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 Clarkson often means inspecting an attached home. Built around its train station, Clarkson has a density a pure detached-house estate does not, so a great many purchases are of a townhouse, villa or grouped dwelling, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads an attached home on a shared title in ways a stand-alone house is not, establishing first which it is looking at.
The grouped or strata dwelling is the distinctive factor. Where a home shares a wall with its neighbour, that party wall is a structural element read as one, and it is a path a neighbour's problem, a leak, movement or termites, can cross into your home. The building inspection reads the shared driveways, the common property and, for a survey-strata or grouped-title dwelling, points to the records that carry part of the picture. Build quality on attached dwellings is its own read: the waterproofing between units and wet areas to AS 3740, and the party-wall and roof-space detailing where one roof covers several homes.
The detached houses of Clarkson are read as a modern estate: the timber frame through the roof space, the slab edge for rising damp, the roof plumbing, and the wall ties and weep holes. Asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era, and where a home is newer a builder's warranty may still apply.
On an attached dwelling the roof space is read across the party wall where accessible, because a shared roof void lets water and pests travel between homes.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, which in an attached dwelling can reach you from a neighbour, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading a grouped or strata home as the shared proposition it is, where the walls, the roof and the risks are held in common.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Mindarie and Merriwa.
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Its density. Clarkson is built around its train station, so alongside the houses many purchases are of a townhouse, villa or grouped dwelling, and an attached home on a shared title is read in ways a stand-alone house is not, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
The shared elements. A party wall is a structural element and a path a neighbour's leak, movement or termites can cross, so we read it, the shared driveways and common property, and for a strata or grouped-title dwelling we point to the records that carry part of the picture.
For the things sharing a structure brings: the waterproofing between units and wet areas to AS 3740, and the party-wall and roof-space detailing where one roof covers several homes. Whether a defect is yours alone or shared changes what it means to you.
In an attached dwelling, yes. A shared wall or roof void lets water, movement and pests travel between homes, so we read the party wall and, where accessible, the roof space across it, because a neighbour's problem can become yours.
As a modern estate home: the timber frame through the roof space, the slab edge for rising damp, the roof plumbing, and the wall ties and weep holes.
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, especially on an attached dwelling. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and in a shared structure termites can reach you from a neighbour, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
Some of the newer ones may be. Where a home is newer we note that a builder's statutory warranty may still apply, worth understanding when timing an inspection.
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, a shared-wall defect or waterproofing failure, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Clarkson — 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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