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.
Ellenbrook is one of Perth’s largest master-planned communities, begun in the early 1990s on former banksia and sheoak woodland and wetlands, and for most of its thirty-plus years of existence it did not have a train. The Morley-Ellenbrook Metronet line opened in 2024, and with it came a transit connection that 26,000 residents and several estate generations had been waiting for. A building and timber pest inspection at Ellenbrook reads across that multi-decade development span, because the oldest estates are now at the age where the first generation of building materials is reaching its limit, and the suburb is genuinely in several different eras at once.
The estate-age read is the lead. Ellenbrook’s earliest villages and estates from the mid-1990s are now approaching thirty years old, which puts their original AS 3740 wet-area waterproofing at or past the end of its first service life. A shower installed at handover in 1997 has been in continuous use for nearly thirty years, and the early signs of membrane failure, drummy tiles, a soft wall section, efflorescence at the skirting, are exactly what the inspection reads for before they become a renovation after settlement. The 2000s and 2010s estates are behind them on the same timeline, and the newest stages are in the new-build read of first-years load on freshly developed ground.
The former woodland and wetland setting gives Ellenbrook a specific termite and moisture context. The Ellen Brook waterway that names the suburb, and the wetland remnants that the development was built around, maintain permanent moisture at the edges of the suburb and wherever low ground has retained its wetland character. We read the subfloor and the drainage on blocks near those wetland edges with the same care we bring to any wetland-boundary suburb.
The social housing component within the suburb, on land the former Homeswest acquired for that purpose, adds the deferred-maintenance read familiar from other investment-held stocks to that part of Ellenbrook’s residential mix.
The 2024 Metronet station has begun driving the higher-density development around the station node, and those newer apartments and townhouses earn the modern strata read of building envelope and common property.
What you get is a plain reading of the Ellenbrook home in its estate generation, 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 Aveley and Tapping.
MISSING: phone number · Book online → · Flat $616 inc GST for both scopes, report within 24 hours.
Its multi-decade estate span. The oldest villages from the mid-1990s are approaching thirty years old with first-generation waterproofing at its limit, while the newest stages are in the new-build read, and the 2024 Metronet line is driving higher-density development around the station.
At nearly thirty years, the original AS 3740 wet-area waterproofing from 1997 is at or past the end of its first service life. Early failure signs, drummy tiles and soft walls, are what the inspection reads for.
These are behind the 1990s homes on the same timeline. We read each stage's waterproofing and roof plumbing at its current age.
The new-build read: waterproofing, roof plumbing and first-years slab settlement on freshly developed ground.
The Ellen Brook waterway and the wetland remnants that the development was built around maintain permanent moisture at the suburb's edges. We read the subfloor and drainage on wetland-adjacent blocks with particular care.
The deferred-maintenance pattern familiar from other investor-held stocks applies to the Homeswest-origin part of the suburb, and we read those homes for what that history has left.
It is driving higher-density development around the station node. Those apartments and townhouses earn the modern strata read of building envelope and common property.
Former banksia and sheoak woodland, wetland remnants and the Ellen Brook waterway all give termites the conditions they use. We read the subfloor, roof void and perimeter carefully near those edges.
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 Ellenbrook? 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.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
PERTH