Bolts missing from a steel post
A connection is only as good as its bolt group.
Guides 
All guides
Truss boots left in the box
Small brackets doing a structural job.
The shower recess that was never formed
Free before the pour, expensive after it.
Seven downlights, one roof space
The largest single cluster of one finding in the area.
Opening restrictors on first floor windows
A safety requirement treated as an accessory.
Flashings installed to collect water
A flashing works by geometry, and geometry can be got wrong.
Ducting that was left resting on the ceiling
Crushed duct moves a fraction of the air it was sized for.
Six years and two years on a NSW build
The shorter period ends without announcing itself.
Defect, or simply inside the allowance
The fight is over what is permitted, not over what is there.
Where a pre-purchase inspection stops
Define the edges and everything inside them holds up.
The houses that predate the growth centre
Leppington was a suburb in 1914, not 2004.
The notice that tells the next inspector what you have
A durable label in the meter box, and what happens without it.
Which way does the ground fall
The cheapest item on any report, and one of the most consequential.
Weep holes and the two jobs they do
Drainage and inspection, from a gap the size of a mortar joint.
What a pest inspection can and cannot promise
Where the limits of the service actually sit.