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 Mullaloo weighs two things the coast throws at a house: salt and sand. This beachside suburb sits close to the dunes, so the salt corrodes as it does everywhere near the ocean, but Mullaloo's dune setting adds a second factor, windborne sand, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 is alert to the quiet, specific damage that drifting sand does on a beachfront block.
The sand is the distinctive factor. Windborne dune sand drifts against walls and gathers in gutters and valleys, and most importantly it blocks the subfloor vents, and the weep holes a brick-veneer wall relies on, so it cannot drain and breathe. When those are choked with sand, moisture is trapped in the wall and subfloor, so the building inspection reads the weep holes and vents for blockage and the wall and subfloor behind them for the damp that follows. Sand also abrades finishes and glazing over time, so the inspection reads how a beachfront home manages the sand as much as the salt.
The salt is read as on any coastal home: the fixings and wall ties and any exposed steel for rust, the roof sheeting and flashings for corrosion, and the concrete for spalling where reinforcement corrodes, separating active structural corrosion from surface staining.
The construction is read for its era, which in Mullaloo spans the 1970s to recent builds, so the frame and slab and roof are read accordingly, with asbestos flagged in the eaves and sheeting of any older home without being disturbed.
The weep holes, subfloor vents and roof space take particular attention, read for sand blockage and the trapped moisture it causes.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and sand-trapped subfloor damp raises that risk, so the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the sand as well as the salt, because on a beachfront block the drifting sand blocks the very things that keep a home dry.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kallaroo and Craigie.
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Its dunes. Mullaloo homes sit close to the beach, so we weigh two things the coast throws at a house: salt, which corrodes, and windborne sand, which does quiet, specific damage on a beachfront block, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
It drifts against walls, fills gutters and valleys, and, most importantly, blocks the subfloor vents and the weep holes a brick-veneer wall relies on to drain and breathe. When those choke with sand, moisture is trapped in the wall and subfloor, so we read them for blockage and the damp that follows.
Yes, closely on a beachfront block. Blocked weep holes and subfloor vents trap moisture, so we read them for sand blockage and the wall and subfloor behind them for the resulting damp, because this is a common and hidden problem near the dunes.
As on any coastal home: we read the fixings and wall ties and exposed steel for rust, the roof sheeting and flashings for corrosion, and the concrete for spalling where reinforcement corrodes, separating active structural corrosion from surface staining.
Mullaloo spans the 1970s to recent builds, so we read the frame and slab and roof for the home's era, with asbestos flagged in the eaves and sheeting of any older home without being disturbed.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. Older Mullaloo homes can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Yes, especially given the subfloor risk. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and sand-trapped subfloor damp creates the conditions termites seek, so the two scopes are worth doing together.
Generally yes. The salt is hard on steel and finishes, and the sand needs regular clearing from the vents and weep holes, and the gutters, so we note the condition of those elements and the upkeep the position demands.
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, blocked-vent damp or structural corrosion, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Mullaloo — 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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