Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The final list while the last payment is still yours to hold.
Read more →A precinct on its way to 13,276 homes, inspected stage by stage before the work is closed in.
Seven checks through a Box Hill build, each timed before the work is closed in.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before any 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 final list while the last payment is still yours to hold.
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One failure, traced back to what the drawing actually required.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of the established homes around Box Hill.
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One attendance covering both, with the pest findings kept in their own report.
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A dated photographic record before the lot beside you is built on.
Evidence drawn to the tribunal's procedural direction when a dispute goes that far.
Every photograph on this site was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Box Hill 2765. They come from nineteen separate inspections between July 2025 and August 2026, across framing, lock-up, waterproofing, handover, pre-purchase and one defect investigation. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from your first message to the call afterwards.
Street, estate and the stage coming up. A fixed figure comes back without anyone needing to visit.
Waterproofing goes in after the membrane and before the tiler. Frame goes in once the roof is on. We work to your builder's program.
You tell the site supervisor an independent inspector is attending, or we make that call on your behalf.
One to three hours depending on the stage and the size of the home, photographing every item where it sits.
Most often that same night. Location, photograph, the clause or tolerance it fails and what closes it out.
A call to separate the structural items from the finish items, so you know which ones to press.
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The 4.8 star rating and review count above belong to the Owner Inspections Google Business Profiles for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. Everything printed below is a verified client review gathered through our inspection system once the report had gone out. Most were left by clients at Box Hill 2765 addresses; the remainder come from Gables, which was part of Box Hill until 2020, and Rouse Hill next door. Each one names its own suburb.
We inspect every estate in Box Hill 2765 and the surrounding suburbs of Gables, Rouse Hill, Nelson, Annangrove, Riverstone and Kellyville Ridge. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Box Hill most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
A steel connection is only as strong as the bolt group holding it.
Metal strap only works in tension. Loose, it contributes nothing.
Frame sign off is a moment in time, not a guarantee about the future.
What our inspectors record across the Box Hill estates and the older properties among them.
Building new in Box Hill A precinct heading for 13,276 homes, and the stages where that pace shows.Read more → 
Buying in Box Hill A million dollar median, mostly house and land, with acreage still mixed through it.Read more → 
Growth and development Rezoned in 2013, a suburb split off in 2020, and a long way still to run.Read more → 
Certifiers, council and disputes The Hills Shire, a principal certifier, and the NSW dispute route if it comes to that.Read more → 
Ground and soil in Box Hill Wianamatta shale, reactive clay, and why no site class is printed here.Read more → 
Pinholes and wet areas The single most common finding on this site, and the most expensive to miss.Read more → 
What we find in Box Hill Nineteen inspections, and the findings that keep repeating across them.Read more → 
Box gutters and roof drainage A gutter inside the roof, and what happens when it cannot cope.Read more → Market and population figures are for Box Hill 2765 from OpenAgent, retrieved 10 September 2026, and the 2021 Census. Estate names were confirmed against a street address inside Box Hill NSW 2765. No suburb wide soil classification is published here, because an AS 2870 site class is set for your lot by your own soil report.
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It depends on the stage and the size of the home, and the figure comes to you before you commit. A single stage on a standard lot sits at the lower end and a full handover on a large double storey at the upper. Send the address and the stage through the quote form; travel across the Hills is included.
Usually the same week, and often the next day where a waterproofer or a settlement is driving the date. Waterproofing is the one to ring about early, because the window between the membrane going down and the tiler starting can be two or three days.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, and stage reports are frequently sent the same evening. On a live site a day lost is a day the next trade has already covered the work.
Because in Box Hill they are the most common waterproofing finding we record, by a distance. A pinhole is a break in the membrane the size of a pen tip. It passes a glance, it fails a proper look, and it is the reason a wet area leaks into the next room two years after handover.
Yes, and it matters here because a lot of homes in the precinct use steel beams and columns. We have recorded missing M12 bolts, connections that do not match the engineer's detail and columns without the tension member they were drawn with. None of that is visible once the linings go on.
Frame, waterproofing and handover as a minimum. Frame carries the structure, waterproofing is the most expensive thing to get wrong, and handover is the last point at which your money is still leverage.
Yes. Your principal certifier inspects to issue the construction and occupation certificates, not to hand you a defect list, and they are not engaged in your interest. Nothing in a standard NSW residential building contract prevents you engaging your own consultant.
Stage and handover work is assessed against your contract, the National Construction Code and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. Pre-purchase inspections follow AS 4349.1, timber pest AS 4349.3, wet areas AS 3740, slabs AS 2870 and timber framing AS 1684.
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 on this site.
Statutory warranties under the Home Building Act 1989 run six years for major defects and two years for everything else from completion. That two year window is why a handover list matters, and why a written record of what was raised and when is worth having.
The work is visual and non-destructive. We open nothing up, we energise and pressure test nothing, we sample no ground and we certify no engineering. Where an item needs an engineer, a licensed pest controller or a plumber, the report says so and says why.
Gables, Rouse Hill, Nelson, Annangrove, Riverstone and Kellyville Ridge, along with the rest of the north west growth area. We do not add a travel charge anywhere inside that ring.
You send the list to your builder and we call you to go through it. The purpose of that call is to separate the structural items from the cosmetic ones, because a long list is not the same thing as a bad build.