Building your own home?

If so, you already know how important it is to engage an independent inspector at each stage of your new home construction:

• Base Stage
• Frame Stage
• Lock-up-Pre-Plaster Stage
• Fixing Stage
• PCI/Handover Stage

Significant defects and issues can be identified at each critical juncture of the building process.

We also recommend a maintenance inspection and report within the agreed timeframe set out in the contract with your builder.

After the completion of the build,  your builder must fix any additional defects that become apparent during the maintenance period.

These may be the kinds of issues that only present themselves once you have been living in your new home for a while.

Check your contract for the timing of your maintenance period – once the maintenance period expires, all repair costs then fall to you as the owner, and are no longer the builder’s responsibility.

Been living in your new home for a little while?

Make a list of issues which need attention – doors or windows that don’t close properly, movement or creaking in floors, cracking in cornices or parts of your home that don’t appear to have been finished to the agreed standard.

A maintenance inspection will help you identify the issues to be rectified by your builder, and what is normal ‘wear and tear’.

Following is a gallery of some examples of issues found by our inspectors in the course of maintenance inspections for our new home construction clients.

Location: Theatre Room

Issue/Defect: Doors require paint sealing to all edges. Wall is bowed and scraping on the door.