pre purchase home property inspection

We have a pre purchase property inspection done prior to purchasing a residence in Timboon Vic. The inspector found 1 major safety easy fix and 3 minors 2 easy fix repaint lintels etc 3rd one he noted mould several places subfloor and internal and recommended that we clear garden bed from front of house to give better ventilation to clear problem. We have had builders plumbers and a microbiologist do tests . House has been built with approx. 1/4 of required subfloor vents , also as we are on lower side of hill water runs down our drive, also through our neighbours and finish's in front of house. So the inspector has failed to note insufficient vents installed and he commented drainage looks adequate he is the trade that has stated his existing drain too small and nothing capture water around house. He failed to notice grey water line running down slope towards creek, part of boundary fence missing comment house in middle large block , is in top corner of 8.5 acre block. Unfortunally we could only do the one visit as lived 6hours away and I was not long out of hospital with back problems so travelling not suited. We paid reasonable money for inspection not only have we been let down but find the industry is not regulated not a lot of training required to be the inspector . Our only avenue so far is legal spent $20k tell us need another $80k to get through court. Desperate for ideas to sort with out the large costs.

 

Speaking only of the under house ventilation. There's little fans you can buy for a few hundred dollars. These were recommended by the guy who did my building and pest inspection. I'm just wondering if these might be easily and inexpensively fixed. I don't know.

 

Question - what is the outcome you are expecting to achieve?

Remember that you cannot apply current building standards to old buildings - said in regard to underfloor ventilation in your case. I suspect that putting in appropriate external drainage to divert water from being able to penetrate the underfloor will solve your problem.