Pre-Purchase Building Inspections
A visual inspection to AS 4349.1, and the strongest set on this site.
Read more →A suburb that grew five times over in twenty years, and now sells more units than houses.
Seven checks through a Schofields build, house or attached.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before concrete 
2 Slab pre-pour The day before the pour, steel and formwork complete 
3 Frame Once frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining 
4 Lock-up (pre-plaster) After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster 
5 Fixing After mouldings, doors and joinery, before the painter 
6 Waterproofing After the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid 
7 Pre-handover (PCI) Two to three weeks before your handover date A visual inspection to AS 4349.1, and the strongest set on this site.
Read more → The list before keys, with the lot boundary established first.
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Photographs and dates recorded before adjoining work begins.
Expert evidence prepared to the tribunal's direction when a matter reaches it.
Every photograph here was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Schofields 2762, across three separate inspections. Twenty four of them come from a single pre-purchase inspection, which is why the pre-purchase page on this site is the strongest one. Client addresses are withheld. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps, from your message to the call afterwards.
Address, and whether it is a house, a townhouse or a unit. That changes what we can inspect and what we quote.
On attached housing we establish the boundary between your lot and common property before attending.
Through the agent on a purchase, or through your supervisor on a build. Keys and roof access confirmed ahead of the day.
One to three hours depending on the property, each finding photographed where it sits.
Inside a day. Location, photograph, the clause it misses and what closes it out.
We talk through which items change the value and which are ordinary upkeep.
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The 4.8 star rating and count above belong to the Owner Inspections Google Business Profiles for New South Wales, Victoria and Queensland. The reviews below are verified client reviews gathered through our own inspection system after each report issued. Two of them name Tallawong and Nirimba Fields, which is deliberate: both suburbs were part of Schofields until the boundaries were redrawn in November 2020, so those clients were Schofields clients when they booked.
We inspect every estate in Schofields 2762 and the surrounding suburbs of Tallawong, Nirimba Fields, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Marsden Park and The Ponds. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Schofields most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
Continuity is the entire specification.
Rated or not rated, and no way to tell by eye.
A coating chosen for colour, not compatibility.
What our inspectors record across Schofields houses, townhouses and the estates between them.
Building new in Schofields More townhouses than houses, and the detail that comes with them.Read more → 
Buying in Schofields A house median of $1.24 million, a unit median of $632,500, and a real choice between them.Read more → 
Growth and development From 3,012 people to 15,213 in twenty years, and two suburbs carved out along the way.Read more → Certifiers, council and disputes City of Blacktown, a principal certifier, and one extra party on attached housing.Read more → Ground and soil in Schofields Cumberland Plain clay, and the downpipe that was never connected.Read more → Party walls and fire separation The detail that only exists where two dwellings meet.Read more → 
What we find in Schofields Three inspections, and an unusually clear split between them.Read more → 
Staining, and what it is telling you Four records on one property, all under cabinetry or near water.Read more → Market and population figures are for Schofields 2762 from OpenAgent and the 2021 Census, retrieved 10 September 2026. Estate names were confirmed against a street address inside Schofields NSW 2762. There is no soil classification for the suburb on this site, because an AS 2870 class attaches to a single lot through its own soil report.
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It depends on the property type and size, and you get the number up front. A townhouse sits below a detached house, and a two storey house with a roof space above both. Send the address and we will quote it, with travel across Blacktown included.
Yes, and it is a large part of what we do here. Schofields recorded 74 unit sales in three months against 53 house sales, so attached housing is the majority of the market rather than a sideline.
Two things. The boundary between your lot and common property decides what the report can cover, so we establish it before attending. And the party wall brings its own detail: damp proof course continuity, fire rated sealant at service penetrations, and junctions that a freestanding house simply does not have.
Within a day of the visit. On a purchase that matters, because the report is only worth having while you can still act on what it says.
Because a single Schofields pre-purchase inspection produced twenty four of them. It is the only suburb in this network where our resale work outweighs our new construction work, and the page reflects that rather than pretending otherwise.
Staining under kitchen cabinetry and around wet areas, cladding sitting closer to the concrete than the clearance allows, minor cracking to measure rather than describe, a downpipe never connected to the stormwater system, broken tiles and a dripping tap. Ordinary things, individually cheap, worth knowing before you commit.
Yes. Owner Inspections holds a NSW Fair Trading contractor licence and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. You will find the number in the footer of every page.
Resale inspections run to AS 4349.1 and timber pest to AS 4349.3. New construction is measured against your contract, the National Construction Code, the Guide to Standards and Tolerances 2017, AS 2870 for slabs, AS 1684 for framing and AS 3740 for wet areas.
The Home Building Act 1989 provides six years for major defects and two for the rest, measured from completion. On attached housing it is worth confirming who holds the warranty for common property, because it may not be you alone.
The work is visual and confined to what can be reached. No circuit is energised, no pipe pressurised, no appliance run, nothing dismantled and no engineering certified. Where a trade needs to take it further, we say so.
Tallawong, Nirimba Fields, Quakers Hill, Riverstone, Marsden Park and The Ponds, along with the rest of the north west. No travel charge applies across that area.
You are welcome to, and on a purchase we would encourage it. Half an hour walking the property with the inspector answers questions a report cannot.
We call you. The purpose is to separate the findings that should change your offer or your settlement from the ones that are simply a weekend's work.