Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
The service Riverstone books, and the detailed part of this site.
Read more →A country town that became a growth suburb, with a flood history worth knowing about.
Seven checks through a Riverstone build, written rather than illustrated.
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 The service Riverstone books, and the detailed part of this site.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1, old stock and new alike.
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Dated photographs of your property before neighbouring work starts.
Expert evidence to the tribunal's direction if a matter reaches it.
Every photograph here was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Riverstone 2765, across three practical completion inspections. That is the whole of our published Riverstone library, and it is why the handover pages on this site are the detailed ones while the earlier stages are written rather than illustrated. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from the enquiry to the call afterwards.
Address and what you need. A fixed price comes back without anyone attending to quote it.
For a handover, two to three weeks before the date. For a purchase, as early in the cooling off as you can manage.
Agent, builder or supervisor, whichever applies. We confirm keys and roof access ahead of the day.
Two to three hours on a typical Riverstone home, every finding photographed where it sits.
Inside a day. Room, element, the clause it misses and what closes it out.
We separate the items that need pressing from the ones that are a weekend's work.
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We inspect every estate in Riverstone 2765 and the surrounding suburbs of Schofields, Marsden Park, Vineyard, Colebee, Melonba and Box Hill. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Riverstone most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Missing, too high, and off the flashing.
Rising moisture is stopped by a layer nobody sees again.
Air movement is a structural question, not a comfort one.
What our inspectors record across Riverstone homes, its six estates and the older streets around the station.
Building new in Riverstone Six estates, and an envelope that keeps arriving unfinished.Read more → Buying in Riverstone A median around $1.15m, and an older housing stock behind the new estates.Read more → 
Growth and development 8,627 residents at the last Census, and two new suburbs carved out in 2020.Read more → Certifiers, council and disputes City of Blacktown, a principal certifier, and where an argument goes if it has to.Read more → 
Ground, water and flooding The 2021 floods reached Marsden Road, and drainage is a building question as well as a planning one.Read more → 
The brick cavity in Riverstone Three ways to get a weep hole wrong, and all three turned up here.Read more → 
What we find in Riverstone Fifty six photographs from three homes, and what they add up to.Read more → 
Handover and the warranty clock Six years and two years, both running from completion.Read more → Market and population figures are for Riverstone 2765 from OpenAgent and the 2021 Census, retrieved 10 September 2026. No soil classification appears for the suburb, because an AS 2870 class attaches to a single lot through its own soil report. Flood information is a matter for the council's flood mapping and your own searches.
Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It depends on the property and what you need. A handover on a standard single storey sits at the lower end and a two storey with a large roof space above it. Send the address through the form and the figure comes back, travel included.
Usually within the week. For a handover, ring as soon as your date is set, because two to three weeks of lead time is what turns a list into rectified work rather than a promise.
Inside twenty four hours of the visit. On a handover that matters, because the value of the list depends on there being time to act on it.
Because that is what Riverstone books us for. All three of the inspections behind these photographs are practical completion jobs, and we would rather build the site around what we actually do here than pretend to a stage library we do not have.
You should ask about it. Homes along Marsden Road were inundated in the 2021 floods. Where a specific property sits relative to the flood mapping is a council and conveyancing question rather than a building inspection one, but it is worth resolving before contracts rather than after.
Because they are being missed during construction. We recorded weep holes absent, weep holes above the height they should be, and weep holes not sitting on their flashing, all at practical completion. That is late in the day but still while the builder is responsible.
Yes, across the full run from slab to handover. Riverstone simply has not booked us for them often enough to build a photo library, which the stage pages say plainly rather than illustrating with another suburb's jobs.
Handover work is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code, the ABCB Housing Provisions and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017, with AS 3700 for masonry and AS 3500 for plumbing. Resale runs to AS 4349.1 and timber pest to AS 4349.3.
Yes. Owner Inspections holds a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover, with the number in the footer of every page.
Six years for major defects and two years for everything else, from completion, under the Home Building Act 1989. The two year window closes quietly, so a dated written list is worth keeping.
The inspection is visual and limited to what can be reached. Nothing is switched on, pressurised, run, taken apart or certified, and anything obstructed on the day is listed as inaccessible rather than passed.
Schofields, Marsden Park, Vineyard, Colebee, Melonba and Box Hill, plus the rest of the north west. No travel charge inside that area.
You send the list to your builder and we call you to go through it, separating the structural items from the presentation ones.