Pre Handover Inspection (NHI)

Once again we enlisted New Home Inspections to perform an inspection on our house, the pre-hand over inspection.

The report found a number of issues, many are not that big. Our biggest concern was the exhaust for the central heating was causing a leak from the roof, where it has its exhaust pipe.

The items flagged on our report where:

• Water pooling around the side and back of the house (insufficient drainage)
•  Soil no compacted and slanted away from teh house
• Touch up mortar was a very different color
• No brick in the bottom corner of the garage (seems to be extremely common)
• Areas of bricks that had yet to be high pressure cleaned
• Downpipes not fully secured (bolt)
• Scratches and damage to the powder coat paintwork of the window frames (Metal)
• Bent window frame & seals to long/short and not correctly installed (A&L windows did a less than average job)
• Skirting and walls bowed outside of acceptable tolerance
• Uneven and inconsistent tiling in the shower floors (A big one to us and looks extremely poor and sub standard)
• All basins had not been sealed at the rear (between basin and benchtop)
• Kick rail for the showers where loosely sitting in place
• Powder room tiles where missing from the side walls (Good to take plans & provide to inspector!)
• Plaster damage from toilet water in tap
• (Deep) Scratches on laundry bench
• Mis-drilled and exposed holes in cupboards
• Texta on cupboards
• Random hole in wall (misplaced light switch
• All cupboards misaligned
• Central heating exhaust causing roof leaks
• Water pooling / damaging room space from the above
• Place not cleaned (to building clean standard)

Overall not to bad, but some of the items are pure laziness/carelessness on behalf of the trades who installed them. We hope to see these items satisfactorily resolved for final view/settlement.