Room by room, two to three weeks before you sign.
The Oran Park handover behind this page produced the shape a Camden Council handover list usually takes. Painting defects recorded separately for common areas, the master bedroom, bathrooms, ensuites, toilets, the powder room and the ground floor. Balustrades unpainted and masking tape still on them. Mirrors and glazing marked. Cleaning outstanding. Caulking outstanding at wall, eave, door and window joints. Pipe penetrations through the external wall unsealed. Grading still required. And the termite management notice not installed. The photographs on this page were taken in Oran Park, about four kilometres north west and under the same council. Gledswood Hills has booked us for frame work rather than this stage, and captioning another suburb's photographs honestly seemed better than implying a local library we do not have.
Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections on Gledswood Hills builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laidInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
Because it is the only record of what protects the house, and AS 3660 requires it. Missing at handover, you cannot tell a future inspector or buyer what system is in place.
They are cheap to fix before you sign and expensive in goodwill afterwards. They also tell you whether the trades finished or simply left.
It is a path for water and vermin through the external wall. Sealing it is a tube of sealant now, and a wall investigation later.
Yes, as a separate reinspection marking each item complete, part complete or outstanding.
Dozens on a new build. What matters is how many of them are structural or envelope items rather than presentation.
Two to three weeks before your date, so there is time for the builder to act and for us to verify the work.
