A PDI is one of your first opportunities to view your completed home. Your builder will guide you through a comprehensive inspection and may demonstrate how to operate the home’s systems such as the ventilation, plumbing and heating.​

Any item that is damaged, incomplete, missing or not operating properly should be noted on the builder’s  PDI form to verify that these conditions existed prior to occupancy. If something has not been installed or completed, this should be noted as well.  When the inspection is over, you or your designate will be asked to sign the PDI Form.

We recommend that you fill out and submit a 30-Day Form on or about the 25th day after your home’s date of possession. On this Form, you may include items that were listed on your Pre-Delivery Inspection Form that have not yet been addressed, as well as new items that you have discovered since taking possession of your home.

• Requires a home is constructed in a workman-like manner and free from defects in material
• Protects against unauthorized substitutions
• Requires the home to be fit for habitation
• Protects against Ontario Building Code violations
• Applies for one year, beginning on the home’s date of possession even if the home is sold

• Protects against water penetration through the basement or foundation walls
• Protects against defects in materials that affect windows, doors and caulking and defects in work that results in water penetration into the building envelope
• Covers defects in work or materials in the electrical, plumbing and heating delivery and distribution systems
• Covers defects in work or materials that result in the detachment, displacement or deterioration of exterior cladding (such as brickwork, aluminum or vinyl siding)
• Protects against violations of the Ontario Building Code that affect health and safety and applies for two years, beginning on the home’s date of possession

Your home’s seven year warranty covers major structural defects (MSD) and begins on the date you take possession of the home and ends on the seventh anniversary of that date.  For example, if your home’s date of possession is October 23, 2005, the seven year MSD warranty begins on October 23, 2005 and remains in effect until and including October 23, 2012. A major structural defect is defined in the The Ontario New Home Warranties Plan Act as:

• In respect of a post June 30, 2012 home, any defect in work or materials in respect of a building, including a crack, distortion or displacement of a structural load-bearing element of the building, if it
  (i) results in failure of a structural load-bearing element of the building,
  (ii) materially and adversely affects the ability of a structural load-bearing element of the building to carry, bear and resist applicable structural loads for the usual and ordinary service life of the element, or
  (iii) materially and adversely affects the use of a significant portion of the building for usual and ordinary purposes of a residential dwelling and having regard to any specific use provisions set out in the purchase agreement for the home.The seven year MSD warranty includes significant damage due to soil movement*, major cracks in basement walls, collapse or serious distortion of joints or roof structure and chemical failure of materials. In addition to the general exclusions, the seven year MSD warranty specifically excludes: dampness not arising from failure of a load-bearing portion of the building; damage to drains or services; and damage to finishes.
  *  Soil movement means subsidence, expansion or lateral movement of the soil not caused by flood , earthquake, “acts of God”, or any other cause beyond the reasonable control of the builder.