Bored piers
After boring and cage placement, before concrete
Depth and diameter against the engineering, cage centred with cover, bases clean and free of water
Learn more about the bored piers inspection →Seven points across an Austral build where the next trade is about to hide the last one's work.
Austral does not build the way a single masterplanned estate does. It is a grid of numbered avenues cut into dozens of small subdivisions, many of them under thirty lots, each running to its own builder and its own program. What that produces is a wide spread of findings rather than one repeated fault: cover short at the slab, a column that is not the section on the drawing, tie down bolts absent, sarking lapped the wrong way, weep holes never formed. The common thread is that each one is visible for a few days and then it is not.
After boring and cage placement, before concrete
Depth and diameter against the engineering, cage centred with cover, bases clean and free of water
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The day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
Minimum cover to reinforcement, edge and middle beam steel, mesh laps and clearance from pipes, formwork complete and braced, waffle pods clean, shower recesses formed
Learn more about the slab pre-pour inspection →
Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
Steel column sizes against the specification, connections against the engineering, tie down bolts and washers, plywood bracing fixings, noggings, bottom plate support
Learn more about the frame inspection →
After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
Sarking laps, expansion joints continuous, weep holes formed, parapet capping and roof completion, gas pipes clear of metal, brickwork and mortar
Learn more about the lock-up (pre-plaster) inspection →
After mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
Weep holes formed, window and door infills, damaged plaster and windows, balustrade installed, opening restrictors to first floor windows
Learn more about the fixing inspection →
After the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid
Puddle flange type and height, hollow or drummy areas, finish level at terminations, falls to the waste
Learn more about the waterproofing inspection →
Two to three weeks before your handover date
Weep hole clearance, control joints, parapet capping fixings, downpipes and silt pits, downlight clearance, wet area fittings, tiling and finishes
Learn more about the pre-handover (PCI) inspection →One finding per stage, each recorded on an Austral build.
Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections The final list while the last payment is still yours. 
Defect Investigation Reports One failure, traced back to what was actually required. 
Pre-Purchase Building Inspections A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 for the older houses among the new lots. 
Building and Pest Inspections Building and timber pest in one attendance, reported apart. 
Dilapidation Reports A dated photographic record before the block beside you is built on. 
NCAT Expert Witness Reports Evidence drawn to the tribunal's procedural direction when a dispute reaches it. 
Pre-Listing Inspections See what a buyer's inspector will see, while the timing is still yours. 
Insurance Claim Assessments An impartial account of damage and its cause for a claim in assessment. Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
Slab, and it is not close. It is the only stage where the work becomes literally unreachable, and our Austral set shows exactly the sort of thing that gets buried: cover short of minimum, beam steel not as detailed, formwork incomplete.
Not in what we check. Austral has a lot of small builders working a handful of lots, and in our experience they respond to a clear list as readily as a volume builder does, sometimes faster because the supervisor is on site.
No standard NSW residential contract gives them that power, and it is your property. We give notice, work around the trades and do not hold up the program.