With House Inspect Australia it’s really easy.

People generally make contact with us.  They’ll tell us that they’ve bought a house or they’ve got a problem with the builder, whatever the case might be. We ask you the questions so that we can get all the information we need so that we can take over. Meaning you don’t have to deal with the stress. 

The only things we need from you is to send us a text message or an email with your contact details, your builder’s contact details, your real estate agent’s and the property address.  Then you leave it with us and we’ll deal with it.

We ring up the builder, the agent, whatever, we make a time and book it in. Then, we send you back an email or a message saying “Hi, it’s Mike, your inspection’s booked in. It’s this day, at this time. I’m doing it with this person”

Then, we just get it done.

Meaning you can get on with your day and let us handle the problem. 

Mike Pearl – House Inspect Australia 

House Inspect Australia is changing the game in the housing industry. This is because everyone that works for HIA comes from a building background.

We are all builders, carpenters, stonemasons ect. We’re all from that industry therefore, we know the ins and out of the trade. We’re not someone that’s decided that they want to become a building inspector, print out a business card and off they go. We haven’t done a two-day course, which can be done to become a building inspector. We look at it from a builders background. 

This means we understand the construction and terminology that builders use. We know the trade so we can make sure you are getting what you paid for as we understand the way that some of the larger builders might try and cut corners, you know, bend the rules, not break them, but bend them.

We pride ourselves on making it all very clear and transparent for the purchaser or owner. Whatever they’re doing we simplify it so you understand it.

We give you all the facts so you can understand what you’re spending $10,000, $100,000, $300,000, a million dollars on.

We simplify it.

Mike Pearl- House Inspect Australia 

A pre-purchase inspection is essentially a structural check or a health check of a house so you know what the condition it is in before you buy.

When choosing someone to do a pre-purchase inspection there are a few questions you should ask.

Discover Mike’s top tips for choosing a building inspector for your pre-purchase inspection.

When you build something new, you get what’s called a three-month maintenance period, or a twelve-week maintenance period. 

Once you’ve moved into a house and you’ve been living in it for a while and you’re opening and closing doors, you’ve run the air con, the heater etc, the house will react differently. 

It’s then up to the builder to come back and fix it.

Discover why a warranty inspection is important and how it can save you money.

Essentially, on new constructions, we’ll come and have a look at the finished product before handover. It is also known as a handover inspection. We just go through and make sure that everything is right and that it’s built to the standard that it should be. It works both ways. Often people will have things that they don’t like, but the builder will say that that’s what it is and a lot of the times it is built to code. So, we come and do an inspection and make sure everything is built to code so that both parties know where they stand. We will comment on things and say to the owner, and the builder, that this is what the code is, so you have to do that. For example: “Builder, you have to fix that up” and “Owner, I know you don’t like it, but it’s built to code, so the builder doesn’t have to do anything about it”. It’s really being that middle man to come to a solution or a conclusion that everyone’s happy with. Mike Pearl – House Inspect Australia.

1 – Be practical and realistic. 
Don’t purchase a house based on emotions. Buying a house is the biggest purchase of your life so although it’s hard to put aside the emotion of it, it’s also really important. It might look like the dream house you’ve always wanted but do your due diligence, check it out and make sure that it truly is a dream house now and will stay that way in the future.

2 – Do your research. 
Just because your mate or someone at a barbecue says that “it’s a great area and that’s cheap”, make sure you take that information and still go off and do your research. You have got to make informed decisions when you’re spending that amount of money and research is crucial.

3 – Get it inspected. 
People every single day buy a second hand car for $10,000 and then spend $200 for a mechanic to inspect it. If you’re about to invest in the biggest purchase of your life than you definitely want to get it inspected! If we’re looking at the percentage of a car inspection to car purchasing ratio, and then compare that with a house inspection to house purchasing ratio – then a house inspection truly is a cheap insurance!

We can assist with a pre-purchase home inspection for your home anywhere across South Australia & New South Wales. Give us a call today to see how we can help!

Mike Pearl – House Inspect Australia 

The owner of a 2 story property had a problem with water leaking through the bathroom floors upstairs into the downstairs ceiling. 

We were engaged to do an inspection for the owner for a fee of $400. Our inspection uncovered that it had not been built to the building code. From the builder first telling the owner that they wouldn’t fix the problem to us stepping in, the builder has now agreed that is is their problem. It has saved the owner a repair bill of $15,000 to fix the bathroom – a 3,750% cash return on investment and also saving them from a lot of stress. 

This is why if you have issues with your renovation it is always a good idea to get someone who knows what to look for to help you out.

It could save you a lot of time and money. 

 Mike Pearl – House Inspect Australia.

If you’re building a new home, adding an extension or undergoing a renovation then part of your contract will say that at milestones throughout that building progress there will be payments that need to be made. 

If we are talking about a new house then it’s generally the footing, the wall and roof frame, the brickwork and roof cover, your interior linings and so-forth. Each one of these represent a percent of contract value, so if you look at wall and roof frame, that’s 20% of your contract value so for a $300,000 build that’s a $60,000 payment. 

Let’s just check in a Progress Stage Inspection that first of all your builder has done the work (as just because they’ve sent an invoice doesn’t mean that it has been done).

Let’s check that it’s been done correctly and it has been done to code.

It’s much easier to fix it now than to fix it down the track

 Mike Pearl- House Inspect Australia 

One in three houses in South Australia has issues with termite attacks. The average household spends $800 per year on maintenance from termite attacks but it’s just something that we’re all really lax about. We can’t see it, so it’s not there.

We’ve had houses that we’ve spent $30,000 – $40,000 repairing the damage because they didn’t spend $400 on a pre purchase pest inspection. 

I use a company called All State Pest Controls because they’re the experts. They do all my termite treatments for me. Vasili, the owner, is actually the trainer for South Australia. He trains the best pest inspectors. They do a report, they put together a maintenance plan, they quote what work needs to be done and they give you a quote for ongoing termite control. 

Don’t let termites sneak up on you – Get the right advice from the building and pest inspection experts.

Mike Pearl – House Inspect Australia