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 Joondalup often means inspecting an apartment. As the planned regional city of the northern suburbs, Joondalup has a genuine centre of apartments and mixed-use buildings alongside its houses, so a great many purchases are of a strata apartment, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads that in a very different way from a house.
The strata apartment is the distinctive factor. When you buy an apartment, most of what matters is not inside your lot: the roof, the building envelope, the common structure and the shared services are common property, so the read shifts to a building-wide one, and much of the real picture sits in the strata records, the maintenance history and the sinking fund as well as in the unit. Within the lot, the building inspection reads the interior, the wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, and any sign of building-wide problems, water entry, concrete or render issues, movement, showing through. A full apartment and strata assessment is its own scope, and the inspection is clear about where a strata building needs its records read alongside its walls.
The houses of Joondalup are read as a modern suburb: the timber frame behind the brick veneer through the roof space, the slab edge for rising damp, the roof plumbing, and wet-area waterproofing, with asbestos largely absent but flagged in anything older.
Being a built-from-scratch centre, much of Joondalup is newer, so some homes sit within a builder's statutory warranty, worth understanding when timing an inspection.
The interior wet areas and any signs of building-wide movement take particular attention in an apartment, read for what a shared structure carries into your lot.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, which still matter in a ground-floor unit or a house with gardens, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading a strata apartment as the building-wide proposition it is, not as though it were a stand-alone house.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Currambine and Connolly.
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Its centre. Joondalup is a planned regional city, so alongside the houses a great many purchases are of a strata apartment, and an apartment is read very differently from a house, more about the building than the unit, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Mostly things outside your lot. The roof, building envelope, common structure and shared services are common property, so the read shifts to the building as a whole, and much of the real picture sits in the strata records, maintenance history and sinking fund as well as in the unit.
Yes. Within the lot we read the interior, the wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, and any sign of building-wide problems, water entry, concrete or render issues, movement, showing through into your unit.
In good part, yes. A full apartment and strata assessment is its own scope, because it weighs the building-wide condition and the records, so we are clear about where an apartment needs the strata paperwork read alongside the walls.
As a modern suburb home: the timber frame behind the brick veneer through the roof space, the slab edge for rising damp, the roof plumbing, and wet-area waterproofing, with asbestos largely absent but flagged in anything older.
Some are. Being a built-from-scratch centre, much of Joondalup is newer, so a home may sit within a builder's statutory warranty, worth understanding when timing an inspection.
In a ground-floor unit or a house with gardens, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens suit termites, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is largely absent given how much of the stock is newer, but we check eaves and sheeting in anything older.
A flat $440 including GST for the pre-purchase building inspection of a house, or $616 including GST with the timber pest scope. An apartment may suit our strata scope, which we can advise on, and you have the report within 24 hours.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a building-wide defect on a strata property or a real fault in a house, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Joondalup — 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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