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.
Innaloo has changed faster than almost any suburb around it. Built as a post-war residential area, it now clusters around a major retail centre and the Stirling transport hub, and the land near that core has filled with apartments and mixed-use buildings over the last decade or so. A building and timber pest inspection here is, as often as not, the read of a modern strata apartment, and that is a very different job from inspecting an old house.
The apartments are the defining Innaloo story, and modern high-density stock has its own set of concerns. Boom-era apartment construction across Perth has a known history of defects, so the inspection reads the things that go wrong in these buildings: balcony and podium waterproofing, which fails where membranes were rushed. It reads the external cladding for type and condition, given the well-publicised concerns about combustible cladding, and the window and facade sealing, and it reads the concrete and structure for cracking and early movement. For a strata purchase the records carry as much weight as the walls, so the minutes are read for the levies and known common-property defects, and any special levy, because in a newer building a defect history can point to costs that dwarf the inspection.
The surviving houses are mostly post-war, and they are read for their era: 1950s and 60s brick, asbestos in the eaves and sheeting identified and flagged, brittle tiled roofs with perished sarking, and delignified framing. Many of these are redevelopment sites now, so where a home is bought to knock down the inspection focuses on what matters to that plan.
Where a property is a recent villa, townhouse or grouped dwelling, the read is build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a fast build rushes. This runs alongside the shared driveways and walls and drainage that grouped title creates.
On the timber pest side, the older houses and their established gardens carry the usual subterranean termite risk. We read the subfloor and perimeter and sound suspect timber, with movement detection where needed. The apartments are lower risk on this front, being concrete and elevated, though ground-floor and podium-level timber is still checked. Termite management follows AS 3660.
Innaloo is a suburb of new apartments and old houses side by side, and the report earns its value by reading the modern strata building for the defects its era is prone to, and the old house for the age and asbestos of its own.
We run the same two-scope visit across the area, including nearby Doubleview and Stirling.
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The defects newer high-density buildings are prone to, and the strata records. We read balcony and podium waterproofing and the external cladding for type and condition, and the window and facade sealing, and we read the minutes for levies, known common-property defects and any special levy, because in a newer building a defect history can point to costs that dwarf the inspection.
It is worth checking. Given the well-publicised concerns about combustible cladding on newer buildings, we read the external cladding for its type and condition and note where it warrants further investigation or where the strata records show it has been assessed or replaced.
Because in a modern apartment the shared building drives the cost. The minutes reveal the levies and known common-property defects, and any special levy planned, and in a boom-era building that history can point to major works ahead, which matters far more than a scuff in the lot itself.
Yes, but the focus changes. Where a home is bought to knock down, we concentrate on what matters to that plan: the site and any structure being retained, rather than cosmetic wear that is about to be demolished. Asbestos is still flagged, because it affects demolition.
In the post-war stock, yes, in eaves and sheeting. We identify and flag suspect materials without disturbing them, which matters most for renovation or demolition planning.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, plus the shared driveways and walls and drainage that grouped title creates and the records that govern them.
For the houses, yes, the usual subterranean termite risk through established gardens, read via the subfloor and perimeter and with suspect timber sounded. Apartments are lower risk, being concrete and elevated, though ground-floor and podium timber is still checked. Termite management follows AS 3660.
A flat $616 including GST for both scopes together, the same in every suburb. A strata apartment takes time to read across the common property and records, and you have the written report, with photos, within 24 hours.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the strata records are a key part of the picture in a modern building, so we recommend obtaining them, and we tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. Whether it is a modern apartment or an old house, a clear report separates the significant issue, waterproofing or cladding on a unit, or asbestos or an old roof on a house, from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Buying in Innaloo? A pre-purchase building inspection — building scope only, report within 24 hours — gives you the documented record before exchange.
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