A brace cut to make room for a service
Structural capacity removed by somebody who needed the space.
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A barrier that stopped at the slab edge
One continuous layer, or no layer at all.
Four missing tie down bolts on one suburb's jobs
The chain that holds a roof down has numbered links.
Eleven pinholes, and none visible from the doorway
The most repeated finding in this suburb's set.
Ducting left resting on the ceiling frame
A crushed duct moves a fraction of the air it was sized for.
When the handover list is short
Six findings, and why that is a good sign.
Defect, or simply within the allowance
The argument is about permission, not observation.
Two years passes faster than anybody expects
The short warranty is the one that catches owners out.
Flashing fasteners at the wrong spacing
A fixing interval is a specification, not a suggestion.
Inspecting Marsden Park's first resales
Too young for decay, old enough for shortcuts to surface.
The two words that decide a pre-purchase inspection
Visual, and accessible. Everything follows from those.
What makes a new house easy for termites
The risk arrives with the landscaping, not the build.
The one promise a pest inspector must never make
Concealment is the whole problem, and no fee changes it.
Protecting the membrane before the tiler
A membrane is a coating, not armour.