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 Belmont is often the read of a strata dwelling. This is one of Perth's most heavily redeveloped middle suburbs, its older post-war houses joined street after street by villas and units and apartments, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 frequently weighs a shared building and its records as much as the lot of a standalone house.
The strata and grouped stock is the defining factor. For a villa, unit or apartment the building inspection reads the lot and then the accessible common property, and the records carry real weight: the minutes reveal levies and known common-property defects, and in the older blocks the recurring faults are the shared roofs and gutters and the common drainage, and, in two-storey blocks, the concrete and balcony waterproofing. For a newer apartment it also reads the balcony and podium waterproofing and the external cladding for type and condition, and the facade sealing.
The older post-war houses are read for their era, the rising damp of any pre-damp-course walls, plus the brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and the asbestos in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. Much of Belmont is investor-owned, which can mean deferred maintenance, and the building inspection reads the property as it is.
A property on or near Great Eastern Highway can carry traffic noise and vibration, and the inspection notes where the corridor is a factor for a buyer to weigh.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older houses, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the older houses and their gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding, while in an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you. The building inspection's value here is reading the shared building and its records as closely as the lot, because in a villa or unit that is where the real cost usually sits.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Rivervale and Cloverdale.
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A read of the lot and accessible common property against the strata records. The minutes reveal levies and known defects, and in the older blocks we read the shared roofs and gutters and the common drainage, and, in two-storey blocks, the concrete and balcony waterproofing, because that shared structure is where the real cost usually sits.
Because it is one of Perth's most heavily redeveloped middle suburbs. Its older post-war houses have been joined street after street by villas and units and apartments, so a great deal of what sells here is a strata or grouped dwelling.
The building envelope and records. We read the balcony and podium waterproofing, the external cladding for type and condition, and the facade sealing, and we read the strata minutes for levies and known common-property defects.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war Belmont houses can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
It can. A property on or near the highway can carry traffic noise and vibration, and we note where the corridor is a factor for you to weigh before buying.
Yes, subject to access. Much of Belmont is investor-owned, and we read the property as it is, noting deferred maintenance and any areas an occupied home limited us from reaching.
Often. The tiled roofs of the post-war houses are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification. We read the roof structure closely and probe for it.
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.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the records are central in a strata block, so we recommend obtaining them and tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. Whether it is a villa, a unit or a house, a clear building report separates the significant issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Belmont — 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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