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 Embleton reads a modest, ageing suburb. This small, quiet pocket beside Morley is made up of post-war and mid-century homes on comfortable blocks, many owner-occupied and much-improved, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads that stock for what fifty or sixty years have done to it, and reads any newer dwelling on a subdivided block on its own terms.
The older homes are the heart of the read. Embleton's post-war and mid-century houses are brick on shallow footings, read for movement, for the rising damp that pre-damp-course walls draw up, for the brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking of the era, and for the chemical delignification that leaves old hardwood framing soft. Asbestos is common in the eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged without being disturbed, which matters most to the many buyers here who plan to renovate a modest home rather than replace it.
These are homes people improve and keep, so renovation runs through the suburb. Additions and reconfigured wet areas are each read for structure and waterproofing, and for whether they were approved, because a modest older home often carries a history of owner-built work, and unapproved building passes to the buyer at settlement.
Where a bigger block has been subdivided, the building inspection meets a duplex or grouped dwelling and reads it for build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates.
The roof space takes the longest time, read for framing condition, water entry, past repair and delignification under the ageing tiles.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Embleton's mature gardens and ageing timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading honestly what an ageing, much-improved home is really made of.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Morley and Bayswater.
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The modest, ageing stock. Embleton's post-war and mid-century homes are brick on shallow footings, so we read them for movement, rising damp, an ageing roof and asbestos-era materials, and we read any newer dwelling on a subdivided block for build quality, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
For its era. We read the brick structure on its shallow footings for movement, the pre-damp-course walls for rising damp, the tiled roof for brittleness and perished sarking, and the old hardwood framing for delignification.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war Embleton stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate a modest home is the point.
The junctions and the approvals. We read additions and reconfigured wet areas for structure and waterproofing, and flag whether they were approved, because a modest older home often carries owner-built work, and unapproved building passes to you at settlement.
The read shifts to 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, we focus on the site and the plan.
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.
Often. The tiled roofs of the era 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 Embleton, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the mature gardens and ageing timber here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, unapproved owner-built work 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 Embleton — 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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