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 Lockridge reads standardised state-origin housing in a riverside setting. The suburb sits by the Swan and Success Hill Reserve, and much of its older stock is being redeveloped, so the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads that ageing, redeveloping stock while giving real weight to the ground and the damp the river and reserve drive.
The ground and damp lead the read here. Nearer the Swan the ground can be damper and the water table higher, which pushes moisture into subfloors and slabs and makes drainage matter more, so the building inspection reads the subfloor, slab edge and site drainage with the low, wet ground in mind, and reads the walls and subfloor for the damp that low ground drives.
The housing is read on its terms. The standardised older homes of the suburb's state-development origins are brick on shallow footings, with brittle tiled roofs, delignified framing and the asbestos common in the materials of the period, in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged without being disturbed. Successive owners have often extended them, so additions and reconfigured wet areas are each read for structure and waterproofing, and for whether they were approved.
Much of Lockridge is being subdivided and rebuilt, so many 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 driveways and walls grouped title creates. Where an original home is bought to develop, the focus moves to the site and the plan.
The subfloor takes particular weight on the damp riverside blocks, read for standing moisture and ventilation, alongside the roof space read for framing condition and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and Lockridge is a suburb where that exclusion matters most: the Swan and Success Hill Reserve bring moisture and a natural reservoir of subterranean termites right to the suburb, so on these blocks the timber pest scope is the one you do not skip. The building inspection's value here is reading the damp riverside ground and the ageing stock together, and being clear that the timber pest scope belongs with it.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kiara and Eden Hill.
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The ageing state-origin stock and the riverside ground. Lockridge's older homes are standardised brick on shallow footings, which we read for movement, an ageing roof and asbestos-era materials, and near the Swan we read the subfloor and drainage for the damp the low ground drives, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Yes. Nearer the Swan the ground can be damper and the water table higher, which pushes moisture into subfloors and slabs and makes drainage matter more, so we read the subfloor, slab edge and drainage with the low, wet ground in mind.
More than in most suburbs, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the Swan and Success Hill Reserve bring moisture and a natural termite reservoir right to the suburb, so on these blocks the timber pest scope is the one you do not skip.
Standardised homes from the suburb's state-development origins, brick on shallow footings, with brittle tiled roofs, delignified framing and asbestos in the eaves and sheeting of the period, which we identify and flag without disturbing. Much of this stock is being subdivided and rebuilt.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The older Lockridge stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate or develop is the point.
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.
Yes. On the damp, low ground near the Swan the subfloor is where standing moisture and poor ventilation show, so we read it hard, because that damp feeds both decay and termites.
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.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, subfloor damp, an old roof or settlement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Lockridge — 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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