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.
Serpentine is a Shire of Serpentine-Jarrahdale community at the base of the Darling Scarp where the Serpentine River descends from the national park above to the coastal plain below. The Serpentine National Park, Serpentine Falls and the Serpentine Reservoir together define the upper catchment that gives the suburb its specific site character: a permanent river flowing from one of the most intact jarrah forests accessible from Perth, national park enclosure above, and the scarp-base alluvial ground that the Serpentine River has built up at the transition from mountains to plain. A building and timber pest inspection in Serpentine reads for that river-and-park combination on the scarp-base ground.
The Serpentine River is the lead read. The river at this reach flows year-round from the national park catchment above, maintaining permanent moisture in the adjacent soil and supporting the riparian vegetation that gives the river-adjacent lots their elevated termite context. The river-base alluvial clay-loam at the scarp transition carries the seasonal reactive movement that characterises all Darling Scarp base alluvial ground. We read the perimeter and subfloor of river-adjacent lots with the permanent watercourse as the year-round baseline.
The Serpentine National Park on the upper boundary provides the park-enclosure termite context for lots nearest the scarp. Native jarrah and marri maintained to the boundary on those lots gives them the park-adjacency elevated conditions that the Darling Range national park communities consistently carry. The rural-residential larger-lot character of Serpentine adds the whole-site complexity that the outer scarp communities require.
What you get is a plain reading of the Serpentine property on its river-and-park scarp-base ground and at its construction era, 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 Jarrahdale and Keysbrook.
MISSING: phone number · Book online → · Flat $616 inc GST for both scopes, report within 24 hours.
Year-round permanent flow from the national park catchment, maintaining moisture and supporting riparian vegetation on river-adjacent lots. The river-base alluvial clay-loam carries the seasonal reactive movement that characterises scarp-base alluvial ground.
Native jarrah and marri to the boundary on scarp-adjacent lots — the food source, elevated moisture and colony access that gives national-park-boundary lots their elevated termite conditions.
Yes — particularly on river-adjacent and park-boundary lots. Permanent river moisture and national park native vegetation combine to give those blocks the highest conditions in the community.
Larger-lot rural-residential properties carry outbuildings, evolved drainage and accumulated works that the whole-site inspection approach addresses alongside the main dwelling.
The Serpentine River has deposited reactive alluvial clay at the scarp-base transition. That clay moves seasonally and accumulates in the fabric of older properties.
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 falls themselves are in the national park, but the catchment that feeds them determines the year-round flow of the Serpentine River through the community below — the permanent flow that gives river-adjacent lots their year-round moisture baseline.
Mixed — older rural properties from the mid-twentieth century through to more recent rural-residential and estate builds. Each earns its construction-era read on the scarp-base alluvial ground.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Buying in Serpentine? 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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