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 Koondoola is shaped by the bushland at its heart. The suburb wraps around the Koondoola Regional Bushland, one of the larger tracts of natural bushland among the northern suburbs, and while the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads the structure in the usual way, the reserve setting, and the strong termite pressure it brings, is never far from the reading.
The housing is 1970s state-development stock, read for its era. Koondoola's standardised homes are brick or double brick on shallow footings, with brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, delignified framing, and the asbestos common in the materials of the period, in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged without being disturbed. Many are being subdivided and rebuilt, so a good share of inspections are of a newer duplex or grouped dwelling, read for build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the shared elements grouped title creates.
The reserve is where the building inspection is most emphatic about its limits. It reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes timber pests by name, but a large bushland reserve is a natural reservoir for subterranean termites, and Koondoola has one right among the houses, so on the many blocks near it the timber pest scope is not optional, it is the one you do not skip. The building inspection reads the subfloor, drainage and any conducive conditions, but the termite risk itself needs the timber pest scope to address.
The ground and drainage take extra attention near the reserve, because the bushland brings its own moisture and vegetation to the boundary, so the subfloor is read for damp and ventilation and the perimeter for vegetation and beds against the walls.
Where an original home is bought to develop, the inspection focuses on the existing structure and the site, and it still flags asbestos, because it affects demolition. Additions from successive owners are read for structure and waterproofing, and for whether they were approved.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older homes, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification.
Koondoola is a suburb defined by its bushland reserve, and the building inspection's value here is an honest read of the ageing stock, paired with a clear message that on these blocks the timber pest scope belongs with it.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Alexander Heights and Girrawheen.
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Because of the setting. Koondoola wraps around the Koondoola Regional Bushland, and remnant bush is a natural reservoir for subterranean termites. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests by name, so on the many blocks near the reserve the timber pest scope is the one you do not skip.
Heightened termite pressure. The building inspection reads the subfloor, drainage and conducive conditions, but the termite risk itself needs the timber pest scope, where we read the perimeter and subfloor hard for mud tubes and sound every accessible timber, with movement detection where needed.
Standardised 1970s state-development stock, brick or double brick on shallow footings, much of it now being subdivided and rebuilt. We read that ageing stock for its era, and the newer duplexes and grouped dwellings that increasingly join it for build quality, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The 1970s Koondoola stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate or develop is the point.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates.
Yes, with the focus on the plan. Where a home is bought to develop, we read the existing structure and the site for what matters to that plan, and we still flag asbestos, because it affects demolition.
Often, at this age. The tiles are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification. We read the roof structure closely and probe for it.
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.
Near Koondoola's reserve especially, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the bushland raises the termite risk, so the two scopes are strongly worth doing together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, an old roof or structural movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Koondoola — 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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