Every week we at Houspect WA are approached by both Home Owners and Builders/Contractors to conduct building inspections to assist parties resolve disputes over new homes and home renovations work. These disputes create enormous angst, can take many months to resolve and can add substantial costs to a project. Sadly, the key protection that the…
We have previously written about the challenges of building a new home in WA, as echoed by WA Government audits and numerous public articles on construction failures. Recent Government changes have introduced even more challenges for property owners building a new home. To be clear we are not builder bashing. There are some absolutely excellent…
If you are building a new home in WA another important construction inspection on the construction journey is the “Lock Up (and waterproofing)” inspection. 1 What are We Talking About? Once the builder has reached the “lock up” stage – i.e. the building is capable of being physically locked up (i.e. all the doors and…