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.
Kensington is a small inner suburb three kilometres from the city, and it is unusual for Perth in what its homes are made of, so a pre-purchase building inspection here starts with materials. Much of Kensington was built from the 1920s in weatherboard and brick rather than the double-brick common elsewhere, with a block of postwar State Housing added in the 1950s, and the building read depends on which kind of home you are buying.
On a weatherboard home, the read is about keeping water out of the timber. A timber-framed, timber-clad house depends on its cladding, paint, flashings and stumps to stay sound, and where water has been getting in, the frame, the sill plates and the stumps are where it shows, as a structural cost rather than a cosmetic one. We read these so you know what a charming weatherboard cottage will actually ask of you.
On the postwar State Housing and early brick homes, the read is about age. The 1950s Commission homes are now around seventy years old, so roofs, wiring and wet areas may be near the end of their life, and asbestos-era materials are common in the stock, which we note where we see them. These are the things that decide whether the price is fair.
Many Kensington homes are now a mix of original timber and later brick, and we read how the old and new fabric meet, because the join between a weatherboard original and a later addition is a common place for problems to hide. Knowing that before you buy keeps a surprise from becoming your surprise.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. In Kensington, where the homes are built differently, that reading is what tells a sound weatherboard home from one the water has been working on. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Victoria Park and Como.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, which in Kensington means reading timber-framed weatherboard and mixed-material homes on their own terms.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check as well, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Because a timber-framed, timber-clad house depends on keeping water out of the frame. We read the cladding, flashings and stumps, since water in the frame is a structural cost, not a cosmetic one.
Not worse, just different. They ask for a materials read of the timber and cladding, and a well-kept weatherboard home can be an excellent buy once you know its condition.
The 1950s Commission homes are around seventy years old, so we read them for roofs, wiring and wet areas near the end of their life, and note asbestos-era materials where we see them.
A building inspection is not a hazardous-materials survey, but we note where the era and materials suggest asbestos may be present, so you can seek specialist advice before you buy.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
We read how the original and the addition meet, because the join between a weatherboard original and a later brick addition is a common place for problems to hide.
Yes, where there is safe access. On a timber-framed home the stumps, sill plates and subfloor are central to the read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a clear read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Kensington — 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.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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