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.
Willagee was created in 1950 as a State Housing Commission estate for Fremantle industrial workers, and it is one of Perth’s most unusual suburbs to inspect because some of what you might be buying is genuinely unlike anything else in the city. A number of the original homes were prefabricated cottages imported from Austria, built on stilts and known locally as ‘spearies’, and the suburb is currently mid-sweep in a redevelopment that has placed new infill next to surviving originals. A pre-purchase building inspection here starts by working out exactly what the home in front of you is.
If the home has spearie origins, the building read is a timber-frame read. A demountable cottage on stilts has an open subfloor, exposed framing and stump connections that age differently from a brick home on a slab, and knowing that before you buy is what sets an informed offer apart from a guess. Where a home has been built from or extended around a spearie, the junctions between the original timber frame and any later work are where the read concentrates.
If the home is a new infill, the read shifts to the modern. Willagee’s redevelopment has brought a lot of new townhouses and units to the suburb, and these earn the standard new-build read: waterproofing to the wet areas, roof plumbing, and the first years of settlement on a freshly-cleared and rebuilt block.
If the home is original Commission stock, the read is about age. A 1950s brick home is now around seventy years old, so the tile roof, the wet area and the wiring may all be original and near the end of their useful life, and the rental and investment history of much of this stock means deferred maintenance is common.
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 Willagee, where the same street holds three different eras of 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 Melville and Myaree.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, which in Willagee starts with identifying whether you are buying a spearie, a Commission brick home, or new infill, because each asks a different question.
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.
An Austrian prefabricated cottage imported to house Fremantle workers after 1950, built on timber stilts. Some survive intact, some have been extended, and the timber-frame read applies to both.
Because a timber-framed cottage on stilts has an open subfloor and exposed framing that age differently from a brick home on a slab, and those differences decide what the home needs.
These get the modern read: waterproofing to the wet areas, roof plumbing, and first-years settlement on a freshly-cleared and rebuilt block.
At around seventy years old, the tile roof, wet area and wiring may all be original and near the end of their life, often combined with a rental and investment history that defers maintenance.
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.
It means checking what surrounds a home as much as the home itself, since a block next to cleared land or new infill carries different considerations from a settled street.
Yes. On a spearie or a home with spearie origins, the subfloor and stump connections are central to the building read.
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 Willagee — 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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