The full room by room list, while the final payment is still yours to withhold.
The Box Hill handover list keeps landing on water and edges. Box gutters discharging into other box gutters, sumps and overflows that were never sized for the roof above them, balcony outlets too small for the area they drain, balustrades simply not installed, and driveways poured without the control and isolation joints that stop them cracking. Add blocked stormwater at completion and a light sitting inside the shower zone, and the list is usually long enough to justify a second visit.
Annotated findings from Pre-handover (PCI) inspections on Box Hill builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before any 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 painter
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laidInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
Roughly a fortnight to three weeks ahead of the handover date. Leave it later and the builder has no window to put things right, so the list becomes a settlement dispute rather than a job sheet.
Yes. The second visit records every item as done, partly done or still open, and that is the paper you carry into the handover meeting.
Because the roof forms in this precinct use a lot of them, and a box gutter is only as good as its sump, its overflow and the fall between them. Get any of the three wrong and the failure mode is water inside the roof rather than a stain on a wall.
That depends on your contract and is a question for your solicitor. The report's function is to fix the defects in writing, photographed and dated.
Dozens of items is ordinary on a new build and is not by itself a sign of a bad builder. The meaningful figure is the structural to cosmetic split, and the report gives you that.
Every entry names the clause, tolerance or standard it breaches, which shifts the conversation onto that document. Where it cannot be resolved, NSW Fair Trading's complaint and inspection process is the next step, and NCAT after that.
