Pre-Handover (PCI) Inspections
A complete defect list for your new Gables home, ready before final payment.
Read more →A lakeside suburb named in 2020 and still being built one lot at a time.
One of our inspectors will call you back. If it is urgent, call 1300 471 805.
Seven visits through a Gables build, each one before a trade covers the last.
1 Bored piers Once the piers are bored, before any concrete arrives 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, once steel and pods are set 
3 Frame Frame and trusses standing, roof cover on, before sarking and linings 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) Roof, cladding, windows and rough-in done, before plaster 
5 Fixing Joinery, doors and trims in, before the painter starts 
6 Waterproofing Membrane cured, before the tiler arrives 
7 Pre-handover (PCI) About two weeks before your handover date A complete defect list for your new Gables home, ready before final payment.
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Building and timber pest reports from a single Gables visit.
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A visual AS 4349.1 inspection for established Gables homes.
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Photograph the house before the lot next door starts digging.
Evidence written to Procedural Direction 3 when a dispute reaches the tribunal.
From the first enquiry to the call after your report, in six steps.
Your lot, your builder and the stage that is next. The online form returns a price straight away.
One figure for the visit and the report, agreed before anything is booked.
We pick the day the work is complete and still uncovered, then confirm the inspector by name.
Measured, photographed and checked against your drawings, usually inside two hours.
Often that evening: each item located, illustrated and matched to the clause it fails.
Ring the inspector who attended to sort urgent items from ones that can wait for the next stage.
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We inspect every estate in Gables 2765 and the surrounding suburbs of Box Hill, Vineyard, Oakville, Maraylya, Nelson and Scheyville. Our local inspectors are on site in Gables most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Where a slab changes level, the reinforcement has to carry past the step.
Steel beams and columns in Gables frames are only as good as how they are joined.
Services crowded together inside a wall are the most common lock-up item we record in Gables.
Building new in Gables Lots around a lake, built by many different builders.Read more → 
Buying in Gables A median of $1.4 million and houses only a few years old.Read more → 
Growth and development From a dairy farm to a gazetted suburb in 2020.Read more → 
Certifiers, council and disputes The Hills Shire, a principal certifier and the NSW dispute path.Read more → 
Ground and soil in Gables Clay ground, steps in the slab and why the soil report matters.Read more → 
Termites near the bushland edge Bushland next door and the conditions that let termites in.Read more → 
What we find in Gables Slab steel, steel connections, services and facade joints.Read more → 
Site conditions: bushfire, creeks and wind Overlays and classifications that belong to your lot, not the suburb.Read more → Instant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
By the stage being inspected and the size of the home, so a single storey slab costs less than a full handover on a double storey. Use the instant quote form for a firm figure before you book. Travel within The Hills is part of the quote.
Most bookings are covered within the week, and a pour or a tiler arriving tomorrow can often be covered at short notice. Ring as soon as the builder gives you a date.
Within 24 hours of the visit, and stage reports frequently land the same evening so the builder has them before the next trade starts.
Slab and frame for the structure, handover for the final list. Our Gables slabs keep turning up missing step reinforcement and short cover, and our frames keep turning up connections that differ from the engineering. Lock-up is worth adding if you want the services clearances checked.
Because many homes here have a tiled balcony above a room, and our Gables reports have recorded undersized balcony drains, a membrane not taken into the overflow and tiles laid on dabs instead of a full bed. Each of those ends as a leak or a cracked tile.
No. The principal certifier attends the critical stage inspections so the occupation certificate can be issued. That is a compliance role for the certificate, not a defect list written for you, and nothing in a standard NSW contract stops you engaging your own inspector as well.
The Hills Shire Council. Gables was gazetted as its own suburb on 17 July 2020, from land that was mostly part of Box Hill plus a smaller piece of Maraylya, so older paperwork may still show Box Hill.
Stage and handover reports use your contract and plans, the National Construction Code and the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017. Slabs are read against AS 2870, timber framing against AS 1684 and wet areas against AS 3740. Resale reports follow AS 4349.1, with AS 4349.3 for timber pests.
Yes. The NSW Fair Trading licence number appears in the banner on every page, and we carry professional indemnity and public liability cover.
Under the Home Building Act 1989 the statutory warranties run for six years on major defects and two years on everything else, measured from completion. A dated report made before handover is the clearest evidence of what was there at the start.
You can, and many owners come for the last half hour so the inspector can walk them through the main items. Site safety rules and the builder's access conditions still apply.
Box Hill, Vineyard, Oakville, Maraylya, Nelson and the rest of The Hills and Hawkesbury fringe, along with the wider north west.
Send it to the site supervisor, ask for a written response on each item, and book the next stage. If anything is disputed we can explain the requirement to the builder directly.