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.
Two Rocks is the northern end of the Perth metro, and a pre-purchase building inspection here reads a home shaped by two things above all, open coastal exposure and a mixed-origin settlement. The original stock around the marina and the old Sun City resort was built over decades to a range of standards, while the Atlantis Beach and Allara estates are brand new. A building inspection reads the structure and fabric of whichever you are buying, so you make the offer with clear eyes.
On the original Two Rocks stock, the building read turns on exposure and origin. Decades of unbroken sea weather show in roof cover, flashings and the window and door seals that face the wind, and because some of the settlement was owner-built or extended over time, we check that additions and enclosed verandahs were built properly and, where needed, approved. These are the points that decide whether the asking price is fair.
On a marina home, the water’s edge is central to the read. Retaining, seawalls and any jetty or canal structure sit at and below the waterline, where saltwater ages them fastest, and the cost of putting them right is high enough that it belongs in your decision before you sign, not after.
On a new estate home, the read is early life instead. Young builds show their first defects early, rushed waterproofing, handover snags and roof plumbing with shallow falls, and the fresh-fill slab is still bedding in, so we read the crack pattern to tell settling movement from something structural.
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. Whether the right move is to proceed, to renegotiate or to walk, the decision stays yours, made with a clear picture of an exposed frontier home. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Yanchep and Eglinton.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, so you make the offer knowing what an exposed frontier home actually is.
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 Two Rocks faces the ocean unbroken. Roof cover, flashings and weather-facing seals wear faster here, so we read them closely as part of the building assessment.
Much of it grew from the 1970s Sun City settlement and was owner-built or extended, so standards vary. We check additions and enclosed verandahs for how they were built and whether they were approved.
Yes. Retaining, seawalls and canal-edge structures sit at and below the waterline where saltwater ages them fastest, and the cost of repair is high, so it belongs in your decision before you sign.
Early-life defects: rushed waterproofing, handover snags, roof plumbing with poor falls, and the first-years settlement on a fresh-fill slab.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, which gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Yes. A pre-settlement or practical-completion inspection lists the defects for the builder to fix while the cost is still theirs.
No. Distance and exposure raise the stakes, not lower them, and a clear building read is what keeps a frontier home from becoming an expensive surprise.
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 Two Rocks — 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.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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