Independent inspection to AS 4349.1 by a registered building contractor. What you are buying, read by someone who has built. Report within 24 hours.
A pre-purchase building inspection in Alexander Heights reads a maturing 1980s estate. Its owner-occupier homes are brick veneer on concrete slabs, and at around forty years on the estate has grown in and its original roofs and services are entering the first wave of end-of-life renewal. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads that later estate construction and that maturing age together.
The 1980s construction is the first factor. These homes are a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a concrete slab, with articulated brickwork and control joints designed to manage movement, so the building inspection reads the frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes and articulation joints the veneer relies on, and the slab for rising damp at the edge and the heave or settlement reactive clay can drive. Concrete or terracotta tile roofs are read for condition, and aluminium windows for seals rather than rust.
The age is the distinctive factor. At around forty years, the original roof coverings, hot-water systems and finishes are reaching the point where they need renewal, so the building inspection reads the roof and its coverings for what is worn out versus renewed, and is honest about the maintenance a maturing estate home is due for. The mature trees the established gardens carry are read for root effects on footings and drainage.
Asbestos is much reduced in stock of this era but not absent, and any suspect materials are flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed. Where a bigger block has been subdivided, the newer dwelling is read for build quality and the shared elements grouped title creates.
The roof space takes the longest time, read for framing condition, water entry and the coverings' remaining life.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the slab edge and mature, watered gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the veneer-and-slab construction of the era and the end-of-life maintenance a forty-year-old home is reaching together.
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The 1980s construction and the maturing age. We read the brick-veneer frame and the slab of a home of this era, and the end-of-life maintenance a forty-year-old estate home is reaching, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
We read the timber frame behind the brick skin through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties, weep holes and articulation the veneer relies on, and the slab for rising damp at the edge and the heave or settlement reactive clay can drive.
Often, yes. At around forty years the original roof coverings, hot-water systems and finishes reach the point where they need renewal, so we read the roof and coverings for what is worn out versus renewed and are honest about the maintenance the home is due for.
They can. The established gardens mean mature trees close to homes, so we read for root effects on footings and drainage, because large trees near a slab can lift and disturb both over time.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is much reduced in stock of this era but not absent, so we check eaves and sheeting by age and appearance where present.
It can. On reactive clay the ground swells and shrinks with moisture and drives differential movement, so we read the slab edge and floor levels for that movement, and the drainage that keeps ground moisture stable.
A flat $440 including GST for the pre-purchase building inspection, or $616 including GST with the timber pest scope added in the same visit. The fee is the same in every suburb, and you have the report within 24 hours.
In most of Alexander Heights, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the slab edge and mature watered gardens here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
For meaning, and against the system. Veneer walls move at articulation joints, so we distinguish that expected movement from structural distress in the frame or slab, giving weight to any reactive-clay movement.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a roof at end of life or reactive-clay movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Alexander Heights — both scopes in one visit to AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3, one report within 24 hours.
Combined B&P 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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