Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The inspection before you accept keys, which in Mickleham still turns up structure as well as finishes.
Read more →Independent inspectors working across Mickleham and the Hume growth corridor, with the report in your inbox inside 24 hours.
Seven checks across a Mickleham build, each timed for the moment before the work disappears behind the next trade.
1 Bored piers After boring and steel placement, before any concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, while pods, steel and formwork are open 
3 Frame Once the frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before sarking and cladding 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, cladding and external doors, before the plasterer 
5 Fixing Once mouldings, doors and joinery are in and before painting 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied and before the tiler starts 7 Pre-handover (PCI) About a week before your practical completion date The inspection before you accept keys, which in Mickleham still turns up structure as well as finishes.
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Tracing water back to where it is actually getting in, and setting out what the standard requires.
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What a Hume corridor home is really like behind the presentation, reported under AS 4349.1.
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Building and timber pest together, including whether the termite barrier has been bridged.
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A dated photographic record of your home before the block beside you is built out.
Prepared to the VCAT expert evidence practice note when a dispute reaches the tribunal.
Pre-purchase and building and pest photos were taken at Craigieburn, 8 km away in the same City of Hume. Defect investigation photos were taken at Mernda, about 20 km north. Every other photo on this site is from a Mickleham job. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps, from the quote to the phone call after the report lands.
Tell us the stage, the address and the date. The price comes back online, fixed.
One figure for that inspection. Nothing is added later.
We confirm site access with you or the supervisor and lock the Hume inspector in.
Measured and photographed against the engineering and the standard.
Numbered, photographed and with you inside 24 hours.
Ring the inspector who attended if a finding needs explaining to your builder.
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We inspect every estate in Mickleham 3064 and the surrounding suburbs of Craigieburn, Kalkallo, Donnybrook, Greenvale, Roxburgh Park and Beveridge. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Mickleham most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Where the windows are in a Hume corridor program.
The most serious recurring finding on Hume corridor frames.
Pods, laps, cover and capping, in the last hours they are visible.
What our inspectors actually find on Mickleham sites, and what it means whether you are building or buying here.
Building new in Mickleham Volume builders, tight programs, and the two stages where the serious findings appear.Read more → Buying in Mickleham Young stock, so the questions are about weatherproofing and workmanship rather than age.Read more → Growth and development One of Hume's fastest expanding areas, with estates still releasing land.Read more → 
Permits, council and disputes City of Hume, a registered building surveyor and the Victorian dispute path.Read more → 
Ground, slabs and movement The site classification on your soil report is the number the slab is designed to.Read more → Termite and pest risk The barrier only works while nothing bridges it, and bridging is what we find.Read more → What we actually find in Mickleham Fifteen Mickleham inspections, and where the serious findings cluster.Read more → Site conditions and the roof Wind classification drives the bracing schedule, and the roof is where weather gets in.Read more → Mickleham market and population figures come from realestate.com.au and the ABS, checked every quarter.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It depends on the service, the stage and the size of the home. The instant quote returns a fixed figure for your address rather than a range.
Usually two to four business days, and stage inspections are slotted against your builder's program.
Inside 24 hours, and stage reports often the same evening.
Yes, Building and Plumbing Commission registration CDB-U 53425, with professional indemnity and public liability cover.
AS 4349.1 for pre-purchase, AS 4349.3 for timber pests, AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for framing, AS 3740 for wet areas, plus the NCC and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015.
Yes. Craigieburn, Kalkallo, Donnybrook, Greenvale, Roxburgh Park and Beveridge are all on the same run.
Frame and pre-handover as a minimum. Add slab pre-pour if the budget allows, because concrete cannot be revisited.
A defect report is for you and your builder. The Building and Plumbing Commission dispute service and VCAT require an expert witness report written to the VCAT practice note.
Yes, under AS 4349.1, and with timber pests under AS 4349.3 where you book both.
Yes. Seeing a finding in place is worth more than reading about it later.
Every item quotes the clause or the tolerance, so the discussion is about a number rather than a view.
Yes. A reinspection marks each original item off and gives you a second dated record.
The inspector who attended, and their mobile number is on it.