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.
Crawley is the suburb on either side of Matilda Bay — the Swan River cove where flying boats landed before and during the Second World War, where the Royal Perth Yacht Club re-established at Pelican Point in 1953, and where the University of Western Australia has maintained its campus since 1912. The UWA Hackett Memorial Buildings, completed between 1929 and 1932 in limestone and terracotta sandstone, are the suburb’s most visible institution. The residential strip that runs alongside the campus and the foreshore is where the suburb’s housing sits, and a pre-purchase building inspection there reads for what the university campus on one side and the Swan River on the other do to the homes between them.
The UWA campus adjacency is the specific pre-purchase concern for homes beside the university grounds. A major university campus maintains year-round irrigation on its lawns and gardens, and the boundary between that irrigated institutional ground and a residential lot keeps the adjacent soil permanently wetter than a standard suburban block. On a mid-century home that has been beside the UWA campus since the 1960s, that year-round moisture differential has been working on the subfloor and the wall bases for decades. We read those elements with the university grounds as the permanent moisture source.
The Swan River foreshore at Matilda Bay is the second pre-purchase read. The river-facing elevations of homes on the Crawley residential strip — window seals, external fixings, surface coatings — are in the persistent Swan River air on an open-foreshore position, and at the age of the mid-century stock that means decades of that exposure. We read the river-facing elements with the Matilda Bay foreshore as their specific context.
The residential strip holds mid-century and established homes alongside more recent builds, and each earns its own age read in the campus-and-river setting that applies to every Crawley block.
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. In Crawley, where the UWA campus and Matilda Bay frame every block, that reading tells you what the setting has done to the home over its life. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Nedlands and Subiaco.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, where the UWA campus year-round irrigation creates a permanent moisture differential for adjacent homes, and the Swan River foreshore at Matilda Bay shapes the exposure read.
No, it is the building scope only. If you want the pest check too, the combined building and pest inspection covers both in one visit.
Year-round campus irrigation keeps the soil adjacent to the university boundary permanently wetter than a standard block. On a mid-century home beside the UWA grounds since the 1960s, that differential has been working on the subfloor and wall bases for decades.
River-facing window seals, external fixings and surface coatings on an open-foreshore position age faster in persistent Swan River air than sheltered inland equivalents.
Before and during WWII, Matilda Bay at Crawley was used as a flying-boat landing area. Patrol Wing 10, evacuated from Surabaya in Java, operated from here during the war.
Mid-century homes at their age in a campus and river-foreshore setting: the same tile roof, wet area and services read as elsewhere, with the specific moisture context of the UWA grounds and Matilda Bay.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Yes. Year-round UWA campus irrigation, established old riverside gardens and Swan River foreshore moisture all give termites the conditions they use. The combined inspection covers this.
Yes. On campus-adjacent homes the subfloor condition and drainage are central to the year-round moisture read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection, with photos and a plain read of what matters, so you can act before your offer conditions close.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Crawley — 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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