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 Osborne Park reads modest post-war housing on ground with a history. The suburb grew after the war on its market gardens, mixed with a large commercial and light-industrial precinct, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 weighs the structure alongside the site, because in a suburb like this what a block used to be can matter as much as the house on it.
The residential structure is largely 1950s and 60s brick, solidly built and read against its era. The building inspection reads the brick for movement against its shallow footings, the tiled roof for the brittleness and delignification that come with age, and the era's asbestos into the picture, identified and flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed. Old wiring and switchboards are noted for what they are, standard-of-the-era detail with a real cost to modernise.
The ground is the distinctive structural factor. Land that was market gardens, or in places former industrial and commercial use, can carry made or filled soil, and fill that was not properly compacted settles unevenly and cracks slabs and footings. The building inspection reads floor levels and crack patterns for that differential settlement, and where the site history points to former horticultural or industrial use, it raises that a contaminated-sites assessment is worth considering, because that is a specialist question a visual building inspection cannot resolve.
Osborne Park's mixed uses shape the rest of the read. Where a home sits close to or above a commercial or light-industrial floor, the building inspection reads fire separation between the uses, the structure's adaptation, and the access a working building allows, and near the commercial strips, where the stock is apartments and mixed-use, the strata records join the structural picture, with the condition of the common property read against the minutes.
Infill and renovation run through the older streets, and each addition or new grouped dwelling is read for build quality, for the waterproofing of any wet area, and for whether it was approved, because unapproved building passes to the buyer. The roof space takes the longest time, read for framing condition, water entry, past repair and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Osborne Park's rich market-garden soils and older timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the house and the site together, and being clear where a specialist question, contamination or made ground, sits beyond what a visual inspection can settle.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Glendalough and Mount Hawthorn.
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A visual inspection to AS 4349.1 of the accessible parts of the property, with particular attention to the ground. On a post-war Osborne Park home that means the footings and wall movement, the ageing roof, asbestos-era materials, and the site history, reported as significant defects with the areas not safely accessed.
Because much of Osborne Park was market gardens, and in places former industrial land. That ground can carry made or filled soil that settles unevenly, so we read floor levels and cracking for differential settlement, and flag where a contaminated-sites assessment is worth considering.
No, and we are clear about that. A visual building inspection cannot resolve contamination, so where the site history points to former horticultural or industrial use, we raise that a specialist contaminated-sites assessment is worth considering before you commit.
In the post-war stock, very likely, in eaves and sheeting and behind wet-area tiles. We identify and flag suspect materials without disturbing them, which matters most if you plan to renovate.
For meaning, not by counting. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, read it against the shallow footings and the ground, and give particular weight to any made or filled ground the site history suggests.
It can. Where a home sits close to or above a commercial or light-industrial floor, we read fire separation between the uses, the structure's adaptation and the access a working building allows. It is a common Osborne Park arrangement.
A read of the lot and common property against the strata records, with any mixed-use interface, fire separation and the condition of the common property weighed against the minutes and known defects.
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 Osborne Park, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the rich market-garden soils and older timber here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, settlement on made ground, an old roof or asbestos, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Osborne Park — 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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