Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The inspection before keys change hands, where code items still surface alongside the finishes.
Read more →Independent inspectors across Donnybrook and the northern estates, reporting back to you within a day.
Seven checks through a Donnybrook build, each timed for the moment before the work vanishes behind the next trade.
1 Bored piers Once holes are bored and cages placed, ahead of any concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, with pods, steel and formwork still open 
3 Frame After frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before sarking 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) Once roof, cladding and external doors are on, before plaster arrives 
5 Fixing After mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter 
6 Waterproofing Once the membrane is on and cured, before tiling starts 7 Pre-handover (PCI) About a week ahead of your practical completion date The inspection before keys change hands, where code items still surface alongside the finishes.
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What a Donnybrook home is actually like behind the presentation, reported under AS 4349.1.
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Building and timber pest together, starting with whether the termite barrier has been bridged.
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Measuring what failed against what was required, so the argument stops being about opinion.
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A dated photographic record of your property before construction starts alongside it.
Prepared to the VCAT expert evidence practice note where a dispute reaches the tribunal.
Real photos from Owner Inspections jobs in Donnybrook. Client addresses withheld.
Six stages between your first enquiry and the conversation after the report.
Address, stage and the date you need it by. A fixed price comes straight back.
One number for that inspection, with nothing added afterwards.
Access confirmed with you or the supervisor, and the northern inspector assigned.
Photographed and measured against the engineering and the relevant standard.
Numbered and with you inside a day, ready to forward to the builder.
Call the inspector directly if any finding needs talking through.
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We inspect every estate in Donnybrook 3064 and the surrounding suburbs of Kalkallo, Mickleham, Wollert, Beveridge, Craigieburn and Epping North. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Donnybrook most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Where the windows sit in a northern corridor program.
Beams drawn but never installed, and why nobody notices.
Obstructed internal beams and short reinforcement laps.
What our inspectors record on Donnybrook sites, and what it means whether you are building here or buying in.
Building new in Donnybrook Estate housing on a fixed program, and two stages that carry the structural risk.Read more → Buying in Donnybrook Young stock, so the questions are workmanship and water rather than age.Read more → 
Growth and development Farmland converting to housing, with infrastructure still catching up.Read more → 
Permits, council and disputes A registered building surveyor, and the Victorian dispute pathway if it comes to that.Read more → Ground, slabs and movement The classification on your soil report is what the slab was designed around.Read more → Termite and pest risk The barrier only works until something bridges it, and bridging is exactly what we find.Read more → What we actually find in Donnybrook Twenty two Donnybrook inspection dates, and where the safety hazards cluster.Read more → Safety items we check Balustrade heights, window restrictors and reo caps are not paperwork.Read more → Donnybrook property and population figures are taken from realestate.com.au and ABS releases, reviewed quarterly.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
That depends which service, which stage and how large the home is. The online quote gives a fixed figure against your address instead of a range.
Ordinarily two to four business days, with stage inspections fitted around whatever your builder's program allows.
Within a day of the inspection, and stage reports frequently the same evening.
Yes. Building and Plumbing Commission registration CDB-U 53425, with professional indemnity and public liability cover in place.
AS 4349.1 for pre-purchase work, AS 4349.3 for timber pests, AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for framing, AS 3740 for wet areas, together with the NCC and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015.
Yes. Kalkallo, Mickleham, Beveridge, Epping North and Craigieburn all sit on the same run as Donnybrook.
Frame and pre-handover before anything else. Slab pre-pour next, since concrete closes the door permanently.
The defect report is written so you and your builder can work through it. Proceedings at the Building and Plumbing Commission dispute service or VCAT 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 when both are booked together.
Yes, and most owners find it useful. Seeing an item in place beats reading about it afterwards.
Each entry names the clause or the tolerance it fails, so the conversation moves onto the document rather than opinion.
Yes. A reinspection marks off every item from the first report and produces a second dated record.
The inspector who carried out the inspection, and their number stays on it.