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.
Baldivis is one of Perth’s great new-family stories, paddocks a generation ago and now a run of masterplanned estates full of young families, and a pre-purchase building inspection here has to work against a false comfort, that a modern home looks new so must be sound. The stock is overwhelmingly post-2005, the modern four-by-two double-brick on a slab, and the building read is about the defects a young home hides rather than the wear an old one shows.
The first of those hidden defects is waterproofing. Wet areas are built to AS 3740, and when the membrane in an ensuite or bathroom was rushed or wrongly detailed, the failure stays invisible for years and then shows as swollen skirtings, drummy tiles, or a damp wall on the other side. On the pre-purchase read we look for the early signs, because a failed shower is one of the more expensive repairs in a modern home and it belongs in your decision.
The rest of the young-home read follows. Roof plumbing with shallow falls or loose flashings, finishing and handover snags that were never closed out, and the first years of settlement on a slab still bedding into estate fill, read through the crack pattern at cornices and reveals. None of these means a bad house, but each is worth knowing before you pay, not after.
Because so many Baldivis homes are first or second homes sold within a decade of being built, we also read for what a quick resale can paper over, cosmetic presentation covering deferred small repairs, and any owner additions such as patios or decks checked for whether they were built and approved properly. The point is to see past a tidy, freshly-styled home to the condition underneath.
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. In Baldivis that reading is what turns “it looks new” into knowing what the home actually is. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Leda and Warnbro.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads a modern home's structure and fabric before you buy, focused on the defects a young home hides rather than the wear an old one shows.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the timber pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Not automatically. New does not mean defect-free, and the most common issues, waterproofing, roof plumbing and settlement, are ones you cannot see from a walk-through.
Because wet areas built to AS 3740 fail invisibly when rushed, then show as swollen skirtings, drummy tiles or a damp wall, and a failed shower is one of the costlier repairs in a modern home.
A new slab on estate fill beds in as it takes load, and some cracking at cornices and reveals is normal. We read the pattern to tell settling movement from something structural.
Yes. A pre-settlement or practical-completion inspection lists the defects for the builder to fix while the cost is still theirs.
It can. A quick resale can paper over deferred small repairs with cosmetic presentation, so we read past the styling to the condition underneath.
Yes. Owner-added patios, decks and the like are read for how they were built and whether they were approved, because that affects both cost and compliance.
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.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a clear read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Baldivis — 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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