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 Redcliffe reads a suburb shaped by the airport beside it and the railway station that has redeveloped it. The building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads the older post-war stock and the newer development side by side, and it keeps the airport in view, because proximity to a major airport shapes both a home's amenity and, sometimes, how it was built.
The airport is the distinctive factor. Homes here sit under or near flight paths, so aircraft noise is a real part of the amenity, and some homes in higher-exposure areas were built or modified with noise-attenuation measures, sealed and insulated to reduce it. The building inspection notes where a property sits relative to the airport and, where present, reads the condition of any noise-attenuation features, because a buyer should understand both the exposure and what has been done about it.
The station precinct is the other story. Around the new station Redcliffe has drawn apartment and grouped-dwelling development, and for that stock the building inspection reads build quality and shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship, and, on apartments, the balcony waterproofing, external cladding and facade sealing, along with the strata records that reveal levies and known defects.
The older post-war houses are read for their era, the rising damp of any pre-damp-course walls, the brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and the asbestos in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. Many are redevelopment sites, so where one is bought to develop the inspection focuses on the site and the plan.
The roof space takes the longest time on the older houses, read for framing condition, water entry and delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the older houses and their gardens the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading the older home, the newer strata and the airport's influence each on their own terms.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Ascot and Belmont.
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Yes, in two ways. Homes here sit under or near flight paths, so aircraft noise is a real part of the amenity, and some homes in higher-exposure areas were built or modified with noise-attenuation measures. We note where a property sits relative to the airport and read the condition of any attenuation features present.
It is the sealing and insulation some homes near the airport were built or modified with to reduce aircraft noise indoors. Where it is present we read its condition, because it affects the comfort of the home and, if it has been altered, whether it still works.
Build quality and the records. We read the balcony waterproofing and external cladding, and the facade sealing, that modern high-density stock requires, along with the strata minutes for levies and known common-property defects.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The post-war Redcliffe stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
Yes, with the focus on the plan. Where a home is bought to develop, we read the existing structure and the site for what matters to that plan rather than cosmetic wear that may be removed.
It has. The airport-line station has drawn apartment and grouped-dwelling development to Redcliffe, so alongside the older houses we increasingly read newer strata, which brings its own build-quality and records considerations.
Often. The tiled roofs of the post-war houses are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification. We read the roof structure closely and probe for it.
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 Redcliffe, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the older houses and gardens here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. Whether it is an older house or a new apartment, a clear building report separates the significant issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Redcliffe — 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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