Today was a day full of reports and we were quite nervous to get them back. We received our BAL Assessment, Acoustic Assessment, and BASIX Certificate.
BAL Assessment Our neighbours had received a BAL rating of 29 so we had gotten provisions in our tender to accommodate this. With today's reports, this was the best news by far! With both sides of our land either already finished their build or about to start, our BAL rating came in lower than expected. We had a provision of $18,000 to cover the additional requirements for BAL29. Our report came back at a BAL19!! Due to this, our variation bill was only $9,500! The only disappointing part is our front door had to be changed to be compliant with the BAL construction requirements. Acoustic Assessment We also live on a main road (which leads to Burragorang Lookout - so not too busy) so acoustic requirements were necessary. We are lucky that only the front windows are affected. With only two windows at the front, they were the only ones needing additional glazing. A lot of the acoustic requirements were already covered with our BAL requirements so they were already covered. We had a provision of $5,000 for this, and came back at just under $2,000. BASIX Certificate We don't have any additional costs with that which was a great relief. I had read some horror stories so was really nervous to get this back. This was conducted before we organised our solar system so I can only imagine our rating would be even better now.
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