Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The inspection before keys, where the safety items get chased hardest.
Read more →Independent inspectors across Point Cook and the Wyndham corridor, reporting back to you inside a day.
Seven checks through a Point Cook build, with the structural items measured against your engineering drawings.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, with steel and formwork open 
3 Frame Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before sarking 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster 
5 Fixing After mouldings, doors and joinery, before painting 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied and cured, before tiling 7 Pre-handover (PCI) About a week before practical completion The inspection before keys, where the safety items get chased hardest.
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A settled Point Cook home assessed under AS 4349.1, with movement measured rather than described.
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Building and timber pest together, looking as hard at the ground around the house as at the house.
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Measuring what failed against what the engineering required, so the argument moves onto the drawing.
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A dated photographic record of your home before work starts on the block beside it.
Drawn to the VCAT expert evidence practice note when a dispute reaches the tribunal.
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Six steps from enquiry to the call after the report.
Address, stage and date. The price returns online, fixed.
A single figure for that inspection, with nothing added later.
Access confirmed with you or the supervisor, and the western inspector assigned.
Photographed and measured against your engineering and the relevant standard.
Numbered and delivered inside a day, ready to send on.
Ring the inspector who attended if a finding needs unpacking.
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We inspect every estate in Point Cook 3030 and the surrounding suburbs of Williams Landing, Sanctuary Lakes, Truganina, Laverton, Werribee and Hoppers Crossing. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Point Cook most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Drawn on the engineering, and sometimes never fitted.
Under the steel, under the whole slab, and branded.
Damage done after the frame already passed.
What our inspectors record across Point Cook, and what it means whether you are building here or buying an established home.
Building new in Point Cook Fewer greenfield lots than the outer corridors, and a frame stage that is all about the drawings.Read more → Buying in Point Cook One of the few western suburbs where homes are old enough to have settled and moved.Read more → Growth and development Largely built out, with the remaining releases in the north and along the coast.Read more → Permits, council and disputes City of Wyndham, a registered building surveyor, and the Victorian dispute route.Read more → 
Ground, slabs and movement Three different materials under one suburb, which is why no single statement covers it.Read more → 
Termite and pest risk Established gardens, mature trees and twenty years of added landscaping.Read more → What we actually find in Point Cook Ten Point Cook inspection dates, and an unusually high share of safety findings.Read more → Box gutters and roof drainage An overflow that discharges where nobody can see it is not an overflow.Read more → Point Cook figures are CoreLogic data published by Your Investment Property Magazine, twelve months to June 2026.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It varies with the service, the stage and the size of the home. The online quote gives a fixed figure for your address rather than a range.
Typically two to four business days, with stage inspections fitted to your builder's program.
Inside a day of the inspection, and stage reports commonly the same evening.
Yes, Building and Plumbing Commission registration CDB-U 53425, with professional indemnity and public liability cover.
AS 4349.1 for pre-purchase, AS 4349.3 for timber pests, AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for framing, AS 3740 for wet areas, with the NCC and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015.
Yes. Williams Landing, Sanctuary Lakes, Truganina, Laverton, Werribee and Hoppers Crossing are on the same run.
Frame first. Point Cook frames have produced missing tie-down bolts and beam connections that do not match the engineering, and none of that survives a plaster sheet.
A defect report is written so you and your builder can work through it. The Building and Plumbing Commission dispute service and VCAT require an expert witness report drawn to the VCAT practice note.
Often. Much of Point Cook is now fifteen to twenty five years old, so pre-purchase under AS 4349.1 and building and pest under AS 4349.3 are both common here.
Yes, and on a frame inspection it is genuinely worth it, because the findings are easier to grasp in place.
Structural items cite the engineering drawing. That is a document you both hold, so the discussion moves onto it.
Yes. A reinspection marks off each original item and produces a second dated record.
Whoever carried out the inspection, and their number appears on it.