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 Mirrabooka reads a suburb with three faces: the standardised older housing of its state-development origins, the newer development drawn to its activity centre, and the blocks along its bushland reserve. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads whichever you are buying, with the ageing stock and the reserve's termite pressure the two factors that most shape the work.
The older homes are read for their era and type. Much of the original stock is standardised 1960s and 70s construction, brick or double brick on shallow footings, with brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, delignified hardwood framing, and the asbestos common in the materials of the period, in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. Many have been renovated by successive owners, so additions and reconfigured wet areas are each read for structure and waterproofing, and for whether they were approved.
The activity centre brings newer, denser stock. Around the shopping centre the building inspection meets grouped dwellings, villas and apartments, read for build quality and shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and, for a strata dwelling, the records that reveal levies and known common-property defects.
The reserve is the timber pest factor. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests by name, but where blocks back onto or sit near Mirrabooka's reserve and open space, that bush is a reservoir for subterranean termites, so on those blocks the timber pest scope is well worth adding.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older homes, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification, and where an original home is a redevelopment site the inspection focuses on the existing structure and the site.
Mirrabooka is a diverse, redeveloping suburb of older project-built homes, newer density and bushland edges, and the building inspection's value here is reading the ageing stock, the newer development and the reserve's termite pressure each on their own terms.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Dianella and Nollamara.
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It is tailored to which Mirrabooka you are buying in. On an older home it is the standardised 1960s and 70s structure, an ageing roof and asbestos-era materials; on a newer dwelling near the centre it is build quality and any strata records; and on a reserve-edge block, the ground and termite pressure, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
For its era and type. The original stock is standardised brick or double brick on shallow footings, so we read it for movement, for the brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, for delignification, and for asbestos in eaves and sheeting, flagged without being disturbed.
Yes. Where blocks sit near Mirrabooka's reserve and open space, that bush is a reservoir for subterranean termites. The building inspection excludes pests by name, so on those blocks the timber pest scope is well worth adding.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The older Mirrabooka stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Build quality and, for a strata dwelling, the records: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, plus the strata minutes that reveal levies and known common-property defects.
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. The tiled roofs of the era 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 the reserve especially, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the bushland edges here raise the termite risk, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a termite path from the reserve or asbestos, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Mirrabooka — 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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