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Hi Whale,
Would love to pursue all this through the courts, but our solicitor can’t guarantee we would be awarded costs (most likely we would, but no guarantee) – so it is something we need to think about. As we would love to recoup legal costs, moving costs, storage etc.
We have asked our solicitor if we can just refuse to settle and are awaiting their response.
If they say we can, we will just find another rental & wait it out. The vendor will be made aware that if they don’t sort it out before we recommit to another lease, then they could likely be waiting up to 12 months for settlement, as we will not break our lease and cop a penalty.
They will not let anyone in to quote on the job, but based on the information I have given to a Dry Ice Blasting company, they think it will cost somewhere between $4000 & $5000 to do (would be cheaper if the builder hired the equipment and did it themselves). They also don’t think it would take more than 2 days to complete.
The builder has offered us $5000 to do it ourselves, so why not just pay someone else to do it for them now and save all the hassle – we just don’t get it.
We think it boils down to spite, pure and simple.
They have viewed us as being problematic from the start – because we requested they do less work by leaving the ceiling untouched and by also asking if we could provide our own tiles for the bathroom feature wall & kitchen splashback – at our cost.