 Digital Photographs
All Home Inspections & Mold Inspections come with Digital Quality
Photographs. Pictures speak volumes when explaining the types
defects or describing locations of the defects for repair.
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Interiors
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The interior of the home
includes all the various rooms and related items, which are not covered in
other aspects of your home inspection on the interior of t he
dwelling. Some items may overlap such as bathrooms and plumbing, rooms and
electrical, and so on. The professional inspector will go through each and
every room including all visible and accessible areas of your new home. This
is a very important part of your home inspection because symptoms of larger
problems are often visible in the various rooms of your home. Settling can
be noticed in the floors and walls. Roof or plumbing leaks may be noticed on
the ceilings. Poor quality workmanship on mechanical distributions such as
outlets and heat convection may be visible. Your inspector will go through
each room making notes of relevant defects. Although most cosmetic items,
such as worn paint and old carpeting, are not important, they often indicate
a general lack of maintenance in the home. Very few homeowners have badly
worn carpet and peeling paint, but they have maintained the much more
expensive mechanical and structural components. When a home is in need of a
lot of cosmetic work your inspector has already seen a red flag. Recently
performed cosmetic work is also carefully inspected to try to determine if
it has been done to conceal deeper, more extensive problems. An older home
with brand new carpet and paint throughout is often a home that was
neglected until resale. Very often the sellers are advised or take it upon
themselves to cosmetically repair and upgrade as much as possible to
increase the value and curb appeal of the property. Usually these upgrades
are done with cost effectiveness in mind and may also be an attempt to mask
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Walls,
Ceilings, and Floors |
The walls, ceilings,
and floors of the home can be covered by a wide variety of
materials and divide the home into individual rooms and areas. Many of the
walls in a home can often support floors or other portions of the home
above. Future homebuyers often ask if they can remove a wall or if it must
stay. The inspector normally can tell what walls are load bearing and which
are partition and removable. Your professional home inspector will be on
alert to carefully check for areas where it appears load-bearing walls have
been altered or removed. This must be done using good structural design and
professional workmanship. Ceilings are inspected for leaks from plumbing or
roofs as well as for safe installations. Heavy old plaster ceilings can be a
hazard when cracked and worn. Floors
are, of course, looked at carefully for sagging and unevenness. Uneven
floors may indicate major problems in the home. The majority of the home's
most important parts are between the floors, ceilings and walls, and they
are not visible for inspection. This is why it is so important to inspect
the condition of these areas for indications of larger potential problems in
the dwelling. |
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