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.
South Perth is one of Perth’s oldest and most recognisable addresses, separated from the city by the river and connected by ferry and bridge, and its housing is a genuine two-era suburb. Intact interwar precincts along Canning Highway survive from 1914 to the mid-1930s, while the river frontage has filled with modern apartments and towers over the past few decades. A building and timber pest inspection here reads a different home depending on which side of that line you are buying on.
The interwar homes are the older half. Homes from 1914 to the 1930s were built in solid brick with no cavity and, in most cases, no damp-proof course, and they have been standing in riverside air for nearly a hundred years. We read the base of the walls for rising damp and salt, the mortar and tuckpointing for what decades of winter weather have done, and the original roof structure and its flashings, because these things are the ones that reach their end of life quietly.
The riverside apartments are the other half, and the read flips entirely. A modern multi-storey apartment building is about the building envelope and the common property, the waterproofing of balconies and rooftop plant, the wet areas, the curtain glazing and external cladding that face the river weather, and the services and structure the owner’s lot shares with the building. We read your lot and everything connected to it, because on a strata title the boundary of your problem is not always the boundary of your walls.
South Perth also holds character homes from the gold-rush era through to the 1960s sitting between the older precincts and the river, and any of these may have been extended or redeveloped, so we read each home as it actually stands rather than assuming a single era.
The timber pest side follows the split. On the older masonry homes we read for damp paths and subfloor timbers, and established gardens set against walls. On the strata stock we note what the building’s common-property timber and the lot’s own structure gives termites access to.
What you get is a plain reading of the particular home in its era, and its position on the river, 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 Como and Kensington.
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Its two-era split. The suburb holds intact interwar precincts and modern river-facing apartments, and those are nearly opposite reads, so the inspection depends entirely on which you are buying.
Solid brick with no damp-proof course, near the river for a century. We read the wall bases for rising damp and salt, the mortar and tuckpointing, and the original roof structure and flashings.
Because solid brick with no damp-proof course draws ground moisture up the wall, and riverside air adds salt. The two together attack the mortar and brick face over the years, and remedying it is costly.
Everything. A modern apartment read is about the building envelope and common property, the waterproofing of balconies and wet areas, external cladding and glazing, and shared services, not just your own four walls.
Balcony waterproofing, roof plant and façade cladding can all affect your lot but sit in common property. We read what is connected to your lot and flag what the owners corporation carries.
Yes. Character homes from the gold-rush era through to the 1960s sit between the older precincts and the river, many extended or altered, and each is read as it actually stands.
Established riverside gardens plus damp ground and timber subfloors on the older homes give termites what they need, so we read subfloor, roof void and the surrounding ground closely.
Yes. We read your lot and the elements of the building it connects to, so you understand both what you own and what you share.
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 South Perth? 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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