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 Cooloongup reads a 1970s or 1980s home on the southern coastal plain, where position relative to the Rockingham Lakes wetland chain is the site variable that determines the most important pre-purchase context. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the Cooloongup pre-purchase read begins with the lot position — eastern wetland-adjacent or interior — and then applies the standard thirty-six-to-fifty-four-year estate age read to the specific home at its position.
For eastern Rockingham Lakes-adjacent blocks, the permanent freshwater wetland is the dominant pre-purchase site factor. Year-round lake moisture at the lot boundary means the subfloor and perimeter on those lots have been in an elevated moisture environment since the home was built, and the combined building and pest inspection is the appropriate coverage for a block in that position.
Across the suburb, the thirty-six-to-fifty-four-year age read applies: wet-area waterproofing at or past service life, tile roof mortar at the replacement window, original timber windows at their coastal weathering age. The coastal salt-air exposure from the southern Rockingham foreshore proximity is noted for the external materials on all homes. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Hillman and Rockingham.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 where lot position relative to the Rockingham Lakes wetland chain is the first pre-purchase variable, followed by the standard 36-to-54-year coastal estate age read.
No — but for eastern Rockingham Lakes-adjacent blocks, the combined inspection is strongly recommended given the permanent freshwater wetland moisture.
Year-round freshwater moisture at the lot boundary has kept adjacent subfloors in an elevated moisture environment since the home was built. The combined inspection is the appropriate coverage for those lots.
At 36 to 54 years: wet-area waterproofing at or past service life, tile roof mortar at the replacement window, original timber windows at their coastal weathering age.
Southern Rockingham foreshore proximity means salt-air weathering on external paint, fixings and seals is accelerated on ocean-facing elevations compared to sheltered inland equivalents.
Yes. The lake-adjacent moisture context and the age-specific condition findings give you a factual basis for renegotiation.
Yes, significantly for lake-adjacent eastern blocks. The combined inspection is strongly recommended there.
Yes. Subfloor moisture at the lake-adjacent wetland baseline is the primary pre-purchase structural read on eastern blocks.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
One of the most significant thrombolite-bearing lakes in Australia, part of the Rockingham Lakes Regional Park chain on the eastern boundary. Its permanent freshwater is the dominant site factor for adjacent residential lots.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Cooloongup — 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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