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 Yokine is shaped by subdivision. This inner-north suburb has seen its old quarter-acre blocks split, over decades, into duplexes and survey-strata subdivisions, so alongside the interwar, post-war and mid-century houses, much of what sells is a half-duplex, a rear battle-axe home or a newer grouped dwelling, and the building inspection to AS 4349.1 reads boundaries and shared structure as closely as the house.
The duplex and subdivided lot is the distinctive read. Where a home is one half of a duplex, the building inspection treats the party wall as a structural element, reading it for cracking and damp, and any roof or gutter fault that crosses it, because a defect on a shared wall is a shared responsibility. On battle-axe and rear-strata lots, the access handle and shared driveway, and the shared drainage, are read for how they were formed. On the many newer duplexes, the read is build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a quick duplex build rushes.
The older houses are read for their era, the rising damp of any pre-damp-course walls, the brittle tiled roofs and delignified framing, plus the asbestos in post-war materials, and these are identified and flagged without being disturbed. Many originals are subdivision candidates, so where one is bought to develop, the inspection focuses on the existing structure and the site.
The roof space takes the longest time, and is read for framing condition and water entry, and for past repair and any decay or delignification.
Because it reports to AS 4349.1, the building inspection excludes timber pests, and with Yokine Reserve nearby and mature gardens throughout, the timber pest scope is worth adding in the same visit, especially on a duplex where a neighbour's problem can cross a shared wall. The building inspection's value here is reading the shared walls, the boundaries and the build quality of Yokine's duplexes and strata lots as carefully as the houses they came from.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Joondanna and Tuart Hill.
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Because Yokine's old blocks have been heavily split into duplexes and survey-strata lots, so much of what sells is a half-duplex, a battle-axe home or a newer grouped dwelling. That makes the shared walls, boundaries and subdivision central to the inspection, alongside the house, reported to AS 4349.1 with the areas not safely accessed.
The lot and the shared structure. We read the party wall as a structural element, for cracking and damp, and any roof or gutter fault that crosses it, and we read the shared drainage and boundary arrangements, because a defect on a shared wall is a shared responsibility.
How it was formed. We read the access handle and shared driveway, and the drainage that serves more than one dwelling, and the build quality of the home, because a rear lot's access and drainage are common sources of cost and dispute.
The read is build quality: wet-area waterproofing to AS 3740, roof-space workmanship and the finishing a quick duplex build rushes. On a near-new duplex a pre-handover look while the builder is liable is worth as much as a pre-purchase one.
In the interwar and post-war stock, yes, in eaves and sheeting. We identify and flag suspect materials without disturbing them, which matters most if you plan to renovate or develop.
Yes, with the focus on the plan. Where a home is bought to develop, we read the existing structure and the site for what matters to that plan rather than cosmetic wear.
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 Yokine, yes, especially on a duplex. The building inspection reports to AS 4349.1 and excludes pests, and a gallery can cross a shared wall, so the two scopes are usually done together.
For meaning and for responsibility. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from structural movement, and where a crack crosses a party wall we note that its repair is a shared matter between the two dwellings.
Yes. Whether it is a half-duplex, a battle-axe home or a newer build, a clear building report separates the significant issue from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Yokine — 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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