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.
Carramar is a 1990s and 2000s estate on the northern sandplain, and the foundation of every home in it is a concrete slab, so a building and timber pest inspection here gives the slab, and how it sits on the ground, particular attention. The slab is the single most important structural element of a modern home, and much of what the inspection reads elsewhere, cracking, movement, damp, traces back to how the slab is performing.
The slab is the defining focus. A modern Carramar home sits on a stiffened-raft or waffle-pod slab founded on sand, and the inspection reads it at the edge for rising damp, where a slab edge below the surrounding ground or without a clear damp margin draws moisture up into the walls, and across the floor for the signs of movement: a slab that has settled, lifted or curled at an edge shows as cracking in the walls above and as out-of-level floors. Reading the cracking for meaning, cosmetic shrinkage against genuine slab movement, is central here, and the inspection ties what it sees in the walls back to the slab and the ground beneath.
Site drainage is read alongside the slab, because water pooling against a slab edge is what most often drives edge damp and the ground movement that follows, so downpipes, paving falls and soakwells are read for whether they keep water away from the slab.
The rest of the construction is read for its era: the timber frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes, and the roof plumbing of a volume build. Asbestos is largely absent in stock of this era, and where a home is newer a builder's warranty may still apply.
On the timber pest side, the slab edge is also the termite pathway, so the perimeter and slab edge are read for mud tubes and conducive conditions, and accessible timber sounded, with movement detection where needed. Termite management follows AS 3660.
Carramar is a modern slab-on-ground estate, and the report earns its value by reading the slab and its edges closely, because on a home of this kind the slab is where the structural story begins.
We run the same two-scope visit across the area, including nearby Tapping and Banksia Grove.
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Its focus on the slab. Carramar is a 1990s and 2000s estate where every home sits on a concrete slab, so we give the slab and how it sits on the ground particular attention, because much of what we read elsewhere, cracking, movement, damp, traces back to it.
Because it is the single most important structural element of a modern home. A slab that has settled, lifted or curled at an edge shows as cracking in the walls above and out-of-level floors, so reading the slab is central to reading the whole home.
At the edge for rising damp, where a slab edge below the surrounding ground or without a clear damp margin draws moisture into the walls, and across the floor for the signs of movement. We tie what we see in the walls back to the slab and the ground beneath.
By its pattern and where it sits. We separate cosmetic shrinkage from the cracking that signals genuine slab movement, reading it against the floor levels and the slab edge, so you know whether the ground under the home is stable.
Very much. Water pooling against a slab edge is what most often drives edge damp and the ground movement that follows, so we read downpipes, paving falls and soakwells for whether they keep water away from the slab.
For its era: the timber frame through the roof space for movement and moisture, the wall ties and weep holes, and the roof plumbing of a volume build.
Largely absent in stock of this era. Where an older element or addition is present we flag any suspect material without disturbing it, but it is not the concern it is in older stock.
Yes. The slab edge is also the termite pathway, so we read the perimeter and slab edge for mud tubes and conducive conditions and sound accessible timber, with movement detection where needed. Termite management follows AS 3660.
A flat $616 including GST for both scopes together, the same in every suburb. Reading the slab and its edges takes care, and you have the written report, with photos, within 24 hours.
Yes. A clear report separates the significant issue, slab movement, edge damp or a drainage fault, from the cosmetic, and gives you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Buying in Carramar? A pre-purchase building inspection — building scope only, report within 24 hours — gives you the documented record before exchange.
Pre-purchase inspection →Our office is at Suite 55, 15 Labouchere Road, South Perth WA 6151 — on the Swan River foreshore near the Perth Zoo.
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