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 Morley spans the full range of a designated activity centre. Around the Galleria and the new railway station, apartment and mixed-use buildings have risen fast, while the streets beyond hold the 1960s and 70s estate houses the suburb grew from, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads whichever end of that range you are buying, from the newest tower to a fifty-year-old brick-and-tile home.
The new apartments bring specific concerns. On a recent apartment the building inspection reads the envelope closely: the balcony and podium waterproofing, the external cladding for type and condition given the concerns about combustible cladding, and the facade and window sealing. The strata records are part of that read, because the minutes reveal levies and known common-property defects that, in a newer building, can point to costs far larger than the inspection.
The estate houses are the other end. Morley's 1960s and 70s homes are brick on shallow footings, moving toward brick veneer on the later stock, read for movement, for the brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking of the era, for delignification in the old hardwood framing, and for asbestos in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. Many are redevelopment sites, so where one is bought to develop the inspection focuses on the site and the plan.
Where a property is a newer villa or grouped dwelling, the read is build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a fast build rushes, along with the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older houses, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the estate houses and their gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding, while the apartments are lower risk. The building inspection's value here is reading the modern apartment for the defects its era is prone to, and the ageing estate home for the wear of its own.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Embleton and Kiara.
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A read of the lot and accessible common property, focused on what newer buildings are prone to: balcony and podium waterproofing, the external cladding, and facade and window sealing, weighed against the strata records for levies and known common-property defects.
It is worth checking. We read the external cladding for type and condition given the concerns about combustible cladding on newer buildings, and note where it warrants further investigation or where the records show it has been assessed.
For its era. The 1960s and 70s homes are brick on shallow footings, so we read them for movement, for the brittle tiled roofs and perished sarking, for delignification in the old framing, and for asbestos in eaves and sheeting, flagged without being disturbed.
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.
Because the shared structure drives the cost. The minutes reveal levies, known common-property defects and any special levy, and in a newer building that history can point to major works ahead, which matters more to your decision than a mark in the lot.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, plus the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates and the records that govern them.
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 estate houses, yes; the apartments are lower risk, being concrete and elevated. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, so for a house the two scopes are usually done together.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the records are central in a modern building, so we recommend obtaining them and tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. Whether it is a modern apartment or an old estate house, a clear building report separates the significant issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Morley — 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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