loan with The National Bank. Apparently some banks will pay the final sum to the builder before gaining an Occupancy Certificate.
Well NAB will not. So keys are out of the question until the Occupancy Certificate has been processed.
The Certifier carried out his inspection on Thursday the 21st of August and proclaimed that an Occupancy Certificate would not be possible before the driveway and landscaping has been completed.
This is not uncommon or unexpected and in situations like this you can apply for an Interim Occupation Certificate.
To get the Interim Certificate a stack of certificates need to be sent to the Certifier and some works need to be completed by Owner that would have been much easier to do after handover.
- A privacy screen
- The number of the house displayed on the brickwork (LOL)
- Balustrade to be completed to the front porch by owner (This is the pain in the butt we don't even have power on yet!! ... For some reason Provincial Homes wasn't interested in doing this as part of our contract)
P.S. Provincial Homes does not cover the cost of the Interim Certificate either so we are looking at an additional cost of $366.
