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 Ashby reads young homes. One of the newer estates of its district, Ashby is a suburb of brick-veneer-on-slab homes only years old, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 asks different questions of a young home: not what decades have worn out, but what the build got right or wrong from the start, and whether it is still within the window where the builder, rather than the buyer, carries the cost of putting it right.
The newest-stock read is the defining factor. A young home should be sound, but volume building at speed leaves defects, and the early-life ones show first: settlement cracking as the home beds in, wet-area waterproofing that was rushed, roof plumbing with poor falls or loose flashings, and finishing shortcuts throughout. The building inspection reads for exactly these, because catching them early matters: in Western Australia a registered builder carries statutory warranty obligations and home indemnity cover applies to new work, so a defect found while the home is young is far more likely to be the builder's to fix. Where a home is bought close to new, a pre-purchase inspection is worth timing with that in mind.
The construction is read on its terms: the timber frame through the roof space for workmanship, movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes, the slab edge for rising damp and early settlement, and the wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, which on a near-new home is one of the most important reads, because a waterproofing failure is far cheaper to resolve while the builder is still liable. Asbestos is not a factor in homes of this age.
The wet areas and roof plumbing take particular attention, read for the rushed original work a fast build can leave.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and even a new home is not immune once landscaping goes in, so the timber pest scope is worth adding, and a new home's original termite treatment and documentation are worth understanding. The building inspection's value here is reading a near-new build for the defects that show early, while there is still every chance of having the builder, not you, put them right.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Sinagra and Tapping.
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Its youth. Ashby is one of the newer estates, so the questions are not what decades have worn out but what the build got right or wrong from the start, and whether it is still within the window where the builder, not you, carries the cost of putting it right, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because volume building at speed leaves defects, and the early-life ones show first: settlement cracking, rushed waterproofing, roof plumbing with poor falls, and finishing shortcuts. Catching them while the home is young matters, because they are far more likely to be the builder's to fix.
Yes. In Western Australia a registered builder carries statutory warranty obligations and home indemnity cover applies to new work, so a defect found while the home is young is far more likely to be the builder's responsibility than one found years later. We read with that timing in mind.
The things a fast build gets wrong: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof plumbing and flashings, the frame and its workmanship, and the slab for early settlement. Waterproofing especially, because a failure is far cheaper to resolve while the builder is still liable.
No, asbestos is not a factor in homes of this age, so that particular concern does not apply here.
It is well worth timing with that in mind. A pre-purchase, or on a new build a pre-handover, inspection while the builder is still liable gives you the best chance of having defects fixed at their cost rather than yours.
As early settlement, mostly. A new home beds in and some fine settlement cracking is normal, so we separate that from anything pointing to a slab or footing problem, and note where it warrants monitoring.
It is still worth it. Even a new home is not immune once landscaping and irrigated gardens go in, and the building inspection excludes pests, so the timber pest scope, plus understanding the original termite treatment, is 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 identifies the build defects a young home carries and separates the significant from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to pursue the builder.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Ashby — 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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