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.
Mount Richon is a scarp-face suburb where the pre-purchase inspection works uphill from the building to the site before it works inward to the rooms. On a steep Darling Scarp lot in the City of Armadale, the retaining structures and the site drainage management are as consequential to what you are buying as the wet areas and the roof — because on a forty-to-fifty-year steep-gradient lot, a failing retaining wall is a structural liability that the home inspection alone cannot capture and the building alone cannot reflect. The inspection is building scope only, to AS 4349.1.
\n\nRetaining structure condition at forty to fifty years is the first pre-purchase question at Mount Richon: which structures exist, what age are they, what load are they managing on the scarp gradient, and what drainage relief is available behind them. These questions determine whether the site stability the building depends on is currently being maintained or is at risk of change.
\n\nThe Regional Park native jarrah and marri on the uphill boundary, the granite and laterite scarp drainage, and the 1970s-1980s building age complete the pre-purchase read. The combined inspection is recommended. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Kelmscott and Bedfordale.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 on the steep Darling Scarp face, where retaining structure condition, scarp drainage management and the Regional Park upper boundary are the three pre-purchase concerns flat suburbs do not share.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection is recommended given the Regional Park upper boundary.
Retaining walls at forty to fifty years on a steep scarp face are primary pre-purchase structural reads. Their condition, drainage relief and load determine whether remediation is needed before or after purchase.
Native jarrah and marri at the uphill lot boundary gives Mount Richon the elevated termite profile of a park-boundary scarp suburb. The combined inspection is recommended.
Rainfall sheds rapidly across granite and laterite at Mount Richon's gradient. Site drainage management is assessed against the concentrated runoff load in heavy winter events.
Wet areas at or past service life at forty to fifty years, under the scarp altitude's wetter and more thermally variable regime than the coastal plain equivalents of the same age.
Yes. Retaining structure condition and drainage findings give you a concrete pre-purchase basis — often significant on steep scarp lots.
Yes. The combined inspection is recommended given the Regional Park boundary.
Yes. Subfloor drainage on the steep scarp face is part of the pre-purchase read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Mount Richon — 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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