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.
Wilson sits on the Canning River, and the river at this point is defined by the Kent Street Weir — built by 1927 to hold back summer saltwater intrusion travelling up from the coast. The weir is still there, and so are the six hundred State Housing Commission homes that were built between 1959 and 1964 in the suburb’s main residential burst. At sixty to sixty-five years old, that cohort is now well past the original component life on every major system. A pre-purchase building inspection at Wilson reads for what that age, that river, and the student-rental maintenance history that overlays part of the SHC stock have collectively produced.
The SHC cohort age is the pre-purchase priority. Sixty to sixty-five years on a postwar SHC home means the tile roof and its mortar beds, the original wet area, the wiring and the gutters are all at or past the point of first renewal. The SHC specification of the 1959-1964 period produced sound homes built to the postwar standard, but that standard did not anticipate sixty-five continuous years of use, and the pre-purchase inspection is the moment to find what that time has accumulated before the price is agreed. Where the home has also been held as student rental accommodation during some of that time, the deferred-maintenance layer adds to the age findings.
The Canning River foreshore is the second pre-purchase read. The riverside position ages external fixings, seals and hardware faster than sheltered inland equivalents, and the low ground near the weir pool and the river parks maintains a higher moisture than the elevated parts of the suburb. The river-facing elements of a Wilson home earn a closer read than the same elements would in a suburb set back from the water.
The Kent Street Weir itself, and Castledare from around 1907, are site contexts rather than building concerns, but they are part of what makes a Wilson foreshore address what it is.
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 Wilson, where the SHC age and the river foreshore both shape the read, that inspection tells you what the home is carrying before you decide what to pay. The report follows within 24 hours.
We run the same inspection across the area, including nearby Bentley and Carlisle.
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A building inspection to AS 4349.1 that reads the structure and fabric before you buy, where the 1959-1964 SHC cohort at sixty to sixty-five years old and the Canning River foreshore are the two specific pre-purchase contexts.
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.
At sixty to sixty-five years: the tile roof and mortar beds, the original wet area, the wiring and gutters — all at or past the end of original component life. The pre-purchase inspection finds what that time has accumulated before the price is set.
The portion of Wilson's SHC stock held as Curtin student accommodation has been maintained to the minimum required, producing the same age-plus-deferred-care pattern as Bentley.
The river-facing building elements that age faster than sheltered inland equivalents, and the lower, moister ground near the weir pool and river parks.
The 1927 structure built to prevent summer saltwater intrusion up the Canning River. A recreational and foreshore landmark that shapes the character of the Wilson waterfront.
Yes. At sixty-five years, the findings can be significant. The report sets them out plainly, giving you a concrete basis to renegotiate.
Yes. The Canning River foreshore, original subfloors at sixty-five years and established riverside gardens all give termites the conditions they use. The combined inspection covers this.
Yes. On the SHC homes the subfloor condition and its river-foreshore drainage are central to the age and moisture 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 Wilson — 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.
Tell us about the property and what you need. We'll come back to you with a firm quote and a time.
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