Beveridge handover property in Melbourne filled with defects and dead crickets found by Zeher Khalil
A home inspector has shared the “worst” completion property he’s ever seen, with the brand-new house having an array of flaws, junk, and dead crickets.
Zeher Khalil, 40, who works for Site Inspections – a company that inspects finished homes before handing them over to clients – revealed the ‘incredible’ quality of Melbourne’s newly built home Beveridge on Tuesday, sharing clips of what he found inside.
“Seriously, would you accept this as your new home!” the TikTok message was captioned.
Building materials, including roof tiles and a door, were scattered around the site next to rooms full of trash and moldy food.
An entire “family” of crickets was found dead on floors throughout the house.
Mr Khalil (pictured) was asked out to the estate north of Melbourne and was not surprised by what he found
Dead crickets were found by Mr Khalil, strewn all over the house, with the inspector joking that they were ‘trying to get away from the flaws’ (pictured)
“Trying to get away from the flaws,” Mr. Khalil can be heard joking as he shows the spread of dead crickets.
“They couldn’t take the flaws.”
As well as being used and left unclean, the bathroom consisted of exposed pipes where there should have been a sink, no water stop in the shower tray and with several hollow cavities under the shower tiles.
The father of four also pointed out numerous flaws in several rooms, including non-compliant ventilation in the roof, faulty taps and a wobbly window that doesn’t open properly.
Leftover building materials and rubbish were scattered around the Beveridge site (pictured)
The inspector even found moldy food left in the newly built house among the rubbish (pictured)
“Would you accept this if this was your brand new home?” Do you hear Mr. Khalil ask.
“Why is this a handover inspection?” Incredible.’
The median home price in Beveridge, less than an hour north of Melbourne, is $627,500 for a three-bedroom home or $722,500 for a four-bedroom home.
Mr. Khalil, who has been working as a registered builder for 10 years, started posting the videos out of frustration with the quality of the work that the tradesmen he hired for his job delivered.
He told the Daily Mail Australia last year that 95 percent of the homes he audited contain substandard work and that 80 percent of homes have so many issues that need fixing that he would tell buyers to pull out of their deals .
He attributes the shocking figures to ‘a combination of laziness and lack of education’.
“The average trad has not properly studied the rules he works on,” he said.
‘Australian standards aren’t free either, you have to buy the documentation.
“But in general I think people are just trying to get away with doing less,” he added.
The inspector said he understands that a builder is often too busy managing other things to supervise the work being done on the project.
“He doesn’t sit with the tiler or the waterproofer and say ‘let me see if there’s enough adhesive behind those tiles’ or if the waterproof membrane is thick enough,” he said.
Numerous defects were found throughout the Beveridge home, including non-compliant ventilation (pictured left), no water stop in the shower tray, and several hollow cavities under the shower tiles (pictured right)
Mr Khalil (pictured) has been working as a registered contractor for 10 years and believes the shocking things he finds during inspections can be attributed to ‘a combination of laziness and lack of training’
“I’m not trying to be a hero, I just know the process, I know both sides: how trade works and also homeowners’ opinions, and I saw the missing link.”
However, the builder said he has received several death threats since he started posting videos in May last year.
A builder was so enraged by a video review he posted that he told him, “You rate another one of my properties, you’ll end up in my boot.”
In that case, a buyer backed out of a sale, potentially costing the project builder hundreds of thousands of dollars after seeing Mr. Khalil’s appraisal.
“I told him, ‘I didn’t know it was your property, I’m just doing a job for a client,'” he said.
The threats have led him to register his car with his office, not his home, in case he is tracked from a job – but Mr Khalil said he enjoys his job nonetheless.
“I’m not working, this is fun for me, I really like what I do,” he added.
‘I really enjoy helping buyers and connecting people with the right advice.’