Room by room, two to three weeks before you sign.
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. The photographs below were taken in Leppington, Oran Park or Austral, between two and eight kilometres from Catherine Field, and each caption names its suburb. We would rather tell you that than let another job pass as a local one.
Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections on Catherine Field builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laidInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
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.
Because a located record gets checked at the reinspection and a general one gets a single visit. Six entries produce six checks.
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.
Dozens of items on a new build. The count is not the signal; what the items are is.
Yes. A reinspection is booked separately, and each item comes back marked complete, part complete or outstanding.
Somewhere between two and three weeks ahead of your handover date, so the builder has a genuine window and we have time to verify.
