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.
The retaining walls on steep Darling Downs lots were not designed to be assessed at forty years — they were designed to hold the soil mass on the scarp face for the foreseeable future, and the foreseeable future of a 1984 residential retaining wall did not necessarily include the specific combination of four decades of Darling Scarp winter rainfall, the soil creep pressure of a Perth-clay subsoil on a gradient, and the changed drainage patterns of a mature residential property. A pre-purchase building inspection in Darling Downs is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and it starts with those retaining structures: their current condition, the drainage relief behind them, and the load they are managing at their present age on the present gradient.
\n\nThe Regional Park native jarrah above the uphill lots is the dominant pre-purchase pest context — the combined inspection is recommended. The elevated scarp rainfall weathering on external materials and the specific construction era of the dwelling follow the site assessment in the pre-purchase report. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Serpentine and Keysbrook.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that starts with the site rather than the building — retaining structures and drainage management on the steep Darling Scarp face are assessed before the building read begins.
No — but the combined inspection is recommended given the Regional Park native jarrah at the uphill boundary.
Condition, age, load and drainage relief of the retaining structures — the finding most frequently determining negotiation outcomes on steep Darling Downs lots.
Native jarrah at the uphill lot boundary — food source, elevated scarp moisture and colony access as the dominant termite context for the upper Darling Downs lots.
Elevated scarp rainfall and granite-laterite rapid drainage concentrating on the steep scarp face — site drainage management assessed as a structural pre-purchase priority.
Yes. Retaining structure findings on steep Darling Downs lots are concrete and frequently significant.
Yes. Regional Park boundary above and scarp moisture. The combined inspection is recommended.
Yes. Subfloor conditions under the elevated scarp rainfall and granite-laterite drainage are part of the pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
For lots with significant retaining walls at advanced age on steep gradients, the inspection report may recommend further assessment by a structural engineer — we will note this in the report where the findings warrant it.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Darling Downs — 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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