Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
Your closing list, compiled before the final instalment leaves your hands.
Read more →A rail suburb straddling two councils, still filling in around the station.
Seven checks through a Leppington build, before each stage is covered.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, steel and formwork complete 
3 Frame Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster 
5 Fixing After mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid 
7 Pre-handover (PCI) Two to three weeks before your handover date Your closing list, compiled before the final instalment leaves your hands.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 for Leppington's established homes.
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Building and timber pest in one attendance, reported separately.
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A dated photographic record before the block beside you is developed.
Evidence to the tribunal's procedural direction where a dispute gets there.
Every photograph on this site was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Leppington 2179, across fourteen separate inspections. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from your first message to the call at the end.
Street, estate and the stage coming up. A fixed price returns without anybody attending to quote.
Frame follows the roof; the membrane precedes the tiler. We book against your builder's programme, not the calendar.
You tell the supervisor an independent inspector is attending, or we make that call ourselves.
One to three hours by stage and house size, photographing each item where it sits.
Commonly the same evening: location, photograph, the clause breached, and what closes it.
A call to split structural from finish, so you know which items to press.
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We inspect every estate in Leppington 2179 and the surrounding suburbs of Austral, Denham Court, Catherine Field, Rossmore, Bringelly and Edmondson Park. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Leppington most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
A connection is only as good as its bolt group.
Small brackets doing a structural job.
Free before the pour, expensive after it.
What our inspectors record across the Leppington estates and the streets around the station.
Building new in Leppington Estates filling in around a station that opened in 2015.Read more → Buying in Leppington A rail suburb with a $1.3 million median and stock that is mostly new.Read more → 
Growth and development A rail link in 2015, and a suburb built around it since.Read more → 
Certifiers, council and disputes Two councils, a principal certifier, and the NSW route when it goes wrong.Read more → 
Ground and soil in Leppington Cumberland Plain clay, and why the soil report is the document to ask for.Read more → Downlights and the roof space Seven in one house, and none of them visible from the room below.Read more → 
What we find in Leppington Fourteen inspections, and where the findings gather.Read more → The termite management notice A small durable label that decides what the next inspection can tell you.Read more → Market and population figures are for Leppington 2179 from OpenAgent and the 2021 Census, retrieved 10 September 2026. Estate names were confirmed against a street address inside Leppington NSW 2179. No suburb wide soil classification appears here, because an AS 2870 site class belongs to your lot and your own soil report.
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It turns on the stage and the size of the house, and the figure reaches you before you commit. Expect the lower end for one stage on an ordinary lot, the upper for a complete handover on a big two storey. Send the address through the quote form; travel across the south west is included.
Usually inside the week, and often the next day where a settlement or a trade date is driving it. Waterproofing and slab are the two to call about early, because both have windows measured in days.
Within a day of the attendance, and stage reports frequently that same night. On a live site, a day's delay is a day the following trade has covered the work.
Because on one Leppington handover we recorded seven of them, in the same house, with insulation packed hard against the fitting. It is a fire risk rather than a finish item, it cannot be seen from the room below, and it is now the first thing we look for in a Leppington roof space.
It limits how far a window above ground level can open so a child cannot fall through. The Code requires it on first floor windows meeting certain criteria, and we recorded three missing on the same Leppington home. We report them as safety items, separately from the finish list.
Frame and handover at a minimum, then slab. Frame carries the structure and produces the longest list here; handover is the last point your money is leverage; slab is the only stage that becomes physically unreachable.
Yes. The principal certifier comes out so the construction and occupation certificates can be issued. They are not there to produce a defect list for you, and they are not acting on your behalf. No standard NSW residential contract excludes your own consultant.
Leppington straddles the City of Liverpool and Camden Council, so it depends on your address. It affects who your consent authority is; it does not change the Code, the standards or the tolerances your build is measured against.
Stage and handover work is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. Resale work runs under AS 4349.1 and pest under AS 4349.3, with slabs to AS 2870, timber framing to AS 1684 and termite management to AS 3660.
Yes. Owner Inspections holds a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. The licence number is in the footer of every page here.
The Home Building Act 1989 gives you six years on major defects and two on the remainder, counted from completion. The shorter period ends quietly, which is why a dated written record is worth keeping.
Austral, Denham Court, Catherine Field, Rossmore, Bringelly and Edmondson Park, plus the wider south west. Travel inside that zone carries no additional charge.
You hand the list to your builder and we ring to work through it, separating what affects the structure from what affects the finish.