Both scopes in one visit — building to AS 4349.1, timber pest to AS 4349.3. The fuller check, by a registered building contractor. Report within 24 hours.
Como is a riverside suburb split by Canning Highway, and its housing carries an unusual postwar chapter. In the late 1940s more than a thousand Como blocks were released at once, and the suburb became a test-bed for experimental prefabricated or ‘expansible’ houses meant to be built fast, while the housing shortage was so severe that people lived in caravans on their blocks as they built. A building and timber pest inspection in Como has to be ready for construction that does not follow the standard brick-veneer script.
The non-standard homes are the thing to watch. An experimental prefab, an ‘expansible’ house extended over time, or an owner-built home from the shortage years may use materials, framing and details that a standard home does not, so we read them on their own terms rather than assuming a conventional build. How such a house has been added to and maintained over seventy years matters as much as how it began.
Most of Como is more conventional, the postwar and later brick-and-tile homes and the newer infill that came with the suburb’s growth. Those get the read their age calls for, the older ones for roofs, wet areas and services near the end of their life, and the newer infill for the modern build of waterproofing and roof plumbing.
Como runs down toward the Swan, and the low river-flat parts add the water question, so we read the site drainage and any sign of a high water table or poor fall reaching the footings, because the lowest parts of a riverside suburb hold moisture longest.
The timber pest side suits an old, established, well-treed suburb, and the non-standard timber homes add to it. Mature gardens, damp low ground, and any timber-framed or owner-built stock give termites cover and food, so we read the subfloor, roof void and the ground around the home closely.
What you get is a plain reading of the home as it was actually built, standard or otherwise, with the report inside 24 hours and the real defects separated clearly from the cosmetic.
We run the same two-scope visit across the area, including nearby Kensington and South Perth.
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Its unusual postwar stock. Como was a test-bed for experimental prefabricated and 'expansible' homes, so alongside conventional houses there is construction that has to be read on its own terms.
In 1948-49 Como was a site for experimental prefabricated or 'expansible' homes meant to be built fast during the housing shortage, and some of that stock survives today.
Because a prefab, expansible or owner-built home may use framing and materials a conventional house does not, so it needs reading as what it actually is rather than a standard build.
Yes. Much of it is standard postwar brick-and-tile and later infill, read for age or modern build accordingly, with the non-standard homes the exception to watch for.
We read the construction rather than the listing, and tell you where a home's framing or materials point to prefab, expansible or owner-built origins.
On the low river-flat parts it can. We read site drainage and any sign of a high water table or poor fall reaching the footings, because low ground holds moisture longest.
In an old, green, riverside suburb it is real, and any timber-framed or owner-built stock adds to it, so we read subfloor, roof void and the ground closely.
Yes. We read it on its own terms, looking at how it was built and how seventy years of additions and maintenance have treated it, rather than forcing it into a standard template.
Yes. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 and the timber pest inspection to AS 4349.3 are done in one visit, with a single report within 24 hours.
A flat $616 inc GST for both scopes, report within 24 hours.
Buying in Como? A pre-purchase building inspection — building scope only, report within 24 hours — gives you the documented record before exchange.
Pre-purchase inspection →Our office is at Suite 55, 15 Labouchere Road, South Perth WA 6151 — on the Swan River foreshore near the Perth Zoo.
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