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A field guide for anyone currently building a new home. The 30 most common signs your builder is cutting corners — by build stage, with the exact action to take for each.
A single caught red flag can save you $5,000–$60,000. Most homeowners catch four or five before handover.
Below are 12 of the 30 red flags. The full PDF has the "why it matters" and "do this now" for each one.
+18 more across pre-construction, frame, lockup, fixing, handover, and warranty.
We build software that helps Australian homeowners protect themselves during construction — defect logs, AI contract review, tribunal evidence packages. Customers kept telling us the same thing:
“If only I'd known what to look for in the first month, I'd have caught it before the slab went down.”
This guide is what we wish every Australian homeowner had on their phone the day they signed a building contract. It's free because catching a single red flag pays for itself many times over — whether you ever use our app or not.
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