New Home Inspections Melbourne

Whilst building a new house, there are typically six stages or milestones that your Builder will work towards and invoice for.

These stages include:

1. Deposit / Site Pre-Works
2. Slab
3. Frame
4. Lock up
5. Fix
6. PCI or Final or Handover Inspection

As part of your building Contract and a requirement under the Building Act, certain stages are required to be inspected by a Licensed Registered Building Surveyor which are called ‘mandatory’ inspections. These mandatory inspections are designed to ensure the structural integrity of the building and the safety of inhabitants. The typical stages for mandatory inspections in domestic construction are Pre-Slab, Frame and Handover.

It is common knowledge within the industry that Surveyors expect that Builders actually take some responsibility to ensure that all parts of the building meet the minimum requirement. Large and small items are often, if not always, overlooked by the large majority of Building Surveyors and that is why people engage independent Building Consultants to protect their investment and ensure the home is built to a compliant state.

Independent inspections provide a complete check of the entire build at every possible stage. The level of security is provided by the number of stage inspections selected, but if push comes to shove some inspections are better than none at all.

At the completion of each staged inspection, a fully documented report with photographs is supplied via email to our client which intern is provided to the Site Supervisor. The Builder will typically provide a written response to the report listing the items that they agree to rectify and the items that fall within their Builders Specification or Alternative Solution and therefore will not rectify.

Should there be a differing of opinion further action can be taken and advice will be supplied to our client.

At every opportunity, we will supply the inspection Report within 24 hours of the inspection time to ensure delays to the build cycle are kept to an absolute minimum.

During the next staged inspection, the previous identified defects wherever visible, will be checked for rectification and compliance to the applicable standard or code.

All reports are site specific, handwritten and documented against the applicable Australian Standard, Manufacturers specifications or installation requirements, BCA/NCC or the Standards & Tolerances Guide.