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 Woodlands is, more often than not, an inspection of a much-improved home. This quiet, leafy, tightly held family suburb is bought for its schools and improved in place, so the housing, largely 1960s and 70s brick with a layer of older character homes, has usually been renovated, extended or given a second storey, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads both the original structure and the quality of those additions.
The additions are the through-line. Second storeys are common in Woodlands, and a second floor loads footings and walls that were sized for a single storey, so the building inspection follows the load path down, reading the new upper structure for deflection, the original walls and footings beneath for overloading, and the junction between old and new for separation and water entry, and it asks whether the addition was engineered and approved. Ground-floor extensions and reconfigured wet areas are read the same way, at the seams where old meets new and where retrofitted waterproofing tends to fail.
The original structure is read for its era. The 1960s and 70s homes are brick on shallow footings, read for movement, with brittle tiled roofs, delignified framing and asbestos in eaves and sheeting, identified and flagged. The older character homes bring the rising damp their pre-damp-course walls draw up.
The mature trees are a genuine structural variable. Large, established trees close to a house can lift and disturb footings and drainage with their roots and keep walls and subfloors damp, so the building inspection reads what the vegetation is doing to the structure, because on a leafy Woodlands block the garden is part of the picture.
The roof space takes the longest time, read for framing condition, water entry, past repair, the load path of any second storey and delignification under the ageing tiles.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on Woodlands' mature gardens and older timber the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit. The building inspection's value here is reading how sound the improvements really are, and what the established garden is doing to the home.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Churchlands and Doubleview.
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The original home and the additions. Woodlands is bought for its schools and improved in place, so alongside the 1960s and 70s brick structure we read the second storeys, extensions and reconfigured wet areas most homes here have, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Because a second floor loads footings and walls sized for a single storey. We follow the load path down, reading the new upper structure for deflection, the original walls and footings for overloading, and the junction for separation and water entry, and we flag whether it was engineered and approved.
In Woodlands they can. Large established trees close to a house can lift and disturb footings and drainage with their roots and keep walls and subfloors damp. We read what the vegetation is doing to the building.
It identifies and flags suspect materials without disturbing them. The 1960s and 70s Woodlands stock can contain asbestos in eaves and sheeting, and knowing where it is before you renovate is the point.
For meaning, not by counting. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, read it against the shallow footings and the ground, and account for any tree-root influence and for load added by a second storey.
Often. The tiles of the 1960s and 70s homes are brittle with perished sarking, and the hardwood framing can show chemical delignification, which reduces what it can carry. 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.
In most of Woodlands, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the mature gardens and older timber here suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
With so much renovation, it turns up. We flag work that looks unapproved, from second storeys to patios and wet-area conversions, so it can be checked against council records, because unapproved building becomes your liability at settlement.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, an overloaded wall under a second storey or tree-root footing movement, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Woodlands — 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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