Step 5: Handover
Final certificate issued after pre-handover inspection
Pre-handover and final certification
Please check all work and make sure it’s complete before requesting the pre-handover inspection. Incomplete homes may result in aborted pre-handover inspections.
Pre-handover Inspection
A pre-handover inspection is required on all plots. For warranty it is required to ensure that all new homes are completed in accordance with NHBC Standards with no defects. Where NHBC is a Registered Building Control Approver for Building Control, it is required to ensure that all completed new homes are compliant with Building Regulations.
Certificate Issued
If all defects and technical conditions have been resolved (and certification provided where required), and a satisfactory pre-handover inspection completed, the final certificate will be issued.
Other NHBC services
Construction quality
Our specialist team of geotechnical and geo-environmental engineers assess all forms of land at pre-development stage; from brownfield and geotechnically challenging sites to marginal and greenfield sites.
Land quality
We offer a range of construction quality services, using our skills, data and industry intelligence to support you to further improve construction quality.
Road and sewer bonds
A discretionary facility, for registered builders and Housing Associations, to act as surety in providing bonds in favour of local authorities in relation to commitments to construct roads, sewers and open space areas.