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.
Langford was named in consultation with the State Housing Commission in September 1966 because the SHC was the suburb’s founding developer. Built as a public-housing suburb for working-class families close to the CBD, Langford has since undergone the urban renewal that has transformed many of Perth’s original public-housing areas: much of the original stock has been redeveloped, renovated and sold into private ownership, and the suburb now holds a mix of original SHC homes at fifty to sixty years old, renovated versions of those homes, and infill rebuilds on subdivided lots. A pre-purchase building inspection at Langford is fundamentally a read of which of those conditions the home in front of you actually represents.
For an original or partly modified SHC home the pre-purchase concern is the age. Homes built in the late 1960s and early 1970s are now fifty to sixty years old, and the tile roof and mortar, the original wet area in continuous use since a Whitlam-era handover, and the wiring and services where these have never been renewed all belong in the asking price before you pay it. The additional pre-purchase concern in a public-housing-origin suburb is the tenure history: a home that moved from SHC to private investor before reaching owner-occupation carries the layered deferred-maintenance of both tenures, and that layer is part of what the inspection reads.
For a renovated home the pre-purchase concern is the depth of the renovation. Cosmetic renovation — new surfaces, fresh paint, updated fittings — can present a 1968 home as substantially improved while leaving the original tile roof, the original subfloor timbers and the original services entirely in place. We read what is underneath the renovation to establish what was genuinely renewed and what was cosmetically covered, because the difference determines what the buyer is actually inheriting.
Infill homes on subdivided former SHC lots earn the modern build pre-purchase read: waterproofing, roof plumbing and slab behaviour on freshly developed ground.
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 Langford, where the urban renewal transition means the same street holds original, renovated and rebuilt homes, the inspection tells you which one you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Gosnells and Cannington.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, where the key question is which condition the home is in: original SHC at fifty to sixty years, cosmetically renovated, genuinely rebuilt, or brand-new infill.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
At fifty to sixty years: the tile roof and mortar, the original wet area since the Whitlam era, and the wiring where never renewed — all of which belong in the price before you pay it.
A home that moved from SHC to private investor before owner-occupation carries the layered deferred maintenance of both. We read the sum of what that history has left.
The depth of the renovation: what was genuinely renewed versus what was cosmetically surfaced. A new kitchen and paint over a 1968 subfloor and original wiring is a different home from a genuine rebuild.
The modern build read: waterproofing, roof plumbing and slab behaviour on freshly developed ground within the former SHC lot pattern.
Yes. In a suburb undergoing urban renewal, the gap between presentation and condition can be significant. The report makes it plain.
Original SHC subfloors at fifty to sixty years and established gardens on the original large lots give termites the conditions they use. The combined inspection covers this.
Yes. On original and partially renovated SHC homes the subfloor condition is central to the age read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Langford — 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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