Joinery in, painter waiting, wet area items due to close out.
Fixing stage carries the last practical chance at the membrane, because the tiler is next through the door. On Schofields jobs it also picks up the external work that gets waved past at handover: window and door infills left incomplete, render carried over detail it should have stopped short of, and the front elevation generally.
Annotated findings from Fixing inspections on Schofields builds. Client addresses withheld.
1Bored piersAfter boring and cage placement, before concrete
2Slab pre-pourThe day before the pour, steel and formwork complete
3FrameOnce frame and trusses are up and the roof is on, before lining
4Lock-up (pre-plaster)After roof, cladding and external doors, before plaster
6WaterproofingAfter the membrane is applied and before any tile is laid7Pre-handover (PCI)Two to three weeks before your handover dateInstant online pricing, or talk to the booking team on 1300 471 805.
Because whatever it covers stops being inspectable and, in the case of a weep hole or a flashing edge, stops working. It is easier to cut back now than to explain later.
They overlap and often run as a single visit, but the questions differ: the membrane before tiling, and the joinery and external detail here.
Paint fills and hides exactly the gaps and joints this stage exists to find.
Two to three hours on a standard property, with the report that evening or the following morning.
On most builds yes, because it is the last point at which wet area work can be corrected without removing tiles.
Your contract and selections, so the report measures what was installed against what was agreed.
