Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The list written while you still have leverage, room by room.
Read more →An independent report on your Camden Council build, written the day we walk it.
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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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 on a suburb of near new homes.
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Both reports from one attendance, on a suburb built since 2011.
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Nineteen of the photographs on this site were taken by our inspectors at a frame inspection in Gledswood Hills 2557. The rest come from two jobs in Oran Park, about four kilometres north west in the same council area, and every one of those is captioned with Oran Park rather than dressed up as local. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps, from the first message to the call after the report.
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The 4.8 star rating and count above belong to the Owner Inspections Google Business Profiles for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. Each review below is a verified client review, gathered through our own inspection system once the report had been delivered. No Gledswood Hills client has left written comments yet, so these are from elsewhere in the Macarthur area and each one names the suburb it was actually left in.
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 Melbourne west 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.
What our inspectors record across Gledswood Hills builds, its estates and the Camden growth area around it.
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 → Market figures are for Gledswood Hills 2557 from OpenAgent and OpenLot, and the population is the 2021 Census. All retrieved 10 September 2026 and refreshed quarterly.
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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. Every photograph taken in the suburb itself comes from frame work, and rather than borrow other suburbs' pictures and let you read them as local, the pages say which suburb each one is from.
Oran Park, about four kilometres north west and in the same council area, from a frame inspection and a handover inspection. Each of those captions names Oran Park.
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. Owner Inspections holds 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.