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 Brentwood reads a 1970s home on the elevated sandy ridge between the Kwinana Freeway and the southern Melville residential corridor, in one of the most age-uniform housing cohorts in the City of Melville. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the Brentwood pre-purchase read is principally an age-cohort read: almost every home in the suburb was built within an eleven-year window, which means the wet-area waterproofing, the tile roof mortar and the timber windows across the estate are all at the same service-life stage simultaneously.
The waterproofing is the first pre-purchase priority at this age. Original AS 3740 waterproofing from the 1972-to-1983 construction window is at or past the end of its first service life throughout the estate. The pre-purchase inspection determines the specific home's waterproofing condition — not whether it is old, which it universally is, but whether it is still performing or has already failed.
The freeway-adjacent blocks on the western streets carry the Kwinana Freeway vibration context in addition to the age read. We note the vibration crack signature on those homes alongside the standard pre-purchase age reads. The report follows within 24 hours.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the 1972-to-1983 estate structure before you buy, where the age-uniform housing cohort means wet-area waterproofing and tile mortar are at the same service-life stage estate-wide.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
The 1972-to-1983 waterproofing across the estate is at or past first service life. The pre-purchase read determines whether the specific home's waterproofing is still performing or has already failed — not whether it is old.
Western freeway-adjacent streets carry the Kwinana Freeway vibration history. We note the vibration crack signature on those homes alongside the standard pre-purchase age reads.
Elevated deep coastal sand with slope drainage on steeper lots. We read the perimeter drainage management and any retaining structures on lots where the ridge gradient is significant.
Yes. Waterproofing failure findings at this age are common and give you a concrete, photo-documented basis for renegotiation.
Yes. The combined inspection covers timber pest. Pre-purchase notes conditions but does not constitute a pest check.
Yes. Subfloor moisture and ventilation on the ridge sand at forty to fifty years are part of the pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Yes. Buying into an age-uniform estate means the major service-life thresholds arrive simultaneously across the suburb — the pre-purchase inspection tells you which homes have already addressed them and which have not.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Brentwood — 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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