Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Independent building inspector, any recommend? 6Apr 03, 2011 7:58 am 594Jessica Phillshz Howard from H&K ryan will sort you out. http://www.hnkryan.com/ ,he does the greater western sydney area(based in quakers hill i think) Tell him you found him by being a member of H1 and you get a discount of $50 for each insp. He is doing my place due to the recommendations of other members who have used him. Where are you building? Thanks! I am building in upper north shore. Do you mind telling me more about how you use his service, like how many inspections he should carry out for your place and what kind of things he checks? No worries Ok,when i spoke to him on the phone he recommends 3 inspections. From memory 1st insp is at frame stage, 2nd is before your internal walls(gyprock) go up so he can check the brickwork,elec/plumbing rough in and 3rd is PCI. You can consolidate the 1st insp into the 2nd and save yourself $500 which is what i did Our SS said they don`t really do a PCI,it`s more like a introduction to your home and give you a form to list any defects that arise after handover and at their 6 mth insp they check and fix up any concerns you have listed(they will come and fix anything major asap though) We were fine with this as we were pushing the builder to get handover by easter and the SS was confident we would make it and proceeded to list what was booked/happening for the week ahead ,however no work has happened for over a week now so there is no way we will make it now (after he told us to our faces we would make it and we were standing in the house at the time with him too) . So now i have decided we will resort to the traditional PCI process and i`ll have the insp go through PCI with us and i`ll be instructing him to "not be kind this time" I would send it to the certifier who is technically your representative and working on your behalf not the builder's 1 2229 That is a really good attitude Akin to you catch more flies with honey than vinegar. I do enjoy watching that tik tok inspector from Victoria but he does go a little… 12 81766 It is true that a builder can ignore your independent inspection report as it is not part of the contractual arrangement but that is stupid because he cannot avoid fixing… 9 46818 |