Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The walk through before you accept keys, with every finish and completion item written down while you still have leverage.
Read more →Wollert is one of Melbourne's fastest growing suburbs, and almost everything here is a new build on reactive basalt clay. We inspect it before the mistakes get covered up.
Seven separate inspections through the build, each timed to the last moment the work is still visible.
1 Bored piers Once the holes are bored and the cages are in, before any concrete goes near them 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, while the steel and pods are still exposed 
3 Frame Once the trusses are up, before wrap, sarking or cladding hides anything 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, windows and brickwork, before the plasterer arrives 
5 Fixing After plaster, doors and cabinetry, before the painter starts 
6 Waterproofing After the waterproofer finishes and before a single tile is laid 
7 Pre-handover (PCI) At practical completion, before you sign anything or hand over the final payment The walk through before you accept keys, with every finish and completion item written down while you still have leverage.
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For cracking, water entry or movement, and for the times a builder says an item is within tolerance when it is not.
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A visual inspection under AS 4349.1 before you go unconditional, reporting significant items rather than a list of scratches.
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The building inspection and a timber pest inspection under AS 4349.3 in one attendance, with two reports that read against each other.
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Photographic proof of your home's condition before the block next door is built.
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Independent evidence prepared to VCAT's expert evidence requirements.
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Weighted to the work Wollert books most: construction stage inspections through slab, frame and lock-up, then pre-handover. Pre-purchase, pest and defect investigation photos come from neighbouring suburbs, and each caption says where. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from the first enquiry to the answers you need after the report lands.
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The report is very thorough, picture and video are clear and detailed. Captions and explanations are also straightforward.
Professional team, easy process and thorough inspection, thank you very much.
Fantastic service. Burak and the Owner Inspections team are knowledgeable, responsive, and great communicators. We had some delays with our slab pour but the team were able to arrange inspection with only one day's notice. They provided a thorough but easy to read report within moments of completing their inspection.
Couldn't ask for better service. Burak's inspections and reports are always thorough and detailed and he never misses anything, thank you.
Verified client reviews collected through our inspection system once each report was delivered. The street, service and month come straight from the Wollert job record.
We inspect every estate in Wollert 3750 and the surrounding suburbs of Epping North, Epping, Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Mernda, Doreen and Beveridge. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Wollert most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
How to time the pre-slab, frame, lock-up, waterproofing and fixing inspections on a new Wollert home so faults are found while work is open.
Wollert sits on Newer Volcanics basalt with heavy reactive clay above it. What that means for slab design and your pre-slab check.
What to do in Victoria when a builder blocks your private stage inspector, including contract access, written notice and the BPC dispute pathway.
The ground, the planning and the numbers our inspectors work with on every Wollert job, updated as the suburb fills in.
Building new in Wollert Almost every job we do here is a new build. Which stages matter most on this ground, and the faults we record again and again.Read more → Buying in Wollert Median about $711,000, roughly 736 houses sold in a year, and a housing stock almost entirely built since 2005.Read more → Growth and development A 1,434 hectare precinct planned for about 15,000 dwellings and 42,000 people, still only part built.Read more → Permits, council and disputes Who issues a permit, how to check an addition was approved, and the order you have to follow if the builder will not fix it.Read more → Ground, soil and why homes crack Wollert is built on Newer Volcanics basalt clay that swells in winter and shrinks in summer. That movement is what cracks houses here.Read more → 
Termites and pest risk Almost every house here is timber framed, and a new build's termite protection is only as good as the parts nobody breached.Read more → 
What we find in Wollert Across the stages we inspect here, the same handful of items come up again and again. Here is what they are and when they appear.Read more → 
Site conditions and overlays Wind class sets your bracing and tie-down. Climate zone sets insulation and glazing. Overlays can change what you are allowed to build.Read more → Market figures from realestate.com.au and the ABS, updated August 2026.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It depends on the service and the size of the home. The quote form prices the job instantly with no obligation, so you see the figure before you commit to anything.
Usually within the same week, and often sooner for stage inspections where a pour or lock-up date has moved. Tell us the date you are working to when you book.
Within 24 hours of the inspection. Every defect is photographed, described in plain terms and tied to the clause or tolerance it fails, so you can forward it to your builder as it is.
Construction stage inspections, because most of the suburb is still being built, followed by pre-handover. Pre-purchase and timber pest come in on the resale of homes built in the last twenty years.
Yes. Owner Inspections is registered with the Building and Plumbing Commission, formerly the VBA, and carries professional indemnity and public liability insurance. Registration number CDB-U 53425.
AS 4349.1 for pre-purchase, AS 4349.3 for timber pests, the National Construction Code and the relevant Australian Standards for construction stages, and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015 for workmanship.
No. You are entitled to have an independent inspector attend your build. We give reasonable notice and work in with the site supervisor and the site's safety requirements.
We inspect Monday to Saturday. Stage inspections have to fit the build sequence, so the constraint is usually the site's progress rather than the day of the week.
We do not test or energise electrical, gas or plumbing systems, appliances, heating and cooling, pools or automatic garage doors, and we cannot report on anything concealed or that we could not safely reach. The report lists what was inaccessible.
Yes. We inspect across Epping North, Epping, Craigieburn, Donnybrook, Mernda, Doreen and Beveridge, and elsewhere in the City of Whittlesea.
Put it to them in writing with the report attached. If that fails, the path in Victoria is the Building and Plumbing Commission's dispute resolution service, formerly DBDRV, and then VCAT's Building and Property List.
No. A defect investigation report is addressed to the owner and the builder. VCAT evidence requires an expert witness report prepared to the tribunal's expert evidence requirements, which is a different document.
Wollert sits on reactive basalt clay that swells in winter and shrinks in summer. That movement is behind most structural cracking here, which is why the slab pre-pour inspection and the drainage details at handover carry so much weight.