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.
Parmelia is the third of the original Kwinana SHC industrial-worker suburbs, developed through the 1960s into the 1970s on the Kwinana coastal plain. A pre-purchase building inspection here is building scope only, to AS 4349.1, and the distinguishing feature of the Parmelia pre-purchase read — compared to the neighbouring SHC suburbs of Calista and Orelia — is the Spectacles Wetlands on the northern rather than eastern boundary, and the broader footprint of the suburb that places many more homes at interior distances from the wetland than the compact Orelia layout does.
For the northernmost Parmelia blocks that back the Spectacles, the permanent freshwater wetland is the site factor that defines the pre-purchase read. Year-round moisture at the northern lot boundary maintains subfloor and perimeter conditions regardless of season, and the combined building and pest inspection is the minimum appropriate pre-purchase coverage on those lots. The pre-purchase report notes the Spectacles boundary position explicitly and reads the subfloor moisture and perimeter conditions against that wetland baseline.
For the majority of Parmelia lots that sit away from the wetland boundary, the sixty-plus-year SHC age read is the pre-purchase concern: wet-area condition across decades of multi-tenancy use, asbestos cement in the fibro outbuildings, and the stumped subfloor at its full age on the Kwinana coastal plain. Each home is read at its specific decade within the 1960s-to-1970s construction window. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Orelia and Calista.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 reading a 1960s–1970s SHC home at the Spectacles Wetlands northern boundary, combining the sixty-plus-year SHC age profile with the wetland boundary context for northern lots.
No, building scope only. The combined inspection covers both — and for northern Spectacles-adjacent blocks it is strongly recommended.
Permanent freshwater wetland moisture at the northern lot boundary maintaining elevated subfloor and perimeter conditions year-round. The termite read on those blocks is among the highest we give in the City of Kwinana.
Wet-area condition at sixty-plus years of multi-tenancy use, asbestos in outbuildings, stumped subfloor at full age — read at the specific decade of the home's construction within the 1960s-to-1970s window.
Northern blocks carry the Spectacles wetland moisture elevation as the dominant site factor. Interior blocks carry the standard SHC age read on coastal plain without the wetland elevation.
Yes. Common in outbuildings and lean-tos across SHC estates. Noted throughout the pre-purchase report.
Yes. The wetland boundary context and sixty-year age findings together provide a strong factual basis.
Yes, particularly on northern wetland-adjacent blocks. The combined inspection is strongly recommended there.
Yes. The stumped subfloor at sixty years, especially on the wetland-adjacent northern blocks, is the primary pre-purchase structural read.
Within 24 hours of the inspection.
Also available as a combined building and timber pest inspection in Parmelia — 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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