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 Currambine is built to see past presentation. This 1990s estate is now around thirty years old, and its homes tend to come to market well-presented, freshly painted, styled and tidied for sale, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads the actual condition beneath, because a home that looks immaculate on inspection day is not the same as a home that is sound.
Reading past the presentation is the defining task. Fresh paint hides as much as it shows: a recently repainted ceiling or cornice can be covering the stain of a past or ongoing roof or plumbing leak, so the building inspection reads the roof space above any suspiciously fresh patch. New flooring can sit over an unaddressed damp or subfloor problem, filled and painted cracks can conceal movement that is still active, and a quickly restyled bathroom can look the part while the waterproofing behind the new tiles was never touched. So the inspection reads the actual condition, in the roof space, at the slab edge, behind the presentation, rather than taking a tidy finish at face value.
The construction is read for its era. Currambine's 1990s homes are a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a concrete slab, read through the roof space for movement and moisture, at the wall ties and weep holes, at the slab edge for rising damp, and at the roof plumbing. Asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era but flagged in anything older or in an addition.
Any renovation done for sale is read for whether it was done properly, especially wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, and whether it was approved.
The roof space and any freshly finished areas take particular attention, read for the leaks and movement a new finish can conceal.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and a fresh finish can conceal past termite activity, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the condition beneath the presentation, because on inspection day the tidiest home is not always the soundest.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kinross and Iluka.
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Its homes present well. Currambine is a 1990s estate now around thirty years old, and homes here come to market freshly painted and styled for sale, so the inspection is built to see past that presentation to the actual condition, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
It can. A recently repainted ceiling or cornice can be covering the stain of a past or ongoing leak, so we read the roof space above any suspiciously fresh patch. Fresh paint hides as much as it shows, so we do not take a tidy finish at face value.
We read what they might be covering. New flooring can sit over an unaddressed damp or subfloor problem, and a quickly restyled bathroom can look the part while the waterproofing behind the new tiles was never touched, so we read the condition behind the finish.
We read the pattern and the structure, not just the surface. Filled and painted cracks can conceal movement that is still active, so we read the slab, frame and crack locations for whether the movement behind a patched line has actually stopped.
For its era: a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a slab, read through the roof space for movement and moisture, at the wall ties and weep holes, at the slab edge for rising damp, and at the roof plumbing.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era but possible in anything older or in an addition, so we check where relevant.
It can be, so we read it. Work done quickly for sale is read for whether it was done properly, especially wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, and whether it was approved, because unapproved or non-compliant work passes to you at settlement.
Yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and a fresh finish can conceal past termite activity, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
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 concealed leak or active movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Currambine — 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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