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 Perth was industrial before it was residential. The East Perth Gas Works, the East Perth Power Station (decommissioned 1981) and the East Perth railway yard and locomotive engine shed all occupied this land through the twentieth century. The urban renewal that replaced them with housing from the 1990s is described as the largest inner-city renewal project in WA history, and the suburb now holds over 11,000 people in a predominantly high-density form, split by the Graham Farmer Freeway and the Northbridge Tunnel. A pre-purchase building inspection at East Perth reads for which part of that brownfield history the home sits on and which generation of the urban renewal it belongs to.
The brownfield ground history is the pre-purchase ground context for homes on or near the footprints of the former Gas Works, Power Station or railway yard. Industrial remediation precedes residential development, but the remediation record and the site preparation history are part of what a buyer at those addresses takes on, and we read the slab and drainage behaviour of homes on former industrial ground with that site history as context. The relevant former precinct is noted in the report for homes in those positions.
The estate generation is the second pre-purchase read. The earliest East Perth urban renewal stock from the 1990s is now approaching thirty-five years old, and the first-generation AS 3740 waterproofing in those buildings is at or approaching the end of its first service life. In a high-density building, first-generation waterproofing at this age applies not only to individual apartments but to common-property areas — rooftop decks, podium levels, basement entries — where remediation costs are shared across the owners corporation and can be significant. We read the strata common property as part of the pre-purchase scope.
The Claisebrook Cove and Swan River foreshore create waterfront exposure for homes along those boundaries, and the Graham Farmer Freeway corridor is a site context for homes adjacent to it.
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 Perth, where the brownfield ground and the urban renewal generation both shape the read, that inspection tells you what is beneath and around the home you are considering. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Subiaco and Northbridge.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, where former Gas Works, Power Station and railway yard ground histories and the estate generation of the urban renewal both shape 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.
Homes on former Gas Works, Power Station or railway yard ground carry that industrial site history. We note the relevant precinct and read the slab and drainage for how the remediation and ground preparation appear to have held.
At approaching thirty-five years, first-generation AS 3740 membranes are at or approaching the end of their first service life. In a strata building, that includes common-property waterproofing on rooftop decks and podium levels where remediation costs are shared.
For strata-titled East Perth apartments and townhouses, we read the common-property areas — the building envelope, shared drainage, basement entries — as part of the pre-purchase scope, because those are costs the buyer inherits as part of the owners corporation.
Waterfront-facing homes carry the moisture and exposure context of the foreshore, aging external fixings and seals faster than sheltered inland positions.
Yes. It sets the defects and strata concerns that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
The modern build read: waterproofing, roof plumbing and building envelope quality, plus the strata common property scope.
Where there is subfloor access — in some townhouses and ground-level units — yes.
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 Perth — 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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