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.
Karawara is a small suburb beside Curtin University on the Canning River floodplain — a community of 1960s and 1970s homes whose most site-specific pre-purchase characteristic is the reactive alluvial clay beneath them, which has been cycling through fifty to sixty seasonal movements since those homes were built. A pre-purchase building inspection here is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the frame is set by that clay: not "does this clay move" — it does, and has done for sixty years — but "what has sixty years of Canning floodplain alluvial clay cycling done to this specific home's structure, wet areas and subfloor."
\n\nThe wet-area condition at the full age is the first priority. An original 1968 Karawara shower membrane has been in service for fifty-eight years on a slab that has been seasonally contracting and expanding beneath it for the same period. That combination of age and clay movement pressure is more demanding than either factor alone, and the pre-purchase inspection is the only way to determine whether the result is still performing or has been failing invisibly for years.
\n\nThe Canning River flood zone position is noted for the riverside lots. The riparian vegetation provides the year-round moisture context that elevates the termite conditions on those lots above the interior streets. The combined building and pest inspection is recommended. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby South Perth and Como.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 reading a 1960s-1970s home on Canning River floodplain alluvial clay, where fifty-to-sixty-year accumulated clay movement and the full older-era building read are the primary pre-purchase concerns.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection is recommended given the permanent Canning River riparian moisture.
At fifty to sixty years on reactive alluvial clay, original wet areas have been subject to both standard ageing and additional clay movement pressure. The pre-purchase inspection determines the current condition and remediation scope.
Fifty to sixty cycles of Canning floodplain clay seasonal movement accumulated in crack patterns, floor-level variation and subfloor bearing — more pronounced than inland clay equivalents at the same age given the alluvial clay character.
Lowest-lying riverside lots sit within the Canning River floodplain. Noted as a site matter in the pre-purchase report.
The permanent Canning River with extensive riparian vegetation gives river-adjacent lots year-round moisture and food source elevating termite conditions above the interior streets.
Yes. The clay movement history and older-era condition findings give you a strong factual pre-purchase basis — at sixty years the findings are frequently substantial.
Yes. Fifty-to-sixty-year homes on reactive alluvial clay with permanent Canning riparian moisture. The combined inspection is recommended.
Yes. Floor levels and subfloor bearing on the Canning floodplain clay at sixty years are the primary structural pre-purchase reads.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Karawara — 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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