Handover Inspections
Handovers Or Practical Completion Inspections
The ABIS Handover
A handover or as it is sometimes refered to a Practical Completion Inspection marks the end of the construction phase of building your new home. This activity is important to both you and your builder and likewise should be viewed by both you and your builder as both positive and constructive.
The handover inspection conducted by ABIS unlike many of our competatoprs is undertaken by a experienced builder who importantly holds both Building and Timber Pest qualifications. As a result ABIS is able to offer for the same price a full structural inspection and termite inspection in addition to the usual handover activity involving a detailed examinination of secondar and finishing elements and providing a list of defects and incomplete construction for the builder to address.
In summary you get a full building and pest inspection to AS4349.1 and AS4349.3 together with a detailed list of items for you builder to address.
Why do I need a structural and termite inspection?
Its a new home and the construction has been certified why is a structural inspection?. Also I have had a termite barrier installed and a certificate has been provided why check this system?
People build houses and people make the products houses are build out of and even the most careful people make mistakes. In addition building products can change and deteriorate with time particularly timber products.
Obviously we find many defects when the bad builder has constructed the home but we also find structural defects from time to time where a very good builder using good trademen and following best practice has built the home.
For example:
- ABIS recently identified a roof truss which was correctly designed and installed but had during the normal drying process twisted badly. As a consequence the truss and was well outside the tolerances allowed and compromised the integrity of the roof frame.
- It is common for the termite barrier, which is installed early in the construction process, to be damaged or compromised by following building activity. Typical problems encountered are physical damage to the barrier, relocation of incorrectly positioned slab penetrations such as waste pipes, landscaping and paving built up above the minimum 100mm below the weep holes and rendering over the inspection zone.
