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 Greenwood reads a distinct era of construction. This is a 1970s and 80s family estate, brick-and-tile homes project-built on comfortable blocks, and a home of that era is built quite differently from the double-brick stock closer to the city, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads it on its own terms.
Brick veneer is the key difference. Much of Greenwood is a timber frame carrying the house with a single brick skin outside it, so the structure is the concealed frame, not the visible brick. The building inspection reads that frame, through the roof space and wherever accessible, for movement and moisture, and decay, and it reads the wall ties and weep holes, and the articulation joints the veneer system relies on, because a defect in the frame or the ties is a structural matter the brick face can hide.
Many Greenwood homes sit on a concrete slab, which the building inspection reads differently from a suspended floor: with no subfloor to enter, it reads the slab edge for damp rising past the membrane and the floors for the heave or settlement a reactive or poorly prepared slab can show. The concrete tile roofs of the era are read for the brittleness and perished sarking that come with age, and the aluminium windows for seal and frame condition rather than rust.
Asbestos is a declining but real factor, present in some materials, in eaves and sheeting, and wet-area substrates, into the late 1980s, and identified and flagged by age and appearance without being disturbed. These homes are forty to fifty years old and usually renovated, so additions and reconfigured wet areas are each read for structure, waterproofing and approval.
The roof space takes the longest time, read for the veneer frame's condition and water entry, and for past repair and any termite or decay damage.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on a brick-veneer, slab-on-ground estate with mature gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding, because the concealed frame and slab edge are exactly the pathways termites use. The building inspection's value here is reading the veneer frame and the slab, and the transitional materials of the era, accurately, rather than treating the home like the double brick it is not.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kingsley and Warwick.
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The 1970s and 80s construction. We read the brick-veneer timber frame behind the brick skin, plus the concrete slab, the concrete tile roof and the aluminium windows that mark a home of this era, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because the structure is the concealed timber frame, not the visible brick. We read that frame through the roof space and wherever accessible for movement, moisture and decay, and the wall ties and weep holes, and the articulation joints the veneer relies on, since a defect there can hide behind the brick face.
Differently from a suspended floor. With no subfloor to enter, we read the slab edge for damp rising past the membrane and the floors for the heave or settlement a reactive or poorly prepared slab can show.
A declining but real one. It was phased out across the era but present in some materials, in eaves and sheeting, and wet-area substrates, into the late 1980s. We identify and flag suspect materials by age and appearance without disturbing them.
Often. The concrete tiles of the era are brittle with perished sarking, so we read the roof for cracked and slipped tiles and water entry, and the frame beneath for any resulting damage.
For meaning, and against the system. Veneer walls are designed to move at articulation joints, so we distinguish that expected movement from structural distress in the frame or footings, which the brick face can otherwise mask.
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.
On a brick-veneer, slab-on-ground estate, yes. The concealed frame and slab edge are exactly the pathways termites use, and the building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, so the two scopes are usually done together.
The additions and reconfigured wet areas, each read for structure, waterproofing and whether they were approved, because unapproved work passes to you at settlement.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a decaying veneer frame or slab movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Greenwood — 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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