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 Eden Hill leads with the era. This suburb is a product of the post-war housing boom, built largely through the 1950s and into the 60s, and its stock reflects that early-post-war vintage: modest brick homes and a good deal of fibro. Because the 1950s were the peak of asbestos use in housing, the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads a home of this age's materials carefully before any renovation.
Asbestos is the defining factor. The fibrous cement, or fibro, that clads and lines many homes of this era commonly contains asbestos, turning up in wall sheeting, eaves, ceilings, wet-area substrates and outbuildings. The building inspection identifies and flags suspect materials by age and appearance without disturbing them, and for a buyer planning to renovate a 1950s home that map matters enormously, because disturbing asbestos unknowingly is both hazardous and costly.
The rest of the construction is read for its early-post-war character: brick on shallow footings, read for movement and the rising damp of any pre-damp-course walls; tiled roofs now brittle with perished sarking; and hardwood framing prone to delignification. These homes are seventy years old in places, so an original roof, services and finishes may be near the end of their working lives, and the building inspection is honest about what is worn out versus renewed.
Eden Hill's bigger blocks are being subdivided, so many inspections are of a newer duplex or grouped dwelling, read for build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates. Where an original home is bought to develop, the focus moves to the site and the plan.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older homes, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the ageing timber and established gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the materials of a 1950s home honestly, so a buyer knows what they are taking on before the first wall comes down.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kiara and Lockridge.
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Largely early-post-war stock, built through the 1950s and into the 60s: modest brick homes and a good deal of fibro. We lead with the era, because the 1950s were the peak of asbestos use in housing, so the materials need careful reading before any renovation, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because the fibro that clads and lines many homes of this era commonly contains asbestos, turning up in wall sheeting, eaves, ceilings, wet-area substrates and outbuildings. We identify and flag suspect materials by age and appearance without disturbing them, because disturbing it unknowingly is hazardous and costly.
Where the asbestos is. For a home of this vintage that map matters enormously, so before a wall comes down you know what you are dealing with. We flag suspect materials so you can plan safe removal by a licensed remover where needed.
Often, yes. An original roof, services and finishes may be near the end of their working lives, so we are honest about what is worn out versus renewed, so the works ahead can be weighed and budgeted.
In the stock built without a damp-proof course, yes. We assess how high it reaches and separate rising damp from a leak or condensation, because each is fixed differently.
The read shifts to build quality on the newer dwelling: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates. Where an original home is bought to develop, we focus on the site and the plan.
Often, at this age. The tiles are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification. We read the roof structure closely and probe for it.
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 Eden Hill, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the ageing timber and gardens here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, extensive asbestos or an old roof, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Eden Hill — 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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