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 Sinagra can meet three quite different properties. This small suburb on the edge of the Wanneroo townsite is caught mid-transition between rural and residential, so a purchase here might be an old rural home on a large block, a new estate house, or a large block bought for subdivision, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads whichever it finds on its own terms.
The semi-rural property is the distinctive factor, read as a whole property rather than just a house. On a large block the building inspection reads the sheds and workshops and other outbuildings, often owner-built and not always approved, for their structure and roofing, and any asbestos. Where the property runs on on-site wastewater rather than deep sewer, the presence and accessible condition of the system are noted while a specialist check is recommended, because its function is beyond a visual inspection, and the same applies to a bore or rainwater supply. Where a block sits near remnant bush, a home may be in a bushfire-prone area, which can carry construction requirements, so the inspection notes where the setting makes that relevant.
The older rural homes are read for their age: rising damp, with brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and asbestos in the older materials, flagged without being disturbed. The newer estate homes are read for build quality: the frame and the slab, and the roof plumbing of a volume build, with wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740. Where a large block is bought to subdivide, the inspection focuses on the existing structure and the site.
The roof space and any outbuildings take extra time, read for framing condition and water entry, and the state of owner-built work.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on a rural block the large watered gardens, timber outbuildings and remnant bush make the timber pest scope well worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading whichever property it meets, an old rural block, a new home or a development site, fully and on its own terms.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Ashby and Wanneroo.
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One of three, really: an old rural home on a large block, a new estate house, or a large block bought for subdivision. Sinagra is a small suburb mid-transition between rural and residential, and we read whichever we find on its own terms, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Yes. On a large semi-rural block the sheds and workshops and other outbuildings are part of the read, for structure and roofing, and any asbestos, and often owner-built and not always approved, which we note because unapproved structures pass to you at settlement.
We note the presence and accessible condition of an on-site wastewater system, or a bore or rainwater supply, but the function is beyond a visual building inspection, so we recommend a specialist check where relevant.
It may be, where a block sits near remnant bush. That can carry construction requirements for a home built or renovated to a bush-fire attack level, so we note where the setting makes that relevant, a matter to confirm with the local authority.
For its age: rising damp, with brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and asbestos in the older materials, flagged without being disturbed.
Build quality: the frame and the slab, and the roof plumbing of a volume build, with wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740.
The existing structure and the site rather than cosmetic wear, because much may be removed, and we flag asbestos, because it affects demolition.
On a rural Sinagra block especially, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the large watered gardens, timber outbuildings and remnant bush suit termites, so the two scopes are strongly worth doing together.
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.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, an unapproved outbuilding or a failing structure, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Sinagra — 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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