Home and Building Inspections Melbourne

QUALIFED-INSURED-EXPERIENCED-THOROUGH-HELPFUL

We have been around since 2004 and know what house buyers want to know - what is major, what needs to be fixed ASAP, what can be fixed later. This is what we would like to know if buying a home and this is why we provide extremely detailed reports with photographs than can be up to 100 pages in length and why we stay on the phone up until 11 p.m. each night to assist you. You don't talk to a receptionist, you talk to the inspector on his mobile and we don't close at 5 pm. Please read below points to give you some idea of who we are and how we help you.

• 17 Years experience conducting Pre-purchase Building Inspections.
• Qualified Building Inspector - Peter has a Diploma of Building Surveying making him a qualified building inspector.
• Experience of over 10,000 inspections.
• We can do handover inspections at the completion of construction.
• We are fully insured with $1,000,000.00 professional indemnity insurance.
• We have never had an insurance claim.
• We offer unlimited and free consultation to help you through the process.
• We inspect for over 1000 potential defects.
• You can speak to the actual Inspector up until 11 pm to clarify findings.
• Inspection Reports are emailed to you on the same day.
• We are members of the Australian Institute of Building Surveyors.
• We won a 2015 Investors Choice award and the APAC Business Award for best building inspections Melbourne.
• We were engaged to put together a full defects list for an inspection application being used around the world today.
• Our Services are requested by the majority Melbourne’s leading lawyers, conveyancers, buyer’s advocates, mortgage brokers and banks.

IS YOUR INSPECTOR A QUALIFIED BUILDING INSPECTOR

To be a qualified building inspector one must have completed a Degree or Diploma of Building Surveying or Advanced Diploma of Building Surveying. This extensive course is aimed at identifying defects and non-compliant building works by builders and tradespersons, issuing building permits, conducting mandatory constructions stage inspections, 137B defects reports and the like.  Unless your inspector has completed this degree of diploma, he can not claim to be a qualified building inspector as per the Building Act 1993.

ARE ALL HOUSE INSPECTORS QUALIFIED?

The simple answer is No.  To conduct pre-purchase inspections you don't have to have any experience of qualifications.  It is an unregulated environment and we've been pushing to have it regulated so people conducting house inspections have some tertiary qualification.  Peter is a qualified building inspector having completed a Diploma of building surveying. Doug is a qualified Brick layer and pest inspector.

TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY?

It's big decision to buy a home and also a big a decision to find a building inspector who knows what he is doing, is qualified, experienced and fully insured. All homes will have problems, whether new or old, built on stumps or on a slab.  The aim is to have an inspector that is able to tell you what needs fixing straight away, what can wait and what are potential costs to have these issues rectified.  We have had vendors contact us that had an inspection by other companies done on their home for people thinking about buying their home as the owners were concerned by the report results.  Many times defects stated in these inspection reports as major structural defects were not structural issues at all. The wrong information supplied to their clients meant they were walking away from a home that had no structural issues at all.

WHAT IT ALL COSTS

Costs vary from business to business.  Fees for a building and pest inspection in Melbourne can range from $400 to $900. We have done our homework and a fully aware that the cheaper fees and normally associated with new start up businesses or persons who are not qualified building inspectors.  There is a saying in the building industry which is very true -  "If you think a professional is expensive, then wait until you hire an amateur"