Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The inspection before keys, where cracks and tolerances get measured instead of argued about.
Read more →Independent inspectors working across Melton South and the wider City of Melton, with your report back inside a day.
Seven checks through a Melton South build, each timed for the point before the work disappears.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, ahead of concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, with steel, pods and formwork open 
3 Frame Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before sarking 
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 Once the membrane is on and cured, before tiling 7 Pre-handover (PCI) Roughly a week ahead of practical completion The inspection before keys, where cracks and tolerances get measured instead of argued about.
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What a western corridor home is really like behind the presentation, under AS 4349.1.
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Building and timber pest together, starting with whether the termite notice exists at all.
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Measuring what failed against what was required, so the discussion stops being a matter of opinion.
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A dated photographic record of your property before building starts next door.
Drawn to the VCAT expert evidence practice note where a dispute reaches the tribunal.
Pre-purchase and building and pest photos were taken at Deer Park, in Melbourne's west. Every other photo on this site comes from a Melton South job. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps between your enquiry and the follow up call.
Address, stage and date. A fixed price comes back online.
One figure for that inspection, with nothing appearing later.
Access arranged with you or the supervisor, and the western inspector assigned.
Measured and photographed against the engineering and the relevant standard.
Numbered and with you inside a day, ready to forward on.
Ring the inspector who attended if anything needs explaining.
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We inspect every estate in Melton South 3338 and the surrounding suburbs of Melton, Melton West, Kurunjang, Brookfield, Weir Views and Cobblebank. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Melton South most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Fitted once, before the pour, or never at all.
Under the steel, not over it.
Where the windows sit in a City of Melton program.
What our inspectors record on Melton South sites, and what it means whether you are building or buying here.
Building new in Melton South Estate housing on a fixed program, and the items that get buried at slab and lock-up.Read more → Buying in Melton South Newer stock, so the questions are water and workmanship rather than age.Read more → 
Growth and development One of the City of Melton's established pockets, with newer estates still filling in around it.Read more → 
Permits, council and disputes City of Melton, a registered building surveyor, and the Victorian dispute route.Read more → Ground, slabs and movement Your soil report carries the classification the slab was designed around.Read more → Termite risk and the collar at the slab The collar around a slab penetration is fitted once, at the pour, or never.Read more → What we actually find in Melton South Six Melton South inspection dates, and where the findings concentrate.Read more → 
Insulation and why it gets missed Batts fall out, bridging points get skipped, and plaster hides all of it.Read more → Melton South property and population figures come from realestate.com.au and ABS data, reviewed each quarter.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It turns on the service, the stage and the size of the home. The online quote returns a fixed figure against your address rather than a range.
Normally two to four business days, with stage inspections slotted into whatever gap the builder's program leaves.
Inside a day of the inspection, and stage reports often the same evening.
Yes, under Building and Plumbing Commission registration CDB-U 53425, with professional indemnity and public liability cover held.
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. Melton, Melton West, Kurunjang, Brookfield, Weir Views and Cobblebank all fall on the same run.
Frame and pre-handover first. Add slab pre-pour where budget allows, because concrete cannot be revisited.
The defect report is prepared so you and your builder can work through it. The Building and Plumbing Commission dispute service and VCAT both need an expert witness report drawn to the VCAT practice note.
Yes, under AS 4349.1, and with a timber pest inspection under AS 4349.3 where both are booked together.
Yes, and it helps. An item pointed out on site lands better than the same item in writing.
Each entry names the clause or tolerance it fails, which moves the discussion onto the document.
Yes. A reinspection marks off every original item and produces a second dated record.
The inspector who attended, with their number printed on it.