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 Wanneroo reads a suburb with genuinely rural roots. The old town at the heart of its district, Wanneroo carries older, semi-rural stock and former market gardens alongside the newer estates that infill it, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads that older property and its outbuildings, and its ground, as carefully as the newer homes.
The older rural stock is the distinctive factor. An older Wanneroo property can carry a genuinely old home, with outbuildings and sheds, and a market-garden history, so the building inspection reads not just the house but the outbuildings, often owner-built and not always approved, for their structure and roofing, and, in older ones, asbestos to flag. Where a site has a rural or horticultural history, the inspection is alert to made or filled ground and notes where a site's past warrants a contaminated-sites check, a specialist question beyond a visual inspection. Where a property runs on a bore or on-site wastewater, the presence is noted while the function is a specialist matter.
The older homes are read for their age: rising damp in any pre-damp-course walls, with brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and asbestos in the eaves and sheeting of the older materials, flagged without being disturbed.
The newer estate homes are read for build quality: the timber frame behind the brick skin, the slab for movement and slab-edge damp, and the roof plumbing of a volume build, with wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740.
The roof space and outbuildings take extra time here, read for framing condition and water entry, and the state of any owner-built structure.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and given the older timber and outbuildings, and the district's water and reserves, the timber pest scope is well worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the old, semi-rural property fully, not just the walls of the home.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Hocking and Sinagra.
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Its rural roots. Wanneroo is the old town at the heart of its district, so alongside the newer estates it has genuinely old, semi-rural stock and the ground that comes with it. We read that older property and its outbuildings, its ground and its age, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Yes. An older Wanneroo property often carries sheds and outbuildings, frequently owner-built and not always approved, so we read them for structure and roofing, and any asbestos, because unapproved structures pass to you at settlement.
It can. Former horticultural land can carry made or filled ground and chemical residues, so we are alert to it and note where a site's past warrants a contaminated-sites check, which is a specialist question beyond a visual building inspection.
We note the presence and accessible condition, but the function of a bore or on-site wastewater system is a specialist matter beyond a visual building inspection, so we recommend a specialist check where relevant.
For its age: rising damp in pre-damp-course walls, with brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, and asbestos in the older eaves and sheeting, flagged without being disturbed.
Build quality: the timber frame behind the brick skin, the slab for movement and slab-edge damp, and the roof plumbing of a volume build, with wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740.
On a rural or older Wanneroo property, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the older timber and outbuildings, and district water, suit termites, so the two scopes are well worth doing together.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. Older homes and outbuildings can contain asbestos in eaves, sheeting and old shed cladding, and knowing where it is matters given how much outbuilding stock a rural block can carry.
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 Wanneroo — 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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