What we look for in Braybrook
Housing: Post-war weatherboard and concrete-panel homes with untreated timber floor frames, former public housing, and a wave of townhouse and unit redevelopment on larger blocks.
Braybrook has a large stock of post-war weatherboard and concrete-panel homes built quickly with untreated timber floor frames, and many have been sold and renovated in the past decade. Renovations here often add a slab-on-ground extension or a deck behind a stumped house, and the inspector pays close attention to that junction because the new slab usually covers the old ventilation and traps moisture under the floor. Under the original houses, the inspector looks for stumps sitting in wet clay, plumbing that was never properly reconnected during a bathroom refit and formwork timber left in the ground. Stony Creek passes along the southern side of the suburb, and blocks near it hold water longer after rain. Around Braybrook Park and Central West Shopping Centre there are large eucalypts that support colonies well within foraging distance of homes. Owners should check that weatherboards are not buried by raised garden beds, keep water tanks and air conditioner drains away from the house and have older fences inspected.
We regularly inspect properties around Central West Shopping Centre, Braybrook Park, Ballarat Road and Stony Creek.