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 Koongamia reads an older home on the transitional ground at the base of the Darling Scarp — where the Swan Valley clay floor grades into decomposed granite and laterite at the scarp foothills. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the Koongamia pre-purchase read differs by lot position: lower western blocks get the reactive clay and drainage read of the valley floor; upper eastern blocks get the scarp-base laterite and slope drainage read. The pre-purchase inspection identifies which ground dominates beneath the specific home being inspected and reads accordingly.
The transitional ground is the pre-purchase priority specific to Koongamia. A buyer cannot assume the ground type from the address — it depends on where within the suburb's clay-to-scarp transition the lot sits. We identify the dominant ground profile beneath the home from the building's behaviour — crack patterns, floor levels and site drainage all point to the ground beneath — and read the structure in that context.
Older homes on large lots in Koongamia may have informal additions and evolved drainage that a walk-through does not fully reveal. We read the site and the building together, noting where informal works have created structural or waterproofing vulnerabilities, and flagging the bush-interface termite context for lots adjacent to the Darling Scarp bushland. The report follows within 24 hours.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the older scarp-base home on transitional ground, where the position within the clay-to-laterite transition determines the primary ground read.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both in one visit.
From the building's behaviour: crack patterns, floor levels and site drainage all point to the dominant ground beneath. Lower blocks show clay movement signatures; upper blocks show scarp drainage and root-penetration patterns.
Older homes on large lots may have informal works that a walk-through misses. We read the site and building together and flag structural or waterproofing vulnerabilities from accumulated works.
Lots adjacent to the Darling Scarp bushland carry direct termite access from the native jarrah and marri. We note that in the pre-purchase report.
Older stock from the 1950s to 1970s on larger-than-average lots, now 50 to 70 years old.
Yes. The ground type identification and the condition read give you a factual basis for any renegotiation.
Yes. The combined inspection covers timber pest. Koongamia carries elevated risk from the scarp-bush interface.
Yes. On older Koongamia homes the subfloor bearing on the transitional ground is a primary pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Koongamia — 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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