Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The inspection before you accept keys, turning a rushed builder walk through into a numbered list they have to answer.
Read more →Independent inspectors covering Clyde and the wider Casey growth corridor, with your report back within 24 hours.
Seven checks through a Clyde build, each timed for the moment before the work is covered and can no longer be seen.
1 Bored piers After the holes are bored and steel cages are placed, before concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, while steel and pods are still open to view 
3 Frame Once the frame and roof trusses are up, before sarking and cladding 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After cladding, roof and external doors, before plaster goes on 
5 Fixing Once skirtings, architraves, doors and joinery are in, before painting 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied, before any tile is laid over it 7 Pre-handover (PCI) Before you sign at practical completion, ideally a week ahead The inspection before you accept keys, turning a rushed builder walk through into a numbered list they have to answer.
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An independent read on whether what your builder called acceptable actually meets the standard, item by item.
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What a Clyde house is really like behind the styling, reported under AS 4349.1 before you are committed.
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Building and timber pest together, including whether the termite system this corridor relies on is still intact.
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A dated photographic record of your home before construction starts next door.
Written to the VCAT expert evidence practice note when a dispute goes to the tribunal.
Slab photos were taken in Clyde North, which adjoins Clyde. Pre-purchase, pest and investigation photos were taken in Berwick, about 10 km away in the same City of Casey. Every other photo on this site was taken at a Clyde job. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from your first enquiry to the report landing in your inbox.
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A fixed price for that inspection, with nothing added afterwards.
We assign the Clyde inspector and confirm site access with you or the supervisor.
Photographed and measured against the standard, not a tick sheet.
In your inbox within 24 hours, numbered so your builder can work through it.
Call the inspector who attended if you or your builder want to talk an item through.
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We inspect every estate in Clyde 3978 and the surrounding suburbs of Clyde North, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne South, Devon Meadows, Junction Village and Berwick. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Clyde most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
The order Clyde trades follow, and the window before each stage is covered.
Bracing, tie-down and plumb, measured against N2 wind loads.
Sarking, flashings and window seals, checked while they can still be seen.
What we see on Clyde sites, and what it means if you are building here or buying an established home.
Building new in Clyde Seven stages, an N2 wind classification and a build program that decides what gets checked.Read more → Buying in Clyde Clyde stock is young, so what you inspect for is workmanship and water, not age.Read more → Growth and development One of Casey's fastest growing pockets, and the estates are still releasing land.Read more → 
Permits, council and disputes City of Casey, a registered building surveyor, and the Victorian dispute path if it goes wrong.Read more → 
Ground, soil and why homes move Your soil report carries the site classification, and it is the number the slab is designed to.Read more → Termite and pest risk Nearly every newer Clyde home relies on a termite management system that has to stay intact.Read more → 
What we actually find in Clyde 316 photographed findings across seven Clyde inspections, and where they cluster.Read more → 
Site conditions: wind and climate Clyde sits in an N2 wind area, and that number decides how your frame is braced and tied down.Read more → Property figures for Clyde are drawn from realestate.com.au and ABS releases and refreshed each quarter.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
Price depends on the service, the size of the home and the stage. Use the instant quote to get a fixed figure for your address rather than a range.
Usually within two to four business days, and stage inspections are booked around your builder's program.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, and often the same evening for stage inspections.
Yes. We hold Building and Plumbing Commission registration CDB-U 53425 and carry professional indemnity and public liability insurance.
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, plus the NCC and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2015.
Yes. Clyde North, Cranbourne East, Cranbourne South, Devon Meadows, Junction Village and Berwick are all in the same run.
Frame and pre-handover if you can only do two. Add slab pre-pour if you can, because nothing under concrete can be revisited.
A defect report is written for you and your builder. VCAT and the Building and Plumbing Commission dispute service need an expert witness report, written to the VCAT practice note. We can upgrade if it goes that way.
Yes. Pre-purchase under AS 4349.1 and building and pest under AS 4349.3, both common in Clyde's older estates.
Yes, and it helps. You see the findings in place rather than only in the report.
Each item cites the clause or tolerance, so it moves from opinion to the document you both signed.
Yes. We check every item from the original report and issue a second record before you settle.
The inspector who attended. You get their mobile number to discuss it.