Box Hill Building
Inspections

Pre-Purchase Building Inspections in Box Hill

For the established homes in and around Box Hill, a visual inspection to AS 4349.1.

  • Assessed to AS 4349.1
  • Subfloor entered where accessible
  • Significant items called out
  • Safety hazards listed separately
  • Report inside 24 hours
  • Booked around your cooling off
  • Plain language, no jargon
  • Call after you have read it
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What is included

What is included in a Box Hill pre-purchase building inspection

A pre-purchase inspection is carried out to AS 4349.1, a visual inspection of readily accessible areas reporting significant items, conditions conducive to structural damage and safety hazards.

Up on the roof

  • Tile and metal roofs
  • Ridge capping bedding
  • Box gutters and sumps
  • Flashing to walls

Safety items

  • Balcony balustrade height
  • Stair handrails
  • Glass in low panels
  • Possible asbestos eaves

Subfloor on older homes

  • Bearer and beam bearing
  • Damp through the substructure
  • Vent openings blocked
  • Brick cladding near ground

Frame and footings

  • Visible footings and slab edges
  • Crack widths logged
  • Lintels over openings
  • Sagging roof lines

Water around the home

  • Balcony drainage outlets
  • Pooling at the base of walls
  • Downpipes discharging

Facade

  • Cladding cracks and caulking
  • Expansion joints
  • Weep holes
  • Rendered parapets

Wet rooms

  • Signs of membrane failure
  • Floor waste falls
  • Water marks in rooms beside

Roof void

  • Truss and rafter condition
  • Sarking and insulation
  • Daylight through the roof

Acreage surrounds

  • Trees within reach of the house
  • Stables and outbuildings
  • Cut and fill batters

Interior

  • Doors binding in frames
  • Ceiling cracks and stains
  • Floor deflection underfoot

35 checkpoints across 10 areas on a standard Box Hill pre-purchase building inspection. On a site under construction we need the lot open and the builder told we are attending. Where a stage is not complete we record that in the report rather than passing it.

Sample findings

Sample defects from our pre-purchase inspections in Box Hill

Recorded on pre-purchase inspections at Box Hill addresses.

Subfloor structure bearing, recorded during a pre-purchase inspection in Box Hill
Subfloor bearing in question
Subfloor dampness, recorded during a pre-purchase inspection in Box Hill
Dampness through the subfloor
Cladding to ground clearance required, recorded during a pre-purchase inspection in Box Hill
Masonry cladding too close to the ground
Tile adhesive, recorded during a pre-purchase inspection in Box Hill
External tiling adhesion
Subfloor beam, recorded during a pre-purchase inspection in Box Hill
Subfloor beam condition
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Why Box Hill owners choose us

Independent. Licensed. Insured.

  • A membrane is checked with a light behind it
  • Steel framing read against the engineering
  • Booked around the trades, not the office
  • Written for a builder to action
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FAQ

Pre-Purchase Building Inspections in Box Hill: common questions

Do you go under the floor?

Wherever there is an access hatch and the space is safe and high enough to enter, yes. On an older Box Hill house the subfloor is often where the day's real finding is, so it is not a part we treat as optional.

What falls outside a pre-purchase inspection?

Electrical is not energised or tested, plumbing is not pressure tested, appliances and heating are not operated, nothing is opened destructively and no engineering is certified. Timber pest work is its own inspection under AS 4349.3.

How fast can you attend before an auction?

Usually within a day or two, and jobs with a contract deadline behind them get priority. The report follows within 24 hours of the inspection.

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