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 Doubleview is shaped by topography. The suburb falls toward the coast, so alongside the usual reading of a gentrifying mix of post-war and character homes, the building inspection to AS 4349.1 weighs the retaining, the drainage and the levels that a sloping block depends on.
The slope is the distinctive structural factor. On a falling block, retaining walls hold the levels and drainage manages the water, so the building inspection reads retaining for bulging and cracking, the drainage behind it, and whether it was built for its height, and it follows where stormwater goes on a site where gravity works against you. Split levels and under-house areas and cut-and-fill pads are common in Doubleview, and each is read for how it was formed and drained, because poor drainage on a slope shows up over time as damp, movement and undermining of footings.
The housing is read for its era. The post-war and mid-century homes are read against the ground and for the asbestos, brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing of the period, the asbestos identified and flagged without being disturbed. The older character homes are read for the rising damp their pre-damp-course walls draw up and for movement against their shallow footings. Being coast-adjacent, Doubleview gets a moderate dose of salt air, so exposed metal and roof fixings and flashings are read for corrosion.
Doubleview gentrifies hard, so renovation and rebuilding are everywhere. Each addition is a junction read for structure, for the waterproofing of any retrofitted wet area, and for whether it was approved, and where a home is a recent rebuild the inspection shifts to build quality: waterproofing to AS 3740 and roof-space workmanship, and the retaining and drainage a sloping block demands.
The roof space and, importantly, any under-house area take the longest time, read for framing condition and water entry, and for damp and ventilation.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Doubleview's established gardens and the damp that gathers in cut-and-fill areas the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the land and the house together, because on a falling block toward the sea the two are tied.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Scarborough and Woodlands.
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Because Doubleview falls toward the coast, and on a sloping block levels have to be held and water managed. We read retaining walls for bulging and drainage, and whether they were built for their height, and we follow where stormwater goes, because poor slope drainage shows up as damp, movement and undermining.
How it was formed and drained. Split levels and under-house areas and cut-and-fill pads are common here, and we read each for structure and drainage. Under-house areas in particular are read for damp and ventilation, because they gather moisture on a falling block.
Yes. We read retaining for bulging and cracking, the drainage behind it, and whether it was built for its height, because a failing retaining wall is both a safety issue and an expensive one to put right.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war and mid-century Doubleview stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
A moderate one. Doubleview gets some of the salt air the beachfront suburbs face head-on, so we read exposed metal and roof fixings and flashings for corrosion, more than inland but less than on the coast itself.
For meaning, and with the slope in mind. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, and we account for the settlement and undermining that poor drainage and retaining can cause on a falling block.
The focus shifts to build quality: waterproofing to AS 3740 and roof-space workmanship, and the retaining and drainage a sloping block demands. A pre-handover look while the builder is liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
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 Doubleview, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens and damp cut-and-fill areas here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, failing retaining or poor slope drainage, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Doubleview — 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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