When you buy a home, your realtor usually recommends a home inspector who will inspect your potential purchase for problems. However, home inspectors are most often generalists, not specialists, and work from a standard home-inspection checklist. This may mean they miss many items, especially when it comes to a home’s plumbing – the guts of your new home.
A few months ago, one of our regular customers declined the whole-home inspection. Wouldn’t you know it, a few weeks later, our service phone rang at 2 a.m. It was our customer. She was standing in water asking us what to do.
She had to file an insurance claim and was out of pocket for her deductible. If she had allowed us to complete the inspection, we definitely would have discovered the problem – a supply line rupture.
One of the biggest items missed by home inspection is corroded, damaged or blocked sewer lines. Most home inspectors will do a cursory plumbing inspection, but they don’t camera the sewer line or even in many cases check angle stops or if the water heater is installed to code.
Our whole-home plumbing inspection, if we make any repairs, is free. If not, the inspection runs $59. If you’re buying a new home, we can almost guarantee you that you will more than recover your money in repairs after we perform our 60-plus point inspection.
For more information about our whole-home plumbing inspection, call us today at 602.488.4647.