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 Glendalough reads a newer and more varied stock than the character suburbs around it. Between the freeway and Herdsman Lake, the suburb runs to 1950s and 60s brick homes, a large share of villas and units, and pockets of recent redevelopment, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 meets post-war houses and strata dwellings and new builds, each read on its own terms.
On the mid-century homes, the structure is 1950s and 60s brick on shallow period footings and is read for movement against the ground and for the condition of an ageing roof. The era also puts asbestos into the structural read, because so much of the stock is of that period, and while the inspection does not disturb or sample, it identifies and flags the suspect materials, in eaves and sheeting and behind wet-area tiles, so a buyer planning to renovate knows what is there. Concrete tile roofs of the era are read for the brittleness and perished sarking and delignification that come with age.
Glendalough's large villa and unit stock brings strata into the structural picture. For a grouped or strata-titled dwelling the records matter as much as the walls, revealing levies, known common-property defects and any special levy planned, and the building inspection reads the shared structural elements such as the common roofs and walls and the shared drainage, and in older two-storey blocks, the concrete and balcony waterproofing with a thermal camera and moisture meter.
The ground toward Herdsman Lake is a genuine factor on the lower blocks. The lake is a large wetland, so those blocks can carry a higher water table and damper, heavier ground, which the building inspection reads for its effect on subfloors and slabs and on site drainage.
Redevelopment means the inspection also meets new stock, where the read shifts wholly to build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740 and roof-space workmanship and articulation on the ground, and the finishing a fast build rushes. On a near-new home a pre-handover look while the builder is liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Glendalough's ageing timber and lake-influenced lower blocks the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading whichever of Glendalough's varied stock is in front of it, and telling the significant structural issue from the cosmetic.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Osborne Park and Mount Hawthorn.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of the accessible parts of the property, tailored to its type. On a mid-century house that means the footings and wall movement, the ageing roof and asbestos-era materials; on a villa or unit it adds the strata records and shared structure; on a new build it is all build quality.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. Much of Glendalough is 1950s and 60s stock, with likely asbestos in the eaves and sheeting and behind wet-area tiles, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Grouped and strata-titled dwellings read differently from a house. The records matter as much as the walls, revealing levies and known defects, and we read the shared structural elements such as the common roofs and walls and the shared drainage for who is responsible for what.
On the lower blocks toward the lake, yes. The lake is a large wetland, so those blocks can carry a higher water table and damper, heavier ground. We read that for its effect on subfloors and slabs and on site drainage.
For meaning, not by counting. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, read it against the shallow period footings and the ground, and account for any lake-influenced dampness on the lower blocks.
The focus shifts to build quality: waterproofing to AS 3740 and roof-space workmanship and articulation on the ground, and the finishing a fast build rushes. A pre-handover look while the builder is liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
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 Glendalough, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the ageing timber and lake-influenced lower blocks here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
They can be. In older two-storey blocks we read the concrete and balcony waterproofing with a thermal camera and moisture meter, and check the strata records for any history of spalling or water-ingress repairs.
Yes. Whether it is a mid-century home, a strata villa or a new build, a clear building report separates the significant structural issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Glendalough — 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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