Building inspections in Schofields

It depends on the property type and size, and you get the number up front. A townhouse sits below a detached house, and a two storey house with a roof space above both. Send the address and we will quote it, with travel across Blacktown included.

Yes, and it is a large part of what we do here. Schofields recorded 74 unit sales in three months against 53 house sales, so attached housing is the majority of the market rather than a sideline.

Two things. The boundary between your lot and common property decides what the report can cover, so we establish it before attending. And the party wall brings its own detail: damp proof course continuity, fire rated sealant at service penetrations, and junctions that a freestanding house simply does not have.

Within a day of the visit. On a purchase that matters, because the report is only worth having while you can still act on what it says.

Because a single Schofields pre-purchase inspection produced twenty four of them. It is the only suburb in the area where our resale work outweighs our new construction work, and the page reflects that rather than pretending otherwise.

Staining under kitchen cabinetry and around wet areas, cladding sitting closer to the concrete than the clearance allows, minor cracking to measure rather than describe, a downpipe never connected to the stormwater system, broken tiles and a dripping tap. Ordinary things, individually cheap, worth knowing before you commit.

Yes. We hold a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. You will find the number in the footer of every page.

Resale inspections run to AS 4349.1 and timber pest to AS 4349.3. New construction is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code, the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017, AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for framing and AS 3740 for wet areas.

The Home Building Act 1989 provides six years for major defects and two for the rest, measured from completion. On attached housing it is worth confirming who holds the warranty for common property, because it may not be you alone.

The work is visual and confined to what can be reached. No circuit is energised, no pipe pressurised, no appliance run, nothing dismantled and no engineering certified. Where a trade needs to take it further, we say so.

Tallawong, Nirimba Fields, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Marsden Park and The Ponds, along with the rest of the north west. No travel charge applies across that area.

You are welcome to, and on a purchase we would encourage it. Half an hour walking the property with the inspector answers questions a report cannot.

We call you. The purpose is to separate the findings that should change your offer or your settlement from the ones that are simply a weekend's work.