Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The closing list while the final instalment is still yours.
Read more →A suburb that grew faster than the roads leading to it, still releasing land.
Seven checks through a Marsden Park build, before each stage is covered.
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 closing list while the final instalment is still yours.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of Marsden Park's young resale stock.
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A single visit covering both, with each written up on its own.
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Photographs with dates, taken before construction begins on the adjoining block.
Expert evidence drawn to the tribunal's procedural direction when a matter gets that far.
Every photograph on this site was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Marsden Park 2765, across ten separate inspections. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps between your enquiry and the follow up.
Street, estate and the stage due. A fixed figure returns with nobody attending to quote.
Waterproofing has days before the tiler; frame follows the roof. We book to your builder's programme.
You let the supervisor know an independent inspector is attending, or we make the call.
One to three hours by stage and house size, each item photographed in place.
Usually the same evening: location, photograph, the clause breached and what closes it.
To separate structural from finish, so you know where to push.
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We inspect every estate in Marsden Park 2765 and the surrounding suburbs of Schofields, Riverstone, Colebee, Shanes Park, Rouse Hill and Box Hill. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Marsden Park most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Structural capacity removed by somebody who needed the space.
One continuous layer, or no layer at all.
The chain that holds a roof down has numbered links.
What our inspectors record across Elara and the releases around it.
Building new in Marsden Park A suburb that outgrew its roads, and the stages where the pace shows.Read more → 
Buying in Marsden Park A $1.25 million median, high household incomes, and stock that is mostly new.Read more → Growth and development Rapid since 2013, with the roads still catching up.Read more → 
Certifiers, council and disputes City of Blacktown, a principal certifier, and the NSW route when it goes wrong.Read more → Ground and soil in Marsden Park Cumberland Plain clay, and the barrier that keeps it out of your slab.Read more → 
Pinholes and wet areas Eleven records across these jobs, and none of them visible from the doorway.Read more → 
What we find in Marsden Park Ten inspections, and where the findings gather.Read more → Services and the lock-up stage Cables, gas and ducting, and a brace that was in the way.Read more → Market and population figures are for Marsden Park 2765 from OpenAgent and the 2021 Census, retrieved 10 September 2026. Estate names were confirmed against a street address inside Marsden Park NSW 2765. You will find no soil classification for the suburb on this site, since AS 2870 classes attach to individual lots through their own soil reports.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It depends on the stage and the size of the home, and you have the figure before committing. Expect the lower end for one stage on an ordinary lot and the upper for a full handover on a large two storey. Send the address through the quote form; travel across Blacktown is included.
Generally within the week, and often the next day where a trade date or a settlement is driving it. Waterproofing is the one to call about early, because it exists only between the membrane curing and the tiler starting.
Inside a day of the attendance, and stage reports frequently the same evening. A day lost on a working site is a day the next trade has already covered the work.
Because they are the most repeated wet area finding we hold for Marsden Park. A pinhole is a break in the membrane roughly the width of a pen tip, usually a burst bubble in the coat. It passes a glance from the doorway, and once tiles are over it the first sign is a damp skirting in the next room a year or two later.
A brace is a structural element sized to resist lateral load. We recorded one cut through at lock-up on a Marsden Park job, almost certainly by a following trade needing a path for a service. Cut, it carries nothing, and after plaster nobody will ever see it again.
Frame, waterproofing and handover as a minimum, then slab. Frame carries the structure, waterproofing is the most expensive thing to get wrong, and slab is the only stage that becomes physically unreachable.
Yes. A principal certifier attends in order that the construction and occupation certificates can issue. Producing a defect list for you is not their function, and they do not act in your interest. Standard NSW residential contracts do not exclude a consultant of your own.
Stage and handover work is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. Resale work runs under AS 4349.1 and pest under AS 4349.3, with slabs to AS 2870, timber framing to AS 1684 and wet areas to AS 3740.
Yes. Owner Inspections holds a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. You will find the licence number in the footer of every page on this site.
Under the Home Building Act 1989 you get six years for major defects and two for everything else, running from completion. The shorter period passes quietly, which is why a dated written record is worth keeping.
The whole assessment is visual and manual, with nothing broken into. Nothing is switched on, no line is put under pressure, no ground is sampled and no engineering is signed off. The report identifies where an engineer, plumber or licensed pest controller has to take it further.
Schofields, Riverstone, Colebee, Shanes Park, Rouse Hill and Box Hill, plus the wider north west. No extra travel charge applies across that area.
You hand the list to your builder and we ring to work through it, splitting what affects the structure from what affects the finish.