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.
Medina was designed in the early 1950s by Margaret Feilman, Perth’s first female town planner, as the first of four neighbourhood units for workers in the new Kwinana industrial complex. The homes she designed have a specific construction profile found nowhere else in this coverage area: jarrah weatherboard to window height, sheeting above, with jarrah frames, floors and stumps. A pre-purchase building inspection on one of those original homes is a read of what that specific construction type has done over seventy-plus years of continuous occupation in an industrial suburb on the Perth coastal plain, and it reads differently from any brick-and-tile inspection you have seen before.
The jarrah weatherboard and sheeting construction is the pre-purchase priority. Jarrah weatherboard that has not been adequately maintained over seven decades absorbs moisture through paint failures and split boards in ways that brickwork does not, and sheeting above window height admits water at joins and junctions that point to specific inspection areas. The jarrah frames, floors and stumps are the structural elements whose seventy-year age under coastal-plain conditions needs reading: wet-dry cycling, termite exposure and the cumulative effect of a low-humidity summer followed by a wet winter on a jarrah frame that has never been replaced are what the inspection looks for.
The industrial context is a site consideration for the pre-purchase decision. Medina was built for a heavy-industry town and still sits near the Kwinana industrial precincts. Homes closest to those areas carry the noise, vibration and industrial-adjacency context that belongs in what you understand before you buy, not after.
Later infill housing in the suburb earns the standard age read of its era, without the specific jarrah-weatherboard construction layer that makes the 1950s originals so distinctive a pre-purchase read.
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 Medina, where the construction type is unlike anything else in the metro, that reading tells you what the specific home in front of you has done over seventy years. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kwinana Town Centre and Leda.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric of a 1950s jarrah weatherboard home before you buy — a construction type found nowhere else in the coverage area, designed by Perth's first female town planner for Kwinana industrial workers.
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.
Weatherboard absorbs moisture through paint failures and splits in ways brickwork does not; sheeting admits water at joins; jarrah frames, floors and stumps at 70 years under coastal-plain conditions carry a specific age and moisture read.
Different, not worse. A well-maintained Medina original can be a sound buy. The pre-purchase inspection tells you whether the one in front of you is that.
Homes near the Kwinana industrial precincts carry noise, vibration and industrial-adjacency context. We note this as a site consideration so it is a known part of the pre-purchase decision.
The standard age read for their era, without the specific weatherboard construction layer.
Yes. It sets the defects that matter out plainly and apart from the cosmetic, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate or to proceed with confidence.
Yes. Jarrah frames and stumps at 70 years, weatherboard that can split and retain moisture, and coastal-plain ground all give termites strong conditions. The combined inspection is particularly worthwhile here.
Yes. On these homes the subfloor, the stump condition and the ground drainage are central to both the age and the pest 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 Medina — 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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