Pre-Purchase Building Inspection Reports

A Professional Building Consultant will investigate and report on these and many more items of Significance

• Note the:
• Timber roof frame for any structural sagging or undulation.
• Inadequacy of Building supports, hangers and beams.
• Compliance to the timber framing code at the time.
• Evidence of any white ants or borer attack.
• Inadequacy of the roof tie-down system.
• Loose or broken roof tiles and cracking to ridge pointing.
• Corroded metal roof sheets, fixing screws and damaged seals.
• Rusting or holes to guttering, valleys and box gutters.
• Holes in flashing's, damage to lead aprons for chimneys flumes and skylights.
• Corrosion in downpipes, rain heads, fascias and guttering.
• Downpipes and guttering backflow / overflow prevention system.
• Water penetration staining of eaves and sagging or damaged linings.
• Ceiling insulation dampness and fire hazards.

• Note the:
• Concrete floors, significant cracking to tiling and penetrating dampness.
• Uneven timber flooring, loose or rotten floorboards, and movement gaps under strikings.
• Internal wall plaster condition, adhesion to walls, patching of defects, streaking water stains.
• Warping of timber framed walls, jamming of doors, cracking over frames and at wall junctions.
• Movement cracking to sheet plaster jointing, evidence of recent repair.
• Rising dampness flaking paint bubbling plaster calcified deposits.
• Ceiling sagging, cracked joints, tearing of cornice, water damage staining and mold.
• Leaks to plumbing fittings, water pressure and drainage flow, evidence of gurgling.
• Cracked or missing tile grout, deteriorating sealants, water proofing to shower recesses.
• Hazardous electrical, broken power points, missing smoke alarms and isolation circuit breakers.

• Note the:
• Structural subsidence damage to the footings and brick or limestone build-ups.
• Cracking in brickwork, piers, lintels, external render and over arches.
• Corroding of mortar joints, water penetration and rising damp.
• Evidence of recent mortar re-pointing and the inadequate patching of defects.
• Corrosion of steel lintels and contributory cracking of brickwork.
• Rotten or weathered exposed timber fascia, weatherboards, frames, beams and posts,
• Lifting or cracked paving, Subsidence, evidence of large trees roots.
• Excessive dampness around storm-water to downpipes junctions.
• Inadequate drainage and water run-off, areas of ponding.
• Boundary fences and gates, evidence of rot and white ants.
• Inadequate ventilation and clearance to sub-floors.
• Condition of stumps, flooring bearers and joists, support piers and ant caps.
• Evidence of Illegal building alterations, boundary encroachment and possible fire hazard.