How Ormeau sits
Planned growth
The city's 2003 planning scheme set Ormeau up as new urban and park living areas, with hinterland slopes, rural farm lands and cane lands close by. So the mix on any street here can run from a new slab to a block backing onto bush.
The Pimpama River up here
West of the motorway the river behaves like a fast creek, with riffles rather than tidal flats. Upper Ormeau Park sits beside one of its smaller stretches in Ormeau Hills, and Halfway Creek crosses the area as well.
Bush on the hill blocks
The same plan says parts of Ormeau provide habitat for rare and threatened species, particularly the Glossy Black Cockatoo. Trees like that also bring possums to the roofline and leaf litter to the gutters, where water sits.
Fire ants
Soil or mulch moved around a building site can carry fire ants, and Queensland restricts moving material that can. If you spot suspect ants, contact Biosecurity Queensland within 24 hours, as the law requires, and leave the soil where it is.
Building and pest inspection in Ormeau
It's really two inspections. The QBCC says only a licensed residential building inspector can complete a pre purchase building inspection in Queensland, and the termite inspection has to come from someone with a pest licence. They can happen on the same visit if the inspector holds both.
The QBCC also says to check the licence before you hire, and that a building inspection isn't a warranty against future defects. We cover the timber pest side; the building report is a different profession.
Before you sign in Ormeau
- Ask to see the termite notice in the meter box, with the system name and install date.
- Ask for the last termite inspection report, and the date on it.
- Read what the pest inspection says it couldn't reach, such as a blocked roof space.
- Ask about past termite treatment, and any warranty terms in writing.
- Note timber retaining walls and sleepers, and ask how close they are to the house.
Once you've moved in
A pest inspection in Ormeau doesn't end at settlement. The durable notice in the meter box also gives the recommended scope and frequency of future termite inspections, and the QBCC's general advice is once a year. Keep garden beds off the slab edge, and if you ever find a mud lead, don't touch it. Treatment choices depend on finding termites still working.
For everyday jobs, try our pages on cockroaches and ants, and if something big is moving in the roof at night, read about possums before you call anyone.
What we'd do before buying in Ormeau
We'd book the pest inspection early, ask for the meter box details on day one, and read the report's exclusions before the building report. If you're ready, tell us the suburb and what you need.
Want someone to look at it?
Tell us what you've seen and your postcode, and a local pest business that handles exactly that calls you to talk it through.
