An independent report on your Camden Council build, written the day we walk it.
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Building Dispute Practitioners Society Seven checks through a Gledswood Hills build, with the frame stage the one we know best here.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, steel and formwork complete 
3 Frame Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster 
5 Fixing After mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid 
7 Pre-handover (PCI) Two to three weeks before your handover date The list written while you still have leverage, room by room.
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Both reports from one attendance, on a suburb built since 2011.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 on a suburb of near new homes.
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Fix the obvious items first, then list with fewer surprises at contract time.
An NCAT expert report written to Procedural Direction 3 for a contested claim.
Six steps, from the first message to the call after the report.
The lot or street address and the stage you are at. A fixed price comes back, travel included.
Usually inside the week. On a stage inspection we work to the builder's program rather than ours.
A short message that an independent inspector is attending is all that is needed, and it avoids a wasted trip.
An hour on a pier check, two to three on a frame or a handover, longer on a double storey.
Inside twenty four hours, photographed, located and referenced to the clause it fails.
A call that separates the structural items from the presentation ones, so you know where to push.
Very detailed. Great job.
We appreciate Ibrahim fitting this in for us on short notice and for the detailed report
Great job, just suggest he arrives 5 min before rather than on the dot!
Very comprehensive reports are always provided.
We inspect every estate in Gledswood Hills 2557 and the surrounding suburbs of Gregory Hills, Catherine Field, Harrington Park, Currans Hill, Oran Park and Leppington. Our local inspectors are on site in Gledswood Hills most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
A fifteen dollar item at the centre of the uplift chain.
It looks finished, and it restrains nothing.
Metal angle bracing only works in tension.
Building new in Gledswood Hills Four developments, three named, and a suburb that did not exist before 2011.Read more → 
Buying in Gledswood Hills A $1.48 million median, up 12.5 per cent, and nothing older than fifteen years.Read more → 
Growth and development 6,112 residents in 2021, two schools, and a suburb still filling in.Read more → 
Certifiers, council and disputes Camden Council, a principal certifier, and where an argument goes if it has to.Read more → 
The tie down chain Every link is cheap. The chain is not.Read more → 
Steel, bearing and the roof Where timber meets steel, and where a member meets its support.Read more → 
What we find in Gledswood Hills Nineteen photographs from one frame inspection, and what they add up to.Read more → 
Handover and the warranty clock Two clocks start the day the work is complete, and one of them is short.Read more → Instant online pricing for Gledswood Hills, or contact the booking team.
It follows the property and the stage. A frame check on a single storey sits at the lower end, a two storey handover with a large roof space at the upper. Send the lot address through the form and the number comes straight back with travel included.
Usually inside the week. On a frame inspection the constraint is the builder's program, not our diary, so tell us as soon as the carpenter is finishing.
Inside twenty four hours, and on a stage inspection frequently the same evening, because a stage report is worth nothing once the next trade has started.
Because that is what Gledswood Hills has booked us for.
Tie down. A missing bracing bolt, a metal angle brace never tensioned, joist hangers left out and a hoop strap sitting over the plate instead of around it. Each is a link in the chain that holds the roof down, and each is inexpensive to fix while the frame is open.
Council handles the planning approval. The build is certified by a principal certifier who carries out mandatory critical stage inspections for the occupation certificate. That is a compliance function and it is not a defect list written for you.
Framing against AS 1684 and your engineering, masonry against AS 3700, wet areas against AS 3740, and the whole job against the National Construction Code, the ABCB Housing Provisions and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. A resale inspection runs to AS 4349.1, and timber pest work to AS 4349.3.
Yes. We hold a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. The licence number is in the footer of every page.
Six years for major defects and two years for everything else from completion, under the Home Building Act 1989. The two year window covers most of a handover list and it closes without anyone reminding you.
The inspection is visual and limited to what can be reached safely. Nothing is energised, pressurised, run or dismantled, no engineering is certified and no ground is sampled.
Gregory Hills, Catherine Field, Harrington Park, Currans Hill, Oran Park and Leppington, and the rest of the Camden and Macarthur area. No travel charge inside it.
You send it to your builder, and we call you to work through it. The call matters more than people expect, because it tells you which three items to hold the line on.