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.
Port Kennedy is built on Becher Point, and the most important thing to understand about its ground before a pre-purchase building inspection is the Becher Wetland Site: a linear formation of wetlands running in the dune swales parallel to the coast, listed as a Threatened Ecological Community. This unusual parallel-to-coast wetland format means the suburb’s ground varies in a very specific way between swale and crest. A home in a dune swale sits on low ground with ongoing wetland moisture influence, while a home on the dune crest a single street away sits on drier, elevated ground. The pre-purchase read at Port Kennedy starts with which of those two positions the home occupies.
For a swale-positioned home the pre-purchase concern is sustained moisture from below and around. A dune swale collects water from the surrounding landscape, and the Becher Wetland Site provides an ongoing ecological moisture source to those low corridors between the dunes. We read the site drainage, the subfloor and the base of the walls of swale homes for what that sustained low-ground moisture has done to the fabric over the years the home has been standing in it, because those findings are genuinely different from those on a crest block of the same age and construction.
For all Port Kennedy homes, the 1990s and 2000s estate stock also carries a pre-purchase concern that has nothing to do with swale or crest: the first-generation wet-area waterproofing is at or near the end of its service life. A bathroom membrane installed at handover in 1998 has had twenty-five to thirty years of continuous use, and the early signs of its failure are what the pre-purchase read attends to before they become the buyer’s renovation.
The Becher Wetland reserve boundary adds the termite concern for homes immediately adjacent to it: linear wetlands sustain the native vegetation and moisture that support a termite population, and those homes face a reservoir that crest-position homes do not.
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. At Port Kennedy, where the swale and crest positions read differently, that inspection tells you which ground and which home you are buying. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Rockingham and Safety Bay.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, where the home's swale or crest position relative to the Becher linear wetlands determines the moisture read.
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.
Wetlands in dune swales running parallel to the coast, a Threatened Ecological Community on Becher Point. Their linear parallel-to-coast formation is geomorphologically unusual, and they sustain moisture in the swale positions between dune crests.
Low ground with ongoing wetland moisture from the Becher site. We read the drainage, subfloor and wall bases for what that sustained moisture has done to the fabric, because those findings are different from those on a crest block of the same age.
Bathrooms installed at handover in the 1990s and 2000s have had twenty-five to thirty years of continuous use. We read for early membrane failure before it becomes the buyer's renovation.
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. The linear wetlands sustain the moisture and native vegetation that give termites ideal conditions, and homes on the reserve boundary face a termite reservoir that crest-position homes do not.
We read the topography, the ground behaviour, the drainage and the subfloor together to identify the position, rather than relying on the street name or lot number.
Yes. On swale-position homes the subfloor is central to the moisture and pre-purchase 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 Port Kennedy — 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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