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 Nollamara is, as often as not, the read of a recent grouped dwelling. This suburb has been transformed by subdivision, its generous old blocks split street after street into duplexes and triplexes and grouped dwellings, so more than in almost any neighbour, what sells here is a newer attached home, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads its build quality and shared elements as the central task.
The newer grouped stock is the defining job. On a recent duplex, triplex or villa the building inspection reads build quality and shared elements together: the wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, the roof-space workmanship and the finishing a quick build rushes, and the shared driveways and party walls, and the common drainage, that grouped and survey-strata title create. A shared party wall is read as a structural element, for cracking and damp and any fault that crosses it, and for a strata dwelling the records are read for levies and known common-property defects.
Because so much of this stock is near-new, build quality is the central question, since a fast-built duplex can carry rushed waterproofing and poorly finished roof plumbing, and drainage that was never quite right. On a near-new home a pre-handover inspection while the builder is still liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
The surviving original homes are read for their era: standardised 1960s and 70s construction, brick on shallow footings, with brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and the asbestos common in the materials of the period, identified and flagged. Many are development sites in waiting, so where one is bought to develop the inspection focuses on the site and the plan.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the established gardens and any original timber the timber pest scope is worth adding, while on an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you across a shared wall. The building inspection's value here is reading the build quality and shared elements of a newer dwelling closely, because in a fast-built grouped home that is where the problems hide.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Westminster and Tuart Hill.
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Because it has been transformed by subdivision, its old blocks split street after street into duplexes and triplexes and grouped dwellings, so more than in almost any neighbour, what sells here is a newer attached home. We read that recent grouped stock and its shared elements closely, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Build quality and the shared elements. We read the wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, the roof-space workmanship and the finishing, and the shared driveways and party walls, and the common drainage, that grouped title creates, because in a fast-built grouped home that is where the problems hide.
The party wall as a structural element, for cracking and damp and any fault that crosses it, because a problem on a shared wall is a shared responsibility. We also read the shared drainage and, for a strata dwelling, the records that reveal levies and known defects.
Very much so. A fast-built duplex can carry rushed waterproofing, poorly finished roof plumbing and drainage that was never quite right, and on a near-new home a pre-handover inspection while the builder is still liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
Where an original home is bought to develop, we read the existing structure and the site for what matters to that plan rather than cosmetic wear, and we still flag asbestos, because it affects demolition.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The standardised older Nollamara stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate or develop is the point.
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.
In most of Nollamara, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and on an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you across a shared wall, so the two scopes are usually done together.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the records are a key part of the picture, so we recommend obtaining them and tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. On a grouped dwelling a clear building report separates the significant issue, a waterproofing defect or shared-wall fault, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Nollamara — 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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