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 Edgewater turns on where a home sits on the slope. Named for its position on the edge of Lake Joondalup, the suburb steps down toward the water, so it holds two quite different kinds of block, the elevated ones with views and retaining and slope, and the low ones near the water with a high table and wetland damp, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads a home according to which it is.
The topographic range is the defining factor. On the elevated blocks, the building inspection reads the retaining that holds a stepped or terraced site for movement, drainage and load, and the way water is directed down the slope rather than against the home. On the low blocks near the lake and Yellagonga Regional Park, the concern flips: the water table is higher and the ground damper, so the slab edge and subfloor are read for rising damp and the site for how it sheds seasonal water, and the reserve raises the termite pressure. Knowing which kind of block a home sits on is the first thing the inspection establishes.
The construction is read for its era. Edgewater's 1980s and 90s homes are a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a concrete slab, read through the roof space for movement and moisture, and at the wall ties and weep holes; at the slab edge; and at the roof plumbing of a volume build. Asbestos is largely absent but possible in the earliest, flagged in eaves and sheeting where present.
The retaining on a view block, and the slab edge on a lakeside one, take the most attention, read for the movement or the damp that each position drives.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the low lakeside blocks that exclusion matters most, because the reserve and water, with the gardens, raise the termite risk, so there the timber pest scope is well worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading a home for the ground it actually stands on, because a view block and a lakeside block ask different questions.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Beldon and Heathridge.
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Its ground. Edgewater steps down toward Lake Joondalup, so it holds two kinds of block, elevated ones with views, retaining and slope, and low ones near the water with a high table and wetland damp, and we read a home according to where on that slope it sits, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
The slope and its retaining. We read the retaining that holds a stepped or terraced site for movement and drainage and load, and the way water is directed down the slope rather than against the home, because on a view block those are what matter.
The water. Near the lake and Yellagonga Regional Park the water table is higher and the ground damper, so we read the slab edge and subfloor for rising damp and the site for how it sheds seasonal water, and the reserve raises the termite pressure.
For its era: a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a slab, read through the roof space for movement and moisture, and at the wall ties and weep holes; at the slab edge; and at the roof plumbing of a volume build.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is largely absent but possible in the earliest, so we check eaves and sheeting by age and appearance where present.
On a stepped or terraced view block, yes. We read retaining for movement and cracking, the drainage behind it, and whether it was built for the load, because a failing retaining wall is both a safety and a cost issue.
On the low lakeside blocks especially, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the reserve and water, with the gardens, raise the termite risk there, so the timber pest scope is well worth adding.
We read the site: its elevation relative to the lake, its slope and retaining, and the dampness of the ground. Establishing whether it is a high view block or a low lakeside one is the first thing we do, because it sets the whole read.
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, failing retaining on a view block, or rising damp on a lakeside one, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Edgewater — 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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