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 Jolimont reads one of two things: an older home on a modest lot that has been improved, or a newer infill dwelling with build-quality questions of its own. This small pocket between Wembley, Subiaco and the parklands mixes interwar and post-war cottages with the grouped dwellings and townhouses that have gone up as it densified, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads whichever it meets.
On the older homes, the structure is interwar and post-war brick on small lots and shallow period footings, read for movement and, in the oldest, for the rising damp the pre-damp-course walls draw up. The post-war stock puts asbestos into the read, identified and flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed, and the tiled roofs of the era are read for brittleness and for the delignification that turns up in the hardwood framing. On these tight lots the building inspection reads boundary conditions closely, because neighbouring drainage and gardens and additions all bear on the property.
Density is the other half of Jolimont, and the newer grouped dwellings and townhouses and small apartment blocks read differently. Where a property is strata or grouped, the records matter as much as the walls and reveal the levies and known common-property defects, and the shared structure and drainage are read for who is responsible for what. Where the dwelling is a recent infill build, the inspection shifts to build quality: waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a fast build rushes.
Renovation runs through the older stock, and each addition is a junction read for structure, for the waterproofing of any retrofitted wet area, and for whether it was approved, because unapproved building passes to the buyer at settlement.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older homes, read for framing condition, water entry, past repair and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Jolimont's established gardens and closely built lots the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading exactly which of Jolimont's homes is in front of it, and on its own terms.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Daglish and Shenton Park.
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Either an older interwar or post-war home on a modest lot, or a newer infill grouped dwelling or townhouse. We read whichever it is to AS 4349.1, reporting significant defects and the areas not safely accessed.
Grouped and strata dwellings read differently from a house. The records matter as much as the walls, revealing levies and known common-property defects, and we read the shared structure and drainage for who is responsible for what.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war Jolimont stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
It can. On tight Jolimont lots neighbouring drainage and gardens and additions all bear on your property, and in an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you. We read those close conditions closely.
The focus shifts to build quality: waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship 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.
For meaning, not by counting. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, read it against the shallow footings and the ground, and account for any influence from neighbouring works on a tight lot.
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 Jolimont, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens and closely built lots here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Often. The tiles are brittle and past their life, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification, which reduces what it can carry. We read the roof structure closely and probe for it.
Yes. Whether it is an older home or a newer infill dwelling, 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 Jolimont — 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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