diff --git a/notebooks/api/0.8/10-container-images.ipynb b/notebooks/api/0.8/10-container-images.ipynb
index 81ba6a05d13..35f26e791ff 100644
--- a/notebooks/api/0.8/10-container-images.ipynb
+++ b/notebooks/api/0.8/10-container-images.ipynb
@@ -133,6 +133,28 @@
     "docker_config = sy.DockerWorkerConfig(dockerfile=custom_dockerfile_str)"
    ]
   },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "62762ceb-38da-46f1-acac-cdf5bbf29513",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "# test image build locally\n",
+    "test_build_res = docker_config.test_image_build(tag=\"openmined/custom-worker:0.7.8\")\n",
+    "test_build_res"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "0235e567-c65c-48fe-825d-79ea3e219166",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "assert isinstance(test_build_res, sy.SyftSuccess), str(test_build_res)"
+   ]
+  },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
@@ -1406,7 +1428,7 @@
    "name": "python",
    "nbconvert_exporter": "python",
    "pygments_lexer": "ipython3",
-   "version": "3.11.7"
+   "version": "3.9.7"
   }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
diff --git a/packages/syft/src/syft/custom_worker/config.py b/packages/syft/src/syft/custom_worker/config.py
index 1b55e34e021..c54d4f77c40 100644
--- a/packages/syft/src/syft/custom_worker/config.py
+++ b/packages/syft/src/syft/custom_worker/config.py
@@ -177,7 +177,6 @@ def test_image_build(self, tag: str, **kwargs) -> Union[SyftSuccess, SyftError]:
                 kwargs["fileobj"] = io.BytesIO(self.dockerfile.encode("utf-8"))
                 _, logs = client.images.build(
                     tag=tag,
-                    timeout=self.BUILD_MAX_WAIT,
                     **kwargs,
                 )
                 return SyftSuccess(message=iterator_to_string(iterator=logs))