Beveridge handover property in Melbourne filled with defects and dead crickets found by Zeher Khalil

A housing inspector has shared the ‘worst’ handover property he’s seen, with the brand new home sporting a range of defects, rubbish and dead crickets.

Zeher Khalil, 40, who works for Site Inspections – a company that inspects finished homes before they are handed over to clients – exposed the ‘unbelievable’ quality of the newly-built home in Melbourne’s Beveridge on Tuesday, sharing clips of what he found inside. 

‘Seriously, would you accept this as your new home!’ the TikTok post was captioned. 

Building materials, including roof tiles and a door were left strewn across the site alongside rooms filled with rubbish and mouldy food.

A whole ‘family’ of crickets was found dead on floors throughout the home.  

Dead crickets were found by Mr Khalil littered throughout the home, with the inspector joking they were ‘trying to get away from the defects’ (pictured)

‘Trying to get away from the defects,’ Mr Khalil is heard joking as he shows the spread of dead crickets.

‘They couldn’t take the defects.’ 

As well as being left used and unclean, the bathroom comprised of exposed piping where a sink should’ve been, no water stop in the shower base and with several hollow cavities beneath the shower tiles. 

The father-of-four also pointed out numerous defects in several of the rooms including non-compliant ventilation in the roof, faulty taps and a wonky window which doesn’t open properly. 

Leftover building material and rubbish was left strewn throughout the Beveridge property (pictured)

The inspector even found mouldy food left behind in the newly-built home amid the waste (pictured)

‘Would you accept this if this was your brand new home?’ Mr Khalil is heard asking.

‘How is this a handover inspection. Unbelievable.’

The median house 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.

Mr Khalil, who has worked as a registered builder for 10 years, started posting the videos in frustration at the standard of work tradespeople he contracted on his jobs were delivering. 

He told Daily Mail Australia last year 95 per cent of the houses he’s checked contain non-compliant work and 80 per cent of homes have so many problems that require fixing that he’d tell buyers to back out of their deals. 

He puts those shocking numbers down to ‘a combination of laziness and lack of education’.

‘The average tradie hasn’t studied the regulations properly that he works to,’ he said. 

‘Australian standards are not 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 oversee the work being done on the project.  

‘He’s not sitting with tiler or the waterproofer saying ‘let me check if there’s enough glue behind those tiles’ or whether 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 base and several hollow cavities beneath the shower tiles (pictured right)

Mr Khalil (pictured) has worked as a registered builder for 10 years and believes the shocking things he finds during inspections can be put down to ‘a combination of laziness and lack of education’

‘I’m not trying to be a hero, I just know the process, I know both sides: how trades operate and the homeowners’ view too, 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.

One builder was so enraged at a video review he posted that he told him, ‘if you review another one of my properties, you’ll end up in my boot’.

In that case, a buyer pulled out of a sale, potentially costing the project builder hundreds of thousands of dollars after seeing Mr Khalil’s assessment.

‘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 to his office, not his home, just in case he’s followed 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 like doing it helping buyers and connecting people to the right advice.’