The structure while every fixing is still countable.
Craigieburn frame inspections turn up the ordinary consequences of trades working quickly around each other. Floor joists short of fixings on a double storey. Compressed sheet fixings not right at the balcony. Sliding door supports never installed. A meter box out of plumb. Individually none of them stops the build; together they are a list that costs nothing to fix now and becomes somebody else's problem once the plasterer arrives.
Annotated findings from Frame inspections on Craigieburn builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before any concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
5FixingAfter mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid
7Pre-handover (PCI)Two to three weeks before your handover dateInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
It is the part of your engineering setting out how the roof is held to the walls and the walls to the slab, fixing by fixing, against the wind classification for the lot. A frame inspection reads it and checks the building against it.
An open waste or sewer point takes in debris and offcuts during the rest of the build, and the blockage is only discovered when something will not drain months later. Capping is a two minute job at this stage.
Two to three hours on a single storey, longer on a double storey where the upper frame and its fixings have to be reached safely and photographed.
Most of them, most of the time, because frame items are cheap now and expensive to argue about later. The report gives the supervisor a numbered list with photographs and locations.
Where the first list was long, it earns its fee back. We reassess frame items at lock-up as a matter of course and record each one as fixed, part done or outstanding.
We record what is visible and clearly wrong, such as an uncapped pipe or a point in the wrong position. The detailed services check belongs at lock-up once the rough in is complete.
