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New Home Inspections Independent inspections of new homes in Melbourne. Written reports to hand to your builders that can Would you know if you weren't? It's simply.

Would you know if you were getting the 1st grade quality and finishes that you are expecting, entitled to and even more importantly, paying for? Would you know if your new home was being constructed in accordance with the requirements of the NCC/Building Code of Australia, the relevant Australian Standards, or to within the acceptable standards and tolerances as stated by the Victorian Building Authority? As a consumer you couldn't reasonably be expected to be familiar with all of these documents and regulations, but more importantly is your builder and their supervisors up to speed with them? As you will see in the following pages the answer to this most important question, all too frequently, appears to be NO. So, how do you protect your investment in the biggest asset you will ever own and achieve lasting satisfaction and peace of mind? Enlist the services of New Home Inspections to be the final independent judge on the quality and finishes being constructed into your new home. New Home Inspections is Melbournes only truely independent inspection service that works for you, the new home owner. We are not associated with any councils, government or semi-government bodies, nor do we represent the interests of builders, developers, architects or real estate agents. We are totally independent and we work for YOU. We specialize in the independent inspections of new homes, while under construction, at the hand-over stage or during their contractual maintenance period. We have an uncompromising well trained eye for detail and over 40 years experience in the residential building industry; we are fully versed and up to date with the NCC/Building Code of Australia, all relevant Australian Standards and the Victorian Building Authority’s acceptable standards and tolerances. Most importantly we allow an appropriate amount of time to fully inspect your new home and to provide you with a comprehensive and detailed written report, which you can hand straight to your builder and have them fix the defects we've found, at their cost - not yours! This would normally be done prior to you making your progress or final payments, when you still have their full attention.

FRAME APPROVED 🤣🤣 STILL😱We put a post up around 2 weeks ago about this builder who thinks they aredoing it Better than t...
29/10/2026

FRAME APPROVED 🤣🤣 STILL😱
We put a post up around 2 weeks ago about this builder who thinks they are
doing it Better than their peers🤢🤯 While they lead their clients to
believe they can trust them, their site supervisors, their short sighted
internal QA team, and their in pocket building surveyors🤦‍♂️

If only they could build their homes as well as they marketed them🤔

Well, it turns out that this builder’s team can’t even find a defect to fix
when it is pointed out to them, as here we are back at Pre Plaster stage and
this item hasn’t been addressed!! They are even incapable of righting their
own wrongs😖

Trust them to your own peril…..

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers’ rights and homes with independent quality insurance
since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]
W: newhomeinspections.com.au

THIS TIME IT’S AN UNSUPERVISED LAUNDRY SET OUT BY YOUR AWARD-WINNING CUSTOM HOME BUILDER, WHO ARE REALLY ONLY A MASS VOL...
21/10/2026

THIS TIME IT’S AN UNSUPERVISED LAUNDRY SET OUT BY YOUR AWARD-WINNING CUSTOM HOME BUILDER, WHO ARE REALLY ONLY A MASS VOLUME BUILDER MASQUERADING AS A CUSTOM BUILDER 🤔🤦‍♂️🤣

Far from a showstopper, but how does a house get through to its final inspection day when the laundry door has to be opened with its latch scraping along the linen cupboard door handle😢😪

Clearly this home has not been checked by the site supervisor or the builders own token QA team, and one can only wonder when the last time these folk even attended this site

This is the easy stuff that is readily identified during a final inspection, but as always it then leaves you wondering, if this is how they leave the obvious, how have they left the hidden😱🤯

Having you New Home inspected at each critical stage has never been so important🧐🧐

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and their homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]
W: newhomeinspections.com.au

FRAME APPROVED 🤣🤣Fascia & Gutter contractor onsite fixing to the truss tail ends 😱And this builder believes they’re doin...
16/10/2026

FRAME APPROVED 🤣🤣
Fascia & Gutter contractor onsite fixing to the truss tail ends 😱

And this builder believes they’re doing it better than their peers 🤢🤯 while their clients are lead to believe they can trust them, their site supervisors, their short sighted internal QA team, and their in pocket building surveyor 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers’ rights and homes with independent quality insurance since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]
W: new home inspections.com.au

“THEY’VE BOLTED THIS STRUCTURAL STEEL COLUMN TO A PIECE OF CONCRETE THAT THEY’VE JUST SPLIT AWAY!”🚨 A STRUCTURAL FAILURE...
12/10/2026

“THEY’VE BOLTED THIS STRUCTURAL STEEL COLUMN TO A PIECE OF CONCRETE THAT THEY’VE JUST SPLIT AWAY!”

🚨 A STRUCTURAL FAILURE WAITING TO HAPPEN?

ONE ANCHOR BOLT/ONE CRACKED CONCRETE SLAB/ONE VERY SERIOUS DEFECT!

This is what our inspectors discovered during a recent Frame Stage inspection.

Take a close look at these photos.

The structural steel column has been installed onto the edge of the concrete floor slab, with the installation of its anchor bolt apparently causing a substantial section of the concrete edge to split away.

AND THIS IS NO ORDINARY PIECE OF CONCRETE!

This is the very concrete relied upon to secure the structural steel column to the building’s foundations.

These anchor connections are designed to transfer structural forces from the steel framework into the concrete foundation, including forces that can arise from wind loading and movement of the structure.

But what happens when the concrete surrounding the fixing has already fractured?

⚠️ The integrity of the anchorage may be compromised.

⚠️ The fixing may no longer be capable of resisting its intended design loads.

⚠️ The structural connection may not perform as the engineer intended.

AND THE MOST ALARMING PART?

Without an independent inspection, this damage could simply have been concealed by the subsequent construction works, leaving the homeowner completely unaware of what lies beneath their finished home.

THIS IS EXACTLY WHY WE INSPECT HOMES DURING CONSTRUCTION — NOT JUST WHEN THEY’RE FINISHED!

A defect like this requires assessment by the responsible structural engineer and an appropriately designed rectification, not simply a patch of mortar to make the crack disappear.

YOUR HOME IS ONLY AS STRONG AS THE CONNECTIONS HOLDING IT TOGETHER.

Don’t assume that because your home is new, it’s being built correctly.

At New Home Inspections, we’ve been identifying defects like these and protecting Victorian homeowners since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

Protecting consumers’ rights and homes with independent quality inspections since 1998.

SOME BUILDERS JUST INADVERTENTLY PROVIDE BETTER DEFECTS IN THEIR BUILDS THAN OTHERS🤮🤮 One of the many areas of a New Hom...
05/10/2026

SOME BUILDERS JUST INADVERTENTLY PROVIDE BETTER DEFECTS IN THEIR BUILDS THAN OTHERS🤮🤮

One of the many areas of a New Home we inspect at Final stage is within the heaters return air void. Normally we just find plaster dust and timber shavings that will be drawn up through the heating system and spread throughout the house via each rooms ceiling vent/outlet if not cleaned out🤦‍♂️

But today’s inspection surprised us with Black Mould Spores happily growing within the return air void, ready to be spread throughout this New Home once the new owners take possession, move in, and put their heating on 🤧😷

Black mould is a fungus that may cause your immune system to react. Common symptoms include sneezing, coughing, congestion, and eye irritation. It rarely causes serious illness or death but may worsen asthma symptoms. If you have mould allergies, black mould can make you sick🤒🤢Black mould spores can@also create an unpleasant “mouldy” or “musty” smell as they permeate throughout your New Home😱👃

All this provided without an ounce of care by your slick building company their incompetent site supervisor, their 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯internal QA team, and approved by their in-pocket building surveyor🤯

Without the clients having their own private independent inspections this defect would not have been identified!! Nor would any of the other 55 non-compliant and poorly finished items throughout this supposedly New Home🏠

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

This is what you could end up with when unsupervised home builds are built out of logical sequence 🤮Rather than the flas...
30/09/2026

This is what you could end up with when unsupervised home builds are built out of logical sequence 🤮

Rather than the flashing being installed first, and the cladding installed over its up-stand, this forgotten flashing was just retrospectively installed over the face of the cladding! 👨‍🦯

The resulting gaps will allow water down into the eave linings and wall cavities 🤦‍♂️

If you’re not having the construction of your New Home independently checked, then you’re leaving yourself open to a long and painful rectification process after you move in.

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

ANOTHER UNSUPERVISED BATHROOM SETOUT BY THE BETTER BUILDING COMPANY 🤔🤦‍♂️🤣Bad luck if you want decent pressure 💧 This wa...
18/09/2026

ANOTHER UNSUPERVISED BATHROOM SETOUT BY THE BETTER BUILDING COMPANY 🤔🤦‍♂️🤣

Bad luck if you want decent pressure 💧

This was also a one-off Final Inspection and we can only wonder if the site supervisor or builders own QA team have even walked through this home of late 😎and if so what were they looking at 👨‍🦯👨‍🦯

This client is now also concerned about what else has been missed or just covered over due to lack of supervision, at all the other stages that they weren’t aware could have been independently inspected for them😱🤯

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

IF IT’S GOTTA BE THIS BUILDER, THEN WE WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK🍀 This brand new roof has:- Screws through the valley/tr...
13/09/2026

IF IT’S GOTTA BE THIS BUILDER, THEN WE WISH YOU THE BEST OF LUCK🍀

This brand new roof has:
- Screws through the valley/troughs of some sheets
- Screw spacings incorrect and inconsistent
- Screws missing their washers and just siliconed over
- Random wrong coloured screws
- Washers not installed correctly under the screw heads for correct sealing
- Bottom battens incorrectly positioned to high up the roof pitch
- and more……….

Without the clients having their own private independent inspections to identify the multitude of defects in this NEW roof, this abomination was clearly going to be acceptable to the builder, their site supervisor, their in-house QA team and their surveyor 😱🤮👨‍🦯🤯

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

SURELY THIS BETTER BUILDER COULDN’T REALLY CONSIDER THIS DESIGN TO BE BETTER THAN THEIR PEERS🤔🤦‍♂️🤣This also goes to sho...
08/09/2026

SURELY THIS BETTER BUILDER COULDN’T REALLY CONSIDER THIS DESIGN TO BE BETTER THAN THEIR PEERS🤔🤦‍♂️🤣

This also goes to show just what their supposed site supervisors and QA teams do while on your site - very little to nothing, this would suggest👨‍🦯👨‍🦯😢

This was on a one-off Final inspection we were engaged to carry out recently. The client is now concerned about what else has been missed or just covered over at all the other stages that they weren’t aware could have been independently inspected for them😱🤯

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

THIS BUILDER MUST BE WORKING ON THE THEORY THAT THE FURNITURE WILL HIDE THIS 🤔😢While far from the worst we find, it’s ju...
01/09/2026

THIS BUILDER MUST BE WORKING ON THE THEORY THAT THE FURNITURE WILL HIDE THIS 🤔😢

While far from the worst we find, it’s just another example of an unchecked builders process all the way through to completion👨‍🦯👨‍🦯

NEW HOME INSPECTIONS
Protecting consumers rights and homes with independent quality inspection since 1998.
P: 9708 2500
E: [email protected]

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