Independent inspection to AS 4349.1 by a registered building contractor. What you are buying, read by someone who has built. Report within 24 hours.
Ardross sits on the Swan River peninsula with Applecross and Mount Pleasant, elevated and river-adjacent, and a pre-purchase building inspection here reads for a feature that sets it apart from its neighbours: Wireless Hill, forty hectares of native heritage bushland on the suburb’s western boundary. That reserve, the former site of WA’s first radio communications station, now sits directly against the back fences of a row of established homes, and the building read accounts for what that reserve edge means for both the building and the pest side.
For homes near Wireless Hill, the reserve matters to the pre-purchase read because it creates a genuine termite corridor. Native bush, leaf litter and moisture-holding soil with no chemical barrier between the reserve and the residential lots give termites a base and a direct path. Knowing before you buy how close a home sits to that edge, and what the perimeter of the slab, the subfloor and the surrounding timber look like, is the kind of information that belongs in your offer, not your second year of ownership.
The building read across the suburb follows its age and elevation. Interwar and mid-century brick homes from the 1930s through the 1960s on elevated riverside lots earn the age read: the roof, the gutters, the original wet area and any services that have never been upgraded, all weathered faster by an open, elevated setting than they would be on a sheltered flat block.
Where the home is a prestige rebuild, the read shifts to the modern envelope. Flat and skillion roofs, box gutters, large glazing and balcony waterproofing on a river-view site are the elements that carry the design load and fail first when the detailing is not right.
A pre-purchase inspection gives you the building scope on its own, to AS 4349.1, with the defects that matter set out plainly and separated from the cosmetic. At Ardross, where a bushland reserve adds a layer most river-peninsula suburbs do not have, that reading tells you exactly what you are buying into. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Applecross and Mount Pleasant.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads structure and fabric before you buy, with particular attention to the Wireless Hill reserve boundary that gives Ardross a different pest-risk profile from its neighbours.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check as well, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Native bushland right against residential back fences creates a termite corridor with no chemical barrier between them. For homes on that boundary it is a genuine pre-purchase risk to read and know.
The closer the home to the Wireless Hill boundary, the shorter the path from native bush to the building perimeter, so those homes get the most careful read of the slab edge, subfloor and surrounding timber.
The roof, the gutters, the original wet area and any services not yet upgraded, all of which age faster on an elevated, exposed riverside site than on a sheltered flat block.
The building envelope: flat and skillion roofs, box gutters, large glazing and balcony waterproofing, on a river-view site where the building faces the weather directly.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Yes. The inspection identifies what is there at the time. Ongoing chemical or physical barriers near the reserve boundary are worth discussing with a licensed pest manager as part of your ownership plan.
The elevation gives good drainage and river views, which are genuine positives. Wireless Hill is the specific factor that adds to the pest read for a subset of properties.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act while your offer conditions are open.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Ardross — both scopes in one visit to AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3, one report within 24 hours.
Combined B&P 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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