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 Tuart Hill is often the read of a strata dwelling. This modest, densifying suburb carries a large stock of villa and unit blocks, ranging from 1960s and 70s walk-ups to newer apartments and grouped dwellings, alongside its modest post-war houses, and for a strata purchase the building inspection to AS 4349.1 weighs the shared building and its records as much as the lot.
The strata stock is the defining factor. For a villa or unit the building inspection reads the lot and then the accessible common property, and the records carry real weight: the minutes reveal levies and known common-property defects, and in the older walk-up blocks the recurring faults are the shared roofs and gutters and the common drainage. In a two-storey block, the concrete structure and the balcony waterproofing are read with a thermal camera and moisture meter where accessible. An ageing block can carry deferred maintenance a low levy has hidden, which the records and the physical read together reveal.
The modest post-war houses are read for their era, the rising damp of any pre-damp-course walls, the brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, plus the asbestos in eaves and sheeting, all identified and flagged. Much of Tuart Hill is investor-owned, which can mean deferred maintenance, and the building inspection reads the property as it is.
Where a property is a newer grouped dwelling or apartment, the read is build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a fast build rushes, along with the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates.
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, while in an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you. The building inspection's value here is reading the shared building and its records as closely as the lot, because in a villa or unit that is where the real cost usually sits.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Yokine and Joondanna.
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A read of the lot and accessible common property against the strata records. The minutes reveal levies and known defects, and in the older walk-up blocks we read the shared roofs and gutters and drainage, and, in a two-storey block, the concrete and balcony waterproofing, since that shared structure is where the real cost usually sits.
Deferred maintenance a low levy may have hidden. We read the tired shared roofs and gutters and the common drainage, and in two-storey blocks the concrete and balconies, then we check the records for a history of works and special levies.
Yes, in eaves and sheeting. We identify and flag suspect materials without disturbing them, which matters most if you plan to renovate.
Yes, subject to access. Much of Tuart Hill is investor-owned, and we read the property as it is, and note deferred maintenance and any areas an occupied home limited us from reaching.
Build quality and the shared elements: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and finishing, along with the shared driveways and walls grouped title creates, and the records that govern them.
Often. The tiled roofs of the post-war houses are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification, so 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.
On the older houses, yes; in an attached dwelling a neighbour's problem can reach you. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, so the two scopes are usually done together.
We can inspect the lot and accessible common property, but the records are central in a strata block, so we recommend obtaining them and tell you plainly what the physical inspection could and could not cover.
Yes. Whether it is a villa, a unit or a house, 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 Tuart Hill — 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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