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 Seville Grove reads a 1970s home at its full fifty-year age on reactive clay-loam in the City of Armadale's established corridor. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and at fifty years on reactive clay the pre-purchase read in Seville Grove is among the most demanding in this coverage area: the waterproofing has had fifty years to fail, the tile mortar has had fifty years to degrade, and the clay has had fifty cycles to work on the masonry. The pre-purchase inspection determines the current condition of each element, not whether it has aged — because at fifty years, aging is universal.
The wet-area waterproofing is the first pre-purchase priority and the most consequential single finding. At fifty years, original AS 3740 waterproofing has been in continuous use across multiple tenancies and ownership changes. The question the pre-purchase inspection answers is: has it failed, how extensively, and what has water accessed behind the tiles for however long the failure has been present? The answer determines the remediation scope and cost before you commit.
The reactive clay movement over fifty cycles is the second priority: crack patterns that have been accumulating for fifty years, floor levels that reflect the full extent of what the clay has done, and a subfloor bearing condition on stumped homes that tells the complete settlement history. For eastern blocks near the scarp foothills, the scarp drainage cross-flow is the additional site context. The report follows within 24 hours.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 at the fifty-year mark on reactive clay-loam — where aging is universal and the pre-purchase read determines the current condition and remediation scope of each element.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
Whether the original waterproofing has failed, how extensively, and what water has accessed behind the tiles for however long the failure has been active. This determines the remediation scope and cost before purchase.
Crack patterns accumulated over fifty cycles, floor levels reflecting the full extent of clay movement, and subfloor bearing condition on stumped homes carrying the complete settlement history.
Eastern blocks near the scarp foothills carry winter drainage cross-flow from the scarp as a structural site factor — water running across the lot toward the plain in heavy rain events.
Yes. Fibro lean-tos and outbuildings common in 1970s SHC and private estates in this area may incorporate asbestos cement sheeting. We note suspect materials throughout the pre-purchase report.
Yes, often significantly. At fifty years the defects are frequently substantial, and the pre-purchase inspection gives you a detailed, photo-documented basis for renegotiation.
Yes. Fifty years on reactive clay-loam with a dense established canopy. The combined inspection is strongly recommended.
Yes. On a stumped 1970s home on reactive clay, the subfloor is the primary structural read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Seville Grove — 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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