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 Iluka reads ambition. This prestige master-planned coastal estate is a place of larger, more architectural homes, and the design features that make them striking, the flat and skillion roofs, the large expanses of glazing, and the rendered feature facades, are also the elements most likely to give trouble, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 spends its time where the architecture is most exposed.
The architectural features are the distinctive factor. A flat or skillion roof does not shed water the way a pitched tiled roof does; it relies on box gutters and precise falls, and where those are undersized, poorly laid or blocked, water backs up and enters, so the building inspection reads any flat roof, its box gutters and their falls with particular care. Large expanses of glazing are read for their seals and for wind-driven rain entry, and for the thermal movement big glass drives. Rendered and feature facades hide the substrate, so the render is read for the cracking that telegraphs movement behind it.
Salt is read as on any coastal home: the exposed steel and fixings and roof for corrosion, and any concrete for spalling, separating active corrosion from surface staining. Being a newer prestige estate, asbestos is generally not a factor, and build quality varies with how ambitious the design is, so each home is read on its own merits.
Any pool, deck or balcony is read for its waterproofing and, on an upper level, for the living space beneath it.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, which the landscaped, irrigated gardens of a prestige home make worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the flat roofs, the glazing and the render, because the features that define these homes are the features that most need checking.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Currambine and Burns Beach.
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Its architecture. Iluka is a prestige coastal estate of larger, more design-driven homes, and the features that make them striking, whether flat roofs or large glazing or feature render, are also the elements most likely to give trouble, so we read them most closely, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because they do not shed water the way a pitched tiled roof does; they rely on box gutters and precise falls, and where those are undersized, poorly laid or blocked, water backs up and enters. We read any flat roof, its box gutters and their falls with particular care.
Not in itself, but it is read closely. Big expanses of glass are read for their seals and for wind-driven rain entry, and for the thermal movement large glazing drives, because these are common places for water and movement to show.
The render hides the substrate, so we read it for the cracking that telegraphs movement behind it, and stay alert to where render bridges different materials, a common place for cracking to appear.
Yes. We read the exposed steel and fixings and roof for corrosion, and any concrete for spalling, separating active corrosion from surface staining, alongside the architectural features that lead the read here.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them, though asbestos is generally not a factor in a newer prestige estate, so it is not the concern it is in older stock.
We read any pool, deck or balcony for its waterproofing, and on an upper level for the living space beneath it, along with barrier-compliance and wet-area questions, though pool-specific certification can be a specialist matter.
Yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the landscaped, irrigated gardens of a prestige home raise the termite risk, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
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, a leaking flat roof or failed glazing seals, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Iluka — 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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