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 Oldbury reads a rural-residential property on the reactive Serpentine catchment clay-loam of the outer southeast corridor, where the clay ground, the Serpentine River corridor moisture on the southern boundary, and the rural lot complexity together define the pre-purchase read. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and in Oldbury the pre-purchase read begins with the clay: the seasonal movement history in the building fabric at the specific age the home has been on the Serpentine catchment clay.
The clay movement history at the specific age is the primary pre-purchase structural concern. Older farmhouses at sixty-plus years carry the full Serpentine catchment clay movement record; 1970s-1980s rural-residential at forty to fifty years carry a substantial history; and newer builds are beginning to show the early movement signature. The pre-purchase inspection identifies the crack pattern, floor levels and subfloor conditions that that movement history has produced.
The Serpentine River southern boundary is noted as the flood zone and riparian moisture context for the southernmost lots. The rural lot outbuildings and evolved drainage are read as part of the full site inspection. The combined building and pest inspection is recommended in Oldbury. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Cardup and Mundijong.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 reading a rural-residential property on reactive Serpentine catchment clay-loam, where the clay movement history at the specific age of the home is the primary structural pre-purchase concern.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection is recommended in Oldbury given the reactive clay, Serpentine riparian moisture and established rural vegetation.
Older farmhouses at sixty-plus years carry the full Serpentine clay movement record; 1970s-1980s at forty to fifty years carry a substantial history; newer builds show early movement signatures. The pre-purchase inspection identifies crack patterns, floor levels and subfloor conditions produced by that history.
Flood zone position and riparian clay moisture are noted for the southernmost lots near the river corridor.
Outbuildings, stables and evolved drainage on Oldbury lots are read as part of the full site inspection alongside the main dwelling.
Yes. Outbuildings and lean-tos on older rural properties commonly incorporate asbestos cement sheeting. Noted throughout the pre-purchase report.
Yes. Clay movement history findings at the specific age, and any significant site or outbuilding findings, give you a factual pre-purchase basis.
Yes. Reactive clay moisture, Serpentine riparian conditions and large rural gardens. The combined inspection is recommended.
Yes. Subfloor conditions on Serpentine catchment clay — floor levels, bearer condition and moisture history — are the primary structural pre-purchase read on older Oldbury homes.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Oldbury — 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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