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.
East Fremantle is one suburb with three distinct precincts, and the pre-purchase building read depends almost entirely on which one you are buying in. The south-west Plympton area holds workers’ cottages built from 1890 to 1910. The Woodside and Richmond areas hold brick-and-tile homes from 1900 to 1940. And the Preston Point area was developed in the 1950s on the river. Each of those eras asks a different building question, and getting the right read for the right precinct is the whole point of the inspection.
In the Plympton cottages the read is about fabric that has been standing for over a century. Workers’ cottages of the 1890s to 1910s were built simply, and what a century asks of simple old construction is specific: the roof and its mortar, rising damp through walls that were never damp-proof-coursed, along with original joinery and floors, and any addition layered on over the decades. The value in these homes is the original fabric, and the cost is in what time has done to it. A pre-purchase read tells you honestly which side of that a given home sits on.
In the Woodside and Richmond homes the read is the age of interwar brick-and-tile at eighty to a hundred years. The tile roof and its pointing, the wet areas due for renewal, the original wiring where it has never been upgraded, and the subfloor of a home still on stumps are the things the read attends to. At this age they are not unusual findings; they are the expected condition, and they belong in the price.
In the Preston Point area the 1950s homes get the postwar read: roof, original wet area and wiring, plus, for homes on the river: the retaining and drainage, and the salt-air aging of the weather-facing elements that a riverside location brings alongside the age read.
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 East Fremantle, where the precinct decides the read, that inspection is what tells you what your particular home is. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Fremantle and North Fremantle.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, where the precinct, Plympton, Woodside/Richmond or Preston Point, decides almost everything about the read.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Over a century of age in simple construction: the roof, rising damp through walls with no damp-proof course, original joinery and floors, and any addition layered on over the decades.
Interwar brick-and-tile at eighty to a hundred years: the tile roof and its pointing, wet areas due for renewal, along with original wiring and the subfloor of any home still on stumps.
1950s postwar stock at sixty to seventy years: roof, the wet area and wiring, plus the riverside read of retaining, drainage and salt-air aging for homes on the river.
No. It is a fabric read, where the question is whether the original construction has been cared for or let go. A well-maintained cottage can be excellent value once the condition is known.
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.
Yes, where there is safe access. On homes still on stumps the subfloor is central to the age and pest read.
Yes. Riverside homes carry the additional read of retaining, drainage and the salt-air aging of weather-facing elements.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in East Fremantle — 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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