What is not included in a Pre Purchase Building Inspection?
- Normally the following are excluded from a Pre Purchase Building Inspection:-
- any individual Minor Defect;
- solving or providing costs for any rectification or repair work;
- the structural design or adequacy of any element of construction;
- detection of wood destroying insects such as termites and wood borers;
- the operation of fireplaces and chimneys;
- any services including building, engineering (electronic), fire and smoke detection or mechanical;
- lighting or energy efficiency;
- any swimming pools and associated pool equipment or spa baths and spa equipment or the like;
- any appliances such as dishwashers, insinkerators, ovens, stoves and ducted vacuum systems;
- a review of occupational, health or safety issues such as asbestos content, the provision of safety glass or the use of lead based paints;
- a review of environmental or health or biological risks such as toxic mould;
- whether the building complies with the provisions of any building Act, code, regulation(s) or by-laws;
- whether the ground on which the building rests has been filled, is liable to subside, swell or shrink, is subject to landslip, earthquakes or tidal inundation, or if it is flood prone; and
- in the case of strata and company title properties, the inspection of common property areas or strata/company records.
Investigation of any of the above would require a special purpose property report that was adequately specified.
Posted 3 years agoby Panasonic
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