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Handover inspection in Catherine Field

Room by room, two to three weeks before you sign.

  • Two to three weeks before your handover date
  • 2 to 3 hours on site
  • Report within 24 hours
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Stage7 of 7
When to bookTwo to three weeks before your handover date
Time on site2 to 3 hours on site
Inspected againstThe Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017, the NCC, your contract drawings and inclusions

What is included in a Catherine Field pre-handover (PCI) inspection

  • Every room: paint, plaster, cornices, doors, windows and floors
  • Wall and ceiling finish in natural light
  • Wet areas: tiling, grout, silicone, screens and drainage
  • Kitchen and laundry: cabinetry, benchtops and appliances installed
  • External: render, brickwork, cladding, caulking and paint
  • Roof, gutters, downpipes and stormwater connection
  • Roof space where safely accessible
  • Garage door, slab falls and driveway
  • Paths, porch, alfresco and step compliance
  • Site drainage, ponding and slab edge exposure
  • Fencing, gates, letterbox and clothesline where in contract
  • Contract inclusions and selections against what was built
  • Compliance certificates available for waterproofing, termite and glazing
  • A numbered, photographed defect list for the site supervisor
Why it matters here

Pre-handover (PCI) inspections on Catherine Field builds

The Oran Park handover behind this page is unusual for what it does not contain. Almost every item on it is painting: common areas recorded six times, ground floor painting seven, the ensuite five, the powder room five, toilets three. There is no structural item and no envelope item on that list at all. Read properly, that is good news about the build and bad news about one trade, and it is exactly why a handover list is written by location rather than by category. The Austral records supply what the Oran Park one lacks: a weep hole required, render damaged, a driveway and a grading item. We would rather tell you that than let another job pass as a local one.

What we find at this stage in Catherine Field

  • Painting recorded by room rather than in one line
  • Weep holes present where the cavity drains
  • Render damage across the external finish
  • Driveway, paths and site grading
  • Wet area finish and the roof space above
Ensuite painting, recorded at a handover inspection in Oran Park
Ensuite painting, Oran Park
Driveway, recorded at a handover inspection in Austral
Driveway recorded at handover, Austral
Sample findings

Sample defects found during our pre-handover (PCI) inspections in Catherine Field

Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections.

Ground floor painting, recorded at a handover inspection in Oran Park
Ground floor painting, Oran Park
Common areas painting, recorded at a handover inspection in Oran Park
Painting in the common areas, Oran Park
Weep hole required, recorded at a handover inspection in Austral
Weep hole required, Austral
Render damaged or defective, recorded at a handover inspection in Austral
Render damaged, Austral

The other stages of a Catherine Field build

  1. Bored piers inspection in Catherine Field1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
  2. Slab pre-pour inspection in Catherine Field2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
  3. Frame inspection in Catherine Field3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
  4. Lock-up (pre-plaster) inspection in Catherine Field4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
  5. Fixing inspection in Catherine Field5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
  6. Waterproofing inspection in Catherine Field6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid

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FAQ

Pre-handover (PCI) inspections in Catherine Field: common questions

Is a list of only painting a good result?

It is a good sign about the structure and the envelope, and a bad sign about the painter. Both halves are worth knowing, and neither is visible from a summary that says painting throughout.

Why write the same defect six times?

Because a located record gets checked at the reinspection and a general one gets a single visit. Six entries produce six checks.

How do I use the Austral items on this page?

As the checklist the Oran Park job did not need. A weep hole required at handover is an envelope item arriving months late, and it is the one to press hardest.

What sort of length does the list reach?

Dozens of items on a new build. The count is not the signal; what the items are is.

Do you return afterwards?

Yes. A reinspection is booked separately, and each item comes back marked complete, part complete or outstanding.

When exactly should I book?

Somewhere between two and three weeks ahead of your handover date, so the builder has a genuine window and we have time to verify.

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