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 Noranda is shaped by the age of an intact estate. This planned 1960s and 70s suburb, laid out for families and less subdivided than its neighbours, is now around fifty years old, and a well-kept original home is reaching the point where its roof, services and finishes are wearing out together. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads the estate construction and that end-of-service-life stage in equal measure.
The construction is the first factor. Much of Noranda is double brick and brick moving toward brick veneer, on shallow footings or a concrete slab, so where a home is veneer the building inspection reads the timber frame behind the brick skin for movement and decay, and where it is slab-on-ground it reads the slab edge for rising damp and the floors for heave or settlement. The concrete tile roofs of the era are read for brittleness and perished sarking, the aluminium windows for seals rather than rust.
The age is the distinctive factor. At around fifty years, an original estate home is at the point where the roof covering and the sarking beneath it are near the end of their service life, so the building inspection reads the roof and its coverings closely for what is worn out versus renewed, and flags where a home is due for the significant works an unrenovated house of this age eventually needs. Asbestos, present in materials of the era into the late 1980s, is identified and flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed.
The roof space takes the longest time, read for framing condition, water entry, past repair and any decay or delignification, and where blocks back onto reserve the ground and perimeter take extra attention.
Renovation and the occasional subdivision run through the estate, and each addition or newer dwelling is read for structure, waterproofing and approval.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and with bushland reserve on the edges of the suburb the timber pest scope is well worth adding, because that bush is a reservoir for subterranean termites. The building inspection's value here is reading the veneer-and-slab construction and the end-of-service-life wear of a fifty-year-old home together.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Morley and Dianella.
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The age of an intact estate. Noranda is a planned 1960s and 70s estate, less subdivided than its neighbours and now around fifty years old, so a well-kept original home is reaching the point where its roof and services and finishes wear out together. We read for that end-of-service-life stage, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
That the original roof covering, the sarking beneath it and similar elements are near the end of their working lives, even when the home is well kept. We read the roof and coverings closely for what is worn out versus renewed, and flag where a home is due for the significant works a house of this age eventually needs.
Where a home is veneer, we read the timber frame behind the brick skin for movement and decay; where it is slab-on-ground, we read the slab edge for rising damp and the floors for heave or settlement. The concrete tile roofs are read for brittleness and perished sarking, the aluminium windows for seals rather than rust.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. Noranda's stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, present in materials of the era into the late 1980s, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Yes. Where blocks back onto bushland reserve, 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.
Often, especially at this age. The concrete tiles of the era are brittle with perished sarking, so we read the roof for cracked and slipped tiles and water entry, and the frame beneath for any resulting damage.
It is common in a fifty-year-old home and not a reason to walk away, but it is something to plan and budget for. We set out what is worn out versus renewed, so you can weigh the works ahead and factor them into your offer.
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.
For meaning, not by counting. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, read it against the footings and the ground, and on a veneer home distinguish expected movement at articulation joints from distress in the frame.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, a roof at end of life or slab movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Noranda — 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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