What a timber pest report will not say
No inspector can certify absence, and the standard does not ask them to.
In short: The boundary of a timber pest inspection, stated plainly.
The physical constraint
Termites work inside timber and behind linings. What an inspection meets is the outside of things.
What AS 4349.3 therefore covers
Inspecting and reporting on areas that can be reached. It contains no mechanism for certifying that a property is free of pests.
What a good report gives you instead
Evidence located, conducive conditions itemised, and every area that could not be reached named with the reason it could not.
The added complication here
On attached housing part of the inspection zone may sit on land you do not own, and the report says where that stopped us.
What actually reduces risk
Regular inspection, conditions corrected as they appear, and a management system installed by someone licensed to do it.
Written by the Owner Inspections team from inspections carried out in Schofields. Licensed building practitioners, NSW Fair Trading licence 366177C.
