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.
Como is a riverside suburb split by Canning Highway, and a pre-purchase building inspection here has to be ready for an unusual postwar chapter in its housing. In the late 1940s more than a thousand blocks were released at once and Como became a test-bed for experimental prefabricated or ‘expansible’ houses, built fast in a severe shortage, so the building read cannot assume every home followed the standard script.
On the non-standard stock, the read is about construction on its own terms. An experimental prefab, an ‘expansible’ home extended over time, or an owner-built house from the shortage years may use framing, materials and details a conventional home does not, so we read what is actually there rather than what we expect, and we read how seventy years of additions and maintenance have treated it.
Most of Como is more conventional, and there the read follows age. The postwar and later brick-and-tile homes get the read their years call for, roofs, wet areas and services, while the newer infill gets the modern read of waterproofing and roof plumbing. Knowing which kind of home you are buying is the first step in reading it.
Como runs down toward the Swan, and on the low river-flat parts we read the site drainage and any sign of a high water table or poor fall reaching the footings, because the lowest parts of a riverside suburb hold moisture longest and it belongs in your decision.
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. In Como, where some homes were never built to a standard pattern, that reading is what tells you exactly what you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kensington and South Perth.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, ready for Como's unusual postwar and prefabricated stock as well as its conventional homes.
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.
In 1948-49 Como was a test-bed for experimental prefabricated or 'expansible' homes meant to be built fast during the housing shortage, and some of that stock survives, needing to be read on its own terms.
Because a prefab, expansible or owner-built home may use framing and materials a conventional house does not, so it needs reading as what it actually is rather than assumed to behave like a standard build.
Yes. Much of it is standard postwar brick-and-tile and later infill, read for age or modern build accordingly, with the non-standard homes the exception to watch for.
On the low river-flat parts it can. We read site drainage and any sign of a high water table or poor fall reaching the footings, because low ground holds moisture longest.
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.
We read the construction rather than relying on the listing, and tell you where a home's framing or materials point to prefab, expansible or owner-built origins.
Yes, where there is safe access. On timber-framed or non-standard homes the subfloor, stumps and framing are central to the read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act while your offer conditions are open.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Como — 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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