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 Beldon gives particular attention to the roof, because over four decades this settled 1970s and 80s family suburb has seen its homes accumulate things that poke through it. Solar hot water, then solar panels, evaporative air conditioners, exhaust vents and aerials have all been added over the years, and every one is a hole cut in the roof that has to stay watertight. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads those penetrations closely, because on an ageing tiled roof they are where the leaks are.
Roof penetrations are the distinctive factor. Each added service means a flashing or a seal that can perish, lift or was never done well, and on the brittle tiles of a 1970s roof the surrounding tiles are easily cracked during the install. So the building inspection reads each penetration for its seal and flashing, the tiles around it for damage, and, most tellingly, the roof space directly beneath for the staining and damp that show a penetration is letting water in. A leak here is often small and slow, which is exactly why it goes unnoticed until it has done its damage.
The construction is read for its era. Beldon's homes are brick and brick veneer on shallow footings or a slab, with the tiled roofs read for brittleness and perished sarking, the framing for delignification, and asbestos, common in the eaves and sheeting of the period, flagged without being disturbed. At forty to fifty years the original roofs and finishes are reaching the point of renewal.
Where a home has been re-roofed, that work is read too, because a replacement roof can be the fix or the source of a problem.
The roof space takes the most attention, read for the water entry a failed penetration lets in and for the framing beneath.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and a roof leak feeds that risk by keeping timber damp, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading every penetration and the space beneath it, because on an old tiled roof the trouble comes in through the holes.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Craigie and Edgewater.
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Its roofs. Beldon's 1970s and 80s homes have accumulated decades of add-ons that poke through the roof, solar, air conditioners, vents, aerials, and on an ageing tiled roof every one is a potential leak, so we read them closely, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because each is a hole cut in the roof that has to stay watertight. A solar array, an evaporative cooler, a flue or a vent means a flashing or seal that can perish or lift, and on brittle old tiles the surrounding tiles are easily cracked during install, so each is a place water can enter.
We read each penetration for its seal and flashing, the tiles around it for damage, and, most tellingly, the roof space directly beneath for the staining and damp that show it is letting water in. A leak here is often small and slow, which is why it goes unnoticed.
We read where they penetrate the roof and the condition of that flashing and the tiles around it, and the roof space beneath for any leak. The electrical performance of the system is a specialist matter, but the roof penetration is very much part of our read.
For its era: brick and brick veneer on shallow footings or a slab, with the tiled roofs read for brittleness and perished sarking, the framing for delignification, and asbestos in eaves and sheeting flagged without being disturbed.
It can be either, so we read it. A replacement roof can be the fix for an old one or the source of new problems if poorly done, so we read a re-roof for workmanship as much as we read an original one for age.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is common in the eaves and sheeting of the period, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Yes, especially with an ageing roof. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and a roof leak keeps timber damp and inviting to termites, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
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 leaking penetration or a roof at end of life, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Beldon — 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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