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 O'Connor reads a post-war or mid-century home on the Fremantle limestone headland between the working port and the inner Fremantle residential suburbs, at fifty to seventy years on a substrate where the limestone depth beneath the coastal sand determines the footing behaviour. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the O'Connor pre-purchase read combines the standard fifty-to-seventy-year older-era building conditions with the limestone substrate identification and the port-proximity site contexts that distinguish this suburb from the sheltered inner suburbs at the same age.
The wet-area condition at fifty to seventy years is the first pre-purchase priority. The limestone substrate identification is the second: where limestone is shallow, the footing and slab behaviour over decades differs from deep-sand sites, and the pre-purchase read identifies which ground type the specific lot sits on from the observed building behaviour.
The port-boundary vibration crack signature is noted for the homes nearest the western port boundary — identified separately from the limestone-substrate cracking. Asbestos in post-war outbuildings is noted throughout. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Fremantle and South Fremantle.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 reading a post-war or mid-century home at fifty to seventy years on Fremantle limestone, where the substrate identification, the port-boundary vibration context and the older-era building conditions combine in the pre-purchase read.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
Where limestone is shallow beneath the footings, slab and wall behaviour over fifty to seventy years differs from deep-sand sites. We identify the dominant ground type from the observed building behaviour and crack pattern.
Homes nearest the western port boundary carry the vibration crack signature from decades of heavy freight movements. We identify this separately from limestone-substrate cracking in the pre-purchase report.
The two crack causes have different remediation approaches and different structural significance for the pre-purchase read. Knowing which is which changes the scope and the negotiating position.
Wet-area condition at full use age, flat or tile roof at its age, and external materials on the port-facing elevation under fifty to seventy years of near-port salt-air and UV weathering.
Yes. Post-war and mid-century outbuildings in an inner Fremantle working suburb commonly contain asbestos cement sheeting. Noted throughout the report.
Yes. The limestone ground identification and the age-specific condition findings give you a factual pre-purchase basis.
Yes. Post-war homes on limestone with established gardens and high coastal moisture. The combined inspection covers timber pest.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Oconnor — 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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