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 Leederville is defined by the suburb's mix, because behind the Oxford Street strip you will find worker cottages and apartments and shop-top dwellings, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads each on its own terms. For a great many buyers here the property is an apartment or a mixed-use dwelling, where the structural picture lives as much in the common property and the building's other uses as in the lot itself.
For a strata apartment, the building inspection reads the lot and then the accessible common property against the strata records. The minutes reveal levies and known defects, and any special levy on the horizon, and the physical read looks hardest at the shared elements that become costly: concrete spalling, where rusting reinforcement forces the cover off balconies and facades, and waterproofing failure to balconies and podium decks, both found with a thermal camera and a moisture meter.
The shop-top and mixed-use homes bring a distinct structural read. A dwelling built over a working retail or hospitality floor has to deal with the loads of the original commercial structure, plus moisture and services from below, fire separation between the uses, and the wear a busy building imposes. The inspection reads how the residential fit-out sits over the commercial floor and states where access was limited.
The old cottages are read as tight, close-built masonry. Many sit on or near a boundary and share a wall, so the building inspection treats the party wall as a structural element, reading cracking, damp and any roof or gutter fault on it as a shared responsibility. The period brick is read for movement against the shallow footings of the era, and the oldest walls, built before a damp-proof course, are assessed for the ground moisture they draw up.
Conversion and renovation run through Leederville, and every one is a junction of old structure and new work. The building inspection concentrates on those joints, on the waterproofing of retrofitted wet areas, and on whether the work was approved, because unapproved building passes to the buyer.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests by name, and on the old cottage timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. Across the whole Leederville range the building inspection's job is to read the specific structure accurately, whether that is a shop-top apartment or a century-old cottage on a shared boundary.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby West Leederville and North Perth.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of the accessible parts of the property. What that means depends on the building: on a cottage it is the masonry, any party wall and the roof; on an apartment it is the lot, the common property and the strata records; on a shop-top home it is the structure over the commercial floor. We report significant defects and areas not safely accessed.
A read of the lot and common property against the strata records. The minutes reveal levies and known defects, and in older concrete blocks we look for spalling and for balcony and podium waterproofing failure, using a thermal camera and moisture meter.
Yes. A dwelling over a working floor deals with the commercial structure's loads, moisture and services from below, and fire separation between the uses. We read how the residential fit-out sits over the commercial floor and note where access was limited.
As a structural element. Cracking, damp and roof or gutter faults on a shared wall are a shared responsibility, so we read the party wall closely and note where it carries a defect that could become your liability.
It is read as a building defect. The oldest Leederville cottages, built without a damp-proof course, draw ground moisture into the walls, and we assess what it is doing to the brick and timber, separating rising damp from a leak because each is fixed differently.
The junctions between old and new, the waterproofing of any retrofitted wet area, and whether the work was approved. Unapproved building passes to you at settlement, so it belongs in the report.
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.
On the old cottage stock, usually yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests by name, and the age of the timber suits termites, so the two scopes are commonly done together.
Yes, subject to access being arranged. Much of Leederville is investor-owned, and we read the property as it is, and note deferred maintenance and any areas an occupied home limited us from reaching.
Yes. Whether it is a cottage, an apartment or a shop-top home, 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 Leederville — 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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