Pre-Purchase Building Inspections
A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of an established Craigieburn home.
Read more →An established suburb of 65,000 people, where most of our work is on houses that already have a history.
Seven checks through a Craigieburn build, each before the work is closed in.
1 Bored piers After boring and cage placement, before any 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 of an established Craigieburn home.
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Building and timber pest together, which is how Craigieburn should be inspected.
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The final list, taken while the last payment is still yours.
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A single failure, traced back to what was actually required.
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A dated photographic record before the block next door is developed.
Evidence drawn to the tribunal practice note when a dispute gets that far.
Every photograph on this site was taken by our inspectors on jobs in Craigieburn. They come from six inspections between September 2025 and July 2026, and the mix reflects the suburb: most are from pre-purchase and timber pest work on established homes, because that is what Craigieburn mostly books. Client addresses withheld.
Six steps from the first message to the follow up call.
Address, the type of inspection and any deadline behind it. A fixed price comes back without a site visit.
Cooling off, auction date or handover. On a resale we aim to be there before your contract clock runs down.
Through the agent for a purchase, or through your supervisor on a build. We confirm keys and roof space access before the day.
Two to three hours on a typical Craigieburn house, longer where there are additions, a subfloor or a second storey.
Photographs, locations, crack widths measured rather than described, and safety hazards listed on their own.
To separate the structural items from the maintenance list, so you know what actually affects the price.
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The 4.8 star rating and review count above belong to the Owner Inspections Google Business Profiles for Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The reviews below are verified client reviews collected through our own inspection system after each report was issued. Craigieburn clients have left us far more inspections than written reviews, so the section is topped up from the neighbouring suburbs we work in. Every review names the suburb it came from.
We inspect every estate in Craigieburn 3064 and the surrounding suburbs of Mickleham, Roxburgh Park, Greenvale, Donnybrook, Kalkallo and Somerton. Our Melbourne west inspectors are on site in Craigieburn most weeks, so travel never adds to the price.
A structural element, removed by somebody who needed the space.
Recorded at frame stage, weeks after the pour.
Two minutes of work, deferred until it becomes a plumber's callout.
What our inspectors record across an established suburb of sixty five thousand people.
Building new in Craigieburn Less greenfield than it was, and the stages that still matter on what is left.Read more → 
Buying in Craigieburn An established market of 65,000 people, with stock that has history behind it.Read more → 
Growth and development Road and rail upgrades on a suburb that is largely already built.Read more → 
Permits, council and disputes City of Hume, a registered building surveyor, and the Victorian dispute route.Read more → 
Ground and soil in Craigieburn Reactive basalt clay, what it does to a house, and why no site class is printed here.Read more → Termites and pest risk Barriers that have been bridged, and notices nobody can find.Read more → 
What we find in Craigieburn Six inspections, and the findings that keep repeating across them.Read more → 
Roofs and water in Craigieburn Where water gets in on an established house, and what the roof space remembers.Read more → Market and population figures are for Craigieburn 3064 from OpenAgent, retrieved 9 September 2026. Estate names were confirmed against a street address inside Craigieburn; two names that commonly appear in Craigieburn searches, Viridian and Dunhelen, sit in Greenvale and are deliberately not listed here. No suburb wide soil classification is published, because AS 2870 site class is set per lot by your own soil report.
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It depends on the size of the house and whether you want the timber pest inspection with it. A standard single storey pre-purchase sits at the lower end, a large double storey with a subfloor and additions at the upper. Send the address through the quote form and a fixed figure comes back, with travel included.
Usually within the same week, and we prioritise anything with a cooling off period or an auction date behind it. Craigieburn is a suburb our northern inspectors are in most weeks, so getting there is rarely the constraint.
Inside 24 hours of the inspection, and often the same evening. On a purchase that matters, because the report is only useful while you can still act on it.
In Craigieburn, usually yes. We record termite barrier breaches, bridging and conducive conditions here often enough that inspecting the building without the pest component leaves an obvious gap for the sake of a small saving.
No, and that is why the report measures it. Craigieburn sits on reactive basalt clay that moves seasonally, so some cracking is expected. What matters is the width, the pattern and whether it is going through the structure, which is what gets classified rather than described.
Yes. Stage inspections through Highlands, Montview and the newer Craigieburn releases, plus pre-handover before you take the keys. The suburb is mostly established now, but there is still new work going up on its northern edge.
Wherever there is a hatch and it is safe and accessible. Those are the two places where the useful findings hide on an established house, so we do not skip them. Where access is blocked, the report says which area was not inspected and why.
Resale work runs to AS 4349.1, with AS 4349.3 covering the timber pest side. New construction work is assessed against your contract, the National Construction Code, the Victorian Guide to Standards and Tolerances, AS 2870 for slabs and AS 1684 for timber framing.
Yes. Owner Inspections is a registered building practitioner in Victoria and carries professional indemnity and public liability cover. The registration numbers are in the footer of every page here.
The inspection is visual and non-destructive. No service is energised or pressure tested, no appliance is run, nothing is opened up, no ground is sampled and no engineering is certified. Where an item needs an engineer, a plumber or a licensed pest controller, the report says so.
That is one of the main reasons people order one. Because each item cites the standard or tolerance it fails, the conversation with an agent moves onto documented defects and quotable repairs rather than opinion.
Mickleham, Roxburgh Park, Greenvale, Donnybrook, Kalkallo and Somerton, along with the rest of the northern corridor. Travel inside that ring is not charged on top.
We call you and go through it. The purpose of that call is to separate the items that change what the property is worth from the ones that are ordinary maintenance, because a long list is not the same thing as a bad house.