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 Caversham reads the 2005-to-2015 estate on the eastern clay hills of the Swan Valley — brick-veneer on concrete slab, on former market garden and smallholding land. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and at ten to twenty years old the Caversham pre-purchase read is principally about whether the wet-area waterproofing is holding, whether the rendered walls have cracked in ways that matter, and whether the former irrigated ground beneath the slab is draining the way the engineer assumed it would when the footing was designed.
The wet-area waterproofing is the pre-purchase read that most buyers at this age miss. At ten to twenty years, the original AS 3740 waterproofing is at the midpoint of its expected service life in the Swan Valley microclimate, and any marginal installation — inadequate upstands, poor membrane bonding, incorrect drainage falls — shows in the tiles and the surfaces by now. A tiled floor that looks intact can be hiding a membrane that has failed at the wall junction.
The former market garden ground adds the site context. Former irrigation on clay-loam holds moisture longer than urban fill, and the organic matter from the former cultivation affects how the soil beneath the slab responds to the seasonal moisture swing. We read site drainage and slab behaviour with the cultivation history in mind.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building read before you are committed. In Caversham, where the estate age and the former agricultural ground together make the specific read, the report follows within 24 hours.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the 2005-to-2015 estate structure before you buy, where wet-area waterproofing at midpoint service life and former market garden soil are the primary concerns.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
At 10 to 20 years old, the original AS 3740 waterproofing is at midpoint service life. Any marginal installation — poor upstands, inadequate membrane bonding, incorrect drainage falls — shows in the tiles and surfaces by now.
Former irrigated clay-loam holds moisture and organic matter longer than urban fill, affecting subfloor drainage and slab behaviour. We read site drainage with the cultivation history in mind.
Clay-loam on the valley slopes, with a wider seasonal moisture swing than coastal sand. Slab homes carry a 10-to-20-year movement history in their crack patterns.
Rendered external surfaces after 10-to-20 thermal cycles, tile roof mortar at the start of its replacement window, and the general condition of original fixtures and services at that age.
Yes. It gives you a factual basis for renegotiation if the inspection finds significant issues.
Yes. The combined building and pest inspection covers timber pest. Pre-purchase notes conditions but does not constitute a pest check.
Yes. Site drainage and slab behaviour on former irrigated ground are part of the pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Caversham — 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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