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Ridgewood sits about 37 km north of the Perth CBD in the City of Wanneroo, on wooded terrain on the Swan Coastal Plain that gave the suburb its name. It was carved out of the eastern half of Merriwa in 1998, after developers first pitched the name Carnegie in honour of explorer David Carnegie. The mid-1990s Carnegie Private Estate went in across the south of the suburb, while the northern section known as The Vistas followed after 1998 as part of Satterley’s Brighton Estate. Blocks here run from as small as 220 square metres up to 800 square metres, with most sitting around the 500 square metre mark, and the Mitchell Freeway forms the eastern boundary, with Ridgewood Park and its sports pitch and large pond anchoring the south-west.

The three defect categories we see most in Ridgewood homes are roof tie-down and truss issues, render and brickwork cracking, and site drainage problems on smaller blocks. Homes from the mid to late 1990s estate boom were built at pace, and we regularly find missing or under-specified roof tie-downs and trusses that were never installed to plan. Render cracking and uneven brickwork turn up where finishing trades moved fast to keep up with estate handover schedules. On the smaller, tightly packed blocks typical of Ridgewood, poor fall away from the house means water often pools against slab edges and walls instead of running off.

An established estate home from the 1990s or 2000s can still be carrying original construction shortcuts that were never picked up at handover. Our registered builders check the roof frame, render and drainage properly, and your report is ready within 24 hours.

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