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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.…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…