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 Woodvale reads a much-improved family home. This settled 1980s suburb is the kind of low-turnover area where homes are owned and improved for decades, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 gives particular attention to the layers of additions a long-held home accumulates, because in Woodvale the extensions are often where the real questions sit.
The accumulated improvements are the defining factor. Over forty years a Woodvale home may have gained a patio or pergola, an alfresco, a converted garage, a reconfigured kitchen or bathroom, and often a pool, and each is read on its own terms: for structure and how it ties into the original home, for waterproofing where it is a wet area, and for whether it was approved, because unapproved owner-built work passes to the buyer at settlement. These additions are frequently the source of a home's defects, so they are read as closely as the original structure.
The original construction is read for its era. Woodvale's 1980s homes are a timber frame behind a single brick skin on a concrete slab, so the building inspection reads the frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes the veneer relies on, and the slab for rising damp at the edge and any movement. Concrete or terracotta tile roofs are read for condition, and asbestos, reduced but not absent, is flagged in eaves and sheeting without being disturbed. At around forty years the original roofs and finishes are reaching the point where they need renewal.
Woodvale borders Yellagonga Regional Park, so on blocks near the reserve the building inspection gives extra weight to the ground and, given the exclusion of timber pests, notes that the reserve raises the termite pressure and the case for the pest scope.
The roof space and the junctions where additions meet the original home take particular attention, read for structure, water entry and the workmanship of owner-built work.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and on the established gardens, timber additions and any reserve proximity the timber pest scope is worth adding. The building inspection's value here is reading the layers a long-held home has gained as closely as the home beneath them, because that is where a Woodvale home most often hides its costs.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kingsley and Padbury.
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The improvements. Woodvale is a settled 1980s family suburb where homes are owned and improved for decades, so we give particular attention to the layers of additions a long-held home accumulates, because that is often where the real questions sit, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
Each addition on its own terms. A patio, pergola, alfresco, converted garage or reconfigured wet area is read for structure and how it ties into the original home, for waterproofing where relevant, and for whether it was approved, because unapproved owner-built work passes to you at settlement.
We note the pool and its immediate surrounds, including barrier-compliance and wet-area questions, and where the pool or its enclosure was an owner addition we read how it was built and whether it was approved, though a pool-specific compliance check can be a specialist matter.
We read the timber frame behind the brick skin through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes the veneer relies on, and the slab edge for rising damp and any movement. The tile roofs are read for condition.
Often, yes. At around forty years the original roofs and finishes reach the point where they need renewal, so we read them for what is worn out versus renewed and are honest about the maintenance the home is due for.
It identifies and flags any suspect materials without disturbing them. Asbestos is reduced but not absent in stock of this era, and more likely in an older addition or outbuilding, so we check by age and appearance where present.
On the blocks near the reserve, yes. The reserve and its water raise the termite pressure and the ground moisture, so on those blocks we give the ground extra weight and note the stronger case for the timber pest scope.
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 Woodvale, yes. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and the established gardens, timber additions and reserve proximity suit termites, so the two scopes are usually done together.
Yes. A clear building report separates the significant issue, unapproved owner-built work or an old roof, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Woodvale — 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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