Building & Pest Inspections in Coombabah

About Coombabah

Coombabah is a quiet, established suburb sitting between the Coombabah Lake wetlands system and the golf course and bushland of Arundel. The housing stock is predominantly 1980s and 90s brick-and-tile family homes on standard residential lots — a solid, settled era now at the age where original wet-area waterproofing, tile roof bedding and pointing, and external sealants feature consistently in reports. On the hillier estate streets, cut-and-fill brings retaining walls and inter-lot drainage into the inspection alongside the usual age-related items.

The wetlands boundary is the suburb's defining inspection factor. The Coombabah Lakelands corridor creates genuine, sustained termite pressure along the northern and eastern edges of the suburb — active year-round in the subtropical climate — and the moisture-retentive low ground near the lake means conducive conditions extend well into established streets. We work the AS 4349.3 side of the inspection accordingly: slab-edge and weep-hole access, vegetation-to-structure contact, older termite barriers that may have lapsed between owners, and the persistent subsoil moisture that connects the wetlands margin to the building.

For building and pest inspections in Coombabah, CYTE is a QBCC licensed builder and timber pest inspector, carrying out combined building and timber pest inspections to AS 4349.1 and AS 4349.3 under a pre-inspection agreement, with the written photo report in your inbox the same day.

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What we pay attention to in Coombabah

• High wetlands-edge termite pressure from Coombabah Lakelands
• 1980s–90s brick and tile: original wet areas and roofing
• Low-lying ground: moisture, drainage and slab edges
• Retaining walls and inter-lot drainage on estate streets