About Building Inspect

Building Inspect is a long-form editorial publication about Australian building and pest inspections. We write for buyers, owners, strata committees and the inspectors who still put their name on a report.

The old buildinginspect.com.au sat in a practical niche: pre-purchase inspections, timber pests, and the defects that decide whether a house is a home or a dispute. The Wayback Machine did not return a usable capture while this edition was rebuilt, so the subject was taken from the domain itself and from the work Australian inspectors still do every week under AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3.

We are not a booking desk. We do not sell inspections, pest treatments, cladding tests or legal services. When we describe a standard, a clause or a tribunal, we are describing how the industry talks about those things, not acting for you. Conveyancers, licensed inspectors, engineers and lawyers remain the people who act on a particular house.

What we publish

• Explainers on pre-purchase inspections, including how to read a report before you waive a condition.
• Reporting on termite and timber pest work, which is not a footnote to the building report.
• Defects that actually appear in Australian construction: damp, cracking, roofs and stormwater.
• Apartment and strata pieces that treat the lot inspection and the records inspection as a pair.
• The standards that sit underneath a competent report, and the climate and regional risks that a national method still has to meet on site.

How we work

Copy is edited in Australian English. Claims about standards and state agencies are checked against the public documents those bodies publish. We do not invent case studies with fake suburbs to inflate word counts; when we describe a 1960s brick veneer in western Sydney or a high-set Queenslander in inner Brisbane, we are describing types of houses inspectors actually see.

Photographs are Creative Commons or public domain, self-hosted, and listed on our image credits page. Guest and sponsored work, when we accept it, is labelled and follows the write for us guidelines.

If you want to get in touch, use the contact form. Editorial complaints and corrections are covered in our editorial standards.