Pre-listing Inspections
Comprehensive Pre-Listing Structural, Building, Termite & Timber Pest Inspection. Preliminary Plumbing Inspection & Electrical Safety Check – $1395 Inclusive
Anyone selling their home needs to get a home inspection – it’s inevitable. But getting one before listing your property puts you ahead of the game. Letting prospective buyers see that the home has got the ‘all clear’ will help to seal the deal. And if the report does highlight a concern, addressing the deficiency in the home before a buyer finds it, helps increase the value of your home and reduce the time it’s on the market.
What’s included in the Inspection and Reports?
- External roof material condition, gutters, down pipes, valleys, ridge tiles, flashing around all roof penetrations and all possible water entry points.
- Interior roof space, roof structure, ceiling boards, insulation type and coverage, sagging timber or leaks, and party walls.
- Walls & lintels: condition, movement, cracking, moisture levels etc.
- External doors and windows.
- Balconies, verandas, patios, decks, and balustrades.
- Foundations and ground floors, including a complete inspection of the crawl space.
- Stairs: Stringer, handrails/balusters, newel posts, treads and risers.
- All internal walls, floors and structural elements.
- Damp problems & moisture testing.
- Full termite and pest inspection, to Australian Standard 4349.3.
- Check for RCDs, correct electrical wiring, and condition of wiring and plumbing.
- Internal doors & frames: Binding doors, defective door hardware, corroded or decaying frames, damaged doors, loose or badly fitting doors.
- Kitchen: Bench top, cupboards, sink/taps, tiles.
- Bathrooms: cistern & pan, taps, tiles, bath, shower, vanity, washbasin, ventilation.
- Laundry: taps, tubs/cabinet, tiles, ventilation
Please note, the presence of asbestos cannot be definitively determined by visual inspection. For conclusive detection and classification of asbestos, it is necessary to send samples of suspect materials to a laboratory for examination under an electron microscope. For more information see the ‘Simple guide to identifying asbestos in your home’.