Understanding your Home Assessment Report
All homeowners who registered for the Resilient Homes Fund before 30 July 2023 will have their Home Assessment Report.
The report includes:
- which Resilient Homes Fund programs you can apply for
- resilient strategies for your home
- flood levels for your home
- recommended next steps.
It is important you provide this report to the licensed contractor quoting for your work.
Please note that bookings for home assessments have closed and home assessment reports are no longer being issued.
Program options
The Home Assessment Report should list the programs through which you can apply for funding.
You can only receive funding under one program. If more than one funding option has been identified for your home, you will have to choose which to apply for, based on your circumstances.
If you are not eligible for a particular program, the report will explain why.
Program changes
We have expanded program eligibility so that more homeowners can improve the flood resilience of their homes.
These changes may now mean that you are eligible to apply for funding through more programs than what was originally recommended in your Home Assessment Report.
If you are unsure how these changes affect your options, phone (07) 3007 4485 and select option 2 (Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm) to schedule a one-on-one appointment over the phone or on Microsoft Teams.
Building terms explained
Your Home Assessment Report will include building terminology like these.
Habitable floor level
The habitable floor level is the floor that has habitable rooms as defined by the National Construction Code. This generally means rooms that have a minimum height requirement of 2.4 metres. See liveable or habitable rooms list following.
Liveable (or habitable) rooms
These rooms are used for normal domestic activities, and include:
- a bedroom, living room, lounge room, music room, television room, kitchen, dining room, sewing room, study, playroom, family room, home theatre and sunroom.
These rooms DO NOT include:
- a bathroom, laundry, water closet, pantry, walk-in wardrobe, corridor, hallway, lobby, photographic darkroom, clothes-drying room, and other spaces of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods.
- a garage.
Liveable rooms and areas must be:
- within the building envelope;
- fully enclosed
- meet the minimum ceiling height requirements outlined in the National Construction Code for habitable rooms (2.4m) and/or (2.1m) for laundries, bathrooms, toilets, corridors, hallways, pantry and storerooms etc.
Building envelope
The building envelope is the boundary of the main structure of the home. It is the structural barrier between the inside and outside of your home and includes the roof, walls, doors, windows and foundations.
Assessed flood level
See the assessed flood level guidance on the home raise page.