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.
Spearwood is one of the more unusual suburbs to buy in because of how its older stock was built. From 1911, Croatian and Dalmatian market-gardener families arrived, bought their lots, grew Spearwood onions and built their own homes as time and money allowed, without a standard builder and without a standard specification. A pre-purchase building inspection here starts from that fact, because an owner-built home on a market-garden lot does not read the same way as a project-built house in a planned suburb.
Owner-built construction is what sets the pre-purchase read apart. A home built progressively by the owner can be excellent, but the variation between houses in Spearwood is greater than almost anywhere else in Perth, and two homes on the same street can require completely different assessments. We read the structure, the roof, the wet areas and any additions for how they were actually done, because a Spearwood home earns a specific read, not a generic one.
The ground is the other Spearwood factor. The suburb sits on Spearwood Dunes, sand over Tamala limestone, and in some parts that limestone is close to the surface. Where limestone is near the surface, moisture behaviour and footing conditions differ from ordinary sand, and a pre-purchase read attends to the subfloor and site drainage for what the ground is doing beneath the home.
Newer infill development has added modern townhouses and units to the suburb alongside the older stock, and those earn the standard new-build read of waterproofing and roof plumbing, on ground that still asks the same Spearwood Dunes questions depending on the block.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. In Spearwood, where the same lot can hold very different construction, that reading is what tells you exactly what you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Hamilton Hill and Coolbellup.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, starting from the fact that much of Spearwood's older stock was owner-built by Croatian market-gardener families without a standard specification.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Because the variation between houses is much greater than in a project-built suburb, and two homes on the same street can require completely different assessments.
The structure, the roof, the wet areas and any additions, read for how they were actually done, with particular attention to where a later stage drops in standard compared to an earlier one.
Sand over Tamala limestone, with the limestone sometimes close to the surface. Where it is, moisture behaviour and footing conditions differ from ordinary sand, and we read the subfloor and site drainage accordingly.
Those earn the standard modern read of waterproofing and roof plumbing, on ground that still asks the Spearwood Dunes drainage question depending on the block.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Not inherently. Some are excellent. The point is that the read matters more here than in a uniform suburb, because you cannot assume a standard and need to know what is actually there.
Yes. The subfloor and site drainage are central to the Spearwood read, both for the building condition and for the ground behaviour beneath.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act while your offer conditions are open.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Spearwood — 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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