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 Glengarry often turns on subdivision. This small, quiet pocket of the established northern suburbs is a place of large 1970s and 80s blocks that are increasingly being split, so a great many purchases are of a newer dwelling on a divided block, or of an original home bought for its development potential, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads whichever it meets on its own terms.
The large blocks and their subdivision are the defining factor. Where a block has been split, the building inspection reads a newer duplex, triplex or grouped dwelling for build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing, and the shared driveways and party walls, and the common drainage, that grouped and survey-strata title create, with the party wall read as a structural element and the records checked for a strata dwelling. Where an original home is bought to develop, the read shifts to the existing structure and the site, and asbestos is flagged because it affects demolition.
The original homes are read for their era. Glengarry's 1970s and 80s houses are brick and brick veneer on shallow footings or a slab, with brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, delignified framing where the timber is old, and asbestos in eaves and sheeting, flagged without being disturbed. At forty to fifty years an original home is reaching the point where its roof and finishes wear together, so the building inspection is honest about what is worn out versus renewed.
Where old and new sit side by side on former single blocks, the building inspection reads the boundary conditions, the drainage and any close structure, because subdivision can leave drainage and access arrangements that are not obvious to a buyer.
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 established gardens and ageing timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit, while on an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you across a shared wall. The building inspection's value here is reading an ageing original home or a newer dwelling on a split block, each on its own terms.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Duncraig and Greenwood.
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A small, quiet pocket of large 1970s and 80s blocks, increasingly subdivided. Many purchases here are of a newer dwelling on a split block or an original home bought for development, alongside the ageing original houses, and we read whichever we meet on its own terms, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways, party walls and common drainage that grouped title creates. We read a shared party wall as a structural element and check the records for a strata dwelling.
The existing structure and the site rather than cosmetic wear, because much of it may be removed, and we flag asbestos, because it affects demolition. We read what matters to your plan.
For its era. These are brick and brick veneer on shallow footings or a slab, so we read the structure for movement, the brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, the delignification in old framing, and asbestos in eaves and sheeting, flagged without being disturbed.
It can. Where old and new sit side by side on former single blocks, we read the boundary conditions, the drainage and any close structure, because subdivision can leave drainage and access arrangements that are not obvious to a buyer.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The older Glengarry stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate or develop is the point.
Often, yes. At this age the original roof and finishes reach the point where they wear together, so we read them for what is worn out versus renewed and are honest about the maintenance the home is due for.
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 Glengarry, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens and ageing timber suit termites, while on an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a waterproofing defect 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 Glengarry — 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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