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 Craigie is, more than anything, a read of a home's age. This settled 1980s family suburb has homes now around forty years old, many still running on their original electrical, plumbing, hot water and roof, and while the building inspection to AS 4349.1 is visual and cannot test how those systems perform, it reads their visible age and condition closely and tells a buyer plainly where a specialist check is worth getting.
Ageing services are the defining factor. A building inspection is visual and non-invasive, so it does not test the electrical or plumbing, but it notes the visible signs of age: an old switchboard without modern safety switches, ageing or brittle visible wiring, corroded or mismatched pipework, and an ageing hot-water system near the end of its life. Where those signs appear, the building inspection recommends a licensed electrician or plumber assess function, because at forty years these systems are a real budget item.
The roof is the other ageing system, and one the inspection reads directly. The concrete or terracotta tiles of the era are brittle with perished sarking, and at this age an original roof may be near the end of its service life, so the roof and its coverings are read for what is worn out versus renewed, and the roof space for the framing beneath.
The construction is read for its era. Craigie's 1980s homes are a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a concrete slab, so the building inspection reads the frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes the veneer relies on, and the slab edge for rising damp. Asbestos, reduced but not absent, is flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the established gardens and original timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the visible condition of a forty-year-old home's services and roof honestly, so a buyer knows which systems are living on borrowed time.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Beldon and Padbury.
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The age of the home, and especially its services. Many Craigie homes still run on their original electrical, plumbing, hot water and roof, so we read the visible age and condition of those systems and tell you where a specialist check is worth getting, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
No, a building inspection is visual and non-invasive, so it does not test how the systems perform. But we note the visible signs of age, an old switchboard, ageing wiring, corroded pipework, an ageing hot-water system, and recommend a licensed electrician or plumber assess function where those signs appear.
Because at forty years they are a real budget item. Original wiring, plumbing and a hot-water system near the end of their lives can mean significant spend soon after purchase, so knowing the visible condition before you buy lets you plan for it.
Often, and it is one we read directly. The concrete or terracotta tiles of the era are brittle with perished sarking, and at this age an original roof may be near the end of its life, so we read the coverings for what is worn out versus renewed and the roof space beneath.
We read the timber frame behind the brick skin through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes the veneer relies on, and the slab edge for rising damp.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is reduced but not absent in stock of this era, so we check eaves and sheeting by age and appearance where present.
Not necessarily. Every forty-year-old home reaches this point, and it is manageable, but it is something to budget for. We set out what is visibly near the end of its life, so you can factor the likely works into your offer.
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.
In most of Craigie, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens and original timber suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a roof at end of life or clearly ageing services, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Craigie — 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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