During the Build

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What Happens During the Build?

Building a home is a remarkable milestone and Gold Property Partners go above and beyond to help you enjoy the construction process. As your appointed representative on site, it’s our job to ensure the quality of your new home and we monitor each and every detail with the same standard we would apply if it were our own home.

24 Hour Access

You can’t be on site with us, but the Gold Builder App is the next best thing. We understand that knowledge is power and that you feel better when you know what is going on with your build. That’s why we created the Gold Builder App using the most transparent, customer centric technology in the construction space – to give you around the clock access to your building project. Each client will receive a unique link to download their personalised App via the Apple or Android App Stores.

Your secure, personalised, cloud-based portal will allow you to:

Receive photos, videos, drone footage and real time updates from site
View document library, including reports and contracts
Chat with your customer manager, site supervisor and/or building broker
Keep an eye on the calendar of work and construction milestones
Store all email communications from Gold Property Partners
Appoint or action any “to do” items
Annotate & send photos and documents
Digitally sign off on any variations
Manage warranties
Store digital manuals (e.g. for your air-conditioner)
Share photos and videos on social media

Celebrate the Foundation

We want you to enjoy the experience of building your home, and that begins when the slab is poured! We’ll film the whole thing using time lapse so that you can watch your hard-earned money transform into the stable foundation upon which your future will be built.

The video is our gift to you, our way of helping you celebrate the momentous occasion – share it with friends and treasure it for years to come. We’ll continue to delight you with updates, pictures and footage of your home being constructed throughout the building process.

Quality Assurance Inspections

There are many details that require a trained eye to ensure your home is built to an exceptional quality. As your advocate on site, we conduct 5 major inspections to monitor and manage the standard of work at each stage. These inspections are designed to react to problems before they become expensive or impact upon the quality of your home. After each inspection you’ll receive an inspection report with a ticked off floor plan and photos.

1. Electrical Inspection

Before the house is sheeted, we’ll meet with the electrician to make sure every single light switch, power point, ceiling fan, light fitting and television point is in the perfect place. Want your television mounted? No worries, we’ll make sure it’s the exact place you nominated. We ensure all of your instructions signed off in the design stage are delivered during construction.

2. Tiling Inspection

To get the highest quality result, Gold Property Partner’s stresses the 1% of things that most people wouldn’t even notice. Prior to a single tile being laid, we’ll meet with the tiler to review the tiling plan. This involves our cross checking batch numbers to ensure the right tiles have been delivered in the correct quantities, we’ll negotiate grout lines with the tiler, ensuring all mounts are matched and pleasing. By stressing the small details upfront, we avoid the stress and cost of getting it wrong.

3. Landscaping Meeting

You are welcome to join us in meeting the landscaper to determine the best design for your outdoor spaces. This involves planning grassed and surfaced areas, garden bed and tree placement to best manage lighting and temperature, fence positioning and height, watering system and drainage, as well as all the compliance obligations if you are putting in a pool.

4. First Quality Assurance Inspection

This is an extremely thorough inspection to ensure your new home exceeds the standards required by the Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991. Depending on the size of the home, it is normal range for us to pick up on 100 points of defect – so do not be alarmed! We treat every home as if it were our own, ‘dotting’ each defect and documenting with photos before negotiating resolutions with the builder and other trades. It doesn’t matter if your home is worth $200k or $2m, we expect it to be finished to an exceptional quality and will hold all trades accountable.

5. Practical Completion Inspection

Once all the quality assurance items have been resolved, you’ll be invited along to the final inspection to provide your sign off on the quality of your completed home!

Contact us to receive a sample of our inspections.

The Keys to your New Home

We know your home inside and out, after all, we built it with you! We’ll take great pleasure in walking you through a comprehensive handover, showing you every detail of your home as if you were purchasing a new car. We’ll demonstrate how everything works, from what keys work on which door, opening and closing windows, the garage door, operating lights and fans, air-conditioning, kitchen appliances and so on. Your digital manuals and warranties will be stored in your Gold Builder App portal which is accessible to you always. Final reports will be signed off and the keys to your brand-new home will be handed to you! Congratulations!

The First Year

Our work isn’t quite done yet. We keep in touch with you throughout the first year to coordinate your 3and 12 month warranty inspections by the builder. We’ll remind you of the dates and to note down anything that requires attention ahead of time to ensure all defects are remedied within the builder’s warranty period.