New Home Inspection

New Home Inspection is a building inspection through the entire building process of construction of a building. It mainly comprised of the 5 stages Base Stage, Frame Stage, Lockup/Pre-Plaster Stage, Fixing Stage, and Final Inspection (PCI).

Guttering Faults are 4th major building defects found during the building inspection. 1 in every 4 buildings inspected has been found to have guttering defects. The main guttering defects found are blocked gutter, broken gutters, and missing gutters. These guttering faults lead to further problems like seepage, water penetration from the outside, and fire hazards. Building Inspection Council has observed the following guttering defects in building inspection:

Purchasing your dream home is full of excitement and anxiety. You are excited as a new home means a new beginning and a new beginning means happiness. On the other hand, making a number of decisions for the biggest financial decision of your life make you anxious. Making informed decisions can help you with joy and anxiety. Building and pest inspection is one of the tools that can provide you with information about the condition of the building.

We do property investment for profit in terms of price growth and rental income. There are many pitfalls when making property investment and building and pest defects is one of them. Research says that 100% of properties have building defects and 40% have major ones. The cost of fix these defects can cause you serious losses.

House is the biggest investment for most families and it is an exciting and anxious time for the buyers. As a home buyer, you need a building inspection report to know the true condition of the property you are considering buying. A building inspection report provides you with detailed information about the condition of the building.

The purpose of the building inspection is to advise potential home buyers on the condition of the property. The inspector identifies any minor (scratched paint, minor cracks, rust ) and major defects (safety risk, structural defects) in the property. The structural defects are difficult to identify for untrained buyers and can cost huge sums or make your home uninhabitable. 

The property market in Melbourne is hot and fast. Properties are moving fast pushing the demand for competent building inspectors. We suggest having the “subject to building inspection” condition in your sales contract with correct wording to protect you from unforeseen building defects. Building Inspection reveals the actual condition of the property to you.

As the name suggests, it is a building inspection report that you get just before you purchase a property and is sometimes also referred to as the ‘standard property report’. A pre-purchase building inspection report is documented record of the condition of the property prepared by a qualified building inspector.