Pre-Handover Inspection
We’re here to give you peace of mind that your new home is properly built!
Pre-Handover Stage
Once your new home has reached practical completion, the builder will contact you to arrange a Pre-Handover Inspection. This has many different names, and depending on your builder, may be called PCI (Practical Completion Inspection), or NHP (New Home Presentation), and several other names, but they all mean the exact same thing.
Regardless of the name, it is essentially an opportunity to inspect your new home, and make the builder aware of any issues or defects you would like rectified before you settle and receive the keys to your new home. At this stage your home may not necessarily be 100% complete, and may not even have a Certificate of Occupancy, however this inspection occurs because builder deems the house to be practically complete
During this inspection with your builder, it is your responsibility to identify all of the defects and quality issues throughout your new home, which is difficult for home-owners without extensive building knowledge of the standards, and what to look for… To make it harder still, building supervisors have these handover inspections almost weekly, and know how to re-direct your attention away from issues, and keep you away from areas they know defects of quality issues exist.
A home is the biggest investment most people will ever make in their lifetime, and this is why independent quality inspections are so important. We are your insurance policy to ensure everything is built to the NCC’s Building Code of Australia, the numerous relevant Australian Standards, manufacturer’s guidelines, and to a proper workmanlike manner, so you get the quality you paid for, and expect for your new home.
We inspect every part of your new home, which will normally include the following;
- All external brickwork walls and cladding
- Fascia, gutters, eaves and roof areas
- Window and door frames/glazing
- Under the house if built on stumps
- All internal walls, cornices and ceilings
- Doors, architraves & skirtings
- All floor coverings
- Test all taps and waste pipes
- Kitchen and bathroom cupboards
- Appliances if installed
- Painting and timber staining
- Check wet areas for possible leaks
- Wall & floor tiling
- Garage and carport areas
- Ground levels around house
- Concrete driveways and paving
- Inside the roof space
We will also check anything else we can see, in any area we can get into… We also carry tools to ensure we can inspect everything, such as a ladder, levels, torch, extending mirror, tape measure & ruler, laser measurer etc.
