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.
Applecross is one of Perth’s most recognisable riverside addresses, bounded by the Swan and the Canning, and a pre-purchase building inspection here has to match the suburb’s range. Thomas Burke’s 1925 subdivision started as modest working-class blocks, but those streets now hold 1920s and 1930s character homes, postwar brick-and-tile, modern prestige rebuilds and a rising apartment cluster at the Canning Bridge end. The building read depends on which of those is in front of you.
On the 1920s and 1930s character homes the read is about masonry and moisture near the river. These homes were built in solid brick or brick-and-timber when Applecross was a modest subdivision, and they have stood in riverside air for nearly a century. We read the wall bases for rising damp and salt, the original roof structure and its flashings, and any subfloor timbers and stumps, because these are the things that reach their end of life quietly on a home no one thinks to question.
On a modern prestige rebuild the read is about the building envelope. Flat and skillion roofs, box gutters, large glazing, balconies and their waterproofing, and rendered lightweight junctions are what an elevated river-view home depends on, and these decide whether a striking design performs or leaks. They belong in the price before you pay it.
The postwar homes in between get the age read, with extra attention to any extensions, where the joins between original and added fabric are where problems most often concentrate. The Canning Bridge apartments get the strata read, building envelope, waterproofing and common property, so you know both what you own and what the building carries for you.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. At Applecross, where the same suburb holds a century of housing, that reading is what tells you exactly what you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Mount Pleasant and Ardross.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, which in Applecross means reading the right era from 1920s character homes to modern prestige rebuilds.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Solid brick or brick-and-timber in riverside air for nearly a century: the wall bases for rising damp and salt, the original roof structure and flashings, and any subfloor timbers and stumps.
The building envelope: flat and skillion roofs, box gutters, large glazing, balconies and their waterproofing, and the rendered lightweight junctions where a contemporary design fails first.
It ages metal fixings and flashings faster than inland air and the salt attacks mortar and brick, so findings come earlier on an Applecross character home than on a comparable home further from the water.
The joins between original and added fabric are where problems most often concentrate, so we read those junctions as part of the building assessment.
The strata read: building envelope, waterproofing and common property, so you understand both what you own and what the owners corporation carries.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
On solid-brick homes without a damp-proof course, near the river, it can be. We read for it, because remediation is a real cost and belongs in your decision.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act while your offer conditions are open.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Applecross — 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.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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