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 Innaloo is, as often as not, the read of a modern strata apartment, because the suburb has densified hard around its retail centre and the Stirling transport hub. Alongside the surviving post-war houses, the building inspection to AS 4349.1 meets a great deal of recent apartment and mixed-use stock, and that changes what the inspection is really about.
For a modern apartment, the structural picture lives as much in the building and its records as in the lot. Boom-era high-density construction across Perth has a known defect history, so the building inspection reads balcony and podium waterproofing, the external cladding for type and condition given the well-publicised concerns about combustible cladding, plus the facade and window sealing, and it reads the concrete and structure for cracking and early movement. The strata records are part of that read: the minutes reveal levies, known common-property defects and any special levy, and in a newer building that history can point to costs far larger than the inspection.
On the surviving houses, the structure is post-war brick, read for movement against its shallow footings and for the age of a 1950s or 60s home: brittle tiled roofs, delignified framing and asbestos in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. Many are redevelopment sites, so where a home is bought to replace, the inspection focuses on the site and any structure being retained.
Where the property is a recent villa, townhouse or grouped dwelling, the building inspection reads build quality, wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, along with the shared driveways, walls and drainage that grouped title creates.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the older houses and their gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding, while the apartments are lower risk on that front. The building inspection's value here is reading the modern strata building for the defects its era is prone to, and the old house for the age and asbestos of its own.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Doubleview and Stirling.
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A read of the lot and accessible common property, focused on what newer high-density buildings are prone to: balcony and podium waterproofing and the external cladding, and facade and window sealing, weighed against the strata records for levies, known defects and any special levy.
It is worth checking. Given the concerns about combustible cladding on newer buildings, we read the external cladding for type and condition and note where it warrants further investigation or where the records show it has been assessed or replaced.
Because the shared building drives the cost. The minutes reveal the levies and known common-property defects, and any special levy, and in a boom-era building that history can point to major works ahead, which matters far more to your decision than a mark in the lot.
Yes, with the focus on the plan. Where a home is bought to knock down, we concentrate on the site and any structure being retained, and we still flag asbestos, because it affects demolition.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war Innaloo houses can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is matters for renovation or demolition.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, plus the shared driveways and walls and drainage that grouped title creates and the records that govern them.
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 the older houses, yes; the apartments are lower risk, being concrete and elevated. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, so for a house the two scopes are usually done together.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the records are central in a modern building, so we recommend obtaining them and tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. Whether it is a modern apartment or an old house, a clear building report separates the significant issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Innaloo — 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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