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.
A pre-purchase building inspection in Kardinya reads a 1970s or early 1980s home on coastal sand over Tamala limestone in the City of Melville, where the limestone substrate beneath the sand introduces a footing behaviour read that a standard coastal sand site does not carry. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the Kardinya pre-purchase read combines the standard 1970s estate age profile with the limestone-under-sand ground context and, for southern blocks, the South Lake wetland boundary termite context.
The limestone substrate is the pre-purchase ground read specific to Kardinya. Where the Tamala limestone is shallow beneath the sand, original 1970s footings were set effectively on rock. Crack patterns on homes over shallow limestone differ from those over deep sand, and understanding which ground type the specific home sits on — from its crack pattern and floor behaviour — is the pre-purchase ground read that distinguishes Kardinya from its pure-sand neighbours.
The standard 1970s age read applies throughout: wet-area waterproofing at or approaching service life, tile roof mortar at the replacement window, and original timber windows at forty to fifty-plus years of Perth weathering. For southern blocks near South Lake, the wetland boundary termite context is the site read we note alongside the building conditions. The report follows within 24 hours.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the 1970s estate on coastal sand over Tamala limestone before you buy, combining the standard 1970s age profile with the limestone-under-sand ground read.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
Where Tamala limestone is shallow beneath the sand, original footings were set effectively on rock. Crack patterns on homes over shallow limestone differ from those over deep sand — we identify which ground type applies to the specific home.
Wet-area waterproofing at or approaching service life, tile roof mortar at the replacement window, and original timber windows at forty to fifty-plus years of Perth weathering.
Wetland-adjacent lots on the southern streets carry elevated termite risk from the Beeliar Regional Park boundary. We note that in the pre-purchase report.
Yes. The limestone ground read and the waterproofing condition finding give you a factual basis for renegotiation.
Yes. The combined inspection covers timber pest. Pre-purchase notes conditions but does not constitute a pest check.
Yes. Subfloor conditions on the limestone-influenced sand substrate at forty to fifty years are part of the pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Crack patterns that reflect rock-surface irregularities rather than soil compaction, and footing behaviour that is more rigid but potentially more brittle than deep sand footings.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Kardinya — 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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