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.
Manning was built in a decade, almost all of it between the mid-1950s and the mid-1960s under the War Service Homes scheme and the State Housing Commission, and a pre-purchase building inspection here is largely a read of those postwar homes at seventy years old. They were built to a specific Commonwealth specification, sound and consistent, and the building read is about how that specification has aged and what the decades of ownership since have done to it.
The original fabric is the first read. War Service Homes are typically single-storey cavity brick with a hip or gable tile roof, and at seventy years the things that age in that specification are the things that belong in your decision: the tile roof and its pointing and bedding, the gutters, the original single-bathroom wet area, and the wiring and switchboard where these have never been upgraded. Finding them near the end of their life in a Manning home is not a surprise; it is the expected condition of the age, and it belongs in the price.
How a home has been maintained and updated over those decades is the second read. A replacement bathroom that had its waterproofing renewed is very different from one that was retiled over the old membrane, and an extension built with a council permit and a proper roof tie-in is very different from one added informally. These are the points where houses of similar age and origin diverge most, and they are what the pre-purchase read separates.
Drainage is the third. Manning’s blocks are flat, and flat ground that does not shed water away from the building holds it against the footings in wet winters, which is the quiet cause behind much of the damp found in this stock. We read the site falls and the downpipe outlets as part of the building read.
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 Manning, where the homes are a known age and a known type, that reading is what tells a maintained home from one running on what it was built with in 1958. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Karawara and Como.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric of a War Service or Commission home at seventy years old before you buy, so you know what the age and the maintenance record mean together.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the timber pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
A Commonwealth-funded home built to a prescribed specification for returned servicemen, typically single-storey cavity brick with a hip or gable tile roof, sound and serviceable.
The original fabric that ages first: the tile roof and its pointing, the gutters, the original wet area, and the wiring and switchboard, which can all be near the end of their life at this age.
Not inherently. Age is a known quantity, and a well-maintained Manning home can be excellent value. The read tells you which side of that a given home sits on.
Maintenance and updates. A bathroom with proper waterproofing renewal is very different from one retiled over the old membrane, and an approved extension is different from an informal one.
Because Manning's flat blocks can hold stormwater against footings in wet winters when the site falls poorly, and that sustained moisture is the quiet cause behind much of the damp we find here.
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.
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.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act while your offer conditions are open.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Manning — 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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