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 Carramar gives the slab pride of place. This 1990s and 2000s estate on the northern sandplain is built on concrete slabs, and the slab is the single most important structural element of a modern home, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads it and how it sits on the ground closely, because much of what it reads elsewhere, cracking, movement, damp, traces back to how the slab is performing.
The slab is the defining focus. A modern Carramar home sits on a stiffened-raft or waffle-pod slab founded on sand, and the building inspection reads it at the edge for rising damp, where a slab edge below the surrounding ground or without a clear damp margin draws moisture up into the walls, and across the floor for the signs of movement: a slab that has settled, lifted or curled at an edge shows as cracking in the walls above and as out-of-level floors. Reading the cracking for meaning, cosmetic shrinkage against genuine slab movement, is central here, and the inspection ties what it sees in the walls back to the slab and the ground beneath.
Site drainage is read alongside the slab, because water pooling against a slab edge is what most often drives edge damp and the ground movement that follows, so downpipes, paving falls and soakwells are read for whether they keep water away from the slab.
The rest of the construction is read for its era: the timber frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes, and the roof plumbing of a volume build. Asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era, and where a home is newer a builder's warranty may still apply.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and the slab edge that matters structurally is also the termite pathway, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the slab and its edges closely, because on a home of this kind the slab is where the structural story begins.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Tapping and Banksia Grove.
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Its focus on the slab. Carramar is a 1990s and 2000s estate where every home sits on a concrete slab, so we give the slab and how it sits on the ground particular attention, because much of what we read elsewhere traces back to it, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because it is the single most important structural element of a modern home. A slab that has settled, lifted or curled at an edge shows as cracking in the walls above and out-of-level floors, so reading the slab is central to reading the whole home.
At the edge for rising damp, where a slab edge below the surrounding ground or without a clear damp margin draws moisture into the walls, and across the floor for the signs of movement. We tie what we see in the walls back to the slab and the ground beneath.
By its pattern and where it sits. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from the cracking that signals genuine slab movement, reading it against the floor levels and the slab edge, so you know whether the ground under the home is stable.
Very much. Water pooling against a slab edge is what most often drives edge damp and the ground movement that follows, so we read downpipes, paving falls and soakwells for whether they keep water away from the slab.
For its era: the timber frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes, and the roof plumbing of a volume build.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them, though asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era, so it is not the concern it is in older stock.
Yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the slab edge that matters structurally is also the termite pathway, 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, slab movement or edge damp, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Carramar — 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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