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 Alkimos usually reads a young home. One of the newest of the far-northern coastal suburbs, Alkimos is still being built out, so a purchase here is very often of a brand-new or near-new home on recently-developed ground, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads both facts: a young home asks different questions from an old one, and the fresh estate land it stands on has its own early behaviour.
The brand-new home is the first distinctive factor. A home only a year or two old should be sound, but a build shows its early-life defects first: wet-area waterproofing that was rushed, finishing snags left at handover, and roof plumbing with the poor falls or loose flashings of a fast job. Because the home is so new, the builder's statutory warranty is at its most useful, so a defect found now is very likely the builder's to fix, which makes an inspection before final payment or settlement, on a brand-new build a practical-completion inspection, especially worthwhile. The building inspection reads the wet areas, roof plumbing and finishing for exactly the defects a new build carries.
The freshly-developed ground is the second factor. A new estate is built on land recently cut, filled and compacted to create its pads and roads, and a home on engineered fill can settle as that fill consolidates in its first years, so some early settlement cracking is normal. The building inspection reads the slab, walls and floor levels to distinguish that ordinary bedding-in from movement that signals a real footing problem.
The home is modern brick veneer on slab, so the frame, slab and roof are read for that era, and asbestos is not a factor. On the coast, the exposed steel, fixings and roof are read for early corrosion.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, which are lower for now in a new estate with little established garden, but rise once landscaping goes in, so the timber pest scope, and understanding the original treatment, are worth it. The building inspection's value here is reading both the handover defects of a young build and the early settlement of the fill it sits on, while the builder still carries much of the cost.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Eglinton and Butler.
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Its newness. Alkimos is one of the newest coastal suburbs, still being built out, so a purchase here is very often of a brand-new or near-new home on recently-developed ground, and both of those shape the read, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because even a new build shows early-life defects first: rushed wet-area waterproofing, finishing snags left at handover, and roof plumbing with poor falls or loose flashings. We read for exactly these, because catching them now matters.
Very much, because the homes are so new. A defect found now is very likely the builder's to fix rather than yours, so an inspection before final payment or settlement, on a brand-new build a practical-completion inspection, is especially worthwhile.
It is an inspection of a brand-new home before you make final payment, listing the defects and unfinished items for the builder to fix. On the newest Alkimos builds it is often the right scope, and we can advise on which suits your purchase.
Not necessarily. A new estate is built on recently filled and compacted ground, and a home on engineered fill can settle in its first years, so some early cracking is normal. We read the slab, walls and floor levels to tell that bedding-in from a real footing problem.
Asbestos is not a factor in homes of this age, so that particular concern does not apply here.
It does. On an exposed coastal block we read the exposed steel, fixings and roof for early corrosion, and the envelope for how it is sealed against wind-driven rain, even on a new build.
It is still worth it. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and while risk is lower in a new estate with little garden yet, it rises once landscaping goes in, so the timber pest scope and understanding the original treatment are worthwhile.
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.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a handover defect or real footing movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to have the builder put it right.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Alkimos — 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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