A Home Inspection is an essential part of the home-buying process. Without one, you don’t really know what you’re buying. It takes a trained professional to catch small defects and safety hazards that would go unnoticed by most home-buyers.

A Home Inspection is a visual inspection of the home. We utilize a mix of technology and experience to perform our inspections. We look at the home and all of it’s systems, as well as the immediately adjacent property to paint a picture of the home’s current condition, as it is on the day of the inspection. Everything that is included in the inspection is detailed in the Vermont Standards of Practice for Professional Property Inspections. There are some exclusions, which are detailed in our inspection agreement. After we conclude your inspection, you will receive a written report detailed our findings.

It is important that you attend your inspection. We make every effort to accommodate your schedule, as well as the schedule of the seller. The inspection is as much about the written report, as it is about the conversation that we have while walking through and around your new home. By the end of the inspection, you should feel educated about the home and it’s many systems.

While we always encourage (and in fact, strongly suggest) that you attend the inspection of your new home, we understand that can’t always be the case. In the event that you can’t attend, we will conduct the inspection and write our report the same as any other, with the addition of a follow up call to go over the results and to ensure you understand what you’re looking at when you receive the written report.

Detached Structure Inspections are intended for buildings that aren’t normally occupied, such as barns, studios, sheds, etc. However, we do include ADUs in our Home Inspection. Per Vermont law, an Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) is allowed to be added to a single family home as long as certain conditions are met. ADUs are not to exceed 30% of the square footage of the primary, owner-occupied house. ADUs can be part of the main home, or in a detached structure (Detached Structure Inspection applies in this case). If, for example, an entire barn with the same square footage as the main home was converted into living space, it would not qualify as an ADU and therefore would cost a separate, standard Home Inspection fee.

We do not currently offer commercial property inspections.

National standards dictate that the minimum time necessary to record accurate radon levels in the air of your home is at least 46 hours. Due to our busy schedule, we often can’t retrieve our equipment until the third or fourth day of the test. However, because we use an industry-leading radon monitor instead of a test kit that needs to be sent to a lab for analysis at the end of the test period, we can analyze the results and prepare the report for you as soon as the day following the conclusion of the test.

Yes, however a Final Walk-through Consultation is only as good as the information we are given beforehand. If we performed your Home Inspection, we will already have an idea of what to look for. If you do an inspection with another inspector, we can use the report from that to assist us in the Final Walk-through. A Final Walk-through Consultation is NOT a substitute for a home inspection.

Payment is due at the start of the inspection appointment. Please come prepared.