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.
Burswood sits on a bend of the Swan opposite the city, and a pre-purchase building inspection here begins with the ground, because much of the peninsula is made ground. Reclaimed for sewage beds, worked by a cement company and used for landfill across the last century, parts of Burswood carry fill of uncertain age and compaction, and the building read is first about how a home has coped with standing on it.
On made ground the building read is a settlement read. Fill consolidates unevenly over the decades, and a slab or footing bearing on it moves as it does, so we read the crack patterns, the falls of floors and the gaps at cornices and reveals to tell whether a home is settling within tolerance or has a foundation problem that will keep costing. Before you buy, that distinction is the whole point.
The low river-flat setting brings the water question into the read. Reclaimed ground sits low and sheds water slowly, so we read the site drainage and the fall away from the building, and any sign that stormwater or a high water table is reaching the footings, because sustained wetting is what accelerates settlement on fill.
Burswood’s stock ranges from older peninsula homes to the apartments and townhouses of the resort-era redevelopment. The older homes earn the age-and-wear read, and the newer strata homes earn the modern read, waterproofing and roof plumbing, along with the common-property and strata questions that shape what you are really buying in an apartment.
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. On Burswood’s made ground, that reading is what tells a sound home from one the fill is slowly working on. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Victoria Park and Lathlain.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, which at Burswood starts with the ground because much of the peninsula is made ground.
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.
Because reclaimed and tipped ground settles unevenly as it consolidates, and a home bearing on it moves with it. The building read tells whether that movement is within tolerance or a foundation problem.
Through the crack patterns, the falls of floors, and the gaps at cornices and reveals, which together separate a home settling within tolerance from one with a footing problem.
It can. Reclaimed ground sits low and drains slowly, so we read drainage and any sign of stormwater or a high water table reaching the footings.
If it was engineered for the site, it can be. We read whether that engineering is performing, just as we read how an older home has fared on the same ground.
Strata homes get the modern building read plus the common-property and strata questions, so you know what you are buying beyond your own four walls.
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.
A building inspection reads the structure, not soil chemistry, but we note where the site history and ground behaviour point to fill a home should have been built to suit.
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 Burswood — 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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