Both scopes in one visit — building to AS 4349.1, timber pest to AS 4349.3. The fuller check, by a registered building contractor. Report within 24 hours.
Camillo is a suburb whose name changed from Champion Lakes to Camillo in 2001 to avoid confusion with the Champion Lakes sporting precinct that was developed nearby, and before either name it was some of the oldest continuously farmed land in the Canning River upper catchment. It is a compact working suburb between Armadale and Kelmscott, largely State Housing Commission stock from the 1960s and 1970s, on the reactive clay-loam of the Canning River catchment that the SHC built on throughout the southeastern corridor. A building and timber pest inspection in Camillo reads for what sixty years of reactive clay-loam and continuous occupancy in a State Housing Commission suburb has done to the homes built there.
The State Housing Commission construction era is the lead read. Camillo was developed as SHC housing for working families from the 1960s, and the SHC construction of that era has a specific profile: brick homes on stumped subfloors or early concrete slabs, tile or fibro roofs, and the standard 1960s material palette that includes asbestos cement sheeting in the fibro lean-tos, outbuildings and early extensions that were common across SHC estates. At sixty-plus years in continuous use, the wet areas of the SHC homes have been in service across multiple tenancies and ownership changes, and the maintenance history of a home through multiple changes is rarely consistent. We read the SHC stock at its full age and in its tenancy-history context.
The reactive clay-loam of the Canning River upper catchment is the ground read. The Canning River floodplain clay that runs through Armadale and Kelmscott extends into the Camillo flats, and the seasonal movement of that clay beneath 1960s SHC homes has been active for sixty years. Floor-level variation on stumped homes, settlement cracking at masonry corners and the subfloor bearing condition at that age all carry the sixty-year clay movement history directly.
The Champion Lakes proximity on the northern boundary adds a water-body adjacency context. The Champion Lakes rowing and sporting precinct maintains permanent water in the lake system adjacent to the northern residential streets, and that permanent water maintains the soil moisture and organic conditions at the residential boundary.
The timber pest side follows the SHC age and the clay. Sixty-year-old SHC homes on reactive clay-loam with established old gardens and permanent water adjacency give termites conditions that are consistently above the suburban average. We read subfloor, roof timbers and the perimeter carefully on every Camillo inspection.
What you get is a plain reading of the Camillo home at its SHC age on the Canning catchment clay, with the report inside 24 hours and the real defects separated clearly from the cosmetic.
We run the same two-scope visit across the area, including nearby Kelmscott and Armadale.
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State Housing Commission homes from the 1960s: brick on stumped subfloors or early slabs, tile or fibro roofs, and asbestos cement sheeting in the fibro lean-tos and outbuildings that were standard SHC estate additions. At 60-plus years across multiple tenancies.
Floor-level variation on stumped subfloors, settlement cracking at masonry corners and subfloor bearing conditions that carry the full sixty-year history of the clay's seasonal movement. These are the primary structural reads on older Camillo homes.
Yes. Fibro lean-tos, outbuildings and early extensions added to SHC homes in the 1960s and 1970s commonly incorporate asbestos cement sheeting. We note the presence of suspect materials throughout the inspection.
The rowing lake system on the northern boundary maintains permanent water adjacent to the northern residential streets. That permanent water maintains soil moisture and organic conditions at the lot boundary — a termite-relevant site context for those blocks.
Maintenance across multiple tenancies and ownership changes is rarely consistent. Wet areas in particular accumulate deferred maintenance that a recent repaint or recarpet may conceal. We read the wet areas carefully for the accumulated maintenance history.
Yes. Sixty-year-old SHC homes on reactive clay-loam with established gardens and permanent water adjacency on the northern streets give termites conditions consistently above the suburban average.
The bearer and joist condition, floor-level variation from clay movement, subfloor moisture from the clay catchment, and the presence of any pest damage in original subfloor timbers at their sixty-year age.
Yes. Building to AS 4349.1 and timber pest to AS 4349.3, one visit, one report within 24 hours.
A flat $616 inc GST for both scopes, report within 24 hours.
The suburb was renamed from Champion Lakes to Camillo in 2001. The Champion Lakes sporting precinct uses the former name and sits adjacent to the residential suburb.
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